The Spy Who Loved Me Theme Song - James Bond - YouTube The Spy Who Loved Me Theme Song - James Bond Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 13, 2012 The theme tune to 007, The Man with the Golden Gun, performed by Carly Simon. For entertainment purposes only, I do not claim ownership or rights of this production. Copyright is held by its respective owners, including EMI and MGM. Category James Bond Retrospective: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) 8 Reasons To Be Excited For Universal's A Celebration Of Harry Potter James Bond Retrospective: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Considered by many to be Roger Moore's finest Bond film in 1977 The Spy Who Loved Me promised audiences the biggest and best Bond yet.

Flipboard To mark the 50th Anniversary of one of the most successful movie franchises of all time and with filming well underway on James Bonds 23rd official outing in Skyfall due for release later this year, I have been tasked with taking a retrospective look at the films that turned author Ian Flemings creation into one of the most recognised and iconic characters in film history. With James Bond well established as a worldwide phenomenon raking in countless millions at the box-office, the tenth film in the series, The Spy Who Loved Me proved unexpectedly problematic in its journey to the screen and marked the longest gap between films since the series began. Due to personal financial issues Bond producer Harry Saltzman decided to sell his 50% stake in Danjaq S.A., the company he had established with Albert R. Broccoli to produce the Bond series. United Artists, who had been involved in the distribution of the films from the beginning, offered to buy his share of the company for $20 million with Broccoli maintaining overall control of the future of the series.

Guy Hamilton, who had directed the previous three films as well as helping to establish the Bond formula with Goldfinger, had been expected to return but following an offer to bring the popular comic book character Superman to the big screen he declined. A decision that may not have been that wise in hindsight as he found himself replaced by Richard Donner when the films production moved to the UK where Hamilton was a tax exile. The focus then turned to Steven Spielberg who was mid-way through the post-production of Jaws but due to uncertainty about how his shark film would be received he also had to decline. Instead, Broccoli hired a director who had already proven capable of handling the huge scale and expense of a Bond film, Lewis Gilbert, director of You Only Live Twice. A similar search for suitable screenwriters followed with Broccoli commissioning John Landis, Anthony Burgess and Gerry Anderson to produce treatments for the film before settling on well established Bond writer Richard Maibaum to provide a first draft. When Gilbert joined production Maibaums work was eventually re-written by Christopher Wood, who had made a name for himself as the writer of the British sex comedy series that began with Confessions Of A Window Cleaner.

Further issues arose when writing the films script after initial ideas to include Bonds number one adversary Ernst Stavro Blofeld hit a brick wall after the on-going legal dispute with Kevin McClory, co-writer of Thunderball, meant that EON Productions could no longer use the character name or his criminal organisation SPECTRE in their films. With the problems resolved, filming began in August 1976, almost two full years since the release of The Man With The Golden Gun. With double the budget of the previous film, numerous global locations and construction underway to build a giant new soundstage at Pinewood Studios to accommodate the films ambitious sets, the stage was set for this to become Bonds biggest adventure to date. James Bond Much like Sean Connery, who made his biggest impression with his third Bond film Goldfinger, Roger Moore does more or less the same thing with The Spy Who Loved Me. It is certainly his most successful outing as Bond and the three year gap since The Man With The Golden Gun has clearly given him time to mature into the role. The level of humour works well within the overall film but there is still enough room for the serious side of the character to shine through.

Classic Line James Bond: The names Bond, James Bond. Max Kalba: (unimpressed) What of it? While the film is bigger than those that have come before, the character remains grounded with a tougher streak that until now had been missing from Moores Bond. A scene that sees Bond standing on the edge of a rooftop with Sandor, one of Strombergs heavies, clinging onto Bonds necktie to stop him falling is a good example of the harder, edgier Bond. Rather than help the Sandor after he has revealed the information Bond was looking for, he swats him away allowing him to fall to his death, a move more akin to early Connery or modern day Daniel Craig. Pre-Credits & Theme Song The pre-credits sequence is a really efficiently edited montage of scenes that set the main plot in motion beginning with the capturing of a British submarine. As the news of the disaster is relayed to the British secret service we also see inside a Russian government office as General Gogol receives news that a Soviet submarine has suffered a similar fate.

Both these events lead to the introduction of Russian agent Triple X, who we are initially led to believe is Sergei Barsov played by Michael Billington, originally one of the contenders for the role of Bond when Connery left after Diamonds Are Forever, however it turns out that Triple X is in fact the female agent with which he shares a bed, Major Anya Amasova played by Barbara Bach. Classic Line Log Cabin Girl: But James, I need you! James Bond: So does England! After the relatively action-free establishing scenes of the previous two films pre-credit sequences, the opening of The Spy Who Loved Me would go on to set the standard for all that followed making the opening scene the perfect excuse for a huge action set-piece with jaw-dropping stunts. The scene continues with Bond relaxing in the Austrian mountains in the company of a beautiful woman when he receives a ticker tape message from M requesting his return to the UK. As he skis down the mountain he is pursued by a team of Soviet agents including Barsov who he kills before out-running the other agents down the slopes. The camera pulls back to reveal he is skiing towards the edge of the mountain with a sheer drop off.

As Bond speeds towards the edge he sails over the edge removing his skis as he free falls before pulling a ripcord revealing a parachute with a Union Jack design as the Bond theme plays. The stunt is not only one of the best of the series but one of the greatest movie stunts of all time. Filmed from the top of Asgard Peak on Baffin Island in Canada, the stunt was performed by Rick Sylvester who was paid $30,000 for the feat successfully completed in one take and captured by the second unit under the direction of John Glen. Bond composer John Barry was unavailable to offer scoring duties for The Spy Who Loved Me so the producers turned to multi-award winning composer Marvin Hamlisch to provide the music for the film. Taking inspiration from the late-seventies trend for disco music, Hamlischs score is very much of its time and includes a re-working of the Bond theme to a disco beat entitled Bond 77. Hamlisch also co-wrote the theme song with his then girlfriend, Carole Bayer Sager which would go on to become synonymous with Bond and be used forever over montages of the series best moments.

