When 007 retrieves a microchip capable of withstanding an electromagnetic pulse from Siberia, soon identified as being produced by Zorin Industries, he is sent to investigate the company’s owner, Max Zorin.
The assignment takes Bond from Ascot racecourse to Zorin’s French estate where he breeds horse. Bond discovers that Zorin’s lab is producing chips designed to release adrenaline into a horse’s bloodstream helping boost race performance.
It transpires that although Zorin was trained by the KGB he is now acting independently and, with a number of investors, plans on destroying Silicon Valley so that Zorin Industriesand his partners may monopolize wordwide production of microchips.
Heading for San Francisco, Zorin’s background as a medical experiment is revealed, as 007 investigates how Zorin plans on achieving his goals in order to foil his plans…
What we say
The James Bond films reached their nadir with A View To A Kill, with a poor plot and Roger Moore looking his age.
Locations
Original release
US Premiere: 22 May 1985 at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco UK Premiere: 12 June 1985 at the Odeon Leicester Square
Principal crew
| Director | John Glen |
| Screenplay | Richard Maibaum & Michael G Wilson |
| Producer | Albert R Broccoli & Michael G Wilson |
| Music | John Barry |
| Editing | Peter Davies |
| Production design | Peter Lamont |
| Cinematography | Alan Hume |
Cast
| Roger Moore | James Bond |
| Christopher Walken | Max Zorin |
| Tanya Roberts | Stacey Sutton |
| Grace Jones | May Day |
| Patrick Macnee | Sir Godfrey Tibbett |
| Patrick Bauchau | Scarpine |
| David Yip | Chuck Lee |
| Fiona Fullerton | Pola Ivanova |
| Manning Redwood | Bob Conley |
| Alison Doody | Jenny Flex |
| Willoughby Gray | Dr. Carl Mortner |
| Desmond Llewelyn | Q |
| Robert Brown | M |
| Lois Maxwell | Miss Moneypenny |
| Walter Gotell | General Gogol |
| Geoffrey Keen | Minister of Defence |
| Jean Rougerie | Achille Aubergine |
| Daniel Benzali | Howe |
| Bogdan Kominowski | Klotkoff |
| Papillon Soo | Pan Ho |
| Mary Stavin | Kimberley Jones |
| Dominique Risbourg | Butterfly Act Compere |
| Carole Ashby | Whistling Girl |
| Anthony Chinn | Taiwanese Tycoon |
| Lucien Jérôme | Paris Taxi Driver |
| Joe Flood | U.S. Police Captain |
| Gérard Buhr | Auctioneer |
| Dolph Lundgren | Venz |
| Tony Sibbald | Mine Foreman |
| Bill Ackridge | O’Rourke |
| Ron Tarr | Guard I |
| Taylor McAuley | Guard II |
| Peter Ensor | Tycoon |
| Seva Novgorodtsev | Helicopter Pilot |
Drinks
- Vodka (Stolichnaya)
- Bollinger ’75
- Lafite Rothschild ’59
- Champagne
- Red wine
Cars
Renault 11 taxi (1983)
Quotes
- “Well my dear, I take it you spend quite a lot of time in the saddle.”
” Yes, I love an early morning ride.”
” Well, I’m an early riser myself.” - “My name is Bond. James Bond.”
“Is he?”
“Are you?”
“Yes.”
“And I’m Dick Tracy – you’re still under arrest.” - “You slept well?”
“A little restless but I got off eventually.” - “You will come back to us, Comrade. No-one ever leaves KGB”
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