The Quest

The Quest
The Ultimate James Bond Movie Marathon

Featuring
Every Official and Unofficial James Bond Film Ever Made
The Ultimate Alternate Order of Viewing the Films
Overall Film Ratings
Ratings by Category

This Endeavor is Dedicated to

The Impeccable
The Legendary
Most Iconic Symbol of
All Things James Bond!

BARRY NELSON

Overview
When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened;
I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist, I thought by God,
[J ames Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962

The simple purpose of this quest is to watch the James Bond films (both official and unofficial) in an almost perfect alternate
order, rather than chronologically. In discovering the best way to approach this, it was decided upon that the order would be
based on the original timeline set forth by the novels and short stories of Ian Fleming. However, there are more films than
there are books, and many of the films have little or nothing to do with the Fleming material they draw their inspiration from.
Some of these discrepancies are accounted for in this alternate order, and films that feature similar plot elements or minor
adaptations from certain Fleming stories are placed in the viewing order in accordance with that particular book.
Explanations are provided that ties each film in with its source material, along with any additional annotations that help the
viewer understand why the placement of that particular film is appropriate.
Each film profile is accompanied by an in-depth score card, where the viewer rates each aspect listed on a scale of 1 to 10. The
final scorecard compiles the individual results and creates rankings of numerous aspects rated after viewing.
The full disclosure and discussion of thoughts and feelings are encouraged throughout the course of this emotional roller
coaster.
The following criterion is recommended of participants for a complete experience:
Has read all the books (like any real Bond fan)
Has a working knowledge and appreciation of the mythos behind each era of films (yesthat includes the worst of the
Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore films)
The patience and long-suffering to sit through the excruciatingly stupid 1967 version of Casino Royale
A number 2 pencil
A clean eraser (Because sometimes, that Bond girl you gave a perfect 10 to may not look as hot at the end of the film
as she did at the beginning)

The Order
Book Year Film Year
Casino Royale 1953 Casino Royale** 1954
Casino Royale** 1967
Casino Royale 2006
Live and Let Die 1954 Live and Let Die 1973
Moonraker 1955 Moonraker 1979
GoldenEye 1995
Die Another Day 2002
Diamonds Are Forever 1956 Diamonds Are Forever 1971
From Russia, with Love 1957 From Russia with Love 1963
Doctor No 1958 Dr. No 1962
Goldfinger 1959 Goldfinger 1964
For Your Eyes Only 1960 A View to a Kill 1985
Quantum of Solace 2008
For Your Eyes Only 1981
Licence to Kill 1989
Thunderball 1961 Thunderball 1965
Never Say Never Again** 1983
The Spy Who Loved Me 1962 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1963 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969
You Only Live Twice 1964 You Only Live Twice 1967
The Man with the Golden Gun 1965 Skyfall 2012
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974
Octopussy & The Living Daylights 1966 The Living Daylights 1987
Octopussy 1983
Colonel Sun* 1968 The World is Not Enough 1999

*Written by one-time continuation author Kinglsey Amis (under the pseudonym Robert Markham)
**Non-canonical and not considered part of the official James Bond film series

Casino Royale

Year 1954
Directed by William H. Brown Jr.
Produced by Bretaigne Windhurst
Screenplay by Charles Bennett
Anthony Ellis
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
The original adaptation of Casino Royale was a 50 minute live teleplay and part of CBS' Climax Mystery Theater series.
Featuring Barry Nelson as American agent Card Sense Jimmy Bond and his sidekick Clarence Leiter of British intelligence,
the film was a very loose and condensed adaptation of the source material. The girl, Valerie Mathis, is a combination of
Vesper Lynd, Bonds lover in the novel, and Rene Mathis, Bonds contact in the French deuxime bureau. A few scenes were
adapted from the novel, including the baccarat showdown with Le Chiffre, the gun hidden inside a walking cane, and the
torture scene, which is considerably altered and less violent than it is in the book.

Category

Category
James Bond (Barry Nelson) Music
Badassery Theme Song
Humor Soundtrack
Seduction Methods Action
Charm/Sophistication Action Sequences
Overall Fight Scenes
The Girl (Linda Christian as Valerie Mathis) Gadgets
Hotness Coolness Factor
Personality/Charm Implementation
Overall Look/Design
The Villain (Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre) Locations
Look Set Design
Personality/Menace Costumes
Overall Plot
Supporting Villains Entertainment Value
Basil (Gene Roth) Plausibility
Zoltan (Kurt Katch) Overall
Zuroff (Unknown Actor) Overall Rating:
The Allies Better than the Book?
Clarence Leiter (Michael Pate)
COMMENTS:
Pre-Title Sequence

Introduction by William Lundigan
Visual Effects
Title Sequence

Casino Royale

Year 1967
Directed by Ken Hughes
John Huston
Joseph McGrath
Robert Parrish
Val Guest
Produced by Charles K. Feldman
Screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz
John Law
Michael Sayers
Music by Burt Bacharach
This 'spoof' was a reaction to the spy mania of the 60's, choosing to lampoon the Bond films rather than replicate them.
There is almost no consistency with the tone and storyline of the original novel. The middle of the film contains a surprising
amount of material from Fleming's version, albeit with very little connection to the material on either side of it. It is also
presented in a much different, more slapstick context.

