Dr. No (1962) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie? For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Dr. No can be found here . What is 'Dr. No' about? When Jamaica-based British Intelligence agent John Strangways disappears while investigating toppling interference with the launching of U.S. Cape Canaveral rockets, the head of the British Secret Service, known only as M ( Bernard Lee ), sends MI6 agent 007 James Bond ( Sean Connery ) to investigate. Bond discovers that Strangways had recently sent for analysis a soil sample from Crab Key, an island owned by mysterious Dr.

Julius No ( Joseph Wiseman ), and hires local fisherman Quarrel ( John Kitzmiller ) to take him there where they encounter seashell-collecting beauty Honey Ryder ( Ursula Andress ), a fire-breathing dragon, and a plan by SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch from Cape Canaveral with his atomic-powered radio beam. Is "Dr. No" based on a book? All of the James Bond movies are based, in some part, upon novels by British author Ian Fleming [1908-1964]. Dr. No is based on Fleming's 1958 novel of the same name. It was adapted for the screen by American screenwriters Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkeley Mather. What is the very first glimpse we have of Sean Connery as James Bond? Our very first glimpse of Sean Connery as James Bond is of the back of his head as he is sitting at a baccarat chemin de fer table at Club Cercle, a gentlemen's club.

He makes a comment to one of the other players, Sylvia Trench ( Eunice Gayson ), who is losing to him. She then asks his name, and he replies in his signature way, "Bond...James Bond." Many fans and critics like the way the scene was shot, with the camera following Bond's cigarette from the ashtray up to his mouth, revealing Connery's face. Dr No says that he is with SPECTRE. What is SPECTRE? SPECTRE stands for "The SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion." SPECTRE is an international terrorist organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Its members were recruited from the Gestapo, Smersh, the Mafia, and the Union Corse among others. With the exception of Goldfinger (1964), all of the Bond villains from 1962-71 came from this organization. After 1971, SPECTRE no longer appears in the Bond movies because of a lawsuit brought by film-maker Kevin McClory . McClory had worked with Ian Fleming to create what was to be the first 007 movie.

It was scrapped, however, and Fleming went on to use various ideas from the abandoned film, such as SPECTRE. The movies altered the storylines to include SPECTRE, as when Dr No says that he is with SPECTRE. McClory later sued for the rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE. Thus, they had to stop using SPECTRE in the movies. This is also what enabled McClory to make the "unofficial" Bond movie, Never Say Never Again (1983). Why is Dr. No "toppling" moon rockets? The only explanation the film offers is Dr. No's anger at the US for rejecting his services and the presence of men in "Red China" uniforms in the background of the nuclear reactor. Another possible motive, given Jamaica's proximity to Cuba, is to trigger war between the USA and that nation by framing the Cubans for sabotage. Why does Bond place a hair across the doors of the closet in his hotel room? It's an old trick to see if anyone had opened them in order to snoop around in his personal belongings. Bond's enemies know he's on Jamaica & know precisely where he's staying and, more importantly, Bond knows this himself.

So as an extra precaution, he rigs the doors. If they doors were opened, the hair would likely fall off or be hanging from a single end. What make of car did Bond drive in "Dr. No"? A Sunbeam Alpine 1961 Series II. How does the movie end? Bond escapes from his cell by crawling through a steamy shaft that takes him to the decontamination showers. There, he knocks out a worker and dons his protective suit. He makes his way to the control room, which houses a nuclear reactor. As he watches undetected, Dr No instructs the workers to synchronize the toggling beam, which is aimed at a U.S. missile about to launch from Cape Canaveral in four minutes. When the countdown reaches 15 seconds, Bond jacks up the nuclear reactor. Too late for Bond to be stopped, the reactor reaches danger levels, and the control room starts to blow just as the missile launches. Dr No attempts to stop Bond in a fistfight, but he falls into the reactor's cooling vat. As the workers begin to evacuate, Bond goes in search of Honey, whom he finds strapped to the bottom of a spill basin.

He releases Honey, and they pirate a motorboat, escaping just as the reactor blows. In the final scenes, the motorboat has run out of fuel. Just as James and Honey begin to make out, Felix arrives on a Coast Guard boat and offers them a tow. As he and Honey begin to kiss again, Bond surreptitiously releases the tow, setting them adrift again. What are some of the differences from the book? Although Dr. No was the first movie made in the Bond series, it was actually Fleming's sixth novel in the series, so some of the differences in the book have to do with the fact that there were five other books previous to the story. For example, Bond survived being poisoned in the previous book (#5) From Russia With Love thanks to quick thinking on Rene Mathis' part. Bond had previously met Quarrel and Strangways in book #2, Live and Let Die. Strangways wears an eye patch. Felix Leiter is not in the book, neither is Professor Dent. The photographer wasn't a Chinese/African mix, she was completely Chinese. Her name was also revealed as "Annabelle Chung". Bond was never in a relationship with Ms. Taro.

The Three Blind Men were killed by Bond in a shootout at Doctor No's lair, not killed in a car crash as shown in the film. The tarantula was originally a poisonous centipede. There was no radiation on Crab Key. When Bond first meets Honey she was nude except a sheathed knife in a belt. Her nose is also broken. When Bond first meets her, she is so embarrassed by her misshapen nose she covers it with her arm instead of her breasts. Dr. No was bald and his robotic hands were pincers. Dr. No's human hands weren't destroyed by radiation, but were cut off by Tong hitmen after he made off with their money, and survived from being shot in the chest because his heart is located on his right side. Dr. No wasn't working for SPECTRE but for the Russians. He wasn't toppling rockets but missile prototypes. Bond was put on an obstacle course in the air vent suffering through heat, cold, and poisonous animals before being dumped into the ocean and doing battle with a giant squid that he overcame with a table knife and a lighter he had stowed away in his clothes. In the novel, Bond defeats Dr.