Performed by Carly Simon, Nobody Does It Better was the first theme song not to have the same title as the film but The Spy Who Loved Me was sung as part of the verse rather than the chorus. The song proved to be a huge success and was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 as well as being placed 67th in the American Film Institutes greatest song of the last 100 years in 2004. The Movie When two British and Soviet nuclear submarines mysteriously disappear, British secret service agent James Bond is assigned to investigate. Tracing the sale of a sophisticated submarine tracking system to Egypt he encounters Major Anya Amasova, a female agent of the KGB on the same mission for her government. The investigation leads to Karl Stromberg, a millionaire shipping tycoon, who from his underwater base in Sardinia has masterminded a plot to capture British, Soviet and American submarines with his super-tanker, the Liparus, to bring about World War III launching nuclear missiles towards New York and Moscow so he can establish a new civilisation living underwater. Together, Bond and Amasova put their countries differences aside to put a stop to Strombergs plans and prevent a nuclear war.

The film is essentially a re-run of the plot from You Only Live Twice, with submarines being swallowed in much the same way as the rocket ships in Connerys fifth outing, no surprise as both films were directed by Lewis Gilbert, but on this occasion there is a much better balance between reality and the series excesses that had developed over the years. The increased budget has a clear impact on the scale of the production. Designer Ken Adam returns for his sixth Bond film to deliver sets so large EON Productions had to finance and build a brand new soundstage at Pinewood. Built to house the interior sets of Strombergs massive super-tanker, the 59,000 sq ft structure with a water tank capable of taking 1.2 million gallons of water, was large enough to accommodate the three full-scale nuclear submarines required by the storyline of the film. After Adams previous volcano base design for You Only Live Twice, this set ranks as one of his most impressive creations of the whole series and is to this day unmatched in its ambition. The Albert R.

Broccoli 007 Stage at Pinewood is still in frequent use despite being almost totally destroyed by fire on two occasions in 1984 and 2006. Since its construction in 1976 the facility has been used for no less than ten Bond films including the latest, Skyfall. The film also utilised the skills and imagination of special effects designer Derek Meddings. His miniature effects are some of the most convincing ever committed to the screen. After cutting his teeth model making for Gerry Anderson television shows such as Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and UFO, Meddings moved into feature films and made a name for himself as the go-to-guy for miniature and visual effects. Working in collaboration with Ken Adam, Meddings miniatures bring to life some of the more outlandish aspects of the film such as Strombergs underwater base, Atlantis and the huge super-tanker, the Liparus. While Strombergs huge ship, capable of swallowing three nuclear submarines, only ever existed as a model it measured over 60 feet in length and was shot on the Caribbean Ocean off the coast of Nassau.

The clever combination of miniatures and cinematography blending real elements with visual effects complete the overall effect to create impressive scenes that despite being far-fetched seem credible on film. The Spy Who Loved Me proves that sometimes bigger can be better and for better or worse raises the bar for what would be expected from a Bond film in the future. It is probably Moores finest hour but there is still room for further development of his interpretation of the role over the course of the next four films and many more peaks and troughs along the way. If I was to pick a Bond film to define each decade I would choose Goldfinger for the sixties and The Spy Who Loved Me for the seventies as both perfectly capture their own period through the styles and fashions of their times as well as capturing their Bond at his peak. The Bond Villain After the relatively low-key villains of the previous two films, the main villain in The Spy Who Loved Me, Karl Stromberg, fits more within the Blofeld and Goldfinger mould of megalomaniacal millionaire with plans for world domination only instead of an obsession with gold or money, he has a plan to destroy the world so he can start a new civilisation under the sea.

To play the role, director Gilbert suggested German/ Austrian actor Curt Jürgens, with whom he had previously worked on the 1959 film, Ferry To Hong Kong. Jürgens performance is quite understated but still possesses the requisite amount of menace to make his plan believable. While slightly less eccentric than Auric Golfinger or Blofeld, he presides over his empire from his fantastical base leaving much of the work to his employees and henchmen making his world destruction plans all the more viable with a huge army at his disposal. While not much of a physical threat to Bond, he still has a presence and intellect to play Bond at his own game going along with his attempts to infiltrate his lair under the guise of a marine biologist all the while knowing his true identity. Taking perverse pleasure in the murder of his personal secretary after she tries to steal from him, killed after falling from a booby trapped lift into a shark tank, Stromberg is an unpredictable force and a worthy addition to the rogues gallery of Bond villains. Classic Line James Bond: Dont you miss the outside world? Stromberg: For me, this is all the world.

There is beauty...there is ugliness...and there is death. Topping the long list of henchmen in the Bond series, Strombergs steel-toothed, mute assassin, Jaws, played by Richard Kiel, joins Goldfingers Oddjob as one of the most memorable and iconic of all Bond villains. At 2.18m tall he towers above Bond and proves to be practically indestructible as he manages to defy death after being crushed by scaffolding and falling masonry, thrown from a moving train as well as walking away from the car wreck after it goes over the edge of a cliff crashing into a building below. Kiel had made a name for himself during the early 1960s in a string of low budget science fiction and horror television shows and films. In the same year as The Spy Who Loved Me, Kiel was chosen to play The Incredible Hulk in the television adaptation of the popular Marvel comic.

After filming had begun on the pilot episode he was replaced by Lou Ferrigno after it was decided the Hulk should be more muscular rather than tall, however it was his role in the Bond films that would prove to be the pinnacle of his career and with his unique look, a role he would forever be associated with. Writer Christopher Wood took inspiration for Jaws from the Ian Fleming character, Horror, who appears in the original novel. The character proved to be so popular with test audiences that his final scenes had to be re-written. Originally he was supposed to be killed by Strombergs shark but instead he kills the shark by biting into it with his metal teeth and is later seen swimming away from Strombergs Atlantis as it sinks into the sea. Realising the popularity and potential for the character he makes a return as Hugo Draxs henchman in the following film, Moonraker. Strombergs other noteworthy henchman comes in the shapely form of bikini clad assassin Naomi, played by Caroline Munro. Adding a touch of sex appeal to the main car chase, she pursues Bond in her helicopter winking and waving at him as she attempts to shoot him off the road.

