"Thanks, Ahmed." "I told you this stuff was good." "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "On this sheet of paper, Ian Fleming first creates a legend." "James Bond." "Secret agent, 007." "From the printed page to comic strips, to the silver screen, to toys, games and more." "James Bond is a ubiquitous part of our popular culture." "He is a symbol of effortless elegance, irresistible sexual prowess, worldly sophistication and deadly hi-tech wish fulfilment." "He could only have been created by one man..." "He was very suave, very cool, very charming, very relaxed." "Very English." "He also liked the girls, Ian." "He had a capacity to fulfil his dreams." "He was a very nice man." "He was a very strange man, though, I must tell you." "And a very puzzling man." "He was somebody who could be anybody he wanted to be." "Lan knew he would never lead the kind of life that any of us were going to lead, that he would be leading a quite unusual life." "He seemed to run his life, in a funny way, rather like a spy would." "James Bond is a projection of what Ian Fleming would like to have been." "I always saw James Bond as actually Ian himself." "Fleming came from an Anglo-Scottish family." "His grandfather, Robert, was a self-made financier who started off working in a jute factory in Dundee." "He obviously had enterprise and initiative and he did a lot of work for them in America." "When they made some money they moved to London." "They also bought a very big house near Nettlebed in Oxfordshire called Joyce Grove." "Joyce Grove, where he grew up, is a sort of monstrous house, really." "Enormous and dark and full of heavy panelling, rather magnificent in its way." "Lan's father was Valentine Fleming." "Valentine became a lawyer and then entered Parliament." "He did all this before he was 30." "Married Evelyn Rose, fathered four children, one of which was Ian, and then he went off to war." "And he was killed very young in the First World War." "Winston Churchill, who was a fellow officer, wrote Valentine Fleming's obituary." "They were devastated." "They were left with an image of a father who was a hero to them." "It affected their mother very deeply." "She continued to hold him up as a paragon of virtue." "They felt they had to live up to this father." "Evelyn, Ian's mother, she was very, very beautiful." "A very glamorous, exotic lady, always dressed in wonderfully vivid colours." "A young, beautiful widow." "She was obviously rather talented." "She played the violin very well." "Really quite unlike the rest of our family, who were more sort of the Scottish, solid types." "She was in a difficult position." "She couldn't remarry, basically, without losing a nice income." "It must have been difficult for her, with four boys to bring up." "Eve liked to mix with artists." "She moved to Chelsea and began an affair with the famous portrait painter, Augustus John." "Eve had a daughter by Augustus John, Ian Fleming's half-sister Amaryllis." "Turned up at Eton with this child, with this baby, and announced to Ian "Darling, you have a sister"." "She was an exotic bird, really." "Quite frightening in some ways." "It was a sort of in-joke within the family, I think, that Mother was always called M." "Lan admired her immensely." "And I think Ian was probably perhaps more like his mother than his father." "There was pressure on the Fleming boys to perform." "All four brothers went to Eton, and my father was very good academically and won a lot of prizes." "Peter Fleming was the most successful schoolboy ever." "It's a hard act to follow." "Lan was wilder and sort of rebelled against it slightly more." " Something delinquent about him." " Certainly in those days at Eton, being clever didn't really cut very much ice, and being a brilliant athlete, which Ian was, cut a great deal more." "Lan Fleming became a distinguished schoolboy athlete and won the Victor Ludorum trophy two years in succession, a feat only equalled one other time in the school's history." "He was scheduled to be beaten and he was going to run in a cross-country race, so he applied to be beaten early so that he'd be in time to run for this race." "They beat him so savagely, the blood came through his trousers and he ran the race with blood coming through his pants." "He finished second." "Lan wanted to do his own things, really, and not be too constrained by family requirements." "Lan had to leave Eton under what is known as a cloud." "His mother was a very strong influence at this stage." "She suggested that he should become an Army officer like his father, so he went to the Officer Training Academy at Sandhurst." "Lan was very much a fish out of water there." "He didn't like Sandhurst." "It wasn't his thing." "At the end of term he invited his girlfriend to join him at a school dance, but she refused because she had a prior engagement." "Lan was very annoyed." "He got in his car and he drove up to London and, as he had threatened, he went to a nightclub and picked up a tart." "But he got more than he bargained for." "He also picked up a venereal disease." "And this, in the circumstances with his mother, got him into deep trouble and he was forced to leave Sandhurst." "His mother thought that he really was so difficult that he was practically verging on the schizophrenic." "Eve was very concerned at this stage." "She felt her son needed help." "In desperation, she turned to Forbes Dennis, who was rather an extraordinary character, who was married to a lady novelist called Phyllis Bottome." "They were an idealistic couple who had a sort of guesthouse in Kitzbühel in Austria." "It was a curious finishing school for children with attitudinal problems." "This was the first time he went abroad and he enjoyed being in Europe." "Everybody knows the success he had as a young man in Kitzbühel and when he was learning German." "So there was Ian out on the ski slopes, racing his car, meeting the local girls, having a good time." "The girls were literally falling all over him." "I said "The English are very shy, my darling." "There's only one thing to do."" ""You just get up now, pass his table, fall over his feet and say:" "I am sorry."" "There was a sort of way in which Ian did find himself, I think, there." "Rather subtly, this couple who ran the school were helping him develop his literary interests." "Lan became a very, very, very good writer." "The wife, Phyllis Bottome, started to draw out Ian's ability to write short stories." "And Ian then honed that gift when he trained as a journalist." "I started off in Reuters, the international news agency, at the age of about 23 and served with them for about four years in London and Berlin and Moscow." "He was sent to Russia, where he distinguished himself reporting on a rather important spy scandal." "He had got a natural instinct for very quick journalism, for knowing what people wanted to read, and for wrapping things up in a very clever, urbane, stylish manner." "I found I wasn't earning enough money in journalism, as I expect you probably find, and I went into the City to try and make some more." "He was described as the world's worst stockbroker." "He used to like taking clients out to lunch at the Savoy and that sort of thing, but he had no aptitude for figures." "He lived in Ebury Street." "A strange building." "It's like a sort of temple." "It was a very weird place only an unusual character like Ian would have lived in." "This became Ian's bachelor pad." "And he worked out a sort of perfect lifestyle for himself in those days." "He founded a small group he called" "Le Cercle gastronomique et des jeux de hasard." "It was just a bunch of young bucks who liked to live well." "Really, at this stage, Ian was just a young playboy going nowhere." "When they were young, Peter was this great star, really, and I think Ian definitely had a bit of a complex about his older brother." "My father became a best-selling author in the '30s." "He made his name by writing a book called "Brazilian Adventure"." "In 1936, '37, '38, he was a sort of folk hero." "We girls at Girton used to admire him because he was a wonderful traveller and we used to think he was a marvellous chap, so I was interested to meet his brother." "It was rather a disappointment, cos he wasn't so noble as Peter." "People say "Peter Fleming's got a younger brother."" "Then they take a glance at him..." ""Is he up to it?"" "And then "No, not really." That must be crushing." "Peter and Ian were very close, very fond of each other, very loyal to each other." "He made some money on the Stock Exchange and he came along to see me in my office with the whole thing cut and dried in his mind." "He said "I'm going to put £250 of this little lot I've made into books."" ""I don't want first editions of modern authors." "What I want is milestone books."" "This was his famous collection of books, which were all in black boxes." "Lan did develop a close relationship with one particular girl." "A very attractive occasional model called Muriel Wright." "Lan was fond of her and she was fond of him." "I think he called her Honeytop." "He often spoke of her." "He was devoted to her." "Lan didn't treat her terribly well because he had several other girlfriends." "Lan was an extremely striking-looking young man and my mother was also an extremely good-looking woman, and so there was a sort of close attraction." "She was born Anne Charteris, and at a very young age she married an Irish Aristocrat and became Lady O'Neill." "She was a strong character, extremely talented, very aristocratic, very confident." "He rather liked that." "My mother liked the challenge and when she first met him in 1938, '39, he was this moody - that's how she describes him - and very attractive man." "She was a powerful lady and she fell in love with Ian." "And she wanted Ian." "But, above all, it was that melancholy, that difficultness of Ian that presented her with a challenge." "I think a lot of his peacetime life did bore him terribly." "The war simply took him away from all that and put him back into his cloak-and-dagger world he'd always wanted to be in." "I served in the Naval Intelligence as personal assistant to the director of Naval Intelligence throughout the war, under two directors." "It was a very, very important role in many ways." "He was a combination of an ideas man and a fixer." "It suited him because he could suddenly become the sort of man who spun elaborate plots." "And Ian had a flaring imagination." "I had great fun." "I went round the world twice and got involved in a lot of escapades, which were very exciting at the time." "Early on in the war, Ian Fleming was sent to Paris." "While he was there, France began to fall and everybody had to flee." "When Ian Fleming got to Bordeaux, it was chaos." "Everyone was congregating there." "Lan Fleming took control of the situation." "He put himself in charge and sorted everything out." "On the last night, Ian and a fellow officer went to the best restaurant in town." "The owner, realising everything was falling apart, went to his cellar and brought up his finest wines, and there, on the fall of France," "Ian Fleming sat in the best restaurant in town, sipping the finest wine." "It was a classic Ian Fleming moment." "It was a perfect sort of apprenticeship for a thriller writer." "I went with my director, Admiral Godfrey, to Washington in plain clothes before America came into the war." "On our first night in Lisbon, we talked to some of our Secret Service chaps there and they said "Well, if you want to see these... agents of the 'Abwehr'", - as it was called then " ""you will find most of them gambling in the casino at Estoril."" "And I suddenly had the brilliant idea that I would take on these Germans and strip them of their funds, thus making a small dent in the secret treasury of the "Abwehr"." "So I sat down at the table and bancoed one of the Germans once and lost." "I bancoed him again