The James Bond Films 11-20

11. Moonraker
United Artists (1979 - 126 min.) ***

Plot: Bond tries to stop a plot by aerospace magnate Hugo Drax to poison all life on Earth and repopulate it with hand-picked couples living in his orbiting space station.

• Roger Moore as "James Bond"
• Michael Lonsdale as "Hugo Drax"
• Richard Kiel as "Jaws"
• Lois Chiles as "Holly Goodhead"
• Corinne Clery as "Corinne Dufour"
• Bernard Lee as "M"
• Lois Maxwell as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• Screenplay: Christopher Wood
• Director: Lewis Gilbert
• Producers: Albert Broccoli
• Musical Score: John Barry
• Title Song: "Moonraker" performed by Shirley Bassey

12. For Your Eyes Only
United Artists (1981 - 127 min.) ****

Plot: Bond teams up with the daughter of an assassinated British agent to recover a Polaris submarine targetting device before the Russians can get their hands on it.

• Roger Moore as "James Bond"
• Julian Glover as "Kristatos"
• Carole Bouquer as "Melina Havelock"
• Lynn-Holly Johnson as "Bibi Dahl"
• Topol as "Columbo"
• James Villiers as "Chief of Staff Tanner"
• Lois Maxwell as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• Screenplay: Richard Maibaum
• Director: John Glen
• Producers: Albert Broccoli
• Musical Score: Bill Conti
• Title Song: "For Your Eyes Only" performed by Sheena Easton
• Additional Song: "Make It Last All Night" performed by Rage

13. Octopussy
MGM/United Artists (1983 - 130 min.) ****

Plot: Investigating the assassination of British agent 009, Bond uncovers a plot by a rebel Russian general to detonate a nuclear bomb near an American military base in German to instigate the unilateral disarmament on the European NATO allies.

• Roger Moore as "James Bond"
• Louis Jourdan as "Kamal Khan"
• Steven Berkoff as "General Orlov"
• Maude Adams as "Octopussy"
• Kristina Wayborn as "Magda"
• Walter Gotell as "General Gogol"
• Robert Brown as "M"
• Lois Maxwell as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• Screenplay: Richard Maibaum & Michael Wilson
• Director: John Glen
• Producers: Albert Broccoli
• Musical Score: John Barry
• Title Song: "All Time High" performed by Rita Coolidge

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13a. Never Say Never Again
Warner Brothers (1983 - 137 min.) ****

Plot: Bond tries to stop SPECTRE's plan to blackmail England and the U.S. by threatening to destroy the Mid-East oil wells with hijacked American cruise missiles. [An unofficial remake of "Thunderball."]

• Sean Connerry as "James Bond"
• Klaus-Maria Brandauer as "Emilio Largo"
• Max Von Sydow as "Ernst Stavro Blofeld"
• Kim Basinger as "Domino Petachi"
• Barbara Carrera as "Fatima Blush"
• Bernie Casey as "Felix Leiter"
• Edward Fox as "M"
• Pamela Salem as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Alec MacCowen as "Q"
• Screenplay: Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
• Director: Irvin Kershner
• Producers: Jack Schwartzman
• Musical Score: Michel Legrand
• Title Song: "Never Say Never Again" performed by Lani Hall

14. A View to a Kill
MGM/United Artist (1985 - 131 min.) ***

Plot: Bond tries to stop a business tycon's attempts to cause an earthquake that will flood California's Silicon Valley, allowing him to corner the market for computer chips.

• Roger Moore as "James Bond"
• Christopher Walken as "Max Zorin"
• Tanya Roberts as "Stacey Sutton"
• Fiona Fullerton as "Pola Ivanova"
• Grace Jones as "May Day"
• Patrick MacNee as "Tibbett"
• Robert Brown as "M"
• Lois Maxwell as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• Screenplay: Richard Maibaum & Michael Wilson
• Director: John Glen
• Producers: Albert Broccoli & Michael Wilson
• Musical Score: John Barry
• Title Song: "A View to a Kill" performed by Duran Duran

15. The Living Daylights
MGM/United Artists (1987 - 130 min.) *****

Plot: Bond's efforts to help a Soviet defector escape to the West leads him to discover the defector's involvement in an opium and gun-running operation.

• Timothy Dalton as "James Bond"
• Joe Don Baker as "Brad Whitaker"
• Jeroen Krabbe as "Georgi Koskov"
• Maryam d'Abo as "Kara Mulovy"
• Art Malik as "Kamran Shah"
• John Terry as "Felix Leiter"
• Robert Brown as "M"
• Caroline Bliss as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• Screenplay: Richard Maibaum & Michael Wilson
• Director: John Glen
• Producers: Albert Broccoli & Michael Wilson
• Musical Score: John Barry
• Title Song: "The Living Daylights" performed by A-ha
• Additional Song: "Where Has Everybody Gone!" performed by The Pretenders
• Additional Song: "If There Was a Man" performed by The Pretenders

16. License to Kill
MGM/United Artists (1989 - 133 min.) ***

Plot: When Felix Leiter is fed to sharks and his new bride killed on their wedding day, Bond resigns from the British Secret Service and goes on a vendetta search for the South American drug lord responsible for the tragedy.