Category

Category
James Bond (David Niven) Visual Effects
Badassery Title Sequence
Humor Special Effects
Seduction Methods Music
Charm/Sophistication Theme Song
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd) Action
Hotness Action Sequences
Personality/Charm Fight Scenes
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Orson Welles as Le Chiffre) Gadgets

Look Coolness Factor
Personality/Menace Implementation
Overall Look/Design

Supporting Villains Locations
Dr. Noah/Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen) Set Design
Supporting Girls Costumes
Agent Mimi (Deborah Kerr) Plot

Miss Goodthighs (Jacky Bisset) Entertainment Value
The Allies
Plausibility

Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers)
Overall

Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet)
Overall Rating:

Coop (Terence Cooper)
Better than the Book?

MI6 Personnel
COMMENTS:
M/McTarry (John Huston)

Miss Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet)
Pre-Title Sequence
Rene Mathis Meets Evelyn Tremble

Casino Royale

Year 2006
Directed by Martin Campbell
Produced by Michael G. Wilson
Barbara Broccoli
Screenplay by Neal Purvis
Robert Wade
Paul Haggis
Music by David Arnold

The third film adaptation of Ian Fleming's original James Bond novel is the most faithful, retaining the major plot
points and dark, cynical nature of the story. However, the plot and setting are updated and expanded upon in order
to augment the short length and simplicity of the book.

Category

Category
James Bond (Daniel Craig) Visual Effects
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Eva Green as Vesper Lynd) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design

Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) Set Design
Obanno (Isaac de Bankole) Costumes
Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) Plot
Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan) Entertainment Value
Supporting Girls Plausibility
Solange (Caterina Murino) Overall
The Allies Overall Rating:
Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright)

Rene Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini)
COMMENTS:
MI6 Personnel

M (Judi Dench)
Villiers (Tobias Menzies)
Pre-Title Sequence
Bond Earns His Double-0 Status

Live and Let Die

Year 1973
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli
Harry Saltzman
Screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz
Music by George Martin

Few major plot elements remain in the film adaptation of Ian Fleming's second novel, which was originally a continuation of the
story arc established in Casino Royale. The violence and darkness of the source material was omitted in order to cater toward
Roger Moore's light-hearted take on the character. Many of the book's characters are featured. However, the literary Mr. Big is a
ruthlessly violent Harlem gangster, rather than the prime minister of a fictional Caribbean island wearing a rubber mask.

Category

Category
James Bond (Roger Moore) Pre-Title Sequence
Badassery Killing of British Agents
Humor Visual Effects
Seduction Methods Title Sequence
Charm/Sophistication Special Effects
Overall Music
The Girl (Jane Seymour as Solitaire) Theme Song
Hotness Soundtrack
Personality/Charm Action
Overall Action Sequences
The Villain (Yaphet Kotto as Mr. Big/Dr. Kananga) Fight Scenes
Look Stunts
Personality/Menace Gadgets
Overall Coolness Factor

Supporting Villains Implementation
Tee Hee (Julius Harris) Look/Design
Baron Samedi (Geoffrey Holder) Locations
Whisper (Earl Jolly Brown) Set Design
Adam (Tommy Lane) Costumes
Supporting Girls Plot
Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry) Entertainment Value
Miss Caruso (Madeline Smith) Plausibility
The Allies
Overall

Felix Leiter (David Hedison)
Overall Rating:
Sheriff J.W. Pepper (Clifton James)
Quarrel Jr. (Roy Stewart)
COMMENTS:
MI6 Personnel
M (Bernard Lee)
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)

Moonraker

Year 1979
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay by Christopher Wood
Music by John Barry

This film uses Ian Fleming's title as well as the name and a few characteristics of the book's main villain, and places them in
a completely original story featuring virtually no other Fleming elements contained therein, other than a similar scene in
both versions where Bond and the girl are imprisoned below the exhausts of a rocket. The film is filled with fantastical sci-fi
elements, whereas the plot of the novel merely revolves around the construction of a hi-tech missile in England.