and lost again." "Bancoed him for a third time and I was cleaned out." "That wasn't a very successful exploit, but it was on the basis of this real-life episode that I based the big gambling scene in "Casino Royale"." "I was immediately attracted by his sense of fun and adventure, and his whole make-up of a child." "He loved the bazaars." "He loved also the bizarre." "He had no inhibitions, no shyness, a good sense of humour..." "Ian was a youngish, good-looking Navy officer, who was doing a great job, and his senior officers thought highly of him." "But he wasn't quite so successful with the younger officers." "That may have been perhaps because they rather envied him." "So, of course, people lower down would be jealous." "They envied him his apparent freedom." "Lan was the chocolate sailor, the man who sat behind the desk in Room 39." "He always wanted to do a great act, a daring act, something unusual, something wild, something brave, like his father had." "But something about him made it impossible for him to do so." "Nothing could be further from the truth." "Lan was always wanting to go, particularly over to France, on missions, and they never would let him." "I knew Fleming from the Admiralty in World War II." "He was in charge of sending most people behind the lines." "If you could speak French, he'd send you to France, drop you by parachute, and you'd get gobbled up by the Gestapo." "Fleming ran the 30 Assault Unit." "And they were nicknamed Ian's Red Indians." "Fleming created this group." "He helped train the commandos and he planned their missions." "Lan's Red Indians gathered valuable intelligence, which was delivered back to Room 39." "Once, when we were lunching out during the war," "I said, just by way of making conversation," ""Have you thought at all what you're going to do after the war?"" "You know, it was all there, what Ian was going to do eventually, I think." "He seemed to live two lives." "One during the daytime when he was working here, and the other at nighttime when he went out into the social world." "Never been a problem for him finding a girl." "I think quite a few of us thought how lovely it would be to marry Ian Fleming, knowing perfectly well it would never work." "Lan would never be without a woman if he felt like it." "His girlfriend, Muriel Wright, became a dispatch rider for the Admiralty." "I often saw her in the streets." "She'd go by, and when she passed, I think she thought I was after Ian." "Lan used to have her do errands for him, like go pick up his handmade cigarettes." "This, in fact, was the last errand she ever did for him." "Towards the end of the war" " I can't remember which little bombing it was - but a bomb fell and killed her in that mews house." "It happened one morning." "It was just one of those strange things." "He had to go identify the body." "One will never know what Ian felt about that." "I've no idea." "Fleming lost his father in World War I." "Earlier in World War II his brother was killed." "He had to send men on missions that did not come home." "I think all of this had an impact on his life." "The other woman in Ian Fleming's life was Lady Anne O'Neill." "During the war, Anne's husband, Lord O'Neill, went off to fight and she was left at home, having an affair with Ian Fleming." "We had this little cottage in a village called Buscot, and Ian was a very frequent visitor." "At the same time, she was romancing a newspaper heir," "Esmond, the future Lord Rothermere." "Both Lord O'Neill and Esmond were good friends of Ian's." "It was obviously a complicated situation." "Then, tragically, in 1944, Lord O'Neill was killed in battle in Italy." "When Anne received the telegram," "Ian was visiting her at Esmond Rothermere's country home." "Anne was left with an opportunity to choose between her two lovers." "She married Lord Rothermere, enormously rich, grand, press baron." "She might never have married him at all if Ian had just asked her." "He never really wanted to be involved in anything which would tie him down, which would inhibit his freedom." "The day before she married Lord Rothermere, she met Ian Fleming and went for a walk in the park with him." "And she told him about her impending marriage." "And she later told a friend that if Ian Fleming, even at that stage, had said "Stop, I want to marry you", she would have broken off her engagement and married him rather than Rothermere." "One other important thing happened to Ian during the war." "Lan went with Ivar Bryce to an Anglo-American Naval conference in Jamaica." "It was still a sort of rural Caribbean paradise." "Fleming fell in love with Jamaica." "He said "When the war is over, I'll never spend a winter in England."" "In 1945, the war ended." "Fleming was offered a job with Kemsley Newspapers." "He set up the Kemsley Foreign Service." "Lan received a good salary, but he had it written into his contract that he would have three months' holiday a year." "Of course, he wanted these three months off to spend in Jamaica." "My uncle, I believe, introduced him to the property." "And he loved it and bought it." "It used to be a donkey racecourse." "It was literally in the bush." "He was the one person who realised that this little bay was a perfect place to build a house." "Lan called the house after an Intelligence operation that he'd masterminded during the war, Operation Goldeneye." "What I liked about it was that it was extremely simple." "Lan didn't waste much time on the comforts of life." "As there was no glass in the windows, you really lived with nature." "The first person that Ian Fleming rented Goldeneye to was Nöel Coward." "I had a wonderful time." "The rent was extremely high." "The relationship between Nöel Coward and Ian Fleming was a very attractive one, and Nöel absolutely adored Ian." "If he had built it on that angle over to the right, he would have had a full view of all the sunsets." "But he built it flat, facing the sea, so that way it doesn't get the sunsets." "Nöel thought the place looked like an old-fashioned colonial medical clinic." "Nöel Coward used to call it the Golden Ear, Nose and Throat." "It was wonderful to go and see, and life was terribly pleasant and very simple." "When you're there, you just feel it's just you alone in the world." "It was everything he wanted." "It was excitement." "The underwater swimming he adored." "Lan Fleming spent his days snorkelling and exploring the reef." "The beach life was extraordinary." "Lots of very interesting people were flooding down to Jamaica at the time." "A great friend of mine was very much in love with Ian, or thought she was, and he was treating her in the most atrocious way." "And with the arrogance of youth," "I walked up to Mr Fleming when I was introduced to him and said "Mr Fleming, I consider you're a cad."" "And he looked at me and said "Mrs Leiter, you're indeed right."" ""Shall we have a drink on it?" And we never looked back." "So every year, after Christmas, Ian would travel to Jamaica." "Shortly after Anne married Esmond Rothermere, Ian began seeing her again." "It's a passionate affair and she's in love with him." "And she drifts apart from Rothermere without any great feeling." "My mother once described him as "remote as the North Pole"." "Anne told me once that Ian confessed to her that she was the first woman he'd spent a whole night in bed with." "I think he was a great one for doing the deed, pulling on his elastic-sided boots and leaping out of the window." "He was a lover and a leaver." "Anne was the first person he didn't really leave." "I think he loved her very much and was fascinated by her." "He used to call her his little golden pheasant." "In January 1948, Anne Rothermere came to Jamaica for the first time." "It's a love affair with this wonderful setting, tropical lushness, beautiful sea." "Everything is perfect." "I don't think my mother has ever been happier than those first visits to Jamaica." "It was their kind of private paradise, really." "Annie fitted into this perfectly." "It was a great adventure for them both." "And, at a certain stage, she got pregnant." "Which must have been transparent." "The baby was born prematurely and only lived a few hours." "Her husband was furious and forbad her from seeing Fleming, but she still did." "By the following January, Anne was returning to Jamaica with Ian." "Anne claimed to her husband that she would be staying with Nöel Coward at his new Jamaican home, but she was very indiscreet." "When Anne returned to England, she was met at the docks by an emissary of her husband's, who told her that she had to stop seeing Ian or Esmond would divorce her." "She wanted Ian." "The fact that she was married to Esmond made little difference." "By late December 1951," "Anne decided to end her marriage with Esmond Rothermere." "When we were told that she was going to abandon Viscount Rothermere, with his newspaper millions, and marry this journalist called Ian Fleming, long before he'd created James Bond, my brother demurred slightly and was not altogether happy." ""Are you sure that's wise, Mama?" he said." "She and Ian went to Jamaica to await word that the divorce was final." "I think he was terrified." "The responsibilities of marriage and having to settle down were too much for him to deal with." "My mother used to say "Marrying me gave Ian peace of mind and therefore he started to become a real writer, not just a journalist."" "And Ian always used to say "Well, I had to think of something to do to get away from your mother after I married her."" "In fact, writing a spy thriller was not an instant decision." "Lan had been thinking about it for some time." "He once described it as the equivalent of digging a large hole in the garden." "Lan sat down at his desk every morning and wrote what he had described as "the spy novel to end all spy novels"." "I think he was amazed by what turned out." "He knew women." "He knew about espionage." "He knew all sorts of things." "What could be a better qualification for a writer?" "Everything in it was so well done." "What he drank, what he ate..." "All the little touches were so perfect." "Lan was a good writer and he wanted to be a good writer." "But he also wanted to make some money for his family." "Lan was also very aware of Anne's circle of literary friends." "He wanted to fit in." "He wanted to be more than just a journalist in their eyes." "I wanted to find a name which wouldn't have any of the sort of romantic overtones, like Peregrine Carruthers or whoever it might be." "I wanted a really flat, quiet name." "And one of my bibles out here is James Bond's "Birds of the West Indies"." "And I thought "James Bond - now that's a pretty quiet name."" "And so I simply stole it and used it." "Lan was the ultimate bachelor." "He lived a lifestyle of adventure and intrigue." "Now he was afraid that all this was going to change." "He invented James Bond, through which he could live this life for ever." "It was not until late March that Anne's divorce papers arrived." "When they did, they got married immediately." "It was a fairly hysterical occasion." "Apparently, the man who married them had the most terrible bad breath." "And so they had to turn their faces away when they said "I do", "I do"." "And then they had a terrific marriage feast." "I was so unnerved by the whole experience that I tied a shoe onto my own car and drove home." "Lan concocted this flaming rum drink called "Old Man's Thing"." "Nöel composed this famous calypso." "He had in his suitcase after that Jamaican visit the manuscript of "Casino Royale"." "Obviously, almost every aspect of Ian Fleming's life changed when he returned to England." "Even before "Casino Royale" was published," "Ian Fleming ordered a golden typewriter to celebrate his new status as an author." "Royal Typewriter custom-made it and it was plated with gold." "On August 12, 1952," "Anne gave birth to Ian's son, Casper Fleming." "Casper