No by taking over the guano-loading machine at the docks, and dropping the guano (bird dung) on him as opposed to drowning him in a reactor coolant. In the movie, after defeating Dr. No, Bond finds Honey tied to a spill basin, and the two escape in a motorboat with help from Felix Leiter, and make love. In the novel, Bond finds Honey who was tied to some rocks allowing crabs to eat her alive. However, she is aware that the crabs do not like human flesh and they won't attack her unless she moves. She manages to escape, and meets up with a badly injured Bond and they leave the island. Back on the mainland, Honey takes James to the basement of her ruined house to treat his wounds, and after having dinner, they make love. Is this the first James Bond movie? Yes, this is the first big screen adaptation featuring James Bond 007 and Sean Connery is the first to play Bond in the movies. However, in 1954 there was a live television presentation of Climax!: Casino Royale (#1.3) in which Barry Nelson starred as an American agent, Jimmy Bond. Why was this story chosen as the first James Bond movie?

When Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli set about creating the James Bond film series, they did not have the screen rights to Ian Fleming's first 007 novel Casino Royale. As a result, they decided to film the novels out of sequence. Thunderball was the original choice to kick off the series due to its cinematic potential, which is natural given its origins as a movie project. However, due to the legal wranglings between Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory, they lost the rights to Thunderball. Dr. No was chosen due to the similarity in locations and theme to Thunderball, not to mention the fact that its story and locations did not require a sizeable budget. What did Ian Fleming think of the first James Bond movie? It is said that he didn't like it when he saw it at the beginning. Some reports say that he wanted Cary Grant to play Bond, and other reports say he wanted Roger Moore (who would later portray Bond in a record seven-straight Bond movies). In the end, however, he admitted it was hard to imagine anyone but Connery in the role, so much so that in You Only Live Twice it is revealed that Bond had a Scottish father.

Incidentally, Dr No and From Russia with Love are the only James Bond movies that Fleming saw before his death in 1964. List of All James Bond Cars Locations List of All James Bond Cars The complete list of all James Bond cars in chronological order, from over 50 years of the James Bond series. From the humble Sunbeam Alpine in Dr. No through to the beautiful Aston Martin DB5 in Skyfall, learn about all the iconic Bond cars in one place. #1 Sunbeam Alpine Dr. No (1962) Synopsis: James Bond's first car was the modest Sunbeam Alpine Series II, in lake blue. After being invited to the mountain apartment of enemy spy Miss Taro , Bond drove the Sunbeam up the dusty road and into a trap. He was soon chased by a large hearse that tried to ram him off the edge of the sharp cliff. After some tense corners, a crane blocked the road ahead. Bond managed to pass underneath, but the hearse was too tall and skidded off the mountain to a fiery death. Like many Bond cars to follow, the Sunbeam was English made, manufactured just outside of Coventry in the West Midlands. The iconic car had also featured in the novel Dr.

No, where it was the personal car of John Strangways , head of Station J, Jamaica. For the film, it was rumoured that the producers had borrowed the Sunbeam from a local resident to avoid the cost of importing their own. #2 Bentley Mark IV From Russia With Love (1963) Synopsis: Bond's car in From Russia with Love is an unusual one for the series, as the Bentley Mark IV was almost 30 years old at the time of the film's release. In several of the Ian Fleming novels, Bond had driven a Bentley 4.5 litre, which predated the Mark IV by two years. This was likely the inspiration behind its inclusion in the film. Early on in From Russia with Love, Bond is shown picnicking alongside a river with Sylvia Trench . They are about to enjoy some Taittinger champagne when Bond is paged by HQ. He goes to the Bentley and calls Miss Moneypenny from the car phone. Before heading back to MI6, he brings up the convertible roof for some private time with Miss Trench.

#3 Aston Martin DB5 Thunderball (1965) Synopsis: The Aston Martin DB5 is the quintessential James Bond car, and one of the most recognizable and famous cars in cinema history. In the novel, Bond had driven a DB Mark III, but the producers chose to use the newer DB5, which had been released only 3 months prior to shooting. The special effects team added a large array of gadgets to the car, including an ejector seat, machine guns, a smoke screen, and tyre slashers. The tie-in Corgi model of the DB5 became the best selling toy of the year, and the producers brought the car back for the next film, Thunderball. Since then a DB5 has also featured in Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale and Skyfall. #4 Toyota 2000 GT On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Synopsis: On Her Majesty's Secret Service introduced a new James Bond, George Lazenby, and it was only right to equip him with the latest Aston Martin. The Aston played a key part in the film's shocking ending, as well as in introducing the new lead actor.

Bond is first shown driving along a winding Portugal road in the beautiful Aston Martin DBS, his face hidden in silhouette in an artistic introduction. At the film's end, Bond's wife is assassinated through the DBS's windshield. The Aston Martin DBS was the last car the company produced under the ownership of David Brown, after whom the DB series had been named. In the following Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever, the DBS was briefly shown being fitted with missiles in Q's lab. #6 Mercury Cougar Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Synopsis: While Diamonds Are Forever wasn't the most well received Sean Connery Bond film, it did have one of the best car chases of the early series. While at the wheel of Tiffany Case 's Ford Mustang, Bond finds himself on the Sheriff's radar, resulting in a high tension chase along the Las Vegas strip. There are some excellently choreographed manoeuvres, but the action soon moves to a parking lot, where Bond tricks half a dozen police cars into crashing into each other, before escaping over a ramp. Before long, the only undamaged police car left in the vicinity takes chase, and Bond takes a wrong turn down a dead end alley.