Category

Category
Badassery Theft of Moonraker/Freefall Fight
Overall Music
The Girl (Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead) Theme Song
Hotness Soundtrack
The Villain (Michael Lonsdale as Hugo Drax) Fight Scenes
Look Stunts
Jaws (Richard Kiel) Look/Design
Chang (Toshiro Suga) Locations
Supporting Girls Set Design
Corrine Dufour (Corinne Clery) Costumes
Manuela (Emily Bolton) Plot
The Allies Entertainment Value
Dolly (Blanche Ravalec) Plausibility
General Gogol (Walter Gotell) Overall
MI6 Personnel Overall Rating:
M (Bernard Lee)
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) COMMENTS:
Q (Desmond Llewelyn)
Frederick Gray (Geoffrey Keen)

GoldenEye

Year 1995
Directed by Martin Campbell
Barbara Broccoli
Screenplay by Michael France
Jeffrey Caine
Bruce Fierstein
Music by Eric Serra

This is a completely original story with no basis found in any Ian Fleming material. However, the Alec Trevelyan character
shares a large number of similarities with Hugo Drax from Fleming's Moonraker. Both were scarred in an explosion and left
for dead. Both hate Britain, despite appearing to be British. And both construct a diabolical scheme that utilizes a hi-tech
weapon to destroy London.
NOTE: Goldeneye is the name of Ian Fleming's Jamaican estate where he wrote all the Bond books on a golden typewriter
(which now belongs to Pierce Brosnan)

Category

Category
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) Pre-Title Sequence
Badassery Chemical Weapons Facility
Overall Music
The Girl (Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova) Theme Song
Hotness Soundtrack
The Villain (Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan) Fight Scenes
Look Stunts
Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) Look/Design
General Ourumov (Gottfried John) Locations
Boris Grishenko (Alan Cumming) Set Design
Caroline (Serena Gordon) Plot
Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker) Plausibility
Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane) Overall
Dimitri Mishkin (Tcheky Karyo)
Overall Rating:
MI6 Personnel
Better than the Book (Moonraker)?
M (Judi Dench)
COMMENTS:
Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond)

Bill Tanner (Michael Kitchen)

Die Another Day

Year 2002
Directed by Lee Tamahori
Barbara Broccoli
Robert Wade

Original outlines and ideas for the film were rooted in unused material from Ian Fleming's Moonraker. However, the finished
product bears almost no resemblance to said novel. The only remaining similarities between the two include the villains of both
posing as prominent members of the British establishment who secretly plan to use their seemingly benevolent schemes to cause
mass destruction. Additionally, both stories feature Bond working alongside a female British agent, but similarities between the
two characters ends there.
NOTE: Watching the first and last Bond films of the Brosnan era consecutively allows the viewer to witness just how over-
indulgent and over-the-top the Bond films got during his tenure.

Category

Category
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) Visual Effects
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Halle Berry as Jinx) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Toby Stephens as Gustav Graves) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Zao (Rick Yune) Set Design
Colonel Moon (Will Yun Lee) Costumes
Mr. Kil (Lawrence Makoare) Plot
Supporting Girls Entertainment Value
Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) Plausibility
The Allies Overall
Damian Falco (Michael Madsen) Overall Rating:
MI6 Personnel Better than the Book (Moonraker)?
M (Judi Dench)
COMMENTS:

Q (John Cleese)
Charles Robinson (Colin Salmon)
Pre-Title Sequence
Bonds Capture in North Korea

Diamonds Are Forever

Year 1971
Harry Saltzman
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum
Tom Mankiewicz
Music by John Barry

This establishes a trend that would be followed throughout the 70's by only using minimal amounts of Fleming material. This film
uses the novel as a starting point (Bond infiltrating a diamond smuggling pipeline using the identity of Peter Franks), before
departing on its own flights of fantasy and humor. Some character names and settings are also taken from the novel. The final
sequence (Bond fighting Wint and Kidd on a luxury liner) is similar to the final part of the book, although the literary version is
much more badass. NOTE: This is the third film in a row that features a destructive satellite as a major plot point.

Category

Category
James Bond (Sean Connery) Pre-Title Sequence
Badassery Bonds Vengeful Pursuit of Blofeld
Overall Music
The Girl (Jill St. John as Tiffany Case) Theme Song
Hotness Soundtrack
The Villain (Charles Gray as Ernst Stavro Blofeld) Fight Scenes
Look Stunts
Wint & Kidd (Bruce Glover/Putter Smith Look/Design
Prof. Dr. Metz (Joseph Furst) Locations
Bert Saxby (Bruce Cabot) Set Design
Peter Franks (Joe Robinson) Costumes
Bambi & Thumper (Lola Larson/Trina Parks) Plot
Plenty OToole (Lana Wood) Plausibility
The Allies Overall
Felix Leiter (Norman Burton)
Overall Rating:

Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean)

MI6 Personnel COMMENTS:
M (Bernard Lee)


From Russia with Love

Year 1963
Directed by Terence Young
Harry Saltzman
Music by John Barry

This is one of the most faithful adaptations in the entire series. The film retains its roots as a realistic cold war thriller.
However, political correctness was required and SMERSH, the evil KGB execution squad featured in most of the early
Fleming novels, was replaced in the film with SPECTRE, the rogue terrorist organization that was only featured in a few of
the later books. Other minor changes were made throughout, and the helicopter and boat sequences were added to the
end of the film to increase the action.

