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• The hull number on the sail of the U.S. submarine USS Wayne in Stromberg's supertanker is 593. This is the number of the USS Thresher, lost in 1963 with all hands off the Massachusetts coast.
  
  
• The closing credits say, "James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only (1981)" but, because of the successes of Star Wars (1977) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Moonraker (1979) was chosen.
  
  
• First James Bond movie to be filmed in Dolby Stereo.
  
  
• General Gogol's first appearance in the EON Productions official James Bond series. His first name is heard for the only time in the series when M refers to him as Alexis. Gogol is played by Walter Gotell who had previously played Morzeny in From Russia with Love (1963). He would appear a number of times in the series as General Gogol until The Living Daylights (1987).
  
  
• Though the last James Bond movie which was co-produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli was The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), the dissolution of the partnership did not occur until after that film was released. Saltzman was actually involved with the The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) during early pre-production of the film (until his £20 million slice of James Bond in December 1975), as was the original director Guy Hamilton together with John Landis, a young writer at the time.
  
  
• Despite the perceived underperformance of The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), producer Albert R. Broccoli nevertheless invested $13 million on the production of "The Spy Who Loved Me", making it the most expensive Bond movie yet produced.
  
  
• The only James Bond movie in which M's (Bernard Lee) first name (Myles) is said. (In the books, his name was said to be Admiral Sir Myles Messervy in the novel "The Man With The Golden Gun"). Its only the 2nd time in the series that M calls Bond by his first name James and not 007 or Bond. The 1st was On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Q is referred to by his real name (Major Geoffrey Boothroyd), as in Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963).
  
  
• James Bond and Anya Amasovas' aliases when they first visited Atlantis were Mr and Mrs Robert Sterling. The name R. Sterling was later used as Bond's alias in a scene in Quantum of Solace (2008).
  
  
• Product placements, brand integrations and promotional tie-ins for this movie include Lotus Cars, particularly the Lotus Esprit S1 turbo sports car; Seiko Watches, James Bond wears a Seiko 0674 LC watch; a Sony Electronics' Sony video monitor; Q's travel-bag labeled BOAC; Shark Hunter underwater submersibles; Ford vehicles including makes Cortina and Taunus; Dom Perignon Champagne, particularly a Dom Perignon '52; Bacardi Rum; Jetski Wetbikes; Kawasaki Motorcycles; Bell Helicopters; and later Domark's spin-off video-game, The Spy Who Loved Me (1990) (VG).
  
  
• The literal translations of some this film's foreign language titles include The Spy That Loved Me (Spain, Norway, France, Denmark); 007, My Beloved (Finland); The Spy That I Loved (Portugal); Beloved Spy (Sweden); The Spy That Loves Me (Poland) and 007, The Spy Who Loved Me (Brazil)
  
  
• "The Spy Who Loved Me" was the tenth James Bond novel to be written by Ian Fleming. It was first published on 18 April 1962. The only common story elements between the novel and the film are its title and two henchman Jaws and Sandor who are loosely inspired by the book's villains Horror (with steel-capped teeth) and Slugsy (short and bald). The film is considered as the first Bond film whose story is completely original. (The second would be GoldenEye (1995).) Fleming only allowed the novel's title to be used as it was told in the first person of a Bond girl character, with James Bond himself only appearing in chapters 10-14 out of 15. The names of the heroine (Vivienne Michel) and the villains' employer (Mr. Saguinetti) are not mentioned in the movie. The novelization of the film by screenwriter Christopher Wood was called "James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me" so as to distinguish it from Fleming's novel. This was the first novelization of a Bond film, rather than the other way around. Some later Bond movies, namely Moonraker (1979), A View to a Kill (1985) and Quantum of Solace (2008), followed the example of using a one of Fleming's titles and creating a wholly or mostly new story for it.
  
  
• In his audio-commentary, Roger Moore comments on the opening parachute ski-jump that could have gone horribly wrong for stuntman Rick Sylvester. After the jump, a disengaged ski clipped the unopened chute as it was falling. The ski could could easily have prevented the chute from opening. It can still be seen in the final footage that the ski clips the about-to-open parachute.
  
  
• The movie received Three Academy Award Nominations - the most ever received by a James Bond movie to date. These were for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Best Score, and Best Song - "Nobody Does It Better".
  