No stranger to the world of James Bond, Munro had already made an appearance in the 1967 spoof Casino Royale but was most well known for her roles in a number of Hammer Horror films in the early seventies. Turning down the opportunity to play General Zods female companion Ursa in the Superman films in favour of a role in The Spy Who Loved Me, she only appears briefly in the film but still manages to leave a lasting impression. The Bond Girl The Spy Who Loved Me marked a change in the traditional portrayal of the Bond girl. Rather than just a companion for Bond, with the introduction of Major Anya Amasova the Bond girl became his equal. The film takes full advantage of the one-upmanship in having two agents from opposing sides joining forces to defeat a common enemy. The dialogue between Triple X and 007 is particularly snappy and while they start out working almost against each other they soon realise their matching goal would be more achievable working in unison. Cast just four days before principal photography began, former model Barbara Bach took the role of Agent Triple X bringing undeniable beauty to the part.

Over the course of the film she forms a lively chemistry with Moore and a nicely complex relationship with Bond that develops at every turn of the films plot. With the underlying sub-plot that Bond killed her former lover during the pre-credits ski chase lending her a certain unpredictability and a fresh twist to the partnership. Classic Line James Bond: Wheres Anya? Stromberg: Well, well...a British agent in love with a Russian agent. Détente, indeed. Gadgets Since Goldfinger, Bond had always been associated with Aston Martin but in 1977 another British sports car maker stepped in to provide Bond with a gadget filled car to rival his world famous DB5. After a tip off that the next Bond film was in pre-production at Pinewood Studios, Lotus PR man Donovan McLauchlan took a prototype Lotus Esprit to the studio and parked it close to the entrance giving the car maximum exposure. Within days it had been chosen to make an appearance in The Spy Who Loved Me and would prove to be one of the films main highlights.

The spectacularly filmed car chase sequence through the hills of Sardinia features some incredible stunt driving involving a motor-cycle with a guided missile sidecar, a Ford Granada full of Strombergs heavies including Jaws and a machine gun toting helicopter piloted by Naomi. The chase culminates with Bond driving his Lotus off the end of a wooden jetty into the ocean where the car transforms into a submarine. Classic Line James Bond: (After Anya has just used one of the Lotus submarines weapons to kill an enemy) How did you know about that? Anya Amasova: I stole the plans to this car two years ago. In total, 2 production model Lotus Esprit S1 cars were provided to the crew as well as 5 complete body shells. The cars were given to production designer Ken Adam and John Stears to convert for use in the film and a full scale working submarine version was made for the underwater scenes featuring adjustable fins and propellers, a periscope, a smoke screen, mines and a surface to air missile which Bond uses to takedown Naomis helicopter.

Scale models were used for many of the close-up shots of the conversion from car to submarine and the car used for the initial jump off the jetty was just a shell powered by compressed air. Dubbed Wet Nellie after the Little Nellie gyrocopter used in You Only Live Twice, the Lotus was immortalised by die-cast car manufacturer Corgi with a model that at the press of a button would convert into the submarine and featured rockets that would fire from the rear screen. Alongside the Aston Martin DB5, Bonds Lotus Esprit remains one of the greatest movie vehicles of all time. James Bond Will Return.. The Spy Who Loved Me remains a fan favourite and is commonly regarded as Moores best Bond film. Grossing over $185 million at the worldwide box-office it seemed the series could do no wrong in the eyes of the audience. At the end of the films closing credits it stated that James Bond would return in For Your Eyes Only but following the monumental success of George Lucas Star Wars during the same year it was looking more likely that Bond would soon be taking his next adventure out of this world...

To catch up on previous installments of the James Bond Retrospective click here: Dr. No , From Russia With Love , Goldfinger , Thunderball , You Only Live Twice , On Her Majestys Secret Service , Diamonds Are Forever , Live And Let Die , The Man With The Golden Gun "The Spy Who Loved Me" Opening Credit Sequence - YouTube "The Spy Who Loved Me" Opening Credit Sequence Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Nov 28, 2009 The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is the tenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum. The film takes its title from the tenth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, though as Ian Fleming requested that only the title of the novel be used, the film does not contain any elements of the novel The Spy Who Loved Me.

The storyline involves a reclusive megalomaniac named Stromberg who plans to destroy the world and create a new civilization under the sea. Bond teams up with a Russian agent Anya Amasova to stop Stromberg. The theme song "Nobody Does it Better" was composed by Marvin Hamlisch, written by Carole Bayer Sager, and performed by Carly Simon. It was the first theme song in the James Bond series to be titled differently than the name of the movie, although the title is in the lyric. The song met immediate success and is featured in numerous movies including Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Little Black Book, Lost in Translation and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). In 2004, it was honored by the American Film Institute as the 67th greatest song as part of their 100 Years Series. Category The Spy Who Loved Me Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 51 out of 66 people found the following review useful: "Nobody does it quite the way you do" from St.

Louis, Missouri 29 June 2006 You don't review James Bond movies, you evaluate them, rate them according to how well they meet expectations. There are certain things one has come to expect, even demand of a Bond film and each individual effort either delivers or it doesn't. So, here are ten elements that make a Bond film a Bond film and how THE SPY WHO LOVED ME rates on a scale of 1 to 10: Title: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME: The title seems more appropriate for a Harlequin Romance novel, and if suitable at all for a Bond film, it would have been a better title for ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Yet, it does finally work the word "spy" into the title of a Bond film. 7 points. Pre-Credit Teaser: It's all very nicely done: Within a few minutes, we see a submarine stolen and its crew kidnapped; we meet the Soviet's top agent, who just happens to be -- surprise! -- a woman; and we get the added treat of one of Bond's greatest stunts, the great skiing-skydiving trick.

A pretty cool way to kick off the film and set up the various story lines. 9 points. Opening Credits: Arguably the silliest of all of Maurice Binder's efforts, the opening sequence finds 007 bouncing around on a trampoline while various miniature, and apparently naked, babes do gymnastics on the barrels of guns. (Pity he didn't come up with that idea for THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN.) Bordering on self-parody, it is nonetheless naughty and fun and colorful and oh-so very James Bond. 9 points. Theme Song: No beating around the bush here, the song gets right to the point: "Nobody does it half as good as you, Baby, you're the best." Just what Bond is best at is open to interpretation. The music by Marvin Hamlisch is swanky and matched by Carol Bayer Sager's dreamy and only slightly sarcastic lyrics. And Carly Simon's vocals bring it all home. Maybe not the best Bond song, but right up there. 9 points. "Bond, James Bond": Moore finally makes the role his. The number of smug one-liners have been trimmed, yet he still invests the character with humor -- plus some warmth and charm, and unexpected sadness.

