A View to a Kill - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[victoria]

This was Lois Maxwell's final appearance as Miss Moneypenny. Apparently, after she was told that she would be retiring from the role, she thought that she could become M as a promotion. However, at the time, Producer Albert R. Broccoli believed that audiences would not accept James Bond being given orders by a woman. M did become a woman when Dame Judi Dench took on the role in GoldenEye (1995).

[morris]

After Producer Albert R. Broccoli told Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny) that she would not return for the next Bond movie, he commented that they were the only two people from Dr. No (1962), who were still working on the franchise.

[nicholas]

Patrick Macnee got the role of Sir Godfrey Tibbet, because he wanted to be in a Bond movie, and also because he and Sir Roger Moore were the best of friends. Macnee had also been friends with Bond Creator Ian Fleming, and subsequently had voiced narration for Bond movie short video documentaries, when they were first released on videocassette and DVD in 1995 and 2000.

[cassandra]

The only element of this movie taken from the original Bond story by Ian Fleming is its title, and the French location. However, it has been pointed out that the 1981 James Bond novel "Licence Renewed" by John Gardner featured an Ascot horse racing scene similar to that seen in this movie.

[maureen]

The opening sequence of this movie is the first time 007 is depicted on a mission inside Russia. Specifically, it was the snow-capped region of Siberia, Russia (which was filmed in Iceland).

[cameron]

This movie was intensely disliked by Sir Roger Moore, who was barely on speaking terms with Grace Jones during filming. He did not consider this to be a real 007 movie. Moore said, "I was horrified on the last Bond I did. Whole slews of sequences where Christopher Walken was machine-gunning hundreds of people. I said, 'That wasn't Bond, those weren't Bond films.' It stopped being what they were all about. You didn't dwell on the blood and the brains spewing all over the place."

[aaron]

After Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) and The Sea Wolves (1980), this was Sir Roger Moore and Patrick Macnee's final movie together.

[nora]

Because of the unprecedented level of co-operation from the San Francisco authorities, Producer Albert R. Broccoli insisted that the premiere take place in the city. It was held at the Palace of Fine Arts, and was the franchise's first World Premiere to be in the U.S.

[elmer]

The 1962 silver Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, seen in this movie, was owned by Producer Albert R. Broccoli, who lent it to the production. Its license plate number in this movie was 354 HYK. A duplicate model without an engine was used when Zorin and May Day push it into the lake.