  
• Vehicles featured included a white Lotus Esprit S1 turbo sports car adaptable Perry submarine-car, which was also known by the production as Margie Nixon and Wet Nellie; a Arctic Enterprises Wetbike hydrofoil water motorcycle; Jaw's Telephone Service gray Sherpa Van; a yellow and black Kawasaki Z900 motorcycle with black and yellow sidecar; Hovercraft Speedboat jettisoned from Atlantis; black and yellow two-seater Shark Hunter submersibles (mini wet submarines); two black and yellow Bell 206 JetRanger helicopters; black Ford Taunus car; the Liparus oil tanker which includes a Mini Moke; Westland HH-3 Sea King and Westland Wessex HC Mk 2 helicopters; 1977 Ford Cortina 2.3 Ghia; HMS Ranger, USS Wayne and Soviet Potemkin Submarines; a Stromberg Enterprises company motorboat; a magnetic levitation Maglev monorail train inside Liparus; a small bus and a spherical underwater escape pod for exiting Atlantis.
  
  
• The Lotus submarine car was code named Esther Williams in an early draft of the script and was also nicknamed by the crew as Wet Nellie (after the mini-helicopter in You Only Live Twice (1967)), which is the name used in the novelization. This car was in reality an empty shell of a car that was propelled off a jetty and into the sea by a compressed air cannon. Designed to operate whilst filled with water, it was driven by two divers in full scuba gear, but overheat whilst idling in between takes. The chase sequence involving Wet Nellie runs for seven minutes
  
  
• The Carl Stromberg character in this film actually has webbed hands. But they can go unnoticed by viewers on video and DVD compared to when the movie was released in cinemas.
  
  
• Cameo: [Michael G. Wilson] Man in the Audience at the Pyramid Theatre. He is sitting in the row behind Fekkesh and Agent Triple-X at the Pyramid Show. He is also seen as a guard on the Liparus tanker.
  
  
• The Aquapolis, the enormous Japanese floating sea structure, was considered as an exterior set for the Stromberg Marine Research Laboratory, Atlantis. It resembled an oil rig (something which had already been used in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)), had a gigantic three-tiered deck which was also a helicopter pad measuring 100 m2, and was supported by about a dozen major pillars. It cost 13 billion yen and had been built in Hiroshima in 1975 then transported to Okinawa for the International Ocean Exposition. Depending on weather conditions, it could partially rise or submerge into the ocean, in a similar fashion to the Atlantis setting of the movie's script. At the time of the location scout, it was incomplete and after attempts to make the mega-structure work, production designer Ken Adam felt that it lacked the right creative elements for the nautical villain's lair. Disappointingly, the floating sea city was rejected as an exterior location for Atlantis and the filmmakers decided to go with a model. Sadly, it was closed to tourist visits in 1993 and in 2000, after twenty-five years, the real-life floating city in the ocean was sold for scrap after the company that owned it went bankrupt.
  
  
• This was the first James Bond film to be composed by an American i.e.Marvin Hamlisch. A piece of music composed by Mozart inspired the title song 'Nobody Does It Better" composed by Hamlisch. Indeed, the film includes in its score a number of pieces of classical music by such composers as Johann Sebastian Bach (Air in Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068 aka Air on the G String), Frédéric Chopin (Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat, Op. 27 No. 2), Camille Saint-Saëns (The Aquarium from The Carnival of the Animals) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Andante second movement of Piano Concerto No. 21 Elvira Madigan plays when Atlantis arises from the sea. After the van breaks down, the theme from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) plays when Bond and XXX walk across the desert. One young assistant in the cutting-room put it in as a joke, and it brought laughs to the team and they kept it in the final film. As such, this was the first James Bond film to use score from another movie. Moreover, Anya's music box-transmitter plays Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago (1965). All these pieces of music however are not included on the movie's soundtrack album as they are merely excerpted in the film.
  
  
• Albert R. Broccoli once named this film along with From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964) as his three favorite James Bond movies, according to an interview with the Hollywood Reporter's Robert Osborne on 12 April 1982.
  
  
• A Minolta logo appears on the microfilm capsule.
  