Category

Category
James Bond (Sean Connery) Pre-Title Sequence
Badassery Red Grants Training Exercise
Overall Music
The Girl (Daniela Bianchi as Tatiana Romanova) Theme Song
Hotness Soundtrack
The Villain (Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb) Fight Scenes
Look Stunts
Red Grant (Robert Shaw) Look/Design
Morzeny (Walter Gotell) Locations
Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal) Set Design
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Anthony Dawson) Costumes
Krilencu (Fred Haggerty) Plot
Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson) Plausibility
The Allies Overall
Kerim Bey (Pedro Armendariz) Overall Rating:
MI6 Personnel Better than the Book?
M (Bernard Lee)
COMMENTS:

Major Boothroyd (Desmond Llewelyn)

Dr. No

Year 1962
Harry Saltzman
Johanna Harwood
Berkely Mather
Music by Monty Norman

Being the first official James Bond film, it is generally faithful to the source material. A few additions are made such as the Felix
Leiter character, who was absent from the book, as well as Dr. No's explanation that he works for SPECTRE. In the novel he works
for the Russians under freelance terms. Other noteworthy, but slightly unrealistic, sequences that were omitted or changed from
the book include Bond's fight with a giant squid and Dr. No's death by being suffocated underneath a pile of guano.

Category

Category
James Bond (Sean Connery) Visual Effects
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson) Set Design
Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson) Plot
Miss Taro (Zena Marshall) Entertainment Value
The Allies Plausibility
Felix Leiter (Jack Lord) Overall
Quarrel (John Kitzmiller) Overall Rating:
MI6 Personnel
M (Bernard Lee)
COMMENTS:

Major Boothroyd (Peter Burton)
Opening Sequence
Death of Strangways

Goldfinger

Year 1964
Harry Saltzman
Paul Dehn
Music by John Barry

This was the first Bond film to take major liberties with the source material, although the overall plot structure more or less
remains the same. The literary Goldfinger intends to steal the gold from Fort Knox (compared with the more ingenious scheme of
the film), and in the novel the character of Tilly Masterson features far more heavily. The lesbian undertones of her character, as
well as those of Pussy Galore, are directly addressed in the novel, whereas the film merely hints at it. This is also the first Bond
film to be much more gadget-laden than the original novels, although Bond drives an Aston Martin DB3 in the book, albeit with
far less ostentatious extra features.

Category

Category
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Gert Frobe as Auric Goldfinger) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Oddjob (Harold Sakata) Set Design
Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton) Plot
Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet) Entertainment Value
Felix Leiter (Cec Linder) Overall
MI6 Personnel Overall Rating:
M (Bernard Lee)
COMMENTS:

Pre-Title Sequence
Bonds Mission in Central America

A View to a Kill

Year 1985
Directed by John Glen
Michael G. Wilson
Michael G. Wilson
Music by John Barry

From a View to a Kill was the first of five short stories contained in the For Your Eyes Only anthology. There is no connection
between the film and story other than the fact that both contain scenes set in and around Paris. There are no elements taken
from other Fleming novels/stories either. It is worth noting that the plot of the film, which focuses on the impending destruction
of Silicon Valley in order to corrupt the microchip industry and therefore make Max Zorin's supply more valuable, is almost
identical to the plot of the preceding film on the alternate order list (Goldfinger), which focuses on the impending destruction of
Fort Knox in order to corrupt the gold industry and therefore make Auric Goldfinger's supply more valuable.

Category

Category
Badassery Bonds Escape from Siberia
Overall Music
The Girl (Tanya Roberts as Stacey Sutton) Theme Song
Hotness Soundtrack
The Villain (Christopher Walken as Max Zorin) Fight Scenes
Look Stunts
May Day (Grace Jones) Look/Design
Scarpine (Patrick Bauchau) Locations
Dr. Carl Mortner (Willoughby Gray) Set Design
Pola Ivanova (Fiona Fullerton) Plot
Sir Godfrey Tibbett (Patrick Macnee) Plausibility
Chuck Lee (David Yip) Overall
General Gogol (Walter Gotell)
Overall Rating:
MI6 Personnel
Better than the Story?
M (Robert Brown)
COMMENTS:


Quantum of Solace

Year 2008
Directed by Marc Forster
Barbara Broccoli
Robert Wade
Paul Haggis

Quantum of Solace is the third short story in the For Your Eyes Only anthology, and has no similarity to the film. In the story, Bond
listens to a tale recanted to him by his dinner host, the governor of the Bahamas. The meaning of the title is the same in each
version as they both refer to the small amount of peace and satisfaction required in moving through and on from a relationship.
The film spends a significant amount of effort dwelling on Bond's struggle to overcome what happened to Vesper in Casino
Royale, and his quest to bring vengeance to her tormentors. However, the literary Bond was much less inclined to let his emotions
get the better of him, coldly explaining to M at the end of the Casino Royale novel that "the bitch is dead now." This line made it
into the film of the same name, although it isn't Bond's final conclusion to the situation, as he continues to search for his quantum
of solace.