And we get to see a bit of Bond's vanity as he matches wits with a female agent who is his equal and not impressed by his stock-and-trade flirtations. Moore's best appearance as Bond. 9 points. Bond Babes: The prevailing notion has always been that "Bond Girl" equals "Bimbo," which is only partly true. Most of the women Bond encounters are highly skilled professionals -- as well as being bimbos. But Soviet agent Major Anya Amasova, a.k.a. XXX, is the first Bond Girl to give James a run for his money. She's smart, sexy, capable, resourceful and it takes her almost the whole movie to actually fall in love with Bond. What will power! As played by Barbara Bach (a.k.a., soon-to-be Mrs. Ringo Starr), Anya ranks as one of the best Bond Girls, easily worthy of 9 points. Bond Villain: Karl Stromberg (nice villainous name, by the way) is one of those mad billionaires who hopes to create a new world order by mass genocide and building a new society, this time underwater.

It is pretty much a cliché character and unfortunately Curt Jurgen plays the part like a grumpy old man and can't seem to muster up even a maniacal laugh. 5 points. Bond Baddies: Oddjob look-a-like Sandor, played by Milton Reid, puts in an appearance long enough to die a memorable death, but it is Richard Kiel who steps into the limelight as Jaws, one of the great Bond villains. If being a hulking, seven-foot tall muscle man weren't enough, he also has steel teeth and an amazingly obsessive desire to kill 007. Playing Wile E. Coyote to Bond's Road Runner, Jaws earns 9 points. Sinister Plot: Stromberg steals a Russian and a U.S. sub, as well as a British one, with the hopes of starting World War III and destroying the civilization as we know it today. Been there, done that. 4 points. Production values: Romantic imagery, clever lighting effects and intriguing camera angles make this the most visually appealing Bond film. In the past, the emphasis was always on the most effective way to film action sequences, but here director Gilbert Lewis strives for that little bit extra as far as mood and romance.

9 points. Bonus Points: Connery had his Astin Martin and Moore gets a Lotus Esprit. It is not nearly as snazzy, but it does turn into a submarine and you never know when that will come in handy. 5 points. Summary: It had been hinted at in the three previous Bond adventures, but a new sense of style is fully apparent here. The roughness and grit that many of the purists loved about Connery's films are pretty much gone in favor of a polish and panache. Whether that is being suave or merely superficial is open to interpretation, but it does set the tone and the expectations for all future Bond adventures. Bond-o-meter Rating: 84 points out of 100. Was the above review useful to you? 51 out of 74 people found the following review useful: Bond, Back to Basics... from Las Vegas, Nevada 7 April 2004 After the critical and commercial beating taken by THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, producer Albert Broccoli, now solely in charge of the 007 franchise, had to re-evaluate the series for the third time in less than ten years.

Certainly, Roger Moore would never be believable in a Sean Connery-type Bond film, but couldn't some of the series' best elements be restored, and the comedy reduced a bit, to make Moore's Bond a bit more believable? The research, which became the basis of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, took over two years to complete, and the script went through many writers before the final draft, by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum. With a renewed emphasis on more realistic action, Broccoli brought back Lewis Gilbert to direct; his earlier Bond effort, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, while not a major 'hit', had featured the most spectacular action sequences of the series. With Gilbert on board, the production became very reminiscent of the Connery film (Even the concept of a supertanker 'swallowing' submarines echoed YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, and the spacecraft-'eating' SPECTRE capsule). As the villain, esteemed German actor Curt Jurgens was cast as Karl Stromberg, an ideal choice, as the actor, with his bulging eyes, 'fit' the role of a fish-like megalomaniac.

Playing his henchman, Jaws, in an inspired piece of casting, giant Richard Kiel, complete with 'bear-trap' steel teeth, would provide Moore with the greatest danger he'd ever face as Bond. Kiel was, in fact, so good in the role (possibly the most popular villain of the entire 007 franchise), that he would return in MOONRAKER, to bedevil Bond some more. Less successful, dramatically, but still astonishing to watch would be Stromberg's 'hit woman', Naomi, played by voluptuous Caroline Munro. In an effort to 'update' Bond into an era of feminists, the strongest, most independent love interest to appear in at Bond film to that point was introduced. Major Anya Amasova, played by Ringo Starr's wife, the exotically beautiful Barbara Bach, was Bond's opposite number on the Russian side, an equal to 007 in every way. In a pivotal scene, she would display a knowledge of Bond's past that even included his dead wife, Tracy (the first time Bond's marriage had been mentioned since ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE).

Moore's reaction to her comment would be both emotional and abrupt, and demonstrated that he could do far more than just deliver witty one-liners. From the spectacular ski chase pre-title sequence, climaxing with a parachute free fall off a cliff (love that 'Union Jack'), to Bond and Anya's confrontations with Jaws, in Egypt (reminiscent of Bond's fights with Oddjob in GOLDFINGER and Tee Hee in LIVE AND LET DIE), to the amazing Lotus that would do service on land and in the ocean, to the massive tanker battle while Bond disarms a nuclear warhead (shades of GOLDFINGER), THE SPY WHO LOVED ME would do homage to 007's previous adventures, and utilize humor in support of the on-screen action, instead of spoofing it (other than the brief use of the LAWRENCE OF ARABIA theme...you'll spot it). And to top things off, Carly Simon's rendition of the film's title tune, "Nobody Does It Better", would become a Top Ten hit, worldwide. Critics and audiences loved THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, hailing it as Moore's best work, and one of the better Bonds of all time.

Things were, again, looking up for 007...but STAR WARS was about to debut, and things would go dreadfully amiss, when Broccoli decided to send Bond into space, in MOONRAKER... Was the above review useful to you? 46 out of 69 people found the following review useful: One of Moore's finest. from Co Down, Northern Ireland 18 March 2004 Undeniably one of the finest James Bond films to star Roger Moore, the film has plenty of excess, top notch special effects (for 1977) anyway, the humor less overt and left over for puns and one liners, and one of the first strong and independent Bond women, paving the way for future love interests like Jinx and Wai Lin. The Spy Who Loved Me scarcely puts a foot wrong. Sure the plot is far fetched to the extreme (an underwater building and a villain looking to repopulate the earth in his underwater city), but it has plenty of charm and is frequently enjoyable. Moore looks very confident in his performance as Bond, the one liners oozing effort and confidence, showing he has hit his stride in this, his third appearance as the character.