was a difficult birth." "It was very hard on Anne." "Casper was a fine-looking boy and Ian was very fond of him." "You know, he was quite old to be a father, in a way." "He was living in a rather delightful flat in Cheyne Walk." "This great big old-fashioned mansion flat, but my mother - and I would agree with her now - absolutely didn't like living in a flat at all." "It had no dining room where Anne could entertain in the style she was accustomed to." "I felt rather sorry for Ian, because I'm afraid she persuaded him to uproot from this very masculine environment and they bought Victoria Square, which I never felt was the house for Ian." "Shortly after the marriage, Ian's carefully constructed world began to fall apart." "It was so much my mother's house and not Ian's." "I always felt that he was like a sort of wild beast in a gilded cage there." "And then, of course, he went on and had one of the early Thunderbirds." "Annie called it the Thunderbox." "It was marvellous." "It had so many gadgets and he showed me how they all worked." "My mother had a matching car, which was actually a form of Austin, but it was known as the Thunderchick to match the Thunderbird." "My mother reverted to her old ways of being a London hostess." "Anne's circle of friends included many top writers, artists, poets and politicians." "She, at dinner parties, was like a conductor." "She loved conversation." "A lot of Annie's friends were literary figures." "Although this might sound close to the sort of thing Fleming would like, it wasn't." "He was not happy with these people." "He took to coming round and having dinner with us in order to escape his wife's dinner parties." "He couldn't get to his bedroom without going through the drawing room, where these people were." "Lan would creep up the stairs to get to the top of his house, where his room was, hoping, I suppose, that nobody would see or hear him." "They all said - almost all, literally - said, rather defiantly, as if it was an unusual position, "I liked Ian." "I really liked Ian."" "But that's not what he felt." "They were very sharp-witted and amusing and they used to tease him and sort of jeer at him." "The social aspect was only one part of the complex dynamic of Ian and Anne's marriage." "He always used to say to me "I am symmetry, she is chaos."" "Part of Ian liked a set routine." "She was capable of sudden rash actions." "He liked to eat the same meals at the same restaurants." "We would perhaps go round the corner together to Overton's and sit on a stool, where he would have his favourite kippers and brown bread and butter." "He had a particular style of dress that didn't change." "He always wore a pale blue shirt and a dark blue polka-dot bow tie." "Anne was different." "She liked change." "She liked to mix things up." "Annie was like a changed woman." "She was a brilliant person, highly intelligent and amusing, but very difficult." "I thought she was very clever, charming, amusing and unhappy." "The trouble is, Ian and herself never really got on." "They were supposed to be very much in love, but they quarrelled constantly." "Over the bridge table they had some fantastic row, and my mother got up and said "I'm driving back to London."" "And she was in a fury." "She saw this gleaming Ford Thunderbird and I hate to tell you that she drove her car as hard as she could into the Ford Thunderbird." "It was an immensely complex relationship between the two, as it could only be between two very complicated human beings." "He didn't want to be married, that was the thing." "Jamaica was always Ian's escape." "He would go to get away from his wife's dinner parties." "Lan would come to Jamaica, spend three months, write a Bond book and then go back." "After Casper was born, there were several years when Anne simply didn't come to Goldeneye." "Then he fell in love with Blanche Blackwell." "I met Mr Fleming for the first time at a dinner party." "Blanche Blackwell lived down the road in her marvellous house called Bolt." "He very kindly invited me down to come and swim, and I was very glad of it." "I couldn't have managed to have any swimming at Bolt." "Blanche and himself would go scuba diving and shark hunting and so on." "He was a man who was interested in everything and he used to love to go shark fishing." "Anybody who was interested and loves adventure would love to be free to do as they want, don't you think?" "I used to find my mother sometimes in floods of tears." "Anne also had a lover." "My mother walked out for a while with Hugh Gaitskell." "She was in love with my wife's cousin, Hugh Gaitskell." "Hugh, we always thought of as somebody who'd really never had a teenage." "He'd never had a youth, and he was having a little teenage fling." "They'd screwed around for years." "They loved affairs." "I decided how I wanted to live long ago." "I've managed to succeed without getting into too much trouble." "Blanche enjoyed Ian's company and put no pressures on him, which he liked." "Two men have asked me why they couldn't make me jealous." "And my answer is "You don't owe me anything."" ""Why should I be jealous?" "It doesn't matter to me what you feel about me."" ""I happen to like you." "That's what's important as far as I'm concerned."" "That's how I am." "Very naughty, aren't I?" "The Bond books were an instant critical success in Britain." "Anne called it "Ian's horror comics"." "He thought absolutely nothing of them." "That's the English upper-class thing, isn't it?" "You must never be shown to be wanting anything that you wanted." "Lan worked very hard to make James Bond a success." "No one took them more seriously." "The books were serialised and turned into comic strips in the British national newspapers." "Lan desperately wanted to be a literary figure." "In 1956, Ian took on an agent," "Peter Janson-Smith, to deal with his foreign rights." "I made my first sale for him on the telephone." "It was that same year, the British prime minister," "Sir Anthony Eden, came to stay at Goldeneye." "And suddenly the whole takeoff of this thing was unbelievable." "He was published in France and Italy and Germany and Sweden," "Norway, Denmark, Spain..." "He came to the attention of the American public after the New American Library started publishing his books as paperbacks in the late 1950s." "He'd been, I think, noticed by "Playboy" magazine." "We published a very favourable review on the latest Bond book in the fall of '59, and then published "The Hildebrand Rarity", the first short story in an American publication, in 1960." "The marriage between the two, I think, was a natural." "I think I made Ian Fleming, in a curious way." "Jack Kennedy rang me one day and said "I'm sick." "Have you got anything to read?"" "I said "Yes." "Do you like spy stories?" "Yes."" ""Something has just come to me from England."" "Then there was the moment when President Kennedy was seen with a James Bond book." "And that seemed like fame indeed." "In early 1960, Ian met John F Kennedy." "One Sunday morning in Washington, Ian and I were going somewhere." "They suddenly spotted Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy, walking along the street together." "As they started to cross one street, I stopped." "And Mrs Leiter introduced Ian Fleming to Senator Kennedy." "Jack poked his head in the window and said "Not 'the' Ian Fleming?"" "And I said "Yes." He said "Bring him for dinner."" "So we turned up at 3307 N Street and somehow the conversation got around to Castro, which was not all that unusual in those days." "And Ian had us all absolutely hysterical, saying that he had some plots that would be wonderful if the CIA would play on Castro." "He suggested that they should drop some leaflets." "The CIA could just fly over Cuba and drop these leaflets telling the women of Cuba..." "Beards, such as Castro had, were natural receptors for radioactivity." "...that all the men wearing beards were impotent." ""Life" magazine asked the White House to supply the list of the ten books that the president had enjoyed reading during the year." "I remember Lord David Cecil was one, and then the other, to my staggered amazement, was Ian Fleming." "In just under five years, Fleming's name had been linked with the British prime minister and the American president." "That certainly had an impact." "The orders started to pour in." "The printings became more frequent." "I can remember being in Victoria Square when Ian met Sean Connery." "I was present at this famous encounter." "And whatever else has been said about this, my memory is of Ian being pleased with the choice." "He thought they'd got the right man." ""Dr No" opened in England several months before it opened in the United States." "I saw it at the mansion." "It made a big impression." "I felt it would be a big winner." "There was a big increase in sales after the film." "He never dreamt it would be such a success." "I think my mother became quietly rather proud of him." "Well, I think it's the great ironic story of all time." "Here's this guy who, all his life, had longed for money, longed for success, but it came just at the wrong time." "He had his first heart attack in April, 1961." "Even after his heart attack, he wanted to live the kind of life that he always wanted to live." "And he said "I would rather smoke and drink and live less life."" "He couldn't enjoy the razzmatazz." "He couldn't enjoy the whole thing." "The smoking and the drinking went on, and he got more and more red in the face, and his concentration span went." "After about five minutes he would say "Well, it's all absolutely marvellous."" ""I'll sign anything that you've sent along."" "I'm so pleased that Ian did live to see the great, great excitement." "Lan's relationship with Anne in his last years was deeply tragic." "She would look at him and want to help him, but she couldn't." "She did look after him then and it was all very sad." "Whatever went on in their marriage, she had loved him enormously." "It was a very strong relationship which I think probably went right back into the middle of the '30s." "He was looking forward to being elected captain of the Royal St George's Golf Club." "On 11 August, the Flemings had dinner with an old friend at Sandwich." "At the end of the meal, Ian was taken ill, again with heart problems, and he died very early the next morning." "I think it was an old friend, a great chum of his called Selby Armitage, he said "Ian, all your life you wanted success." "Now at last you've got it."" ""What is success really like?"" ""Ashes, dear boy." "Ashes."" "There are many different kinds of thriller writers and many different kinds of thrillers." "I just have my particular line of country." "It had a very contemporary edge to it." "It had a style, in terms of good living." "They are meant for warm-blooded, heterosexual adults, in beds and railway trains and aeroplanes." "It was what every man wanted to be, and every woman wanted to be the girlfriend." "Someone said "It never rains on Bond."" "The weather is better, brighter and exhilarating." "He was very good at this fast action, wasn't he?" "He kept you hooked." "You had to see what was going to happen next." "There was never an unnecessary word." "Lan was one of those few writers who managed to create a unique world." "He used his experience as an officer in Naval Intelligence, but gave it his own imaginative spin." "Although he would say "I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes", deep down in his heart I think he thought he was a good writer." "And he was a good writer." "As an individual, he was both hard and romantic, old-fashioned and innovative." "Some of the best spy stories, I suppose, that have ever been written." "Lan Fleming has gone, but his legacy lives on." "I think he got the point." "A martini." "Shaken, not stirred." "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "In 1952 Ian Fleming writes "Casino Royale", creating