Category

Category
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Elvis (Anatole Taubman) Set Design
General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio) Costumes
Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) Plot
Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton) Plausibility
The Allies Overall
Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) Overall Rating:
Rene Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) Better than the Story?
MI6 Personnel
COMMENTS:
M (Judi Dench)

Bill Tanner (Rory Kinnear)
Pre-Title Sequence
Escaping with Mr. White

For Your Eyes Only

Year 1981
Michael G. Wilson
Music by Bill Conti

This film is largely adapted from the second and fourth short stories in the For Your Eyes Only anthology. Fleming's For Your Eyes
Only short story concerns Bond undertaking a personal mission for M to assassinate Gonzales, a hit man who murdered the
Havelocks, a middle aged couple who were friends of M. Later parts of the film are influenced by Risico, which concerns Bond's
involvement with a feud between two Italian smugglers, Kristatos and Colombo. It should also be noted that the film adapts the
keelhauling sequence from Flemings Live and Let Die.

Category

Category
James Bond (Roger Moore) Q (Desmond Llewelyn)
Badassery Bill Tanner (James Villiers)
Humor Pre-Title Sequence
Seduction Methods Bonds Final Fight with Blofeld
Charm/Sophistication Visual Effects
Overall Title Sequence
The Girl (Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock) Special Effects
Hotness Music
Personality/Charm Theme Song
Overall Soundtrack
The Villain (Julian Glover as Kristatos) Action
Look Action Sequences
Personality/Menace Fight Scenes
Overall Stunts
Supporting Villains Gadgets
Locque (Michael Gothard) Coolness Factor
Kriegler (John Wyman) Implementation
Gonzalez (Stefan Kalipha) Look/Design
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (John Hollis) Locations
Supporting Girls Set Design
Countess Lisl (Cassandra Harris) Costumes
The Allies Plot
Columbo (Topol) Entertainment Value
Bibi Dahl (Lynn-Holly Johnson) Plausibility
Jacoba Brink (Jill Bennett)
Overall
Luigi Ferrara (John Moreno)
Overall Rating:
Better than the Stories (FYEO/R)?

Licence to Kill

Year 1989
Michael G. Wilson
Michael G. Wilson
Music by Michael Kamen

This film contains a large portion of unused Fleming material, one of the most notable being the character of Milton Krest from
The Hildebrand Rarity, the fifth and final short story in the For Your Eyes Only anthology. Both versions of the character are
marine biologists who travel in a boat called The Wavekrest. The literary Milton Krest liked to beat his wife with a stingray tail, a
tendency transferred to Franz Sanchez in the film. Arguably, this film can also be viewed immediately following Live and Let Die,
as the entire portion featuring Felix Leiter's shark attack and Bond's subsequent investigation is adapted from the novel.
Additionally, his travels to Central America to unravel a drug ring are inspired by the mission he is said to be returning from at the
beginning of Fleming's Goldfinger.

Category

Category
James Bond (Timothy Dalton) Q (Desmond Llewelyn)
Badassery Pre-Title Sequence
Humor Bond and Leiter Capture Sanchez
Seduction Methods Visual Effects
Charm/Sophistication Title Sequence
Overall Special Effects
The Girl (Carey Lowell as Pam Bouvier) Music
Hotness Theme Song
Personality/Charm Soundtrack
Overall Action
The Villain (Robert Davi as Franz Sanchez) Action Sequences
Look Fight Scenes
Personality/Menace Stunts
Overall Gadgets
Supporting Villains Coolness Factor
Milton Krest (Anthony Zerbe) Implementation
Prof. Joe Butcher (Wayne Newton) Look/Design
Dario (Benicio del Toro) Locations
Truman-Lodge (Anthony Starke) Set Design
Col. Heller (Don Stroud) Costumes
Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto) Entertainment Value
Felix Leiter (David Hedison) Overall
Sharkey (Frank McRae) Overall Rating:
MI6 Personnel
Better than the Story (THR)?
M (Robert Brown) COMMENTS:
Miss Moneypenny (Caroline Bliss)

Thunderball

Year 1965
Produced by Kevin McClory
Albert R. Broccoli
Harry Saltzman
John Hopkins
Music by John Barry

This film is, for the most part, extremely faithful to the original novel. The addition of Fiona Volpe and the alteration of SPECTRE's
execution of stealing the nuclear warheads set it apart from its source material, but overall it is an accurate depiction of the menace
and adventure contained in Fleming's version.