  
• The crew was upset because of the horrible food in Egypt, so Broccoli had an refrigerated truck with food from England. But someone forgot to turn on the freezer, so all the food was uneatable. Producer Albert R. Broccoli jumped into action and took a jeep and some crew, went into town and got some tomatoes, pots, pans and pasta was flown in from Cairo. Broccoli, well known as an amateur chef at home, cooked up a feast for the cast and crew, served by him and Roger Moore. The crew applauded the meal. A sign was painted in the mess-room: "Trattoria Broccoli." Trattoria is Italian, and is a "simpler" restaurant. Broccoli had Italian parents.
  
  
• Guy Hamilton was the original director of this movie.
  
  
• The delay in production of this movie involved legal issues with the script. Thunderball (1965) co-writer and producer Kevin McClory brought a suit against the production stating that his script "Warhead" had been plagiarized for the nuclear submarine storyline. The injunction was ultimately rejected and EON productions could proceed. However, the original name of the villain was changed from Stavros to Stromberg, due to the similarity between Stavros and the Ernest Stavro Blofeld, a character belonging to McClory. A very early version of the script intended to have Blofeld return as the villain. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum's original draft featured an alliance of international terrorists entering SPECTRE's headquarters and deposing Blofeld before trying to destroy the world for themselves to make way for a New World Order. This script was deemed too political by producer Albert R. Broccoli. Several scenes, including the one where Bond and Anya meet each other in a Cairo bar, were written by an uncredited Tom Mankiewicz. According to him, the scene originally made reference to Tatiana Romanova of From Russia with Love (1963), but this was cut. If it had been left in, the film would have included direct references to both the Sean Connery and George Lazenby eras of the Bond series. Other writers included John Landis, original director Guy Hamilton; Stirling Silliphant, Cary Bates, and Anthony Barwick, 'Anthony Burgess', Ronald Hardy and Derek Marlowe. In total, 12 scriptwriters worked on 15 drafts of the script.
  
  
• Jaws actor Richard Kiel could only keep the metal teeth in his mouth for about half a minute at a time due to the excessive pain and discomfort. He often had to show comic expressions which was quite contradictory to the way he was feeling wearing the extremely uncomfortable braces. Richard Kiel, 7'2.5'', played an almost identical part a year earlier in Silver Streak (1976). The chain that Jaws bites through was made of licorice. In order to simulate the character's metal teeth, Richard Kiel's stunt double Martin Grace used pieces of orange peel wrapped in tin foil.
  
  
• In one scene amongst the pyramids when Jaws is trailing a hiding agent 007, a still photograph of Roger Moore was used when they needed to have him in the shot. Hardly anyone noticed this during the film's release. Further, all the shots of pyramids used were actually models.
  
  
• Both the first film and first James Bond film produced solely by Albert R. Broccoli as a single producer. All his previous movies had been co-produced with either 'Irving Allen (I)' or Harry Saltzman or other producers. Saltzman, His former James Bond producing partner, left the series during pre-production of this movie.
  
  
• $1 million of the $13.5 million budget was spent by production designer Ken Adam on building the largest sound stage in the world: 336'x139'x44'. The set was used for the interior shots of Stromberg's supertanker. The tank had a capacity of 1.2 million gallons.
  
  
• Producer Albert R. Broccoli saw a photo in an ad of a skier jumping out of a helicopter and insisted on recreating the stunt for the opening of the film. As such, an advertisement inspired the famous opening skiing sequence. It was for Canadian Club Whisky and featured Rick Sylvester jumping off Asgard in Greenland. The ad had actually been staged elsewhere and had really been performed off the El Capitain Peak, Yosemite Valley, California. The ad read: "If you Space Ski Mount Asgard...before you hit the ground, hit the silk!". Sylvester performed the stunt for the film which famously ended with a parachute of the Union Jack opening. This opening sequence was recently parodied in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and was imitated with the air balloon in Octopussy (1983) and paid homage to in the Gustav Graves parachute drop in Die Another Day (2002). Sylvester also did the Meteora mountain fall in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
  
  
• After the film's release, demand for white Lotus Esprit cars surged to the point that new customers had to be placed on a three-year waiting list.
  