one of the most popular characters in fiction" " James Bond." "When the Bond films are produced, beginning in 1962, the character reflects the mood of the times." " Looking for shells?" " No." "I'm just looking." "Suppose I were to kill you for a thrill." "I can think of something more sociable to do." "How do you kill five hours in Rio if you don't samba?" "It was a fantasy." "And I guess most of the men sitting in the seats felt "I could be a Bond"." "Every woman probably looked at this and said" ""Boy, he really has a lot of women in these films but... he hasn't met me." "I think everything would change."" "By the mid-'80s some feel it's time for James Bond to change." "People were thinking about becoming more monogamous." "The safe-sex idea." "So people commented "Is Bond going to become a one-woman man?"" "This would become the first change for 007 in a film that would redefine James Bond." "With Roger Moore's retirement from the role of 007," "Michael Wilson and Richard Maibaum embark on a script for the next film without knowing who will eventually play James Bond." "One of the ideas that was looked at from time to time was the possibility of exploring Bond's roots, to show where he had come from, to show his background." "He's always been a veteran character." "He's been a fellow who is experienced." "Cubby felt you shouldn't really look backwards." "Instead of creating a story which deals with Bond's beginnings, the writers return to the source." "The short story is basically the beginning of the film." "Whoever she was, I must have scared the living daylights out of her." "Smiert spionom." "That's used in the opening sequence." "Those words, meaning "death to spies" in Russian, come from SMERSH, which is the organisation that was in the early Fleming books - an assassination organisation within Russia to liquidate foreign spies." "Wilson and Maibaum make Fleming's female assassin the central character of the new story." "As writing begins, the part of James Bond is yet to be cast." "We weren't quite sure exactly how to go at the part, so we sort of wrote it fairly middle-of-the-road." "We didn't make it as comic as it had been with Roger." "We were actively looking for a replacement, which is no easy task." "We had tested people from time to time, between films." "Basically you've gotta have a guy who..." "looks handsome, fit." "Right height." "He's gotta have humour and he's gotta be hard." "The first test was Sam Neill." " So you're Tatiana Romanova?" " My friends call me Tania." "My friends call me Bond." "James Bond." "All of us were impressed with Sam Neill and very much wanted to use him." "He'd been very successful as "Reilly:" "Ace of Spies"." "The key members of the Bond creative team are sold on the New Zealander - except the one whose vote counts most." "Like a lot of things in life, it was a close race." "An actor who has long been high on the list of candidates is Timothy Dalton who is first approached for On Her Majesty's Secret Service." "Cubby did want him very much." "He thought he would be a splendid Bond." "I was about 24, 25 then." "I had a good career as a young man in films, having done The Lion in Winter, Cromwell," "Mary Queen of Scots, Wuthering Heights." "And Mr Broccoli kindly asked me if I'd be interested." "But when he came in for the interview," "Timothy himself said "I just think I'm too young for this role."" "I think Bond should be between about 35 and 40." "And as a 25-, 26-year-old, it would not have been right." "He wasn't ready for it, obviously." "Dalton turns the role down in 1968, but Broccoli feels he's a good choice and continues to pursue him into the 1970s and '80s." "Cubby and I met Timothy Dalton on several occasions." "We invited him into the studio in MGM six or seven years ago." "He seemed to have an interesting side to him that we thought we might be able to use and explore for a new Bond." "But Dalton's commitment to the film "Brenda Starr"" "means he will be unavailable when "The Living Daylights" begins production." "There was a desperate search on for a James Bond." "These very famous people wanting to play James Bond." "What the actors had to do was do a fight scene and also do a love scene." "I obviously just did the fight scene." "I'd come in and coordinate fights with the last three short-listed actors." "A young actress tests with one of the candidates." "The first time we used Maryam d'Abo was in the test with the actors." "I did it because Barbara Broccoli asked me and I said "Yeah, I'll do it for a day."" "Well, now that we've been properly introduced..." "When she turned out as well as she did, we decided that maybe she could play the leading role." "I was thrilled." "It was like "Wow, I've got a part in a movie."" ""And it's a Czechoslovakian girl."" ""She's a cellist, so I'm going to be doing all these wonderful things."" ""And, my God, I'm in a Bond movie." "Me!"" "Meanwhile, an actor many think is ideal for the role is coming to the end of his network television contract." "Someone that we'd always considered was Pierce Brosnan." "Pierce was so keen on becoming Bond." "We decided to test Pierce, and I came down here to Pinewood and we did extensive testing for three days." "I cut the tests together, presented them to Cubby and we sat in the theatre and he slowly nodded his head." "When I was cast as Kara Milovy in "The Living Daylights", at the time, Pierce Brosnan was supposed to play the part." "When it actually happened that he was going to play Bond, it was wonderful." "He was so delighted." "The other roles are quickly cast." "Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe is approached for the role of Koskov." "We first saw him in "Soldier Of Orange", of course, where he was magnificent." "I had one wish, which was to be in a James Bond movie, ever since I'd seen the first ones when I was 12, 13, 14." "When an opportunity arose we offered him the role." "For the part of cold-blooded assassin Necros, the producers hire a dancer-turned-actor." "What made it happen was the incredible coincidence that the character I played was described exactly the way I looked." "Rounding out the international cast is Joe Don Baker as Brad Whitaker." "Whitaker was a nut." "He was a very rich man who had his own army." "He thought he was a Napoleon." "All of a sudden they said "It's postponed for two weeks." Because they couldn't..." "Pierce was doing "Remington Steele" and they couldn't get him out of the series." "I think it was a 60-day thing for them to come up with any more episodes and on the 56th day they came up with five more episodes." "And the network that he was working for wouldn't release him." "The edict from Cubby was that "Remington Steele" will not be James Bond." " So that was the end of the deal." " We did tests again and Timothy came in." "Cubby always remembered that Timothy Dalton was someone who in his mind could play Bond." "And then they approached him again and he said yes." "The schedule on this Bond film was delayed." "It was delayed to the point where I became available." "And I was asked again and I was very, very pleased." "Dalton is suddenly a very busy man." "He is scheduled to begin The Living Daylights within days of finishing "Brenda Starr"." "The script is now tailored to Dalton's strengths." "First and foremost I wanted to make him human." "He's not a superman." "You can't identify with a superman." "We were very anxious to get back to the more hard-edged Fleming-type Bond, both in the story and the way Bond played the part." "He told us he was gonna go back and re-read the Fleming novels to get grounded in the character." "We said that was a good idea." "You can always identify with the Bond of the books." "I mean, he's very much a man, and a tarnished man really." "He's not perfect." "He felt that Bond was a conflicted fellow and that that should appear as a subtext for the character." "He agreed that he wanted to play a harder kind of Bond." "Timothy wanted seriously to change the image quite a bit, in that he wasn't necessarily this guy in the tux." "He was supposed to be a tougher character." "He was gonna be James Bond." "No room for laughs and jokes." "I wanted to capture that occasional sense of vulnerability." " And the spirit of Ian Fleming." " We were very happy with that." "Filming begins on Gibraltar on September 17, 12 days before Dalton is scheduled to arrive for make-up and wardrobe tests." "Bond film veterans BJ Worth and Jake Lombard contribute to the pre-credits parachute jump." "We filmed on Gibraltar." "We did a skydiving sequence there." "Jumping out of a Hercules was relatively straightforward." "It was the landing, because it is very inhospitable terrain." "The winds were very squirly all over the Rock of Gibraltar." "BJ Worth and his boys had quite a tricky job." "They had us landing in places that were extremely hazardous." "A couple of them, they were going to do with a crane and lower somebody down." "We figured we could do it better ourselves and much, much easier, and we got lucky." "The three landings of the three Double-0 agents, we did all in one day and just knocked them off." "One stunt poses problems for the filmmakers." "We were faced with a situation about the stunt with the Land Rover." "We decided to go out into the Mojave Desert and take a lightweight Land Rover out there and drop it with somebody on it and see what happened." "You can't just start dropping cars out of the sky and hope that they land safely." "We'd planned to use a parachute so we could do Take Two with the Land Rover." "We attempted it twice, and on the second occasion the parachute that they put inside didn't open." "It got wrapped around the Land Rover." "All we got was a Land Rover that looked like it had been dropped" " well, it was dropped - from 2,000 feet." "Instead of being about six foot high, I think it was reduced to about four inches." "It had just flattened completely when it hit the ground." "It was an absolute disaster." "It crashed down into the Mojave Desert and there wasn't much of it left." "We then reverted to Plan B and we fired a Land Rover off Beachy Head with an air cannon, and had a radio-controlled rig inside it to release a parachute to pull a dummy out of the top of the Land Rover, and then we blew it up." "Almost two weeks after the second unit begins filming on Gibraltar, the first unit starts shooting with Andreas Wisniewski and stuntman Bill Weston." "Ballet training helps to execute action scenes in so far as you have a certain awareness of your body." "I had a big fight with Bill Weston." "During the course of these three days it took to film this fight," "Bill fractured a finger and I knocked him out once." "The next day finds the crew on location at Stonar House, doubling for Blayden's safe house." "The first thing I actually did was me being kidnapped from the estate." "I liked Timothy on the spot and we had a wonderful, wonderful time together." "I'd in fact just come off doing a film called "Brenda Starr" in America." "I finished it on Saturday, flew to England on Sunday and started the Bond film on Monday." "He was jet-lagged." "He hardly had his tuxedo on and he had to do a scene." "Despite jet lag, Dalton throws himself into the role, especially when he joins the second unit on Gibraltar." "They sent Timothy to me." "I had a message from Cubby, John and Michael Wilson, saying "Don't damage him"." "Very good at action, Timothy, and he was a good mover and he was very keen to do as much of his own stunt work as possible." "Roy and I felt that I could, and should, do the action that we see in the film." "I did it." "He was up on top of that Jeep, he was on the side of it, he climbed down." "He did a lot of things himself." "I knew he was strong enough, but did he have the courage to hang on top of that, a 1300-foot drop down the side of the mountain?" "We got him on top of the Jeep and I said "All we