Producer: Albert Broccoli
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Scriptwriters: Richard Maibaum, Christopher Wood
Score: Marvin Hamlisch
Title Song: Carly Simon
Awards: Academy Awards for; Title Music, Music, Production Designer
Locations: Egypt, Sardinia, Bahamas, Canada, Malta, Scotland, Okinawa, Switzerland, Pinewood Studios
Running Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes

     The Spy Who Loved Me was produced by Eon Productions in 1977. With the recent dissolve of the Saltzman/Broccoli team, Broccoli was left to produce this Bond movie on his own. He wanted to make it the best ever. The movie came out on 7-7-77, a date that Broccoli hoped would bring good luck. Many Bond fans think that he got what he wanted. With an interesting story, and a terrifying new villain, this movie became an instant hit. Many Bond fans, as well as Roger Moore, think that this is the best Moore film of all the Bonds. I agree with this.
     In the movie, MI6 discovers that someone has perfected a way of tracking submerged submarines and was offering the technology to the highest bidder. Shortly thereafter, a Royal Navy Polaris submarine equipped with sixteen nuclear warheads disappears while on patrol. MI6 sends Bond to stop whoever stole the sub from using the nukes.
     Bond is quickly on the scent, but is given a little trouble from two angles. First, the Russians have sent their best agent, Triple X, to get the tracking technology before Bond. Second, Stromburg has hired one of the world's greatest assassins, Jaws, to stop Bond at all costs. Bond is now in a race to stop the mad man, Stromberg, from starting World War III in order to bring about a new world order under the sea.

A NOTE ABOUT THE TITLE SONG: Marvin Hamlisch with help from Carole Bayer Sager wrote the score that became a #2 U.S. hit and a #7 U.K. smash. Hamlisch said that he wrote the lyrics because, "It was time that Bond be pretentious enough and vain enough to have a song written about him."
MY GRADE: A +  This is easily best Roger Moore Bond. It had an interesting plot, a leading lady that finally acted as something more than eye candy (although that's good too), a really powerful villain paired with a really evil sinister villain, and plenty of action.
BEST MOMENT: Jaws defeating the shark was very clever. A Bond villain finally lived through a movie. In fact, two endings were shot, one in which Jaws dies, and one in which he lived. Luckily the producers chose the latter. This left an opening for Jaws to return in Moonraker.
DID YOU KNOW: *The actor who plays Jaws was 7'2". Stanly Kubrick was asked to help with set designs, but would only help if his name was never used in any of the credits.