His chemistry with Barbara Bach is in full swing, despite her odd Russian accent, and the two of them make for a great on screen couple. This is a return to the values of many of the Bond films that were missing the last time around. The extravagant sets are back, the villain has plenty of henchman for Bond and the cavalry to fight and the gadgets are in full swing. Everything from a parachute with the Union Jack on it to the Lotus with just about every conceivable gadget at Bond's disposal. The emphasis on sight gags and overt comedy is gone and replaced with moments of genuine suspense, just check out Bond having to steal the detonator of a nuclear weapon, not to mention the superb theme tune Nobody Does it Better by Carly Simon. It's an apt song for a series that found its footing and gave its lead actor his first classic Bond film. Was the above review useful to you?

42 out of 62 people found the following review useful: Exceptionally good Bond film from Järvenpää, Finland 20 January 2003 Just like the highly disappointing "Die another day" is a regrettable class example of how to do everything in a James Bond film completely wrong, legendary "The Spy who loved me" is a prototype of a perfect 007 adventure. Everything seems to work here. First of all this was the first Bond movie that really showed what a modern pre-credits sequence should look like. After all in Roger Moore's first two flicks "Live and let die" and "The Man with the golden gun" we don't even see 007 until after the credits. From the opening ski chase to the underwater car, stunts are amazing. In many ways this has to be one of the most imaginative Bonds. Story is excellent, especially because it doesn't only deal with Stromberg's evil plot against the unaware world but because it has a pleasant little sideplot about 007's relationship with Major Anya Amasova.

Villains are of course splendid, why should I even bother to mention that (almost literally) larger-than-life character Jaws is perhaps the most beloved bad guy James Bond has ever been against with. Curd Jürgens also gives a magnificent performance as the insane mastermind Stromberg. I'm one of the people who thinks that in the end Sean Connery is the one and only true James Bond. Nevertheless, "The Spy who loved me" is still better than some of Connery's Bond movies. At least it surpasses "From Russia with love", "Thunderball" and "Diamonds are forever" and I must admit these films are most terrific experiences too. Everyone should see this film, not only the big Bond fanatics. Why? Simply because "The Spy who loved me" is not only a significant film in the movie series, it's much more than that. It's an important part of the pop culture. Was the above review useful to you? 28 out of 39 people found the following review useful: Roger Moore rated this as his best Bond film. I don't agree, but it's certainly an entertaining and spectacular one.

from Todmorden, England 26 December 2004 Roger Moore has always maintained that The Spy Who Loved Me is the best of his Bond films. Personally I prefer Octopussy and For Your Eyes Only, but this one certainly has its moments. The original novel by Ian Fleming was an odd-one-out in the book series, describing as it did how an off-duty Bond saved a female hotelier from a couple of nasty hoodlums. However, in this film adaptation the novel has been completely jettisoned and replaced with a story about Bond thwarting a megalomaniac from achieving world domination. Bond (Moore) is partnered with Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach - most beautiful of all the many Bond girls) to solve the mysterious disappearance of two nuclear submarines, one British the other Russian. They follow the clues to the underwater lair of Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), an elegant and educated psychopath with a plan to destroy the world in a nuclear holocaust and retreat to his undersea empire. To add to their complications, Anya learns that her recently killed boyfriend was eliminated by Bond during an assignment.

The pre-credit sequence is among the better pre-credit sequences in the series, involving an extraordinary ski stunt which many consider to be the most breathtaking stunt ever devised for a Bond film. Moore is good as Bond, Bach stunningly attractive as his partner (though not very convincing as an actress), and Jurgens provides a suitably over-confident villain. The location work in various locations, most notably Egypt, is nicely photographed. Marvin Hamlisch provides the music, marking a change from the usual composer John Barry, and Hamlisch's score is decent enough though it does have a dated '70s quality to it when listened to nowadays. The plot is totally implausible and self-parodic (if they'd stuck to the plot in the book though, it would've been almost impossible to make a Bond movie in the expected sense of the phrase), but director Lewis Gilbert cleverly plays it with tongue-in-cheek so that the absurdness of the on-screen events becomes curiously endearing. The Spy Who Loved Me is silly, entertaining and extravagantly spectacular. Was the above review useful to you?

27 out of 38 people found the following review useful: Q supplies 007 with 'Wet Nellie,' one of the most remarkable vehicles ever entrusted to Bond's tender care since Goldfinger's DB5... 9 July 2005 *** This review may contain spoilers *** In the 10th James Bond film, 007 does not always win and this makes him more human... His relationship with a resourceful and beautiful Russian agent is something new for the Bond films... Lewis Gilbert's film provides direct allusion to David Lean's epic movies, bringing back a Blofeld-type character... His name is Karl Stromberg, a shipping tycoon who despises every aspect of terrestrial civilization... Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) enjoys hearing classical music while plotting to decimate the human population... He hijacks atomic submarines belonging to the British and Soviet navies, and plans to use their nuclear missiles to destroy both New York and Moscow Stromberg's aquarium, of sharks and other deadly fish, is his pride and passion... 'For me this is all the world', he declares, 'There is beauty. There is ugliness.

And there is death.' Stromberg's three killers are Jaws, Sandor and Naomi Jaws (Richard Kiel) steals the show as the most menacing and fearsome henchman Bond has ever faced since the mute Korean assassin Oddjob in 'Goldfinger.' Equipped with stainless steel teeth, Jaws is a giant of a killer on the loose who can't be stopped or killed Sandor (Milton Reid) is the bald, muscle-bound assassin who tries to kill Bond at Aziz Fekkesh's apartment in Cairo Naomi (Caroline Munro) is Stromberg's luscious assistant and helicopter pilot who shows her 'lovely lines,' giving Bond a lewd while trying to shoot him and Anya down from the air... Bond and his very fine Russian ally Anya are sent to Egypt to identify the traitor who is putting the microfilm of the submarine tracking system on the open market... Each agent thinks the other is behind the hijacking... They play a game of spy versus spy in the land of the Pharaohs, until it is revealed that a third party has been playing them off against each other in typical SPECTRE style... Bond is seen sensitive and a little bit incredulous about certain topics...