want are some nice big close-ups of you."" ""Oh, but I can do it!" "I can swing around."" "I said "Tim, we just want some close-ups of you."" "And he was so keen." "He was throwing himself around, throwing himself off the side of the truck." "My old heart was going like this." "The producers weren't too happy, but they accepted our judgment." "And he did it safely, and he did it spectacularly." "And he went down the side of that hill, hanging on the top of the Jeep." "Great courage." "A few days later, in Vienna, Dalton faces a bigger challenge - being introduced as the new Bond to the world press." "It was a madhouse, filled with people from all over the world, anxious to meet the new James Bond." "The new James Bond, Mr Timothy Dalton!" "When we arrived in Vienna, we had a huge press conference which... kind of took over me even thinking about it." "The press conference in Vienna for me was overwhelming." "I think Tim sometimes had problems with the amount of exposure and the publicity." "Timothy is a very shy person." "One of the qualities that I might share with a secret agent who works for the British government would be their desire to keep their private life and their thoughts about it private." "You think to yourself" ""I'm the same guy as I always was." "How can this change my life?"" "But suddenly everything you do, you're recognised." "You're underneath that microscope." "So many photographers." "Hundreds of photographers." "So maybe it was a bit overwhelming for him." "Media interest, the public interest in the character of James Bond, was more than Timothy could consider." "He knew it would be a circus, but I think down deep he didn't believe it would be as bad as it was." "For director John Glen, shooting at Prater Park is like returning to his roots." "We shot in Vienna, which was reminiscent of one of the early films I worked on, "The Third Man"." "It was the amusement park where Welles and Cotten made "The Third Man"." "We did film the scene on the Ferris wheel where they filmed, so that was very nice." "Meanwhile, back in the United States, BJ Worth and Jake Lombard have some high altitude action of their own." "Sparky Greene, a director/producer, organised the logistics and BJ Worth put the team together for the stunt fight." "We had to make this 900-pound sack fly." "We built this great big fibreglass keel inside and put bags around it." "But the air would actually hit the keel and this stabilised it." "A 900-pound thing to get in and out of the back of an aeroplane was a good trick." "A couple of winches and pulleys, cables and good rigging... it worked out well." "This cargo net was being buffeted by winds and they were being slammed against the fuselage." "I got tossed off over Visalia a couple of times." "We had safety guys that would chase us." "But for them to do you much good in free fall, you'd be lucky if they could help you." "Then I had to do a big swing to get back on the back side of the bag." "Usually by that time I could not move, so I would just hold on and open my mouth." "That was our signal to bring in the bag." "The winches would then pull in the net and I would ride there until I got close." "Two people would come and haul me in." "I'd lay on the tailgate." "I couldn't move." "Completely spent because of all the wind on the front of the bag." "We built a ripcord system in the net." "You had to hang on on both sides of it so the guy in the plane could pull the ripcord." "You'd let go and open the net up." "The first time we did this, we had our adrenaline moving pretty good." "We got down in position and we pulled the big cable to release them and it was a wild ride." "Once you let those bags out of there, it got real breezy." "All these bags are hitting you at 120mph and you have to still hang on." "When I kicked off the bad guy and tried to climb back in," "Bond is supposed to climb back up in the normal way and climb over the tailgate." "John Glen wasn't so excited cos he wanted more excitement." "It was a dull sequence with the bag just hanging there." "Well, it got real undull fast when the net started going through its wild gyrations." "I thought I would hit my head, so I tucked my head down." "The third one, I was sure I'd hit it." "I dropped my head to have my pack hit it." "I don't know how close it came and I never did touch it, but I was sure it would." "I thought he was gonna be hit by the tail of the aeroplane cos it started to come up and down." "It was very frightening and he got off just in time." "It was obvious it was going to happen and that's why I got off when I did." "While Worth and Lombard complete the cargo net shots, the first unit travels to Morocco." "Shooting in Tangier was just wonderful." "Morocco is a wonderful country to shoot in." "It has a great international flavour." "Morocco in the winter is still quite pleasant." "It was a lovely experience of another culture." "I love the culture." "It's beautiful." "I love the food." "It was wonderful." "It was like animated chaos and the blazing sun." "On October 27 the filmmakers begin shooting at Palais El Mendoub, one of the many homes of millionaire Malcolm Forbes." "We were looking for the villain's house." "Someone suggested the Malcolm Forbes house." "So we went there and looked at it." "He very kindly gave us access to the house and the grounds, overlooking the Mediterranean." "It was screaming with money and wealth and luxury." "Forbes had a collection of toy soldiers." "Very expensive toy soldiers." "I was taken with the idea of the eccentricity of having all these toy soldiers there." "We could have a great end sequence, make it eerie, with these soldiers and Joe Don playing these war games." "Of course, whenever you see something in a glass case in a James Bond film, you know that it's not long for this world." "Halloween finds the special effects crew up to their usual tricks at the airfield at Ouarzazate." "The shot of the Jeep being ejected and landing was done by John Richardson as a model." "The tricky thing was getting it at a predetermined altitude because it had to be something like two feet off the ground, which is very low." "When you look at that stuff - incredible shots." "We had a little radio-controlled drogue parachute connected to a full-size model parachute, which was connected to a little model of the Jeep and the skid." "Never seen them done better." "The Jeep landing and driving through the wall and driving away was done full-size in Morocco." "The following week Richardson rigs another high-flying stunt." "We had a sequence done in Morocco where Tim was supposed to be driving, or riding, a magic carpet." "Bond rushes along the rooftops and grabs a carpet at some point and throws them onto a couple of what appear to be electrical or telegraph cables going across the rooftops." "The scene got a little overlong and it was one of these tough decisions one makes in the editing room later on that we could do without it." "Throughout November the crew films the exciting climactic battle on the airfield at Ouarzazate." "Ouarzazate is just over the Atlas Mountains." "High desert area before you get into the rolling sand dunes." "And it was a good match for Afghanistan." "There's this studio called Atlas Corporation Studios." "When you drive up to it, there's an enormous wall with very large letters above it and... that's it." "It is one wall." "On the other side, it looks exactly the same." "It's desert." "Shooting in the desert was mesmerising." "Getting up at 4am and seeing the most beautiful dawns." "Finishing at the end of the day with beautiful sunsets." "We were able to use an international airfield to build our set on." "We found the cooperation there to be outstanding." "A lot of the army turned up with their own weapons." "I spent most of my time down in Ouarzazate because we had a mass of work going on there and a lot of miniatures as well." " There were three units working." " We'd be rigging for the battle." "I'd rush back and forth on one of the motorbikes from the chase sequence." "Richardson also has to create a ravine and bridge for the battle sequence." "We needed a bridge that had to look as though it was over a terrifyingly high ravine." "There is a modern bridge in Ouarzazate that goes over a stream bed." "So John Richardson and his men built what we call a foreground miniature." "The bridge was four feet high, but looked as though it was a hundred." "The background walls of the ravine were plasterwork and the rest of it all just blended in with the real thing." "Suddenly this little wadi with a bridge ten feet high was now 300 feet in the air with all the cladding, the timber on it and everything." "The water in the bottom is in fact Saran Wrap on a painted piece of plywood." "The whole thing became an absolutely amazing shot and was one of the finest achievements I've ever seen of foreground miniatures." "I think it's one of those situations where you really can't see the join." "And then back in Pinewood Studios we built a quarter-scale bridge over a little piece of river and real rocks, and then we literally blew that up and collapsed the bridge." "Other illusions are achieved in a slightly more low-tech way." "When we came to the shot of where it mounts the ramp, it was impossible to do on the real aeroplane." "It was far too difficult and dangerous." "It's not possible because Hercules are not allowed to taxi with their ramps down." "So we got in the largest furniture van that we could find." "We're on a truck on the runway, the Jeep came up behind us, and in it went." "Because the sequence requires so much action, the producers minimise the risk and bring in Dr James D'Orta, who happens to be a cousin of Cubby Broccoli's." "So we had an emergency surgeon on the set, which is basically unheard of." "We flew to Ouarzazate and the crew had built a 007 MASH unit." " Jamie was wonderful." " He carried out minor operations on site." "The guys were coming up and saying "Hey, Doc." "I got me a mole here."" ""Can we get that off?"" "Everyone on the crew had a lump removed." "They were usually fixed in the bar at night." "After these guys had a couple of pints, then they started realising" ""Oh yeah, yeah." "I do want that thing taken off."" "There we were, doing plastic cosmetic surgery in Ouarzazate." "But D'Orta also has more serious work." "A horseman had fallen off the horse as the horse was going across a bridge, and lacerated his radial artery." "He had to do some surgery on him - in the middle of nowhere, in a tent." "My nurse, Barbara Broccoli, standing there gloved as I exposed the area, cleaned it." "An hour later Barbara came on the set, completely pale and white." ""What's happening to you?" She said "Well, I had to be the nurse."" ""I was there when Jamie performed the surgery."" ""So could you do it?" "No, but I had to." "There was no nurse."" ""So how did you do it?" "By closing my eyes", she said." "The crew returns to Pinewood at the end of November, and a few weeks later welcomes some special guests to the set." "During the filming the royal couple, Princess Di and Prince Charles, were going to make a tour of Pinewood." "They asked that Cubby and I escort them around the studio." "They were being totally entertained, cos a Bond movie is like a place for a kid to arrive." "Prince Charles assists with the filming." "When Prince Charles came down we rigged it up." "I actually gave him the switches to fire it." "Which he did." "He pushed the button and sent a missile down to target that range." "For somebody not used to it, to having to cope with something like that, he did it amazingly well." "Princess Diana had some fun of her own." "We got some of the breakaway bottles that were made in the plasterer's shop." "I said to Diana" ""Why not smash a sugar-glass bottle on your husband's head, just for fun?"" "This was front-page coverage all over the world the next day, in every paper, every television