He tells Tiffany Case to lean over and uses a loading ramp to put the car on two wheels and escape through the narrow pedestrian walkway to safety. Interestingly, the Vegas strip was so busy that for most of the chase scene, large crowds of tourists could be seen on the sidewalks, watching the action. The producers hoped that the chase would be so exciting that the audience wouldn't notice. Another point of interest is that virtually all the cars destroyed during filming were Fords. That's because Ford offered to supply as many cars as the producers wanted, if Bond drove a Mustang. #8 AMC Hornet The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Synopsis: In The Man with the Golden Gun, Mary Goodnight gets herself kidnapped by Francisco Scaramanga. Bond runs to his car to make chase, only to realize that Ms. Goodnight has the keys. With Scaramanga almost out of sight, Bond spots a car dealership, and steals an AMC Hornet, driving it right out through the showroom window. Live and Let Die's Sheriff J.W. Pepper returns as a Bangkok tourist, who just so happened to be sitting in the passenger seat of the Hornet.

The pair chase Scaramanga, with Pepper adding some comic relief to the tense action scene. Bond swerves in and out of the busy Bangkok traffic to make up for the lost distance. With some creative driving, Scaramanga manages to double back on Bond and heads in the opposite direction. Bond immediately executes an impressive backwards-forward manoeuvre to absolute perfection, but soon finds himself on the opposite side of a river to Scaramanga, and miles away from a bridge. In the film's landmark stunt, Bond spots an old collapsed bridge and does a 360 degree barrel roll over the river. List of vehicles | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia American Motors AMC Hornet - Featured in The Man with the Golden Gun . Bond steals this car in Thailand , unknowing that Sheriff J.W. Pepper was in it looking to test drive it. It was used for the famous corkscrew jump, a computer-designed stunt that was captured in one take. AMC Matador - Featured in The Man with the Golden Gun. Francisco Scaramanga and Nick Nack use this car to kidnap Mary Goodnight and make their escape. The vehicle is converted into a 'car plane'; see Aircraft section below.

Other passenger cars Sunbeam Alpine roadster - Featured in Dr. No . Bond drives to Miss Taro's home in the Blue Mountains; he is pursued by Dr. No's thugs driving a LaSalle hearse. In the novel version, Bond drives the car that formerly belonged to Commander Strangways, the murdered agent in Kingston. It is also driven by Quarrel . Toyota 2000GT convertible - Featured in You Only Live Twice . Owned by Aki . Two prototype convertibles were built especially for the film; no others were made. One 2000GT convertible was located in South Africa awaiting restoration into the Cars for the Stars museum. Triumph Stag - In Diamonds Are Forever , Connery is seen early in the movie driving a yellow Stag to Amsterdam, while posing as diamond smuggler Peter Franks . Studillac - Featured in the novel Diamonds Are Forever. A custom black Studebaker convertible with a Cadillac engine, plus special transmission, brakes and rear axle, owned by Felix Leiter . The combination of the aerodynamic Raymond Loewy designed body with the powerful Cadillac engine made it into a remarkable sports car.

Studillacs were not fictional, but actually built by a Long Island, NY company called Bill Frick Motors from 1953 Studebaker Starlight bodies. Mini Moke - Featured briefly in Live and Let Die and later in The Spy Who Loved Me. In Live and Let Die, Bond and Rosie use this vehicle to drive to the harbour to meet Quarrel Jr. In The Spy Who Loved Me , the crew of the Liparus supertanker use a Mini Moke in their defence against a break out by the submarine crews. 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood - Featured in Live and Let Die. When Bond spots the white Superfly-esque pimpmobile (a Les Dunham Corvorado - a Chevrolet Corvette with Cadillac Eldorado body panels), Mr. Big, Solitaire , and Tee Hee leave their secret facility where a voodoo shop is actually one of Dr. Kananga's hideouts. The Cadillac is later seen outside a Fillet of Soul restaurant alongside a Dunham-converted Cadillac Eldorado coupe. Citroën 2CV - Featured in For Your Eyes Only .

A tiny but seemingly indestructible (rental) car belonging to Melina Havelock that Bond uses to make a "fast" getaway after Melina assassinates Hector Gonzales , who murdered her parents. The car used in the movie was allegedly fitted with a Citroën GS 4-cylinder boxer engine (in place of the standard 2-cylinder boxer), to make it able to outrun the two Peugeot 504s in pursuit. Alfa Romeo GTV6 - Featured in Octopussy . After falling from Octopussy 's train and hitching a lift in a Volkswagen Beetle, Bond steals this car to make the last stage of his journey to the US Air Force Base. West German police BMW 5 Series pursue Bond after his theft of the vehicle. Interestingly, sharp eyes will spot that this is a GTV 6 Quadrifoglio, the highest specification Alfa Romeo available, and widely considered the finest of these cars, as well as the fastest. Bajaj RE taxi - Featured in Octopussy.