  
• The character of Major Boothroyd is addressed as such by Barbara Bach for one of the only times in the movie series. Boothroyd (played by Desmond Llewelyn) is the head of Q branch, but the name Q stuck to the character.
  
  
• The eyesight of cinematographer Claude Renoir was failing at the time and he could not see to the end of the massive supertanker set, with its shiny surfaces and its vastness. As a result, he could not supervise the lighting. Ken Adam turned to his friend Stanley Kubrick, who under the condition of complete secrecy supervised the lighting. He suggested to use flood-lights, as an effect it would light the set.
  
  
• This film marks the debut of a more modern version of the gun-barrel opening sequence. It features a closer shot of Roger Moore against a more colored background. Also it's the first time that Bond wears a tuxedo during the sequence.
  
  
• In the scene in which Bond and his compatriots are looking at the tracing of the submarine's course, the first few notes of the James Bond theme are played when the line is drawn onto the map.
  
  
• Michael Billington, who played Sergei Barsov, Anya's lover in the KGB, was under consideration for 007 and played him during the casting of the leading ladies.
  
  
• The famous Union Jack parachute ski jump stunt during the film's pre-title sequence was originally suggested by former Bond star George Lazenby to be used in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), but the necessary equipment to film it was not available then. The Bond producers thought it was a great idea, and later added the Union Jack to the parachute and used it in this movie.
  
  
• Victor Tourjansky, uncredited as the man with the bottle who wonders whether he's drunk at seeing the Lotus Esprit drive out of the water, played the same man in the following two movies: in Moonraker (1979) he is drinking in Venice when Bond drives his gondola out of the water, and in For Your Eyes Only (1981) he is a patron of the lodge that Bond skies off the table at. He is better known as an assistant director.
  
  
• The warship that appears at the end of the movie is the HMS Fearless.
  
  
• One of the models seen during the opening credits was named Penelope Smallbone. A character in Octopussy (1983) would be given this name.
  
  
• Jack O'Halloran was considered for the role of Jaws before Richard Kiel got the part. O'Halloran would portray Non (a character similar to Jaws) in the first two Superman films (Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980). Will Sampson, the Indian from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) was also considered for the Jaws part, as was David Prowse.
  
  
• Gerry Anderson (creator of "Thunderbirds" (1965)) threatened legal action against the producers as he felt the film came too close to a story proposal he had offered the Bond producers in the 1960s. The suit was dropped, though EON Productions ended up purchasing the rights to Anderson's original proposal.
  
  
• In the screenplay, Jaws is revealed to be Polish and his real name is Zbigniew Krycsiwiki.
  
  
• The final film of Sydney Tafler.
  
  
• First Bond film to make significant references to Bond's past, including his recruitment to the British Secret Service from the Royal Navy, his "many lady friends", his marriage and the death of his wife, Tracy.
  
  
• Producer Albert R. Broccoli wanted Lois Chiles to play the part of Russian agent Anya Amasova. Upon talking to her agent, it was discovered that Chiles had retired temporarily, upset by criticism she had received, and was taking acting lessons. Chiles would become the next Bond girl in Moonraker (1979) after sharing a seat next to director Lewis Gilbert.
  
  
• Milton Reid, who plays the henchman Sandor had unsuccessfully lobbied for the role of Oddjob in Goldfinger (1964). Reid previously played one of the guards in Dr. No (1962) and was also one of Mata Bond's attendants in Casino Royale (1967). Valerie Leon who played the hotel receptionist in Sardinia also appeared in Casino Royale (1967) and as the lady in Bahamas in Never Say Never Again (1983). Character actor Shane Rimmer, who plays an American submarine captain, makes his third appearance in a Bond movie, after playing bit parts in You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). George Baker (Captain Benson) played Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
  
  
• During the fight scene at the Pyramids between Bond and two KGB agents, Bond at one point delivers a blow that causes one of the men to, in reflex, cross his arms over his chest, making him resemble a character in old Egyptian drawings.
  
  
• Some sources claim Charles Dance is in this film. He had a smaller part as a henchman in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
  
  
• The first appearance of recurring character Defence Minister Frederick Gray (played by Geoffrey Keen). While walking along the docks, Bond addresses him as "Freddy" for the only time in the series (in all subsequent films, he uses the more formal address "Minister").
  