Category

Category
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Claudine Auger as Domino Derval) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Fiona Volpe (Lucianna Paluzzi) Set Design
Count Lippe (Guy Doleman) Costumes
Vargas (Philip Locke) Plot
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Anthony Dawson) Entertainment Value
Supporting Girls Plausibility
Patricia Fearing (Molly Peters) Overall
Felix Leiter (Rik Van Nutter) Better than the Book?
Paula Caplan (Martine Beswick) COMMENTS:
Pinder (Earl Cameron)

MI6 Personnel
M (Bernard Lee)
Pre-Title Sequence
Bond Exposes & Kills Jacques Bouvier

Never Say Never Again

Year 1983
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Produced by Kevin McClory
Jack Schwartzman
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Music by Michel Legrand

The second film adaptation of Ian Fleming's Thunderball is much looser than the first, although the basic plot outline remains the
same. Many of the elements of this film seem to be adapted more from the original 1965 version rather than the novel itself. Extra
locales and name changes are also apparent. What sets it apart from previous versions of the story, especially the book, is its much
more humorous and light-hearted approach. This could possibly be a reaction to the official Bond films of the time, which had
reached new heights of campiness thanks to Roger Moore's take on the character.

Category

Category
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Klaus Maria Brandauer as Max Largo) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera) Set Design
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Max von Sydow) Costumes
Lippe (Pat Roach) Plot
Patricia Fearing (Prunella Gee) Plausibility
Lady in Bahamas (Valerie Leon) Overall
Felix Leiter (Bernie Casey) Better than the Book (Thunderball)?
Nigel Small-Fawcett (Rowan Atkinson) COMMENTS:
MI6 Personnel

M (Edward Fox)
Miss Moneypenny (Pamela Salem)
Q/Algy (Alec McCowen)
Opening Sequence
Bonds Failed Training Exercise

The Spy Who Loved Me

Year 1977
Christopher Wood
Music by Marvin Hamlisch

This is the first film to have contained virtually no trace of Ian Fleming material. The book itself is an oddity in that it tells the story
from the point of view of the heroine, as she spends the first part of the book lamenting over her tumultuous life of heartbreak
and suffering, before Bond appears and saves her from a duo of gangsters who are trying to destroy the motel she is acting as
caretaker for. Ian Fleming requested that no material be adapted from this novel, but the characters of Jaws and Sandor are
reminiscent of Horror and Sluggsy, the vile gangsters featured in the book.

Category

Category
James Bond (Roger Moore) Visual Effects
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Barbara Bach as Major Anya Amasova) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Kurt Jurgens as Karl Stromberg) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Jaws (Richard Kiel) Set Design
Naomi (Caroline Munro) Costumes
Sandor (Milton Reid) Plot
General Gogol (Walter Gotell) Plausibility
MI6 Personnel Overall
M (Bernard Lee) Overall Rating:
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) Better than the Book?
Q (Desmond Llewelyn) COMMENTS:
Admiral Hargreaves (Robert Brown)
Pre-Title Sequence
Theft of Submarine/Bonds Ski Escape

Tomorrow Never Dies

Year 1997
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Barbara Broccoli
Screenplay by Bruce Fierstein

In creating an alternate order of viewing the Bond films based on the outline of the books, this film is difficult to place in that it
contains no Ian Fleming material whatsoever beyond recurring characters. That being said, it is placed within The Spy Who Loved
Me section due to both films being almost completely original. The two films also share common ground in that they both contain
large stealth boats that capture or destroy Naval vessels.

Category

Category
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) Visual Effects
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Stamper (Gotz Otto) Set Design
Gupta (Ricky Jay) Costumes
Dr. Kaufman (Vincent Schiavelli) Plot
Paris Carver (Teri Hatcher) Plausibility
Inga Bergstrom (Cecilie Thomsen) Overall
Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker) Better than the Book (TSWLM)?
M (Judi Dench)
Charles Robinson (Colin Salmon)
Pre-Title Sequence
Bonds Jet Fighter Escape

On Her Majestys Secret
Service

Year 1969
Directed by Peter Hunt
Harry Saltzman
Music by John Barry

This film is by far the most faithful to its source novel in both tone and plotline. The only major difference is that the film
combines the two subplots by having Blofeld capture Tracy. The darkness and tragedy of the book are both effectively captured,
although the emotional tie between Vesper Lynd and Tracy is absent from the film due to the fact that the official series had yet
to adapt Casino Royale.

Category

Category
James Bond (George Lazenby) Visual Effects
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Diana Rigg as Tracy di Vicenzo) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) Set Design
Grunther (Yuri Borienko) Costumes
Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular) Entertainment Value
Nancy (Catherina von Schell) Plausibility
The Allies Overall
Marc-Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti) Overall Rating:
Campbell (Bernard Horsfall) Better than the Book?
Sir Hilary Bray (George Baker) COMMENTS:
MI6 Personnel
M (Bernard Lee)
Pre-Title Sequence
Bond Rescues Tracy

You Only Live Twice

Year 1967
Harry Saltzman
Screenplay by Roald Dahl
Music by John Barry

This was the first official Bond film to radically depart from the original novel, both in terms of tone and plotline. Few things
remain such as the Japanese setting, Bond's "transformation" into a Japanese fisherman and staged marriage to Kissy, and a few
of the book's main characters. The book mostly focused on the aftermath of Tracy's death in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, but
because this had yet to happen in the film series, the film's plot goes in a very different (and much more farfetched) direction.