Two of these basic auto rickshaws are used in a chase sequence through the streets of Udaipur - Bond and fellow MI6 agent Vijay being in one, with Gobinda and his henchmen in the pursuing vehicle. It is insinuated that the auto-wallah driven by Vijay has been modified by MI6 as the tone of the engine becomes more like a motorcycle and Vijay performs a wheelie, exclaiming "This is a company car!" Mercedes 250SE - Featured in Octopussy. Bond commandeers this Soviet Army staff car to pursue Octopussy's train. When the tires are shredded by a spikestrip, Bond turns onto the railway line and drives the car along the rails until he escapes just before the car is knocked into the river by an oncoming train. Renault 11 Taxi - Featured in A View to a Kill , Bond commandeers this car and takes it on a pursuit through Paris . During the pursuit the car has its roof chopped off and then later the entire back half of the car is ripped off. Audi 200 Quattro - Featured in The Living Daylights .

An Austrian-registered is used as a getaway car after Koskov 's defection at the start of the film. Later, Bond is seen driving an Audi 100 Avant in Tangier, following General Pushkin . Ferrari F355 GTS - Featured in GoldenEye . Xenia Onatopp playfully races James Bond in his Aston Martin DB5 by chance on the mountain roads behind Monte Carlo in this vehicle, which is later revealed to have false French registration plates , hinting that it may be stolen. Jaguar XKR - A convertible driven by Zao in Die Another Day , the car was extremely similar in almost every way to a James Bond automobile. The vehicle includes a gatling gun, thermal imaging capabilities, mortar bombs, rockets under the front grille, miniature missiles hidden in the door, and front ramming spikes. Other vehicles Dragon tank - Featured in Dr. No . A modified swamp buggy with dragon camouflage and armor plating. The dragon tank was employed by Dr. Julius No to keep inquisitive locals away from his operations on Crab Key. It is equipped with a forward-firing flame thrower. BSA Lightning A65L - Featured in Thunderball .

A modified BSA Lightning motorcycle employed by SPECTRE agent, Fiona Volpe. It is equipped with forward-firing rockets. Moon buggy - Featured in Diamonds Are Forever . Used by Bond to escape from the laboratory. Fast but infamously fragile, one of its wheels can be seen rolling past the camera position as Bond drives by it during the escape. Honda ATV vehicle - Featured in Diamonds Are Forever. Bond commanders an all-terrain vehicle after he ditches the moon buggy. 1947 AEC Regent III RT246 - Featured in Live and Let Die . A double-decker bus which was used by Bond and Solitaire in their escape from Kananga. En route it becomes a single-decker bus thanks to an inconveniently placed low bridge. San Francisco Fire Department Fire Truck - Featured in A View to a Kill . Ladder truck commandeered by Bond and Stacey. 1971 Land-Rover 88 Series III - Featured in The Living Daylights . To make his getaway from Gibraltar , Imposter 00 steals a vehicle loaded with munitions. Appears in the pre-title sequence. 1978 GMC Vandura - Featured in The Living Daylights.

Used by Koskov and Necros to smuggle diamonds (and Bond) out of Tangier. Mercedes-Benz Unimog-S 404 AFV - Featured in The Living Daylights. Used by Koskov to transport diamonds, one in pursuit of Bond in Czechoslovakia, and one briefly shown at Colonel Moon 's HQ in Die Another Day . Panhard AML - Featured in The Living Daylights. Two pursue Mujahadeen fighters across the bridge. T-55 battle tank - Featured in GoldenEye . A Russian tank taken by Bond to pursue General Ourumov in St. Petersburg . Aircraft Lockheed JetStar - Featured in Goldfinger . Used as Auric Goldfinger's private jet. It is later disguised as a United States Air Force C-140 transport to kidnap Bond while Goldfinger makes his escape. Bell-Textron Jet Pack - Featured in Thunderball . A rocket pack based on the Bell rocket belt. Avro Vulcan - SPECTRE hijack a Vulcan in Thunderball, crashlanding it in the ocean to steal its nuclear payload .

Kawasaki KV-107 - A vehicle pursuing Bond and Aki in You Only Live Twice is dispatched by the use of this Japanese variant of the Boeing-Vertol Sea Knight and a large magnet suspended from the helicopter. Little Nellie (Wallis WA-116 Series 1) - Featured in You Only Live Twice . A heavily armed gyrocopter that could be transported in several cases and quickly assembled in the field. Car Plane - Featured in The Man with the Golden Gun . Based on a 1974 AMC Matador coupe, owned by Scaramanga. During a car chase with Bond, Scaramanga drives the Matador into a disused barn, which was housing the plane section (two wings and a jet engine). Scaramanga clamps the plane section onto the top of the Matador and uses it to fly away from Bond. Bell 206 JetRanger - Featured in The Spy Who Loved Me . The Bell 206 is owned by Karl Stromberg. When Bond begins investigating his affairs, chopper pilot Naomi is dispatched to assassinate him from the air.

A chase sequence across the Italian island of Sardinia ensues, culminating in Bond's Lotus Esprit being driven off the end of a pier into the sea. Unaware of its sub-aquatic abilities, Naomi was eliminated by a surface to air missile launched by the car. Handley Page Jetstream - In the pre-titles sequence of Moonraker , Bond is almost left stranded on this aircraft with no pilot and no instruments, until he is pushed out with no parachute by Jaws. Cessna A185F - Featured in For Your Eyes Only . Flown by Cuban hitman, Hector Gonzales. After flying Melina Havelock to Corfu he gunned down her parents with a machine gun mounted on the underside the plane.| Acrostar Jet - Featured in Octopussy . The Acrostar was used to escape from a mission in the opening sequence. The wings and nosecone section of this plane fold up vertically while not in use allowing it to be stored in small compartments (in this case a horse trailer). Hot Air Balloon - Featured in Octopussy. A Union-Jack emblazoned Hot Air Balloon, used by Q and Bond to storm Kamal Khan 's palace.