He is waylaid in the Alps by a posse of Russians on skis... He shots a KGB agent using a ski-pole gun, and goes over a cliff and falls and falls and falls... Roger Moore again adopts a naval commander's uniform... He orders a Baccardi on the rocks for Anya, and impresses her when describing her life story... He comments that he maybe has misjudged Stromberg referring that "Any man who drinks Dom Perignon '52 can't be all bad." Barbara Bach had some unfinished business to settle with 007... Her role of Anya Amasova brings the feminine touch and talent to the action... Bach is attractive, classy, stylish, intelligent, confident, very sexy, and absolutely wonderful... The film also marks the appearance of Walter Gottel as General Alexis Gogol, head of the KGB, who (unlike M) possesses somewhat of a sense of humor... Gogol has a deep attraction for beautiful women, and would become a regular character... Edward De Souza proves to be wonderfully ironic as the Cambridge-educated Sheikh Hosein, whose harem includes a little treasure of whom our 'man of action' announces his intention to 'delve deeply into.

"The Spy Who Loved Me" deserves its popularity for its exquisite design for Atlantis, its lovely music score, and its humorous touches The real names of both M and Q are revealed in the movie Was the above review useful to you? 19 out of 27 people found the following review useful: Bond Explodes Back To Action from United States 30 September 2003 The Spy Who Loved Me put the 007 epic back on truly epic grounds after the bitter disappointment of Diamonds Are Forever and the mixed measure of Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun. Spy adds vast new spectacle to the Bond epic along with strong interplay with some interesting new characters and a major improvement in the series' production values. The idea of Bond meeting his match is the starting point for The Man With The Golden Gun, but here the match is in a rival and ally from the Soviet secret service, Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach, who admittedly is over her head here but holds her own overall). We see in Anya the direct counterpart to HMSS, complete with omnipresent leader in General Gogol (Walter Gotell, who becomes one of the series' best supporting characters) and a pretty secretary.

The Bond series also revisits the SPECTRE days in a sense, in that the antagonist is a self-contained independent force, shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens). Stromberg owns a vast experimental undersea headquarters, Atlantis, and the world's largest container ship, the Liparus. Stromberg becomes linked to the disappearence of several nuclear missile submarines, through a schematic of a submarine tracking system stored on microfilm. Just what Stromberg's role entails becomes the mission for both James and Anya, and both find allies in the US Navy attack boat USS Wayne, under the command of Captain Scott Carter - here is a rarity in film, a supporting character who steals the show, here thanks to the splendid performance of Thunderbirds' own Shane Rimmer. Another supporting cast member steals the show as well, and would do so in the next Bond film.

Richard Kiel joins Harold Sakata as the most memorable of James Bond's offbeat villainous henchmen - where Sakata's Oddjob killed with a rapier-sharp bowler hat, Richard Kiel's Jaws uses steel alloy teeth as well as his own gigantic height; Kiel even brings back memories of Robert Shaw's Donald "Red" Grant in one of the most memorable stages for a Bond fistfight - the Orient Express. The film is scored by Marvin Hamlisch rather than John Barry, and Hamlisch adds a surprisingly effective disco touch to the Bond series, one that "modernizes" the series without disrupting the power of the tried-and-true music cues of before. But the biggest quality in the film is the vastly improved production values. Shane Rimmer was not the only Thunderbirds alumni to work in the Bond universe - SFX master Derek Meddings had worked with John Stears on Man With The Golden Gun, but here he takes over the SFX unit and greatly improves the scope and quality of the effects work, aided greatly by enormous and effective sets at Pinewood Studios that combine the best of Dr. No, You Only Live Twice, and especially Thunderball.

The relationship between James and Anya is the primary drive in the tension of the film. At first both try to one-up each other, such as in decoding the microfilm, identifying an obscure logo on the microfilm, and in the famous Lotus chase sequence when she reveals she stole blueprints for the design years earlier. But the real strain lies in the film's prologue, when Anya's lover, himself employed by Mother Russia's security service, crosses paths with James - a confrontation James may not live down now. His own feelings for Anya, however, put what is past fully in the past, and it leads to a showdown with Stromberg amid a threat of annihilation. It all adds up to an enormously entertaining spectacle, a highlight of the Bond epic. Was the above review useful to you? 27 out of 43 people found the following review useful: Before the movie XXX, there was the agent XXX. Author: Aaron1375 22 November 2002 This particular James Bond movie is one of my favorites, perhaps the favorite. Though it is in a particularly close battle with another of Roger Moore's films, "For Your Eyes Only" for the top spot.

Bizarre that these two are the two Bond films vying for top spot as they are both a bit different as far as the plot goes. Here the entire world is in danger whereas in that one, they are only going after a decoding device which sank in a ship. While "The Man with the Golden Gun" features my favorite Bond villain in Scaramanga, this one features my favorite henchmen in Jaws, played by Richard Kiel. His Jaws is also one of the few bad guys to return in another film. Granted, Blofeld did as well, but I do not believe he was ever played by the same person twice. So this Bond film features a lot of action, a very attractive Bond girl and a very awesome henchman whose sheer size is intimidating enough, but then they add metal teeth to the equation! It all adds up to be one of the more fun Bond films ever and a film where the action almost never stops! The story has both a British and Soviet submarine going missing. Bond is the man sent to find out what happened to the British one, while a female Soviet agent codenamed XXX is the one who must find the Soviet.

They begin their search in Egypt where they learn of a submarine tracking device, but there is more to this than mere missing subs. Seems a very rich man who has a very strong affinity to the sea is somehow responsible and it will take a joining of the two agents who work for opposing companies to find out what this man's ultimate goal is before it is too late! The villain here is pretty good, but Stromberg is just not as equal a foe to Bond as was Scaramanga. He is the villain who must rely heavily on others to get what he wants which is why he has two henchmen, though Jaws definitely was more up to the challenge than was Sandor. Roger Moore once again does great as Bond and Barbara Bach as XXX is absolutely stunning. She looked absolutely gorgeous at the end as her outfit got wet! This movie also features my favorite Bond vehicle, the Lotus. It is a very cool car and they actually have a rather cool chase before it plummets into the ocean where we learn of its other special functions. Just a lot of good things here as the story is much improved compared to the previous film which had great characters galore, but not the strongest story to bring it all together.

