Ulrich Erich Jean Marré, M.A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (1) 1962 Title Dr. No Protagonist Sean Connery Villain Joseph Wiseman 

 

Girls Ursula Andress Director Terence Young

 

Plot Agents get killed in Jamaica where they were investigating complaints of the CIA about massive interferences with their Cape Canaveral launched rockets.

 

Dr. No, a member of SPECTRE, (German mother, Chinese father, who speaks English like a Brit) based in an underwater refuge on Crab Key near Jamaica seeks world domination. 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (2) 1963 Title From Russia With Love Protagonist Sean Connery Villain Robert Shaw

 

Girls Eunice Gayson, Daniela Bianchi Director Terence Young 

 

Plot SPECTRE, a sophisticated crime organization, tries to kill Bond. The bait is a Soviet encryption device called Lektor . 

 

 

 

Year (3) 1964 Title Goldfinger Protagonist Sean Connery Villain Gerd Froebe as Goldfinger 

 

Girls Shirley Eaton, Honr Blackman Director Guy Hamilton 

 

Plot Bond starts probe into massive gold smuggling. Goldfinger puts an entire town to sleep with a C-weapon, tries to blow up the gold reserves in Fort Knox to bring the world´s economy to its knees. 

 

 

 

Year (4) 1965 Title Thunderball Protagonist Sean Connery Villain Adolfo Celi 

 

Girls Claudine Auger Director Terence Young 

 

Plot SPECTRE a sophisticated crime organization gets its hand on 2 atomic weapons and blackmails NATO and England, demands 10 million British Pounds, threatens to attack British and US major cities. 

 

 

 

Year (5) 1967 Title You Only Live Twice Protagonist Sean Connery Villain Donald Pleasence as Blofeld

 

Girls Karin Dor Director Lewis Gilbert 

 

Plot SPECTRE hijacks space ships in Orbit, first a US ship then a Russian ship trying to provoke a nuclear war if 100 million dollars are not paid into a Buenos Aires bank account. 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (6) 1969 Title On Her Majesty's Secret Service Protagonist George Lazenby equipped with protruding ears and wearing gay type shirts, forced to act in a rather strange plot, really did not cut it. Poor guy. Villain Telly Savalas (!) as Blofeld 

 

Girls Diana Rigg Director Peter Hunt 

 

Plot Rather peculiar: Bond, supported by a wise guy's daughter named Teresa, tracks down Blofeld in Switzerland where he runs a clinic. Under the pretense to cure allergies Blofeld hypnotizes a bunch of beauties and turns them into sleeper terrorists who will spread an infertility causing virus on his command. Thus being the lord of infertility viruses and biological warfare, threatening to extinct mankind and the worlds economies, Blofeld blackmails the United Nations. But instead of asking for millions he demands amnesty for past crimes and recognition of his noble title (count of ...). In that movie Bond even gets married, and his wife gets killed shortly after the wedding. 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (7) 1971 Title Diamonds Are Forever Protagonist Sean Connery Villain Charles Gray as Blofeld 

 

Girls Jill St. John Director Guy Hamilton 

 

Plot Blofeld, it’s him again, sequesters and assumes the identity of Willy White a business mogul in Las Vegas.

Somebody is stockpiling South African diamonds.

Bond poses as a trader, traces the diamonds journey

to Blofeld who uses the goods to equip a giant laser with it. That laser in space , controlled from an offshore oil rig, blows up missiles in North Dakota, US, Russian submarines and Chinese missiles to demonstrate its capacity.

Nuclear supremacy is to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

 

 

 

Year (8) 1973 Title Live And Let Die Protagonist Roger Moore Villain Yaphet Kotto 

 

Girls Jane Seymour Director Guy Hamilton 

 

Plot Agents are murdered in New Orleans, New York and the Caribbean. The culprit is a black bad guy named Dr. Kananga who also likes to disguise as Mr. Big. On a Caribbean island , supported by Voodoo hoo-hah, he grows 2 tons of puppy worth a billion dollars. He plans to give it away for free at first, drive the competition out of business, and eventually obtain a drug monopoly. 

 

 

 

Year (9) 1974 Title The Man With The Golden Gun Protagonist Roger Moore Villain Christopher Lee as Scaramanga 

 

Girls Britt Eckland, Maud Adams Director Guy Hamilton 

 

 

 

 

 

Plot A solar energy device, SOLEX, that can produce electricity from sunrays on an industrial bases (and makes a powerful weapon, too) and can solve the world´s energy crisis, gets into the hands of a villain called Francisco Scaramanga. He kills his mistress and the original owner Mr. Hai Fat, and with agent Ms Goodnight in his trunk he escapes in a CAR PLANE to a Chinese island. Solex is to be sold to the highest bidder who would have a monopoly on solar power. The sheriff from Louisiana, J.W. Pepper, appears again, is deputized and helps Bond.