It is equipped with CCTV cameras. Beechcraft Model 18 - Featured in Octopussy. It is Kamal Khan's private aircraft. Bond grips onto the aircraft during take off and, after a fight with Gobinda atop the Twin Beech, rescues Octopussy before it crashes. Zorin's Blimp - Featured in A View To A Kill . The antagonist, Max Zorin, utilises two types of blimp: the first, a larger airship, is used for conferencing facilities. The second, a much smaller model, was intended to be used for Zorin to watch the destruction of Silicon Valley , but with that plan thwarted was a getaway vehicle that meets its end on the Golden Gate Bridge . British Aerospace Harrier T4 - Featured in The Living Daylights . This aircraft is used to assist Koskov's defection to the West. Lockheed Hercules - Two examples are used in The Living Daylights. The first, seen in the pre-titles sequence, is a Royal Air Force example and is M's flying office. It is the staging post for the 00-section penetration of the Gibraltar radar installation.

The second example is a Soviet Air Force transport, used extensively during Bond's escape from Afghanistan. It should be noted, of course, that the Soviet Air Force did not operate any western aircraft types in reality, including the Hercules. Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub - Featured in Licence to Kill . A crop dusting plane flown by Pam Bouvier in pursuit of Franz Sanchez 's cocaine-filled Tankers. It is crippled by a stinger surface-to-air missile during the chase sequence. Eurocopter Tiger - Featured in GoldenEye . Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov steal an EMP-resistant Tiger helicopter in order to obtain the GoldenEye access codes. Mikoyan MiG-29 - Featured in GoldenEye. Three respond to the emergency alarm triggered at the Severnaya facility. All are destroyed by the electromagnetic pulse generated by the GoldenEye satellite weapon. Cessna 172P Skyhawk - Featured in GoldenEye, Bond flew a Cessna 172 whilst scouting for a satellite dish in Cuba . Aero L-39 Albatros - Two are featured in the pre-titles sequence of Tomorrow Never Dies .

Bond commandeers one in an attempt to evacuate a nuclear torpedo before a missile strike, the other pursues in an attempt to stop him. Parahawk - Several are featured in The World Is Not Enough . They are hybrid paragliders/snowmobiles and are capable of flight or driving across arctic terrain. Several are sent to kill Bond as part of a scheme devised by Electra King and Renard. Switchblades - Featured in Die Another Day , the Switchblade is essentially a one-man glider shaped like a fighter jet. It features retractable wings that control the speed and trajectory of the craft. Fitted with the same material on a stealth bomber, the switchblade allows Bond and Jinx to enter North Korea undetected. The switchblade is based on a workable model called "PHASST" (Programmable High Altitude Single Soldier Transport). Antonov An-124 - Featured in Die Another Day, this aircraft is used to transport Gustav Graves' equipment out of Iceland. It is later used as Graves' airborne command centre during the Icarus attack on the Korean DMZ .

Boeing 747-236B 'Skyfleet S570' - Featured in Casino Royale . A 'prototype' airliner which Le Chiffre conspired to destroy. Transformed using physical props and CGI, it is actually a modified ex-British Airways Boeing 747-200 G-BDXJ. Douglas DC-3-313 - Featured in Quantum of Solace . An old passenger aircraft Bond exchanges for a 2008 Land-Rover Range Rover Sport. It was used to investigate Quantum's activity in the Bolivian desert and was shot down during a skirmish with an Aermacchi SF 260 plane. Aermacchi SF 260 - Featured in Quantum of Solace. While investigating over the Bolivian desert, Bond's DC-3 fell under attack from an Aermacchi SF 260, presumably sent by the Quantum organisation. AgustaWestland AW101 - Featured in Skyfall . A helicopter used by Silva and his men during the assault on Skyfall Lodge . It was subsequently destroyed by a gas cylinder explosion from within the house. Spacecraft Bird One - Featured in You Only Live Twice .

Built by SPECTRE , the Bird One spacecraft was designed to kidnap American and Soviet orbital vehicles, engulfing the target craft and returning it to SPECTRE's hidden launch site in Japan. Moonraker Shuttle - Featured in Moonraker . "Moonraker" is a brand name applied to a space shuttle orbiter design, built by Drax Industries for NASA. Though the actual Space Shuttle had not flown by the time Moonraker was released, the Drax Moonraker is identical in design. These were named Moonraker 1-6. Marine vehicles Disco Volante – A fictional ship in the James Bond novel Thunderball (novel) (1961) and its 1965 film adaptation of the same name. It was a luxurious hydrofoil craft owned by Emilio Largo , an agent of SPECTRE . Liparus – Karl Stromberg's million ton, submarine swallowing, tanker from The Spy Who Loved Me. Atlantis – Karl Stromberg's submersable base from The Spy Who Loved Me. Wetbike – Featured in The Spy Who Loved Me. A hydrofoil "water motorcycle", built by a unit of Minnesota-based Arctic Enterprises.

Used by Bond to travel from the US Submarine to Stromberg's Atlantis to save Triple X. Wet Nellie (Lotus Esprit S2) – Featured in The Spy Who Loved Me. A modified Lotus Esprit S2 that could transform into a submarine. Q's Hydrofoil Boat – Featured in Moonraker; based on a Glastron design. Bond uses this boat to escape from Jaws while searching for the spacecraft launching facility. Comes with all the usual Q refinements such as tracking torpedoes and a hang-glider when an immediate ditching of the boat was required. Gondola – Featured in Moonraker. While attacked on the canals of Venice , Bond escapes his assailants by using his gondola's hidden self-propulsion system which also included a hovercraft function to leave the water. Alligator Boat – Featured in Octopussy. Bond travels to Octopussy's island inside a boat designed to look like an alligator. Iceberg – Featured in A View To A Kill. Bond escapes from a mission in Siberia by getting into a boat/submarine built to look like an iceberg.