station." "And I was in the middle, laughing." "In January, Timothy Dalton and Andreas Wisniewski fight to the death on a re-creation of the Hercules cargo hold on Pinewood's B stage." "They rebuilt the back of the plane in the studio with this net hanging out of it." "Built a landscape of plaster of Paris and a horizon and enormous fans." "We were actually shooting from a crane, down onto the miniature mountain tops and the net was taut across the set, and no more than six or eight feet above the mountain tops." "So for three days we ended up hanging in this net, matching to the aerial shots that they'd already taken." "The net bouncing up and down we achieved with wires and counterweights, so that we could control it and match the sort of frequency of the flapping that it was doing." "We'd just done an hour of it, out of what was going to be three days, and Timothy Dalton said "I'm knackered already."" "The crew travels to their final location in mid-January, a frozen lake in Austria, for the scene showcasing Bond's new Aston Martin." "The idea of bringing back the Aston Martin, for traditional Bond fans, is a great positive." "I've had a few optional extras installed." "So we thought "With the new Bond, why not?"" "This had to be built to have skis come out the side." "It had to fire rockets." "It had all of the standard Bond things that one would expect to find on an Aston Martin." "The Aston Martin has always been a favourite of ours, with Bonds from "Goldfinger" on." "The extreme weather makes things difficult for the effects team." "We had to fire the Aston Martin up a dam and it had to go over the top of a hut in the chase." "We're very used to firing things with air cannons and we've done it on a number of occasions." "It was 30 below out there and we fired the car with compressed air." "Because of the extreme cold, the valves, instead of opening ever so quickly, the valves had contracted and it opened ever so slowly." "We were rushing around with blowtorches and heaters and trying to warm everything up." "And the car, instead of firing off like mad, just went straight into the hut." "Total disaster." "I went over to Cubby and said "I'm terribly sorry, Cubby."" "So he said "Don't worry." "We'll come back tomorrow and we'll do it again."" "We went back next day." "Cubby sat down in the same seat." "We fired it and it flew a dream." "It looked great." "I said "Was that better, Cubby?"" "He said "Yeah." "That's exactly what I knew would happen."" "One of the last location shots filmed involves Bond in his most unusual mode of transportation." "I came up with this idea when I was in America and we were thrashing out the script." "And Dick Maibaum said "It's impossible." "They couldn't fit in a cello case."" "I have to say that Dick and I had our misgivings, and Cubby as well." "It just so happened, on the music stage at MGM they were having a session." "John got a hold of a cello case and he'd had us come over and he actually sat down on it to show that it could be used." "And from then on, they were all for it." "For the scene, a special cello case is devised." "This cello case doesn't run all that true without some guidance underneath it." "It tended to spin round in circles." "We built a cello case in fibreglass with skis on the bottom of it." "And control handles were built into the sides." "Shooting the scenes riding the cello case lasted three days." " I think they loved that, actually." " I did not enjoy that." "They had quite a whale whizzing down the slopes on that." " I did not enjoy that at all." " At times it went out of control." "I had to control the cello case as we were going down the slope." "And there were times where we were hanging on the back to slow it down." "And on one side was a ravine, and down at the bottom was the camera crew." "One time it went past me and I dived at it because the shot was over and they were still carrying on." "Timothy weighed more than I did, so it was slightly off-balance." "If we didn't stop them, there was a long way down the piste, and it would have become very dangerous." "Plus they put firecrackers under the snow so it looked like they were shooting at us." "I have a phobia of explosions." "They both were screaming with delight." "I hated doing those scenes." "Duck!" "We've nothing to declare!" ""The Living Daylights" wraps in February." "The coming attractions promise a more dangerous Bond - and Dalton delivers, delighting fans of Ian Fleming's spy sagas." "We don't expect him to be copying Roger Moore or Sean Connery." "He's an actor and he has his own interpretation." "He portrayed all the smouldering qualities that we wanted to introduce into the picture." "He was very good in the love scenes." "Certainly the action scenes." "Remarkable debut, really." "Thank you very much." "That's a wrap." "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Gentlemen, this may only be an exercise so far as the Ministry of Defence is concerned, but for me it is a matter of pride that the 00-Section has been chosen for this test." "Your objective is to penetrate the radar installations of Gibraltar." "The SAS have been placed on full alert to intercept you, but I know you won't let me down." "Good luck, men." "Oh, blast!" "Damn!" "That's it, chum." "You're out of it." "Game's up, mate." "You're dead." "No!" "Halt." "Here!" "Hold on, you're dead!" "It's all so boring here, Margot." "There's nothing but playboys and tennis pros." "If only I could find a real man!" "I need to use your phone." "She'll call you back." " Who are you?" " Bond." "James Bond." "Exercise control, 007 here." "I'll report in an hour." "Won't you join me?" "Better make that two." "BRATISLAVA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA" "Saunders, head of Section V, Vienna." "You're bloody late." "This is a mission, not a fancy-dress ball." "We have time." " Now, where's our man?" " In the box." "Between the KGB minders." "Lovely girl with the cello." "Forget the ladies for once, Bond." "Koskov will leave here at the interval." "We'd better go." "Turn off the lights." "Now, let's understand one another, Bond." "General Koskov is a top KGB mastermind." "His defection is "my" baby." "He contacted me." "I've planned this out to the last detail." " You'll want the soft-nosed ones, I expect." " No, the steel-tipped." "KGB snipers usually wear body armour." " What's your escape route?" " Sorry, old man." "Section 26, paragraph 5." "That information is on a need-to-know basis only." "I'm sure you understand." "Koskov is under intensive KGB surveillance." "A sniper has been assigned to watch him and he expressly asked for "you" to protect him." " Why me?" " He has the impression you're the best." " Where's the car?" " In the alley out the back." "Bring the chair." "It'll take him about 10 seconds to reach us." "Plenty of time for a sniper to make strawberry jam of him!" "There's Koskov now." "What's he waiting for?" "Sniper." "Two floors up, centre window." "The girl with the cello!" "Fire, Bond, fire!" "Shoot her!" "What are you waiting for?" "You missed deliberately!" "Where is he?" " In the boot." " First place they'd look." " But my escape route..." " Scrubbed." "Get in the front." " James." "James Bond!" " Later, General." "Lose them." "I'll pick you up at the border." "2300 hours." "Be there." " How will you get him out?" " Sorry, old man." "Section 26, paragraph 5: "need-to-know"." "I'm sure you understand." " The sniper was a woman." " I noticed." "Some of the best KGB shots are women." " Did you...?" " I'd rather not talk about it." "No, of course not." "They are looking for me!" "If they close the border, how will I get out?" "Don't you worry about that, Georgi." "We have a pipeline to the West." " Rosika Miklos." " Our man here." "Good to work with you again, Mr Bond." "Come." "Keep quiet." " We must hurry." "Get him in the pig." " Pig?" "What is pig?" "Scouring plug to clean out the pipeline." "This one's been designed to carry a man." "Pipeline?" "You mean "our" pipeline?" "Great Soviet achievement - piping natural gas into the West." " But not me!" " Don't worry, Georgi." "It's a piece of cake." "Never mind cake." "If you open valve before 100, he will be borsch!" "Pigs!" "Borsch!" "Cake!" "There must be another way!" "Get in." "Put on the mask and breathe normally." " Enough talk!" " Relax, Georgi." "Our people have spent months on this." " How many times have you done this?" " You're the first." "Remember." "When this says 100, turn this." "Not before." " Where are you going?" " To take care of the supervisor." "When pig goes, his control panel will light up like Christmas tree." "What kind of girl do you think I am!" "Welcome to Austria, General." "Come on." "Up you go." "Come on, hurry up!" "That's right." "We've got him." "Excuse me." "Shut it now." "Thank you." "Cheer up, Saunders." "The operation's a success." " And officially still yours." " I don't intend to leave it at that, 007." "I'm telling M you deliberately missed." "Your orders were to kill that sniper." "Stuff my orders." "I only kill professionals." "That girl didn't know one end of a rifle from the other." "Go ahead." "Tell M what you want." "If he fires me, I'll thank him for it." "Whoever she was, I must have scared the living daylights out of her." "Russian general defects!" "Ula Yarkhov." "Confirmed kills, three." "Probable kills, two." "Assassination methods:" "Strangulation with hands or thighs." "James, she's just your type!" "Wrong again, Moneypenny." "You are." "I'll file that with the other secret information." "Specialist - child impersonations." "Assassination method:" "Explosive teddy bears." "That's all the KGB female assassins." "You know, we could try freelancers stationed outside the Soviet bloc." "It'll have to wait." "M wants you out at the Blayden safe house." "Right." "Looks like it's a dead end here anyway." "Ah!" "Good!" "Something we're making for the Americans." "It's called a ghetto blaster." "You'd better hurry." "M wants you to stop at Harrods and pick up a parcel." "Moneypenny, ask Records to monitor Czech publication and news services for any mention of a woman cellist at the conservatoire in Bratislava." "I didn't know you were such a music lover, James." "Any time you want to drop by and listen to my Barry Manilow collection..." " Sorry, sir." "Excuse me." " Bloody Yanks." "Good morning, sir." "Control here. 007's on his way." "Sorry, Mr Bond." "You'll have to leave the metal." "Thank you, sir." " Good morning, sir." "May I help you?" " No, thanks." "They're in the drawing room." "Come." "James!" "James, I will never forget what you did for me!" "Thank you so..." "What's this?" "From Harrods." "A godsend!" "The food here is horrible." " The foie gras is excellent." " "Da, da." As Russians say, hearts and stomachs good comrades make." "What's this?" "Caviar." "Well, that's peasant food for us, but with champagne it's OK." "Bollinger RD." "The best!" "The brand on the list was questionable, sir, so I chose something else." "Superb, Mr Bond!" "May I suggest we resume the debriefing?" "Absolutely." "Go ahead." "I'm all yours." " Where's the usual milkman?" " What d'you say?" " Where's the usual man?" " Flu." " Hey, mate." "Watch it!" " Kitchen entrance, round the back." "General Leonid Pushkin is why I defect." "What?" "Your KGB superior?" "Gogol's replacement when he joined their foreign service." "Once we were like brothers, but now he's a different man." "Power has gone to his head." "He's sick, like Stalin!" "He hates our new policy of détente." "I have here a secret directive from Pushkin. "Smiert Spionom"." ""Death to Spies", Minister." "For an assassination programme, with list of targets" " British and American agents." "When this starts, you will retaliate." "Soviet and Western Intelligence could destroy each other." "This might lead to nuclear war!" "Unless Pushkin can be..." "How do you say?" "Put away." "Where is Pushkin