 

 

 

 

 

Year (10) 1977 Title The Spy Who Loved Me Protagonist Roger Moore Villain Curd Juergens as Stromberg 

 

Girls Barbara Bach Director Lewis Gilbert 

 

Plot A cold war, East-West conflict scheme. A nuclear Russian submarine has been swallowed by a giant tanker, a microfiche containing the system to track nuclear submarines is for sale. An attractive female comrade agent starts to investigate in Egypt. So does Bond. In an astounding Anglo-Soviet cooperation Bond and the Russian agent try to stop Mr. Stromberg who resides on an underwater marine research station off the coast of Sardinia. Stromberg attacks Moscow and New York thus trying to subsequently destroy the world in order to create a new world under his command underneath the sea. 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (11) 1979 Title Moonraker Protagonist Roger Moore Villain Michael Lonsdale as Hugo Drax 

Girls Lois Chiles (Emily Bolton) Director Lewis Gilbert 

 

Plot A space shuttle delivered to the US is hijacked in space. Bond starts to investigate in California, meets Hugo Drax, who is obsessed with the conquest of space, and who plays Bridge with the British minister of defense. It turns out Drax hijacked the shuttle himself because one in his fleet was faulty. Six shuttles, in it perfect specimen of the human race, are launched from a base in Brazil and dock at a space station invisible to outsiders. Bond manages to get on shuttle number six together with his CIA counterpart agent. Bond learns that Drax plans to destroy mankind as we know it with nerve gas sent to earth from the city in space to populate earth thereafter with a new super race under his rule. Jaws, a vicious enemy at first - but as an example of an imperfect human being of no use to Drax - comes to the rescue of Bond. 

 

 

 

 

Year (12) 1981 Title For Your Eyes Only Protagonist Roger Moore Villain Julian Glover as Cristatos 

Girls Carol Bouquet as Melinda (Cassandra Harris, Lynn-Holly Johnson) Director John Glen

 

Plot A British electronic surveillance ship, a spy ship, equipped with an ATAC system --a hi-tech device-- is lost. A Greek couple, close to finding that ship/device, is murdered by a Cuban hit man. He himself gets killed by the victims daughter Melina. Bond, together with Melina, is now looking for the guy who paid for the hit. The ATAC system that looks like a typewriter is about to be sold to the KGB by the villain Cristatos, who resides in a chateau on top of a rock in Greece. Bond with a little help from another Greek smuggler Columbo succeeds almost without the usual state of the art weapons and gadgets. A simple cold war plot, lots of impressive stunts, a fair dosage of humor. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (13) 1983 Title Octopussy Protagonist Roger Moore Villain Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan, Steven Berkoff as general Orlov 

Girls Kristina Wayborn, Maud Adams Director John Glen

 

Plot A cold war plot - you guessed it - . Agent 009 is murdered in East Berlin, which leads the Secret Service to a Faberge egg auction at Sotheby´s. The renegade Russian general Orlov plans to detonate an atomic bomb on a US base in Germany, hidden in a circus named Octopussy, and make it look like a mistake of the US forces. To do so he buys a detonator in exchange for jewelry worth 300 million $. Thereafter the general intends to conquer Europe with his tanks in five days. Bond gets the support of women fighters of a cult called Octopussy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (14) 1983 Title Never Say Never Again Protagonist Sean Connery came back once after 12 years Villain Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximilian Largo 

Girls Kim Basinger Director Irvin Kershner 

 

Plot Commander Bond, older now, with gray sideburns, is given a special assignment: to fight free radicals in his body and loose weight. In the same clinic we find Captain Jack Starvi, a US Air Force officer who is a drug addict in the grip of SPECTRE, recovering from eye surgery. His eyeball enables him to be identified as the US President. As the latter Starvi authorizes the replacement of dummies with a thermo nuclear device in cruise missiles, id est the abduction of nuclear warheads by SPECTRE, used to blackmail NATO. The showdown takes place in Largos fortress in North Africa. 

 

Note: Ms Petachi, the captains sister happens to be the lover of Maximilian Largo, Spectre member # 1. Bond pays $ 267,000 he won in a videogame with Largo, for one dance with her. The ugliest kiss occurs when Largo kisses Ms Petachi and his saliva is dripping off his mouth. Also: Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr. Bean, plays a British agent. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (15) 1985 Title A View To A Kill Protagonist Roger Moore Villain Christopher Walken as Max Zorin 

Girls Tanja Roberts Director John Glen

 

Plot The industrialist Zorin, an ex KGB agent, attacks Silicon Valley to monopolize the chip market. He also uses chips as implants in his horses' legs injecting a customized dosage of steroids. Max Zorin forms a cartel to produce and distribute microchips and collects $ 1 million from each member to start his attack on Silicon Valley´s domination. Operation "mainstrike" is aimed at flooding the valley caused by a huge explosion in a mine near San Francisco. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (16) 1987 Title The Living Daylights Protagonist Timothy Dalton Villain Joe Don Baker as Whitaker; Jeroen Krabbé as General Georgi Koskov