So this is a favorite Bond film of mine. It often baffles me how people complain today of all the action in movies with very little plot development as I see too many films these days that do not do all that much action and have way too much plot. This film was action sequence after action sequence, while take your typical comic film of today. Lots of people crying and doing nothing with maybe three action sequences at best. Yet these films apparently cost 200 million plus while this film has action and set pieces galore using more people and props because on cannot simply craft a special effect with a computer. This Bond film had it all and makes most of the films today seem very slow paced by comparison, then again as the song in this film says, nobody does it better! Was the above review useful to you? 18 out of 26 people found the following review useful: Just like Carly sings it.... from Melbourne, Australia 15 October 1999 With Roger Moore making the part his own by this his third bond film, Albert R. Broccoli had to come up with a strong action-packed epic, if they were to attract audiences that had been spoilt rotten by 'Star Wars' the same year.

'The Spy Who Loved Me' offers no new scenarios, in fact you could easily dissect each key scene and match it to something that's been done before. There's an underwater battle like the one in 'Thunderball' a ski chase not too dissimilar to the one in 'Her Majesty's...' and even the final big shoot out is not unlike the one in 'You Only Live Twice' (which was also directed by Lewis Gilbert) but 'The Spy Who Loved me' is more than merely a sum of its parts, and when each part is handled as expertly as these, you don't seem to care if it has indeed been done before. The film like Moore exudes a certain charm, and provides a certain amount of nostalgia looking back at it now, with it's lively 70's fashions, even Bond's theme gets the disco treatment quite superbly. Ken Adam's stunning larger than life sets fit the film's extravagant, big budget flavour perfectly. Appreciative nods must also go to some fantastically attractive women, Caroline Munro playing the enticing Naomi has to be one of the most seductive looking femme fatales to steam up a wide-screen, and more's the pity that she didn't grace it longer.

Barbara Bach is equally alluring, and a fine match for Roger Moore in all sense of the word . The film also offers a wealth of laughs while not forgetting the chills and spills, Richard Keil providing all as the relentless and unforgettable Jaws. The scene where he tears open a Sherpa Van like a sardine can is particularly memorable, as is him brushing himself off after plummeting into a farmhouse from a flying Mercedes. Some fine touches of drama too, Bond's response to XXX's remarks about his career and wife are handled with compassion and reverence. So in all everything is here you could possibly want in a 007 adventure; top stunts, beautiful women, cool villains, those gloriously huge Pinewood sets and THAT car, wrapped in an exciting globe-trotting story line where Bond has to save the world from certain destruction, accompanied by Carly Simon sveltely singing 'Nobody does it better' it's not surprising that the 'Spy Who Loved Me' is one of the most memorable of all Bond films. Was the above review useful to you? 10 out of 11 people found the following review useful: Commander James Bond, recruited to the British Secret Service from the Royal Navy.

License to kill and has done so on numerous occasions. from United Kingdom 2 June 2012 The Spy Who Loved Me is directed by Lewis Gilbert and adapted to screenplay by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum from the novel written by Ian Fleming. It stars Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens, Richard Kiel and Walter Gotell. Music is scored by Marvin Hamlisch and cinematography by Claude Renoir. Bond 10. Allied and Soviet nuclear submarines are mysteriously disappearing from the waters and causing friction between the nations. MI6 and the KGB have a notion that a third party is responsible and stirring up trouble for their own nefarious means. 007 is partnered with Soviet spy Major Anya Amasova (Agent XXX) and the pair are tasked with getting to the bottom of the plot before the crisis escalates. During the whole run of the James Bond franchise there have been a few occasions when it was felt it had run out of steam. 1977 and on the back of the mediocre reception and by Bond standards the poor box office return of The Man with the Golden Gun, now was one such time.

With producer Albert Broccoli striking out on his own, the stakes were high, but with a determined vision forming in his head and a near $14 million budget to work from courtesy of United Artists, Broccoli went big, and it worked magnificently. The Spy Who Loved Me is Moore's best Bond film, not necessarily his best Bond performance, but as a movie it's near faultless, it gets all the main ingredients right. Gadgets and humour were previously uneasy accompaniments to James Bond as a man, but here they serve to enhance his persona, never taking away his tough bastard edge. The suspense and high drama is back, for the first time in a Roger Moore Bond film things are played right, we don't think we are watching an action comedy, but an action adventure movie, what little lines of humour are here are subtle, not overt and taking away from the dramatic thrust. For production value it's one of the best. Brocoli instructed the great Ken Adam to go build the 007 Stage at Pinewood so as to achieve their vision for The Spy Who Loved Me. At the time it became the biggest sound stage in the world.

With such space to work from, Adam excels himself to produce the interior of the Liparus Supertanker, the home for a brilliant battle in the final quarter. Vehicles feature prominently, the amphibious Lotus Esprit moved quickly into Bond folklore, rocket firing bikes and mini-subs, helicopter, speedboat, escape pod, wet-bike and on it goes. Then there's Stromberg's Atlantis home, a wonderfully War of the Worlds type design for the outer, an underwater aquarium for the inner. Glorious locations are key, also, Egypt, Sardinia, Scotland and the Bahamas are colourful treats courtesy of Renoir's photography. Underwater scenes also grabbing the attention with some conviction. The film also features a great cast that are led by a handsome, and in great shape, Moore. Barbara Bach (Triple X) is not only one of the most beautiful Bond girls ever, she's expertly portraying a femme of substance, intelligent, brave and committed to the cause, she is very much an equal to Bond, and we like that. The accent may be a shaky, but it's forgivable when judging Bach's impact on the picture.

Jurgens as Stromberg is a witty villain, but he oozes despotic badness, sitting there in his underwater lair deliciously planning to start a new underwater world. Kiel as Jaws, the man with metal teeth, he too moved into Bond folklore, a scary creation clinically realised by the hulking Kiel. Gotell as Gogol is a presence and Caroline Munro as Naomi is memorable, while Bernard Lee's M and Desmond Llewelyn's Q get wonderful scenes of worth. They forgot to give poor Moneypenney something to chew on, but in the main it comes over that the makers were reawakened to what made Bond films great in the first place. There's even a candidate for best title song as well, Nobody Does it Better, delivered so magically by Carly Simon. The grand vision paid off, handsomely. It raked in just over $185 million at the world box office, some $87 million more than The Man with the Golden Gun. Not bad considering it was up against a record breaking Star Wars. Critics and fans, too, were pleased. It's not perfect.