Category

Category
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Mie Hama as Kissy Suzuki) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Donald Pleasence as Ernst Stavro Blofeld) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Helga Brandt (Karin Dor) Set Design
Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada) Costumes
Hans (Ronald Rich) Plot
Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi) Plausibility
Ling (Tsai Chin) Overall
Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) Better than the Book?
Mr. Henderson (Charles Gray) COMMENTS:
MI6 Personnel
M (Bernard Lee)
Pre-Title Sequence
Theft of Space Shuttle/Bonds Death

Skyfall

Year 2012
Directed by Sam Mendes
Barbara Broccoli
Robert Wade
John Logan
Music by Thomas Newman

Although the film is an original story, a surprising amount of Fleming material is present. Mostly unused plot elements from
You Only Live Twice. Bond's apparent "death" and disappearance is reminiscent of the end of the novel, as is M writing his
obituary. Bond's Scottish upbringing and the death of his parents is touched upon, which was first mentioned in the novel
as well. Fleming's final two novels (You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun) serve as a story arc in which, at
the beginning of the latter, Bond is in a physical and psychological mess as he returns to duty. This aspect, although altered
dramatically, is also adapted in the film. The villain Raoul Silva is reminiscent of Fleming's Scaramanga, who in The Man with
the Golden Gun shows homosexual tendencies toward Bond. M's decision to send Bond on a dangerously difficult mission
to assassinate the villain before he is ready to do so is also similar to The Man with the Golden Gun.

Category

Category
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Berenice Marlohe as Severine) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Patrice (Ola Rapace) Set Design
The Allies Costumes
Kincade (Albert Finney) Plot
MI6 Personnel Entertainment Value
M (Judi Dench) Plausibility
Eve Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) Overall
Q (Ben Whishaw) Overall Rating:
Gareth Mallory/M (Ralph Fiennes) Better than the Book (YOLT)?
Bill Tanner (Rory Kinnear)
COMMENTS:
Pre-Title Sequence

City Chase/Bonds Death

The Man with the
Golden Gun

Year 1974
Harry Saltzman
Tom Mankiewicz
Music by John Barry

The Man With The Golden Gun was the last of Fleming's novels; indeed he actually died before completing it properly. Very few
elements of the book survive to the screen, mainly the names of the villain and girl; with even the location changed (the novel is
set in Jamaica). Fleming's Scaramanga was a second rate thug in contrast with the film version. However, the story that the film
Scaramanga tells Bond about his relationship with a circus elephant is taken from the novel. In part of the literary series, Mary
Goodnight was Bond's secretary who first appeared in On Her Majesty's Secret Service before being promoted to a Bond girl
proper.

Category

Category
James Bond (Roger Moore) Visual Effects
Overall Soundtrack
The Girl (Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight) Action
Overall Stunts
The Villain (Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga) Gadgets
Overall Look/Design
Nick Nack (Herve Villechaize) Set Design
Hai Fat (Richard Loo) Costumes
Andrea Anders (Maud Adams) Entertainment Value
Lt. Hip (Soon-Tek Oh) Overall
Sheriff J.W. Pepper (Clifton James) Overall Rating:
MI6 Personnel
M (Bernard Lee)
COMMENTS:
Bill Tanner (Michael Goodliffe)
Pre-Title Sequence
Scaramangas Fun House

The Living Daylights

Year 1987
Michael G. Wilson
Michael G. Wilson
Music by John Barry

The plot of the short story, which is the second in the Octopussy and The Living Daylights anthology, is incorporated into the opening
section of the film (concerning Koskov's defection), but with the original location of East Berlin changed to Bratislava. Even Bond's
line concerning the sniper having enough time to make strawberry jam of Koskov is taken directly from the story. The rest of the
film's plot is original, although the resurgence of Smiert Spionam, the KGB execution squad, is a direct reference to the villainous
SMERSH organization featured in most of the early Fleming novels. NOTE: Watching this film immediately following the previous five
on the alternate order list allows the viewer to watch 6 Bond films in a row with all 6 official actors (a different one in each).

