The Spy Who Loved Me: A Roger Moore as James Bond retrospective

1977: Actors Roger Moore and Barbara Bach in the James Bond film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

The Spy Who Loved Me

The third Roger Moore Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, takes its name from an Ian Fleming novel, but shares exactly zero plot points with the source material.

The film was well received by critics and was nominated for a slew of awards including a couple of Oscars.  The Spy Who Loved Me follows Bond and Russian secret agent and Female Character, Anya Amasova, as they try to stop villainous Karl Stromberg from straight up destroying all of civilization in a plan to create an undersea utopia.

The film starts off with secret plans being stolen, a crazy ski chase, and Bond being Bond.  He teams up with The Female Character, and they race across Egypt chasing the stolen intel.

The find out the man responsible, Karl Stomberg, has a secret base Sardinia.  Explosions and gunfights ensue, and Bond and Amasova escape by way of a car that turns into a boat.  Very 007.

It turns out that Bond killed Amasova’s sweetheart in the beginning of the movie, so what was once becoming affection turns back into icy rivalry.  Amasova even promises to kill Bond when all is said and done.

They find Stromberg’s crazy underwater hideout, Atlantis, and figure out Stromberg’s plan to nuke New York and Moscow starting a nuclear war.  Stromberg captures Amasova, and Bond does his thing rescuing her and foiling Stromberg in (you guessed it) a crazy explosion.