Storyline
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Cast
Cyril Shaps, Kevin McNally, Vernon Dobtcheff, Richard Kiel, Shane Rimmer, Desmond Llewelyn, Nadim Sawalha, Bryan Marshall, Roger Moore, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Albert Moses, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Caroline Munro, Walter Gotell, Geoffrey Keen, George Baker, Michael Billington, Sydney Tafler, Olga Bisera, Edward de Souza, Valerie Leon, Sue Vanner, Eva Rueber-Staier, Sean Bury, Milton Reid, Milo Sperber, George Roubicek
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Reviews
80
Roger Moore’s third outing as Bond is undoubtedly his best.
80
The New Yorker
A glitter sci-fi adventure fantasy that balances the indestructible James Bond with an indestructible cartoon adversary, Jaws (Richard Kiel), who is a great evil windup toy. This is the best of the Bonds starring the self-effacing Roger Moore.
75
What The Spy Who Loved Me lacks when it comes to establishing the atmosphere of danger present in some the best Bond movies it makes up in spades in the creation of one apparently-impossible situation for the protagonist after the other, the kind that other entries would have been lucky to include a single example.
75
For the first time in three films, Roger Moore starts to unearth a personality for Bond.
60
Triple X posed an ideal opportunity for the series to rectify its dismissive treatment of women until this point, putting a lady on equal footing with Bond. To its credit, the film does feature a bit of screwball badinage between the two (a clunky bit about female drivers, unfortunately), but it has yet to introduce a single female character who doesn’t want to sleep with our hero.