• Timothy Dalton as "James Bond"
• Robert Davi as "Franz Sanchez"
• Carey Lowell as "Pam Bouvier"
• Talisa Soto as "Lupe Lamora"
• David Hedson as "Felix Leiter"
• Robert Brown as "M"
• Caroline Bliss as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• Screenplay: Michael Wilson & Richard Maibaum
• Director: John Glen
• Producers: Albert Broccoli & Michael Wilson
• Musical Score: Michael Kamen
• Title Song: "License to Kill" performed by Gladys Knight
• Additional Song: "If You Asked Me To" performed by Patti Labelle
• Additional Song: "Dirty Love" performed by Tim Freehan
• Additional Song: "Wedding Party" performed by Ivory

17. Goldeneye
MGM/United Artists (1995 - 130 min.) *****

Plot: Tracking down a stolen European super copter, Bond uncovers a plot by the Russian mafia to use a secret space-based weapon to disable the computers of the world's financial institutions.

• Pierce Brosnan as "James Bond"
• Sean Bean as "006/Alec Trevallian/Janus"
• Gottfried John as "General Orumov"
• Izabella Scorupco as "Natalya Siminova"
• Famke Janssen as "Xenia Onatopp"
• Alan Cumming as "Boris Grisenkov"
• Robbie Coltrane as "Valentin Zukovsky
• Joe Don Baker as "Jack Wade"
• Judi Dench as "M"
• Samantha Bond as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• Screenplay: Jeffrey Caine & Bruce Feirstein
• Director: Martin Campbell
• Producers: Michael Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
• Musical Score: Eric Serva
• Title Song: "Goldeneye" performed by Tina Turner
• Additional Song: "The Experience of Love" performed by Eric Serra

18. Tomorrow Never Dies
MGM/United Artists (1997 - 119 min.) ****

Plot: Joining forces with a female Chinese agent, Bond unravels the plans of a media mogul to force a confrontation between China and the Western powers so that he can gain world domination.

• Pierce Brosnan as "James Bond"
• Jonathan Pryce as "Elliot Carver"
• Michelle Yeoh as "Wai Lin"
• Teri Hatcher as "Paris Carver"
• Joe Don Baker as "Jack Wade"
• Judi Dench as "M"
• Samantha Bond as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein
• Director: Roger Spottiswoode
• Producers: Michael Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
• Musical Score: David Arnold
• Title Song: "Tomorrow Never Dies" performed by Sheryl Crow
• Additional Song: "Surrender" performed by k.d. lang

19. The World Is Not Enough
MGM/United Artists (1999 - 125 min.) ****

Plot: After an oil magnate is killed by a terrorist bomb, Bond sets out to protect the magnate's daughter from the same fate and to stop the terrorist from using a nuclear bomb stolen from a former-Soviet Union military facility.

• Pierce Brosnan as "James Bond"
• Sophie Marceau as "Elektra King"
• Denise Richards as "Dr. Christmas Jones"
• Robert Carlyle as "Renard"
• Robbie Coltrane as "Valentin Zukovsky
• Judi Dench as "M"
• Samantha Bond as "Miss Moneypenny"
• Desmond Llewelyn as "Q"
• John Cleese as "Q's successor"
• Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein, Neal Purvis, & Robert Wade
• Director: Michael Apted
• Producers: Michael Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
• Musical Score: David Arnold
• Title Song: "The World Is Not Enough" performed by Garbage
• Additional Song: "Only Myself to Blame" performed by Scott Walker

20. Die Another Day
MGM/United Artists (Nov. 2002 - 123 min.) ****

Plot: Bond is captured during a mission in North Korea and tortured. When he's later released in a prisoner exchange, he sets out -- in company of a beautiful U.S. agent -- to stop a mad North Korean's plot to use a space-based mirror to start a new Korean war.

• Pierce Brosnan as "James Bond"
• Halle Berry as "Jinx"
• Toby Stephens as "Gustav Graves"
• Rick Yune as "Zao"
• Rosamund Pike as "Miranda Frost"
• Michael madsen as "Falco"
• Will Yun Lee as "Colonel Moon"
• Colin Salmon as "Charles Robinson"
• Dame Judi Dench as "M"
• Samantha Bond as "Miss Moneypenny"
• John Cleese as "Q"
• Screenplay: Neal Purvis & Robert Wade
• Director: Lee Tamahori
• Producers: Michael Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
• Musical Score: David Arnold
• Title Song: "Die Another Day" performed by Madonna
• Additional Song: "London Calling" performed by The Clash