It's ironic that director Lewis Gilbert returned for his second Bond assignment, because this does feel like a rehash of his first, You Only Live Twice, only bigger and better. Hamlisch underscores it at times and John Barry's absence is felt there. While if we are being particularly harsh? Then Stromberg could perhaps have been a more pro-active villain? He makes a telling mark, we know he's a mad dastard, but he only really sits around giving orders and pushing death dealing buttons. But small complaints that fail to stop this Bond from being one of the best. Hey, we even get an acknowledgement that Bond was once married, and the response from Bond is respectful to that dramatic part of his past. 9/10 Was the above review useful to you? Page 1 of 28: Carly Simon, Marvin Hamlisch - The Spy Who Loved Me - Amazon.com Music The Spy Who Loved Me Next Special Offers and Product Promotions 1. Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon 2. Bond 77 (James Bond Theme) 3. Ride To Atlantis 5. Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental) 6. Anya 11.

End Titles/Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon Product Details Audio CD (October 20, 1998) Original Release Date: August 3, 1977 Number of Discs: 1 By F-14TommyToro on June 25, 2013 Format: Vinyl Verified Purchase I purchased the original LP because of my desire to own original promotional material from the James Bond films. The album came still in it's original shrink wrap, arrived in a timely manner, and was in excellent condition. The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack) - iSnare Free Encyclopedia The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) " Nobody Does It Better " Released: 1977 The Spy Who Loved Me is the soundtrack for the tenth James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me . The soundtrack is one of only two Bond soundtracks to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score . The other score nominated was Skyfall (2013).

Contents 5 References Theme song The theme song " Nobody Does It Better " was composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and was performed by Carly Simon . It was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to " You Light Up My Life ". It was one of five Bond theme songs to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song . The other four were " Live and Let Die " in 1973, " For Your Eyes Only " in 1981, " Skyfall ", and " Writing on the Wall ". "Skyfall" went on to win the award in 2013 and "Writing on the Wall" won in 2016. It was the first theme song with a title different from the film's, although the phrase "the spy who loved me" is in the lyrics. Hamlisch states in the documentary on the film's DVD that the song's opening bars were influenced by a riff in a Mozart tune. The driving disco rhythm to "Bond '77" is very similar to the Bee Gees ' 1976 single " You Should Be Dancing ".

The theme song became a hit that is still popular today and has been featured in numerous films including Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 2005 ), Little Black Book ( 2004 ), Lost in Translation and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). In 2004, the song was honoured by the American Film Institute as the 67th greatest film song as part of their 100 Years...100 Songs countdown. Soundtrack The film's soundtrack was composed by Marvin Hamlisch , who filled in for veteran John Barry due to his being unavailable for work in the United Kingdom due to tax reasons. The soundtrack, in comparison to other Bond films of the time, is more disco -oriented and included a new disco rendition of the " James Bond Theme ", titled "Bond 77". An element of the Barry style remains in the suspenseful film sequence in which Bond and Amasova try to track down Jaws at an antiquated site in Egypt. The accompanying Hamlisch music echoes Barry's "Stalking," from the pre-credit fantasy sequence of From Russia with Love , featuring Bond ( Sean Connery ) and villain Red Grant ( Robert Shaw ).

A large percentage of the music in the film was re-recorded for the soundtrack album and, therefore, does not sound exactly like the music in the film, the track "Bond '77" being the most obvious. It is a cue that was recorded several times specifically for different moments of the film (the opening ski chase, the car chase on land, then underwater and the gun battle with the troops on the Liparus). The soundtrack album uses a different 'medley' version, slower in pace, which features aspects of most of the variations of the track used throughout the film, compiled into one song. This version was also released as a 7" single on United Artists records (the track "Ride to Atlantis" was the B-Side). The main theme by Simon also differs in the film; it has a fade out on the album/single but in the film's opening titles, it has a more abrupt ending, finishing with a long electronic note. The track "Anya" on the album does not feature in the film. There are also many cues used in the film that have yet to appear on any soundtrack release. The "Bond '77" recordings featuring in the film are the soundtrack's most disco-influenced part.

The soundtrack to the 1981 Bond film For Your Eyes Only by Bill Conti is far more disco-oriented, featuring funky guitars, bongos and a lot of electronic synthesizers. Track listing "Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental)" – 4:43 "Anya" – 3:19 "Conclusion" – 1:37 "Nobody Does It Better (End Title)" – Carly Simon – 3:25 In addition, Hamlisch incorporates into his score several pieces of classical music. As Stromberg feeds his duplicitous secretary to a shark, the villain plays Bach 's " Air on the G String ". He then plays the second movement's opening string section, Andante, of Mozart 's Piano Concerto No. 21 as Atlantis rises from the sea. " Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat, Op. 27 No. 2 " by Chopin crops up later, when Bond first meets Stromberg, as reportedly does an excerpt from Saint-Saëns ' "The Aquarium" from The Carnival of the Animals.

Finally, Hamlisch cheekily segues his score into an excerpt from that of David Lean 's 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia when Bond and Anya Amasova are wandering through the desert; according to a documentary on the DVD, this idea was originally a joke by one of the film editors who played the music over the dailies of the scene. It became a trend, with the subsequent two films in the series similarly referencing 'classic' film music within their scores. 007 TRAVELERS: 007 Soundtrack: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) TITLE SONG: "Nobody Does It Better" COMPOSED BY: Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager PERFORMED BY: Carly Simon The Spy Who Loved Me is the soundtrack for the tenth James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me. The soundtrack is one of only two Bond soundtracks to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The other score nominated was Skyfall (2013). The theme song Nobody Does It Better was composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and was performed by Carly Simon.

It was is one of four Bond theme songs to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The other three were Live and Let Die in 1973, For Your Eyes Only in 1981, and Skyfall, which won the award in 2013. See more information here "Nobody Does It Better (Main Title)" – Carly Simon – (3:29) "Bond 77" – (4:19) "Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental)" – (4:43) "Anya" – (3:19)

Question: Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film 'The Spy Who Loved Me' in 1977?
Answer: Carly Simon