now?" "In Moscow?" "But in three days he will leave for Tangier." "Cover" " North African trade convention." "Real reason?" "New directive." "Minister, in view of the importance of what Mr Koskov has just told us," "I believe we should consult with higher authority." " By all means." "Good day, Mr Koskov." " Good day, sir." "There you go." "There's a good lad." " Good morning." " Morning." "Put it down there, would you?" "Ta." "Green Four to base!" "Green Four, this is control." "Where are you?" "You may have a malfunction." "Green Four to base." "We have gas leaks in main building." "Some personnel overcome." "Evacuate." "Send for emergency medical services." "Green Four, I read and understand you." "Control to all stations." "Code 10." "Initiate emergency drill." "Evacuate the main building." "Emergency." "Emergency." "Green Four to base." "Major gas explosion." "Keep clear of the main building." "KGB!" "Keep back!" " Get up." "Come on!" " Don't kill me!" "Don't kill me!" "Move." "Move!" "Keep clear of the main building." " Who's that for?" " You, comrade." "Help him or I kill you both." "Move!" "Hurry." "Only emergency services should be allowed in the area." "Stay away from the house." "Please don't use your private radiophones." "Two dead, two in hospital, and Koskov probably back in Moscow, if not dead." "We're the laughing stock of the Intelligence community." "Our first major coup in years, snatched from right under our noses by the KGB only hours after he defected!" " No trace of him?" " Nothing." " Then there's this Pushkin matter." " Well, I must be off." "Meeting with the PM this afternoon." "We have to nip "Smiert Spionom" in the bud." "Pushkin should be in Tangiers in two days' time." "A termination warrant has been issued for him." "This plot to kill agents sounds rather far-fetched, sir." " I know General Pushkin." " Do you think I don't?" "I've dealt with him on several occasions!" "Our paths have crossed over the years." "He's tough and resourceful, but..." " I can't believe he's a psychotic." " Neither did I until today." "This arrived from Gibraltar." "It was found near 004's body." "Your name was on Pushkin's list, too, 007." "There are a few things I'd like to check out first, sir." "That sniper, for instance." "Yes." "I've read Saunders' report." "You jeopardised the mission" " to avoid shooting a beautiful girl." " I had to make a split-second decision." " It was instinct." " I'll recall 008 from Hong Kong." "He can do it." "He doesn't know Pushkin." "He follows orders, not instincts." " You can take a fortnight's leave." " No!" "Sir." "If it "has" to be done, I'd rather do it." "Right, bring it down slowly." "Gently now." " Morning, Q." " Ah, morning, 007." "Mind your head." "I've got something for you." "We're just winterising this." "Now, pay attention, 007." "A key-ring finder." " Surprise me." " You arm it by pressing that button there." "Like that." "See?" "Right." "Now wear that." "Right." "Now whistle the first bars of "Rule, Britannia"." "Stun gas." "Effective range?" "Ooh, about five feet." "Disorientates any normal person for about, ooh, 30 seconds." "You don't find too many normal people in this business, Q." "What is it to blow up the room - "God Save the Queen"?" "It so happens, 007, that we've packed the finder with concentrated explosive, sufficient to remove the door of any safe." "It's magnetic." "The actuating signal is personalised." " What's my code?" " Oh, most appropriate." " A wolf whistle." " You mean, um..." "Stop!" "You may find the keys useful." "They open 90% of the world's locks." "All right, sit down and make yourself comfortable." " Well done, Moneypenny." "That's her." " Records sent over this translation." ""Kara Milovy, talented scholarship cellist, whose arm was injured during an intermission last week, will be at the academy on Thursday, playing Borodin's 'String Quartet No.2 in D'."" "That's tomorrow." "Moneypenny, I'll need travel documents for Tangier via Bratislava." "And keep this between ourselves." "That girl must be very talented." "Believe me, my interest in her is purely professional." " Just taking the Aston Martin for a spin." " Be careful, 007." "It's just had a new coat of paint!" "I dropped the gun in the river." "The KGB made quite a mess." "You're English." "Who are you?" "I heard you play at the conservatoire yesterday." "It was exquisite." "I saw what happened on the tram." "Where did they take you?" "KGB headquarters?" "They released me this morning." "Take a look across the street." "They let you go so they could follow you." "I don't understand." "Why are you trying to help me?" "What did Pushkin want?" "Did he ask you about Georgi Koskov?" "He wanted to know where he was." " Did you tell him?" " No." "That was clever of Georgi, using blanks." "Made the British believe his defection was real." "How do you know that?" "He told me." " You saw him?" " Two days ago." "He's safe and sound." " You're a friend of his?" " We've been through quite a lot together." "Dear Georgi!" "He kept his promise to send for me." "Where are we going?" "To London?" "No, not yet." "The British think he'll be safer if he keeps moving around." " We might catch up with him in Vienna." " Vienna?" "We must leave immediately, before they pick you up again." " But how?" " We'll manage." "Get packed." "Bring some warm clothes." "Looks like we got away with it." "My cello!" "It's at the conservatoire." " I'll get you another in Vienna." " No, we must go back for it." "We have 10 minutes before they discover what's happened." " I "must" get my cello." " No way!" "Come on, get in!" "Why didn't you learn the violin?" "You've picked up the police band." "There must be an atmospheric anomaly." "They're looking for a foreign car." "A man and a woman." "And a cello!" "Looks like they just found us." "Pull over to the side and stop!" " What happened?" " Salt corrosion." "They're setting up roadblocks." " What is this?" " I've had a few optional extras installed." "Amazing, this modern safety glass." "Look out!" "See where this leads to." "This road only leads to the lake." "Time to leave." "James!" "Brace yourself." "We almost made it." "Come on, quick!" "Go!" "Glad I insisted you brought that cello!" "Sorry!" "Not far now!" "Here, wave this." "Duck!" " We've nothing to declare!" " Just a cello!" "TANGIER" "If you wait here, sir, I'll find the chief." "General Pushkin, it's a pleasure." "I'm Brad Whitaker." "Didn't expect to see you in Tangiers." "General Koskov with you?" "War." "War has always been man's main occupation." "Fools say his greatest accomplishments were the wheel and the alphabet." "I say it's a battering ram and gunpowder." "How do you like my pantheon of great commanders?" " Butchers." " Surgeons." "They cut away society's dead flesh." "Let me show you something." "At ease, Sergeant." "This way, sir." "My hobby - the strategy and tactics of the world's historic battles." "Afghanistan, the North-West Frontier, 1895." "The initial trial of the first automatic machine gun." "The.303-calibre Maxim." "The King's Royal Rifles wiped out a vastly superior force." "Kept the British in Afghanistan for another 25 years." "What you Russians need nowadays is the equivalent of a modern Maxim." "Third-generation starlight scope." "A laser-sighting, short-barrelled machine pistol." "Infantry mini-missiles." "Range - 5km." "And smart." "Just fire and forget." "It penetrates all existing armour." "Yes, sir!" "Samples of everything ordered." "The order is cancelled." "You'll return our deposit of $50 million within the next 48 hours." "You can't be serious, General." "Do you know how hard it is to obtain this equipment?" "This is the latest US and European stuff." "I've made commitments, letters of credit, special payoffs." "We know that you've had our money in your Swiss account for eight weeks and that you have made no payments of any kind." "Look, I can't cancel orders at this late date." "As one soldier to another, you have my word of honour..." "Spare me your military pretensions." "What army did you serve in?" "You were expelled from West Point for cheating." "Then a short stint as a mercenary in the Belgian Congo." "Later you worked with various criminals to help finance your first arms deals." "Lies spread by my competitors." "You forget your many so-called wars of liberation that I have supplied through General Koskov." "Those are my credentials." "The money in two days, or you'll find yourself out of business permanently." "Georgi Koskov as well." "I don't know what you two are scheming, but it is over." "Is that understood?" "Careful." "Taxi!" "Vienna's beautiful, just like Georgi said." " You care for him a great deal, don't you?" " I owe him everything." "My scholarship at the conservatoire, my Strad." " Your cello's a Stradivarius?" " A famous one." "The Lady Rose." " Georgi got it in New York." " Quite a present." "Maybe someday I'll play there." "At Carnegie Hall?" " Georgi believes I can do it." " I'm sure he's right." " We go to him now?" " Yeah." "Unless he had to move on." "If he did, I'm sure he left a message." " Careful." " Careful." "Good afternoon, Mr Bond." " You will need your usual suite?" " Not tonight, Hans." " We need a second bedroom." " Yes, sir." " Shall I have vodka martinis sent up?" " Shaken, not stirred." "Of course." "Universal Exports." "Bond here." "I need two tickets for the opera tonight, to be left at the box office." " Do you like it?" " For princess or wife of commissar?" " Let's buy it." " Don't joke!" " Who will pay?" " Georgi, of course." "The chief wants you." "We have to report." "Very good." "At ease, Sergeant." "Pushkin wants the money back." "Don't worry." "We've convinced the British that Pushkin is a danger." "They will send their best man, James Bond, to eliminate him." "I'm not convinced." "Necros can do it." "I've worked with the Russians." "My appearance is well known to them." "It could jeopardise my comrades who depend upon me." "And they depend upon me." "Where else will they find a supply of arms?" "Our basic plan is sound." "Pushkin is, how you say, history." "Not yet." "James Bond hasn't laid a finger on him." " The British are cautious." " Yeah." "An additional inducement will ensure this." "For instance, if another agent were eliminated." "Do it." "But if Pushkin is alive on the last day of the conference, kill him!" " All my life I've dreamed of this." " You might play here one day." "That's too much to hope for." "Excuse me for a few moments." " Is that...?" " The cello girl." " The KGB sniper?" "Why bring her here?" " She's not a KGB sniper." "She's Koskov's girlfriend." "She shot blanks to make his defection look real to us." "Koskov's defection phoney?" "The KGB snatched him back." "That's what we were supposed to think." "These are serious accusations, Bond." "What are you up to?" "I'm posing as Koskov's friend to see what leads I can get from her." "You know he bought her a cello in New York called the Lady Rose?" " A cello with a name?" " It's a Stradivarius." "They all have names." "Where would Koskov get the money?" "Check it out." "I'll need papers for her tonight." "I have to get her out of the country by tomorrow." "Here." "I took these this afternoon." "Look, this is highly irregular." "I won't get the OK from London today." "It can't wait, Saunders." "That girl's our only chance of getting Koskov back." "Very well." "I've got nothing to lose but my pension." "Meet me at the Prater Café near the Ferris wheel at midnight." " No more." " This one!" "Take me on the wheel." "You'll be able to see better." "Is it real or just a dream?" "What's wrong?" "Why do we stop?" "I arranged it." "We could be here all night." "Don't." "It's impossible." "Knowing you only two days and all I can think of is how we would be together." "Don't think." "Just let it happen." "Do you want another ride?" "I'll be back in a minute." "There may be a message for me." "It