Top 10 James Bond Cars Top 10 James Bond Cars Summary James Bond is known for driving exotic, expensive and stylish cars. From Dr. No through to Skyfall , cars have been an iconic part of the James Bond movies . Here is a selection of some of Bond's best cars, with no decade left untouched. #10 Sunbeam Alpine Series II (Dr. No, 1962) James Bond's first car was the modest, British made Sunbeam Alpine, in a light lake blue. Bond rented the convertible in Jamaica to drive to the mountain apartment of Miss Taro , the principal secretary of Jamaica, who doubled as a spy for villain Dr. No . Although starting out as a leisurely sunny drive, Bond is soon chased by The Three Blind Mice in a hearse. He avoids their tail with style, by driving under a crane that is blocking the road. The hearse is too tall to fit under, and ends up swerving off the mountain to its fiery demise. We've included the Sunbeam at number 10, because of its understated modesty, the iconic chase, and the fact that it was James Bond's first car.

The Alpine was supposedly borrowed from a local on the Island, to avoid the cost of importing their own. #9 Lotus Espirit Turbo (For Your Eyes Only, 1981) Lotus isn't the first car manufacturer most people would associate with James Bond, as only three of their models have appeared in the series. But, whenever Bond has gotten behind one of their wheels, the Lotus has been the highlight of the film's selection of vehicles. Appearing in For Your Eyes Only , Bond drives the burgundy Espirit Turbo to a ski resort in the North of Italy. A similar model with a white paint job had appeared earlier in the film, but had exploded when its anti-theft system had been set off. The joke being that Q had had to rebuild the Lotus entirely from scratch. The iconic image of the beautiful car with Bond's skis on the roof puts the Lotus at number 9. #8 Aston Martin DBS (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969) Introduced in 1967, the Aston Martin DBS series only lasted five years. However, the same design lived on with the Vantage, the V8, and the V8 Vantage until 1989.

At 22 years, the iconic design was used for longer than the DB1-DB6 series designs. George Lazenby, Sean Connery's temporary replacement, was introduced in On Her Majesty's Secret Service driving the DBS, in a scene very reminiscent of the opening minutes of The Italian Job, released earlier in the same year. Lazenby is driving along a winding Portugal road, his face hidden by shadows and cigarette smoke, in quite an artistic sequence. The Aston features prominently throughout the film, including in a chase through a car rally, a winter storm and the final moments where Bond's wife is shot through its windshield. #7 Citroen 2CV (For Your Eyes Only, 1981) We just had to include the bright yellow Citroen 2CV, pictured left flying over the enemy car that was trying to chase them. It was a beat up, unreliable old banger, but the producers still managed to churn out a fast paced, light humoured chase sequence through a Spanish olive plantation. The actual car was fit with a more powerful engine so that it could keep ahead of the Peugeot 504s that were chasing it.

The car itself isn't too interesting, and certainly not something Bond would go out of his way to drive. But the chase has proved to be very popular, with the Corgi model car being one of their best sellers. Citroen even made a special 007 edition of the real car, with a large 007 logo and fake bullet hole stickers on. But in that case, I think the joke was on the customers! The 2CV probably had the cheapeast car insurance of any Bond car. #6 Toyota 2000 GT (You Only Live Twice, 1967) The Toyota 2000 GT has been called the first Japanese supercar, and has been praised as being extremely enjoyable to drive. It was therefore wholly suitable for 1967's You Only Live Twice , which was set in Japan, and driven by daring Bond girl Aki. Just over 300 of the GTs were made, and they weren't convertibles. The soft-top version shown in You Only Live Twice was one of two produced specifically for the film.

Even then, they weren't true convertibles, as they had no roofs, just the upholstery at the back to make it look like they did. It is rumoured that the special editions were made because Sean Connery was too tall to fit in the original. View Full Screen ADVERTISEMENT It has been 50 years since Sean Connery first uttered those famous words, "Bond. James Bond." From Dr. No to the upcoming Skyfall, movie audiences the world over have been treated to 23 James Bond movies. With that longevity come certain expectations — exotic locales, beautiful women, outlandish plots, sexy psychedelic credits and vodka martinis, shaken not stirred. And oh yes, cars. Fantastic, classic, preferably gadget-filled cars. So read on as we list the 10 Best James Bond cars and share some of the behind-the-scenes stories that helped make them such icons. 1. Aston Martin DB5 — Goldfinger, Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale, Skyfall Was there really any doubt about No. 1? We could be controversial for the sake of being controversial, but how can you possibly go against the car that started it all?

The car that didn't just have a starring role in one film, but went on to appear in five others? The car dubbed the most famous in the world? Say "James Bond's car," and everyone knows which one you're talking about. Now, the Aston Martin DB5 wasn't really the first Bond car. In Dr. No he drove a Sunbeam Alpine and in most books he drove prewar Bentleys. However, the novel Goldfinger actually features an Aston Martin DB Mark III with a few special spy additions like a hidden gun compartment. For the movie, the filmmakers obviously had bigger ideas. Production Designer Ken Adam chose the latest Aston — the DB5 — to outfit with machine guns, an oil sprayer, tire shredders, rotating number plates, a tracking system and, of course, an ejector seat. Despite what you might suspect, Aston Martin didn't bend over backward to help out. Eon Productions had to twist Aston's arm just to "loan" the film a development prototype and there wasn't any sort of product placement deal. The overwhelming publicity generated for Aston Martin by Goldfinger is a major reason such placement deals exist today.