  
• Introduced a spy sea scooter known as a "wetbike" (better known now as a jet ski) to the world, sparking a new water-sport industry. This gadget was commonly referred to as the motorbike that rides on water.
  
  
• Caroline Munro was dubbed by Barbara Jefford.
  
  
• James Mason was considered for the part of villain Karl Stromberg. His famous role as Jules Verne's Captain Nemo in Walt Disney's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) was a major element in his consideration. He would also be considered as main villain Hugo Drax in the next Bond movie Moonraker (1979). Coincidentally, James Bond creator Ian Fleming based the villain Drax on the Jules Vernes character Robur from the "Clipper Of The Clouds", "Master of the World" and "Robur, The Conqueror" stories. Sadly, Mason never got to play either and never was a Bond villain in a Bond movie.
  
  
• When James Bond drives the Lotus Esprit up onto the beach, we can see a child pointing to the car in the water. This child is played by Richard George Kiel, son of actor Richard Kiel who portrayed Jaws.
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: as a nameless soldier is drowning in the burning water during the fight between the escaped sub crews and the evil henchmen.
  
  
• A fight sequence was originally envisaged in this movie for the Mummy Room of the Cairo Museum of Antiquities. This was scrapped but the sequence resurface in the next Bond movie Moonraker (1979) as the fight between Chang and Bond in the Venini glass showroom.
  
  
• Ken Adam's huge set for the submarine pen was the very first set built on the then-new purpose-built 007 sound-stage at Pinewood. The set was designed, and the sound-stage built in conjunction.
  
  
• Ken Adam's crew constructed a 70ft long model of Stromberg's supertanker.
  
  
• Rick Sylvester's opening ski stunt was shot from the top of Asgard Peak on Baffin Island in Canada. The summit was only accessible by helicopter. A small crew, including Sylvester and second unit director John Glen, traveled there in July 1976, a month before principal photography began. They stayed in the neighboring village of Pangnirtung for 10 days, awaiting the right climactic conditions. Numerous cameras were positioned around the site to capture the moment. All the camera operators felt that they lost sight of the skier as he went sailing off the cliff, all except one camera which stayed with him throughout the stunt. The scene was all uncut. Sylvester's pay was $30,000.
  
  
• A miniature tanker had to be built for the film, despite one of Cubby Broccoli's friends offering the production a real one. They had to turn the offer down as the insurance premiums on tankers are so prohibitively expensive, clocking in at £50,000 a day.
  
  
• A representative from the Egyptian government was on-set throughout the shoot in Cairo and Giza to make sure that the country was not revealed in an unflattering light. For that reason when the scaffolding collapses on Jaws and Bond quips "Egyptian builders", Roger Moore merely mouthed the line, dubbing it in later. It went unnoticed by the official Egyptian minder, and ironically, got a great laugh from Egyptian audiences.
  
  
• Roger Moore contracted shingles while the film was shooting in Scotland.
  
  
• Special visual effects-man Derek Meddings had the supertanker "Liparus" built like a catamaran, because is had to swallow boats. He also had an Evinrude engine put inboard, to get the wash behind. Meddings also directed the model. The ship was modeled after a real tanker owned by Shell. The supertanker set was named "the Jonah Set", for the Biblical Jonah, who is swallowed by a whale.
  
  
• One of the first directors to be considered was Steven Spielberg. There was some worry about his inexperience as he was caught up on an extremely lengthy pre-production schedule for a little film he was making at the time called Jaws (1975), ironically the same name of a henchman in this film.
  
  
• The vast Pinewood Studios sound stage - originally created for this film - was destroyed by fire in 1984 during the production of Ridley Scott's Legend (1985).
  
  
• According to the sleeve notes of the CD soundtrack of this movie, Composer John Barry allegedly could not return to the UK for taxation purposes and so did not compose the score for this movie.
  