 

Girls Maryam d'Abo as Kara Director John Glen

 

Plot A defected KGB agent Koskov joins forces with an evil US arms dealer. Koskov fakes his defection to the British and subsequent abduction by the KGB and keeps killing secret agents to mislead the British Secret Service and the CIA. In Bratislava James Bond rescues another KGB agent, the attractive Kara, they escape to Vienna and go after Koskov and the arms dealer Whitaker. In Afghanistan they even get the help of the Mujahedin (!) who fought the Soviets at that time (you know the rest). Bond and Kara escape from a Soviet air base, destroy a lot of opium along the way, and terminate all bad guys thus preventing another world war. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (17) 1989 Title License To Kill Protagonist Timothy Dalton Villain Robert Davi as Sanchez 

 

Girls Carey Lowell as Bouvier [and Talisa Soto as Lupe] Director John Glen

 

Plot Sanchez, a big time drug dealer is apprehended in the Florida Keys, but manages to be freed. He kills CIA agent Felix Leitner´s wife and has the agents´s leg chewed off by a shark. James Bond disobeys his Majesty´s orders, is stripped of his license and flees to start his personal vendetta. Drug dealers unite to establish a huge drug empire. When Bond tries to kill Sanchez, Hong Kong narcotics agents interfere. Meanwhile Sanchez takes his Chinese associates to his main distribution plant and proves that he can mix gasoline with cocaine and later separate it. Of course Bond will prevent that new drug empire and eventually kill Sanchez.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (18) 1995 Title Golden Eye Protagonist Pierce Brosnan, James Bond # 5 Villain --

 

Girls -- Director Martin Campbell 

 

 

 

Plot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113189/plotsummary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (19) 1997 Title Tomorrow Never Dies Protagonist Pierce Brosnan Villain 

Girls -- Director Roger Spottiswoode

 

Plot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120347/plotsummary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (20 ) 1999 Title The World Is Not Enough Protagonist Pierce Brosnan Villain --

Girls -- Director Michael Apted

 

Plot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143145/plotsummary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (21) 2002 Title Die Another Day Protagonist Pierce Brosnan Villain Rick Yune as Zao 

 

Girls Halle Berry Director Lee Tamahori

 

Plot A giant, space based laser Icarus, that concentrates the sunlight's power is a terrible weapon and is about to be sold to the wrong guys. The bad guy this time is a Korean. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (22) 2006 Title Casino Royal Protagonist Daniel Craig Villain Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre

 

Girls Eva Green, the fourth French actress to portray a Bond Girl Director Martin Campbell 

 

Plot Bonds falls in love with the character Vesper Lynd. His remarkable answer to "shaken or stirred" is "do I look as if I'd care?" He fights the villain Le Chiffre, a treasurer for terrorists. Due to Bond's intervention the villain can't pay back his debts and gets killed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (23) 2008 Title Quantum of Solace Protagonist Daniel Craig Villain Mathieu Amalric (French), Anatole Taubman 

Girls Olga Kurylenko (Ukranian) as Camille Director Marc Forster

 

Plot Dominic Greene, main force of a crime syndicate called "Quantum", gets his grip on Bolivia's water supply. Bond gets it back. 

 

Shot in Pinewood Studios, Austria, Italy, Panama, Chile. All scenes taking place in Bolivia were actually shot in Chile (Iquique).

 

 

 

Note One of the worst Bond movies ever. Obviously the director has watched too much MTV. His fast paced cuts are an insult on the eye, and the viewers mind. Martinis and Mr. Q. are also absent. Action scenes are poorly edited, the plot is too simple. I truly hope that inept director will never make another Bond movie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (24) November 2012 

Title Skyfall 

Protagonist Daniel Craig 

Villain Javier Bardem

 

Girls Naomie Harris as Eve; Bérénice Marlohe as Sévérine; Tonia Sotiropoulou as Bond's Lover 

Director Sam Mendes

 

 

 

Plot 

 

This time the MI6 and particularly M. (Judi Dench) is under attack.

 

M. has lost the drive containing a list of all British agents embedded in terrorist organizations across the globe. An ex MI6 agent turned villain (Javier Bardem) got a grip on the classified list, and started to publish the names of some agents on YouTube. Bond has to chase the drive/list across the globe and protect M. with whom the bad guy has a special bone to pick.

 

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Miscellaneous

 

 

 

Real 'James Bond' revealed in MI6 archives

The real James Bond was an “incorrigible raconteur” with a penchant for pretty women and fast cars, a new history of MI6 reveals.

 

 

 

A study about Bond's girls. Article :

 

 

 

An investigation of the 195 female characters in the first 20 Bond films shows: Bond was drawn to females who carried weapons, he slept with 46, 14 tried to kill him, 20% of them died before the film ended.

 

(Study by Cleveland State University, Ohio, 2009)