Not only did the car shortly thereafter feature in Thunderball, but it went on a worldwide tour to promote both films. The car itself would inspire all of the gadget-laden cars that came after it, and made a reappearance years later as the personal car of Pierce Brosnan's Bond — albeit without the gadgets and a slightly different number plate (BMT 214A versus 216A). In Casino Royale, the modern Bond's ownership of the car is explained when Daniel Craig wins it in a poker game. Like James Bond himself, the Aston Martin DB5 will return in Skyfall. 2. Lotus Esprit S1 — The Spy Who Loved Me The DB5 is the icon and the original, but if it were our choice for a spy car, the Lotus Esprit S1 featured in The Spy Who Loved Me would be it. Not only does it participate in one of the series' best car chases, it tops it off by taking a plunge off a pier and turning into a submarine for an underwater boat chase. How cool is that? "I thought its shape could make it a believable submarine," Production Designer Ken Adam said in the book The Art of Bond. "An American submarine company built it for me.

And it traveled underwater — it was not pressurized but it could do 7 knots underwater. Stunt divers with oxygen tanks operated it and we also had it as a model." Lotus provided seven vehicle "shells" that were used to create the submarine and show individual transformation elements. However, getting fully functional road-going cars proved more difficult. During the making of the film, the second unit realized the only other car that could keep up with the Esprit for car-to-car shots was another Esprit. As it was so early in the car's production, they were informed that the only other one available was owned by Lotus Chairman Colin Chapman. He was only too happy to loan it to them. The exotic Esprit also proved to be a handful for the stunt driver unaccustomed to midengine dynamics. With director Lewis Gilbert dissatisfied with the speeds being portrayed on film, Roger Becker, a Lotus employee Chapman had personally instructed to aid the production, stepped into drive for many of the featured shots. The result was a ground-breaking action sequence. 3.

Aston Martin V8 Vantage — The Living Daylights With Timothy Dalton taking over the part for 1987's The Living Daylights, the Bond producers were eager to use elements that tied the film to those that came before it. At the same time, Aston Martin was facing hard times (not exactly an uncommon occurrence) and was thrilled to rekindle the relationship that had made it so famous. The Aston in question was a Volante that Q's boys in the workshop somehow "winterize" to become a regular Vantage coupe. Probably best to overlook that one. Also best to overlook the fact that the car itself dated back to the original DBS that appeared in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The Series 5, as it's known, was still substantially enhanced over the years and now featured a 5.3-liter, 370-horsepower V8. It was also still gorgeous, still an Aston Martin, and it was also the first car since The Spy Who Loved Me to be laden with gadgets.

Bond's "winterized" Aston featured outrigger skis, spikes that deploy from the tires, lasers mounted in the wheel hubs, a rocket afterburner and missiles hidden behind the driving lights. The snow-bound mountain chase scene in Czechoslovakia is one of the most underrated in the series' 50-year history. 4. BMW 750iL — Tomorrow Never Dies While the three cars above were all lust-worthy, there's always that voice in the back of your head asking, "Would a secret agent really drive something that flashy?" Well, a 750iL is hardly anonymous, but it would certainly blend into a parking lot while still exuding that premium air expected from a James Bond car. It was also a classic, V12-powered BMW flagship sedan with a design that many view as the last good-looking 7 Series. Its colossal size (for a Bond car) made it possible to stuff in more gadgets than ever previously seen.

BMW provided 10 cars to the production, two of which were packed with 12 sunroof-mounted rockets, a wire cutter that popped up from the roundel, a hidden gun compartment behind the airbag, tire-shredding tetrahedrons that deploy from the rear bumper and re-inflating tires. Q Branch's idea of security also moved beyond simply blowing the car up (see No. 6). Windows were smash-proof, door handles were electrified, there were noxious gas canisters and Bond could retrieve the car using his mobile phone. That particular function made for a particularly unique chase where Pierce Brosnan's Bond drives from the backseat. Some have said that 007 shouldn't have driven German cars, but the ramshackle state of the British car industry in the late 1990s made sticking with the home team a little difficult. Could you really see 007 driving a Jag Vanden Plas? It wasn't ideal and certainly the result of a lucrative product placement deal, but the brand and Bond were nevertheless a good fit. 5.

Mercury Cougar XR-7 — On Her Majesty's Secret Service It seems only fitting that a new James Bond should be introduced in an equally new Aston Martin, and that's exactly what happened during the pre-credits sequence of On Her Majesty's Secret Service when George Lazenby chases down Diana Rigg's Tracy di Vincenzo in his DBS. It was a nice enough car, but her red Mercury Cougar convertible is the bigger automotive star in this fan-favorite film. Little explanation should be needed as to why a classic 1969 Cougar XR-7 might be a memorable automobile. True, it's the first car on our list without gadgets, but it makes up for that with more screen time and action than any of the cars below. With skis mounted to its trunk, the Cougar slips and slides between 6-foot snowbanks as it evades Ernst Stavro Blofeld's Benz-driving henchmen through the Swiss Alps. To shake them off, Bond urges that they crash a snow-bound stock car race, where the Cougar takes a mighty beating, but emerges victorious after some pretty memorable powerslides to boot. The kicker: It's Tracy doing all the driving. No wonder she ends up as Mrs. Bond.