  
• A number of movies and TV shows went on to spoof or reference this film's title after it was released. These include _"The A-Team: The Spy Who Mugged Me (#5.11)"(1986)_; _"Trapper John, M.D.: The Spy Who Bugged Me (#4.17)" (1983)_; The Fly Who Loved Me (2004); _"Dharma & Greg: The Spy Who Said He Loved Me (#3.17)" (2000)_; _"Mad About You: The Spy Who Loved Me (#1.20)" (1993)_; _"Will & Grace: Fagmalion Part 4: The Guy Who Loved Me (#5.18)" (2003)_; The Girl Who Shagged Me (2005) (V); and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). The Spy Who Loved Flowers [See: Le spie amano i fiori (1966)_ was made before this movie so it can only possibly be considered a reference to the Ian Fleming novel of the same name.
  
  
• Cameo: [Victor Tourjansky] The Italian second-unit director as Man with Bottle in the first of 3 appearances before Moonraker (1979) and For Your Eyes Only (1981).
  
  
• Cameo: [George Leech] The stuntman as Cortina Gunman No. #2.
  
  
• Cameo: [Bob Simmons] The stuntman as KGB Thug No. #2.
  
  
• The Royal World Premiere of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was held on the 7th July 1977 at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London and was attended by Princess Anne, her second Bond launch after Live and Let Die (1973). The date has special significance as it is abbreviated as 7/7/77 or even 007/007/77, all digits being a 7 as in 007.
  
  
• The first line of the Ian Fleming James Bond novel "The Spy Who Loved Me" read: "I was running away."
  
  
• The last line of the Ian Fleming James Bond novel "The Spy Who Loved Me" read: "A secret agent? I didn't care what he did. A number? I had already forgotten it. I knew exactly who he was and what he was. And everything, every smallest detail, would be written on my heart forever."
  
  
• The title song "Nobody Does It Better" sung by Carly Simon and composed by Marvin Hamlisch was a hit in both the USA and UK. The song was so successful that the title "Nobody Does It Better" has become part of James Bond universe phraseology. According to the CD Soundtrack sleeve notes, it charted in the USA on 23 July 1977 and went to No. #2. It stayed there for three weeks and was in the US charts for 25 consecutive weeks. The song in the USA also achieved the classification of being a Gold Single. It entered the charts in the UK on 6 August 1977 and peaked at the No. #7 position. The soundtrack album charted in the USA on 27 August 1977 and went to the No. #40 rank.
  
  
• Twelfth James Bond movie made and tenth in the EON Productions official series. The third Bond movie to star Roger Moore as James Bond. This is the only EON Productions James Bond movie to be made in the same order as its source novel was written. The Spy Who Loved Me was both the 10th official series James Bond movie produced and the 10th Ian Fleming James Bond novel written.
  
  
• Russian Agent Anya Amasova's code number was XXX (i.e. as in Agent XXX). XXX itself would become the title of American James Bond imitation pictures franchise called xXx - [See: xXx (2002) ;xXx: State of the Union (2005) and xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (2011)].
  
  
• The scene where James Bond is watching a light show that illuminates the Sphinx and Pyramids is an actual show called "The Sound and Light" show. Still being shown today.
  
  
• Elvis Presley saw The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) on August 10th 1977 during a special viewing at the General Cinema in Whitehaven, TN. It was the last movie he saw as he died six days later on August 16th 1977 at the age of 42.
  
  
• The first appearance in a Bond film of Robert Brown, playing the role of Admiral Hargreaves. Two Bond films later, he appeared again, replacing Bernard Lee in the role of M since Octopussy (1983) to Licence to Kill (1989).
  
  
• Jaws' steel teeth would become an influence in hip-hop culture (known as grilles in the Houston, TX hip-hop scene) decades after the film's release - Houston, TX rapper Paul Wall, known for the grilles, paid homage to Richard Kiel (after Stromberg's line that anyone in contact with the microfilm is to be eliminated) when he grinned in his music video for his hit single 'They Don't Know', revealing his diamond-clad grilles.
  
  

• SPOILER: The original script called for Jaws to perish after Bond used an industrial magnet aboard the Super Tanker to drop him into the tanker's furnace. The scene was storyboarded using Richard Kiel and Roger Moore as models, and apparently rehearsed, but ultimately scrapped because Albert R. Broccoli suspected Jaws' character had enormous appeal, so an alternate ending with Jaws surviving was filmed, allowing Jaws to return in the next Bond epic Moonraker (1979). When the film was previewed, audiences cheered when they saw Jaws swimming away in the film's finale.
  
  

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