Category

Category
James Bond (Timothy Dalton) Pre-Title Sequence
Badassery Attack on Training Exercise
Overall Music
The Girl (Maryam dAbo as Kara Milovy) Theme Song
Hotness Soundtrack
The Villain (Jeroen Krabbe as General Koskov) Fight Scenes
Look Stunts
Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker) Look/Design
Necros (Andreas Wisniewski) Locations
The Allies Set Design
Felix Leiter (John Terry) Costumes
General Pushkin (Jonathan Rhys-Davies) Plot
Kamran Shah (Art Malik) Entertainment Value
Saunders (Thomas Wheatley) Plausibility
General Gogol (Walter Gotell) Overall
MI6 Personnel
Overall Rating:
M (Robert Brown) Better than the Story?
Miss Moneypenny (Caroline Bliss) COMMENTS:

Octopussy

Year 1983
Michael G. Wilson
Music by John Barry

The film takes plot elements from Octopussy and The Property of a Lady, the first and third stories featured in the Octopussy and
The Living Daylights anthology. The beginning of the film concerning Bond's presence at Sotheby's to observe an auction for a
valuable Faberge egg is adapted quite faithfully from The Property of a Lady. The plot of Fleming's Octopussy merely serves as a
backstory for the Octopussy character in the film.

Category

Category
Badassery Bonds Escape in a Mini-Jet
Overall Music
The Girl (Maud Adams as Octopussy) Theme Song
Hotness Soundtrack
The Villain (Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan) Fight Scenes
Look Stunts
Gobinda (Kabir Bedi) Look/Design
General Orlov (Steven Berkoff) Locations
Mischka/Grischka (David/Anthony Meyer) Set Design
Magda (Kristina Wayborn)
Plot
The Allies
Entertainment Value
Vijay (Vijay Amritraj)
Plausibility
Jim Fanning (Douglas Wilmer)
Overall
Overall Rating:
MI6 Personnel
Better than the Stories (OP & POAL)?
M (Robert Brown)
COMMENTS:
Penelope Smallbone (Michaela Clavell)

The World is Not Enough

Year 1999
Directed by Michael Apted
Barbara Broccoli
Robert Wade
Bruce Fierstein

Unfortunately, this alternate order of viewing the Bond films ends on one of the lowest notes of the series. But it is difficult to place
this film in accordance with the original novels. 'The world is not enough' is revealed to be a family motto which Bond adopts in both
the literary and cinematic versions of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, however this film has nothing more to do with any Fleming
material other than its title. The subplot featuring the kidnapping of M, however, is long rumored to have been inspired by Colonel
Sun, the first non-Fleming Bond novel. In Colonel Sun, Bond is forced to travel to Greece to recover a kidnapped M from a tyrannical
Chinese colonel intent on starting a war between Britain and the Soviet Union.

Category

Category
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) Bill Tanner (Michael Kitchen)
Badassery Charles Robinson (Colin Salmon)
Humor Pre-Title Sequence
Seduction Methods Money Retrieval/Chase on the Thames
Charm/Sophistication Visual Effects
Overall Title Sequence
The Girl (Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones) Special Effects
Hotness Music
Personality/Charm Theme Song
Overall Soundtrack
The Villain (Sophie Marceau as Elektra King) Action
Look Action Sequences
Personality/Menace Fight Scenes
Overall Stunts
Supporting Villains Gadgets
Renard (Robert Carlyle) Coolness Factor
Gabor (John Seru) Implementation
Cigar Girl (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) Look/Design
Davidov (Ulrich Thomsen) Locations
Bullion (Goldie) Set Design
Molly Warmflash (Serena Scott Thomas) Plot
Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane) Plausibility
MI6 Personnel Overall
M (Judi Dench)
Overall Rating:
Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) Better than the Book (CS)?
Q (Desmond Llewelyn) COMMENTS:
R (John Cleese)

The Final Rankings
James Bond Overall
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

JB - Badassery JB Humor
Rank Rank
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8

JB Seduction Methods JBCharm/Sophistication
Rank Rank
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8

Top 5 Hottest Girls
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
The Girls - Overall
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Top 5 Most Charming Girls
Rank
1
2
3
4
5

The Villains - Overall
Rank Miguel Peter
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Top 5 Supporting Villains
Rank
1
2
3
4
5

Bottom 5 Supporting Villains (1=Worst)
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
Top 5 Supporting Girls
Rank
1
2
3
4
5

Bottom 5 Supporting Girls (1=Worst)
Rank
1
2
3
4
5

Top 5 Allies
Rank Peter
1
2
3
4
5

Bottom 5 Allies (1=Worst)
Rank
1
2
3
4
5

Felix Leiter
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

M
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6

Miss Moneypenny
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6

Q
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
*NOTE: Q from the 1967 spoof of Casino Royale doesnt
count because we dont remember him

Other MI6 Personnel
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Pre-Title/Opening Sequences
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Top 5 Special Effects
Rank
1
2
3
4
5

Bottom 5 Special Effects
Rank
1
2
3
4
5

Title Sequences
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Soundtracks
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Theme Songs
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Action (Avg. of sequences, fight scenes, and stunts)
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Gadgets (Avg. of coolness factor and implementation)
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Set Design
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Locations
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Costumes
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

Plot
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Overall Ranking
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

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The Villain

Supporting Villains

Supporting Girls

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Felix Leiter

M

Miss Moneypenny

Q

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