6. Lotus Esprit Turbo — For Your Eyes Only Truth be told, the Esprit Turbo did very little in For Your Eyes Only. A white one gets blown up by its own self-destruct system when some baddies try to break into it, while Roger Moore's Bond drives another around the ski resort town of Cortina d'Ampezzo. However, there is something about that particular car that is just so incredibly cool — the deep red paint, the gold wheels and graphics, the white-letter tires and of course, the Olin Mark VI skis mounted to the back. Suppose there's something about red sports cars and skis. This Esprit also represented a step up from the Esprit S1 featured four years earlier in The Spy Who Loved Me. OK, so it couldn't turn into a submarine, but its four-cylinder engine was at least turbocharged to produce 210 hp. The S1 was only good for 160 hp in Europe, 140 in the States. Other enhancements included a strengthened chassis, redesigned rear suspension, a Giugiaro-designed body kit and some pretty spectacular rouched leather in place of the S1's plaid cloth. 7.

Toyota 2000GT Roadster — You Only Live Twice This car also wasn't driven by James Bond. Instead, Japanese S.I.S. agent Aki twice shows up to save an unsuspecting Bond from a nefarious end, then proceeds to show off some pretty impressive driving through Tokyo in her Toyota 2000GT roadster. Interestingly, though, Toyota didn't actually sell a 2000GT roadster. Like the Lotus Esprit S1 and BMW Z3 after it, the 150-hp 2000GT wasn't yet in full production. Toyota only intended to sell its first-ever sports car as a coupe, which was a problem. Not only would it make in-car filming difficult, but 6-foot-2 Sean Connery couldn't actually fit in the thing. A simpler Targa-style roof was tried, but Connery's head popping up above the roof line looked ridiculous. A roadster was the only solution and Toyota's Toyopet Service Centre converted two coupes into roadsters in a mere two weeks. Well, they technically weren't convertibles since there were no side windows and that black tonneau cover didn't actually conceal a folding roof.

But that's the magic of the movies, and so, too, was the variety of communications gadgets added to the car, including a closed-circuit TV. 8. Ford Mustang Mach 1 — Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery's Bond drives the Mach 1 as he and Tiffany Case (Jill St. John) evade the hapless police through downtown Las Vegas. Only The Blues Brothers challenges Diamonds Are Forever for 1970s land yacht police car carnage. Director Guy Hamilton hated American cars and was only too happy to destroy as many as he could while making them look ridiculous in the process. Ford happily lent the Bond producers eight revised-for-1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1s with the Sportsroof option. This was the last major restyling of the original Mustang and it included the car growing in almost every dimension. Thankfully, Case's Mach 1 featured the 7.0-liter 375-hp Cobra Jet V8 that would disappear the following year. Yet, the Mach 1 in Diamonds is best known for one of the most infamous continuity errors in film history.

Facing an alley too narrow to fit through, Bond drives the Mustang onto the passenger-side wheels, squeezes through the passage and comes down safely on the other side. While the first part of the shot in the alley was filmed at Universal Studios, the emerging shot was filmed in Las Vegas by a different unit. Unfortunately, they did the shot on the driver-side wheels. Director Guy Hamilton didn't seem to care much and was content adding a nonsensical in-car shot of the car rotating onto its opposite wheels while inside the alley. "To this very day, every time I see it, my heart goes in my mouth," said the series' long-time continuity "girl" Elaine Schreyeck in the documentary Inside Diamonds Are Forever. 9. BMW Z8 — The World Is Not Enough While the BMW Z3 was launched to overwhelming fan fare in GoldenEye, the car was barely used. That mistake was not repeated four years later. Featuring retro-inspired styling by Henrik Fisker and a 400-hp V8, the classic BMW Z8 got its fair share of screen time in The World Is Not Enough.

Though not as gadget-laden as the 750iL, the Z8 nevertheless featured little missiles that popped out of the side gills and a clever steering wheel to control them. More noteworthy, though, is the Z8's untimely end. We can still hear the groans in the theater as those helicopter saw blades sliced the beautiful roadster in two. Q is not going to like this, indeed. 10. Aston Martin DBS — Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace As painful as the last entry's demise was, it couldn't possibly match the spectacular end met by the Aston Martin DBS in Casino Royale. As Daniel Craig's Bond chases down Vesper Lynd's abductors on a dimly lit Montenegro mountain road, she suddenly appears lying bound in the middle of the road. Bond swerves to avoid her, flipping the DBS a record seven times before crashing down onto the grass. Accomplishing the stunt was more difficult than it appeared on film. No matter how hard the stunt drivers tried, the DBS simply was not going to lose control in such an epically disastrous manner.

As such, a compressed air cannon fitted behind the driver seat fired a cylinder into the road when the driver swerved to avoid the actual stuntwoman lying in the road. The results were better than anyone expected. The DBS featured in Quantum of Solace wasn't exactly babied, either. In part driven by Ben "The Stig" Collins, this DBS participates in a wild chase around Italy's Lake Garda and inside a quarry. Though it didn't feature in the movie, one of the many cars used in the chase accidentally plunged into the lake after stunt driver Fraser Dunn lost control, smashed through a rather flimsy protective railing and dropped 8 meters into the drink. He survived relatively unscathed, but the car had to be salvaged from 55 meters down

Question: What make and model car did James Bond drive in the 1962 film ‘Dr No’?
Answer: Sunbeam Alpine