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The James Bond Movies

A View to a Kill

Released: May 24, 1985

Starring:
  Roger Moore as James Bond
  Tanya Roberts as Stacy Sutton
  Christopher Walken as Max Zorin
  Grace Jones as May Day

Directed by: John Glen

Running Time: 131 minutes

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A View to a Kill Ultimate Edition DVD


  • First time a Bond movie relates to the computer age

  • First time Bond shows an interest with horses

  • First time a villain needs a computer to identify Bond

  • Bond's first fight on a horse

  • First chase with a fire engine

  • First ending sequence above a national monument

  • First Bond film to have an Oscar winning actor to play the villain

  • First Bond film to have a number 1 hit title song

  • First Bond girl played by an ex-Charlie's Angels cast member

  • First time 007 goes to San Francisco

  • First time 007 fires a gun with useless ammunition (shotgun cartridges are loaded with rock salt)

  • First time General Gogol visits with a KGB operative (Zorin)

  • First time 007 is a recipient of a Soviet medal (the Order of Lenin)

  • First time 007 is trapped in an elevator shaft

  • First use of a snowboard in ANY movie, not just a Bond film

  • First time 007 goes to the Eiffel Tower

  • First time a cat belongs to the Bond girl, instead of the villain (Blofeld had a white Persian cat)

  • First time a bottle of Bacardi was used as a Molotov cocktail (Zorin throws a Bacardi bottle with a burning rag down an elevator shaft)

  • First Bond film to relate to the Information Age

  • First time the villain is the son of one of his henchmen

  • First time a pretitle sequence is in Russia

  • First time a character wears a monocle

  • First movie title not taken from an original Ian Fleming novel title (it was a short story in For Your Eyes Only)

  • First Bond movie turned into a video game

 


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