was bought recently at auction in New York." "Lot 124, the Lady Rose, a cello by Stradivarius of Cremona, 1724." "Sold for $150,000 to Brad Whitaker." "Whitaker?" "The arms dealer?" "The same." "Koskov and Whitaker." " Where's Whitaker now?" " At his place in Tangier." "Well done." "Good luck." "Saunders." "Thanks." "Where are you going?" "What's the matter?" "Bad accident back there." "Did you hear?" "Hear from Georgi?" "Yes." "I got the message." "He's with Whitaker in Tangier." "Brad Whitaker?" "The American?" " You know him?" " He's a patron of the arts." "Georgi said he'd help me." "How soon do we have to go?" "Immediately." "I promised Georgi I'd get you back as soon as I could." "Can't we stay here a few days?" "No." "We leave first thing in the morning." "Is anything wrong?" " Bond!" " Don't make any sudden moves, General." "Go to the table." "Sit down." "I take it that this is not a social call, 007." "Correct." "You should have brought lilies." " May I ask why?" " Smiert Spionom." "That was a Beria operation in Stalin's time." "It was deactivated 20 years ago." " Two of our agents are dead." " My condolences." "We had nothing to do with it." "Where's Koskov?" "He disappeared two weeks ago." "I was about to have him arrested." " Why?" " For misusing state funds." "Involving Whitaker?" "That is a security matter and cannot be discussed." "That was damn stupid!" "Get in the bathroom and lock the door." "Stay where you are!" "Get down on your knees." "Put your hands behind your back." "You are professional." "You do not kill without reason." "Two of our men are dead." "Koskov's named you." " Now, why should I disobey my orders?" " I am in the dark as much as you are." "It is a question of trust." "Who do you believe?" "Koskov or me?" "If I trusted Koskov, we wouldn't be talking." "But as long as you're alive, we'll never know what he's up to." "Then I must die." "Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honour to introduce the head of the Russian delegation," "Comrade Leonid Pushkin." "Comrade delegates," "I bring you profound fraternal greetings from your comrades in Soviet Union." "Seal the building!" " You looking for a party?" " Seems like a good idea." "I'm sorry to put you through that, my dear." "It is the first time I've ever been grateful that James Bond is a good shot!" "Pull over here." "We can have a party some other time." "A little present for you." "Not enough?" "Take it all." "Just sit back and enjoy the ride." "Down below." "What the hell are you trying to do, 007?" "Start World War III?" "Felix Leiter!" "Now, what's the CIA doing here?" "Nice work, girls." " No hard feelings?" " Not if the party's still on." "It's a long story, Felix, but in the end Pushkin makes a miraculous recovery." "You mean this is a put-up job?" " What's all this?" " We've been watching Pushkin since he met two days ago with Whitaker." " An illegal arms deal with the Russians?" " You've got "me", James." "Whitaker has a few samples of hi-tech stuff, but he's placed no big orders yet." "Looks like we're working on the same case from opposite ends." "Let's talk shop." "Well done!" "Congratulations." "We heard it over the radio." "I didn't kill him." "Bond did." "I told you the British believed me!" "I told you!" "I told you!" "Now we can move." "I'll signal Amsterdam to ship the diamonds." " Sir?" " Hello?" "Yes." "Who?" "It's for you." "Hello?" "Where have you been, James?" "You were gone so long, I was worried!" "It's always nice to be missed." "Still no sign of Georgi." " No, please." "Go on playing." " No." "Let's have a drink." "You remembered." "To us." "Nazdraviye." "Did I get it right?" "Perfect." "What's the matter?" "Kara, it's time I told you the truth." "I'm not a friend of Georgi's." "I'm a British agent looking for him." "He's betrayed us all, Kara." "The Russians, the British, even you." "He told us a sniper might try to kill him." "And he set you up as the sniper, Kara." "He wants you dead." "You knew too much." "Liar!" "You pretended to love me!" "I telephoned Whitaker." "Georgi was there." "He told me the truth." "You're a KGB agent, using me to find him and kill him!" "No, that's not..." "That's not true." "I..." "That's..." "Chloral hydrate!" " Keep your hands off me!" " Kara, listen to me!" "The rifle was shot out of your hands." " How do you know?" " Because I was the..." "I was the man sent to kill you." "Why didn't you?" "Kara, my darling, you were absolutely perfect." "Hurry." "Open it, please." "Careful." "It must be kept absolutely sterile." "Urgh!" "Go." "I've been such a fool." "We both have." "Open the lid." "Oh, my God!" "That's not human." "It's an animal's heart." "Diamonds hidden in the ice." " How can I help you?" " I need my key ring." "Look out!" "Black coffee for our guest." "She has so many talents!" "I'm curious." " Why didn't you kill me?" " Oh, I'm not a barbarian, James." "I'm taking you to the proper Soviet authorities for the killing of General Pushkin." "You're a wonder, Georgi!" "You get me to kill Pushkin for you." "Then you turn me in to the Russians for his murder." "What are you going to ask for?" "Immunity?" "Permission to emigrate and enjoy the amenities of the West?" "You don't think they'll condone your defection?" "What defection?" "I have been on a secret mission for General Pushkin to disinform British Intelligence." "I'm sorry, James." "For you I have great affection, but we have an old saying:" ""Duty has no sweethearts."" "We have an old saying, too, Georgi." "And you're full of it!" "Come, Kara." " Kara?" " Yes." "Welcome to Afghanistan." "Colonel Feyador, my old comrade in arms." "I have here General Pushkin's assassin." "British Agent 007, James Bond." "See he is sent to Moscow." "One moment." "There's one more." "Take her, too." "She's a defector." "I will be compassionate with you and try to have you assigned to the Siberian Philharmonic Orchestra." "They're quite good despite their bourgeois repertoire." "I am on a secret state mission." "I need a detachment of men and some trucks." " What are these here for?" " For murder." "Murder?" "I haven't had a woman prisoner for a long time!" "Come." "Russky!" "Has Colonel Feyador considered my appeal?" "Yes." "Good news." "You won't be hung in the morning." "You will be shot!" "It's all a mistake!" "I stole nothing!" "You can tell Allah when you see him!" " Strip!" " Nye smeyete menya trogat!" "Shout all you want." "It's soundproofed." "They don't like to hear screaming at night." "I didn't tell you to get down!" "I did not tell you to get up!" "Now get up!" "Lock the door." "You were fantastic!" "We're free!" "Kara, we're in a Russian air base in the middle of Afghanistan." "Try the small key." "At least we're together." "Terrific." "Come on." "Please." "Come on, jump!" " What's going on?" " I tell them you no Russian." " They no kill you now." " How about later?" "Don't worry." "They'll save you for the harem!" "It's the work of the mujaheddin." "Mujaheddin?" "The Afghan Resistance." "I hope he's not invited to dinner." "Thank you both for your help." "My name is Kamran Shah." "Please forgive the theatricals." "It's a hangover from my Oxford days." "I'm sure you'd like to freshen up." "It's all right, go ahead." " I have to get back to the air base." " You must be crazy!" " Half the Russian army's looking for you!" " You won't help?" "No." "Then put me in touch with the mujaheddin." "Deputy Commander of the Eastern District." "I was caught reconnoitring the air base." "Thankfully they didn't know who I was." "Now, who are you?" "I work for the British government." "We've uncovered a plot by General Koskov to purchase American hi-tech weapons." "Arms that could be used against you and your men." "That "is" important." "You must go to our commander in the Khyber Pass." "That could take days." "I have to get back to the air base before Koskov leaves." "Look, come with us tomorrow." "After our mission, I'll see what I can do." "That'll be too late." " I need a gun and some guides." " Impossible." "I cannot spare men or the horses." "And now it is time to rest." "We leave at sunrise." "I was worried for you, James." "What's going to happen to us?" "Kheista." "What does that mean?" "It means beautiful in Afghan." "We're with the mujaheddin." "We leave with them in the morning on some kind of operation." "And you're going to the Khyber Pass." "You're not coming with me?" "No." "I'll catch up with you later." "You're going back for Georgi, aren't you?" " It's too dangerous." "Don't go." " I have to." "You have to what?" "Get killed?" " I won't wait for you." " Fine." "Then I'll have Kamran send you direct to London." "You dumb, stubborn, stupid..." " What's that supposed to mean?" " Back end of horse!" "Are you calling me a horse's arse?" "I might never see you again." "You will." "I promise." "Raw opium." "Worth half a billion dollars on the streets of New York." " What are you up to?" "Selling dope?" " Not so loud." " That's the chief of the Snow Leopards." " Who?" " The biggest opium dealer in the area." " I've worked for them." "I don't care if the Russians die from my bullets or their opium!" "Besides, we need the money to buy arms." " Georgi!" " And the diamonds." "He arranged for the Russians to buy many hi-tech weapons." "He's using the down payment to buy this opium instead." "He can turn a huge profit in days and still provide the Russians with their arms." " Unless..." " Go on." "If the opium never arrives." "The Snow Leopard Brotherhood are dangerous to cross." "This is their biggest deal since the invasion." "You won't help?" "Perhaps." "As long as nothing is done till the Russians pay up and leave." "Right." "I'll need some plastic explosives and a timer." "I'll see what I can do." "James is trapped." "You must help him!" " He'll have to take his chances." " You owe him your life!" " There's nothing more I can do." " Yes, there is!" "Women!" "Wait here." "We'll come back for you." "Bond!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't destroy the plane." "Block the runway!" "The tanker!" "Where is she?" "We have to stop him!" "Kara!" "James!" "James!" "Don't shoot!" "You'll hit the plane!" " Kara!" " Oh, my God!" "Jump!" "Now that you're here, take over." " What?" " Hold this and keep it straight and level." " Where are you going?" " To defuse a bomb." "No!" "Please!" " What happened?" " He got the boot." "Take over." "Hold it steady." " Where are you going?" " To drop a bomb." "What's the matter?" "We're losing fuel fast!" "I just hope we can make Pakistan." "There's no place to put down." "Go in the back." "Get in the Jeep." "Quickly!" "Fasten your seat belt!" "Hold on!" "I know a great restaurant in Karachi." "We can just make dinner!" "Whitaker's on the ground floor." "Koskov is in an upstairs bedroom." "Guard in the pool area near you." "Guard clear." "Proceed." "Hold it." "He's coming back." "Go, James." "Over and out." "Well, he's in." "Pickett's charge was up Cemetery Ridge, not Little Round Top." "I'm replaying the battle as I would have fought it." "Meade was tenacious but he was cautious." "He missed his chances to crush Lee at Gettysburg." "I've come for Koskov." "Well, hell, you can have him!" "Soon as I get my opium." " Now where is it?" " Up in smoke." "You burned up a half a billion bucks?" "That's too bad, Bond." "You know, you could have been a live, rich man instead of a poor, dead one." "You're finished, Whitaker." "If the Russians don't get you, the Americans will." "Nah." "You know, Meade should have taken another 35,000 casualties." "He could have ended the rebellion right then." "Hell, Grant would have done it." "Right, you've had your eight." "Now I'll have my 80!" "Sorry to say your popgun is no match for the latest body armour!" "Should have known you'd take refuge behind that British vulture Wellington!" "You know he had to buy German mercenaries to beat Napoleon, don't you?" "I owed you that one, Bond." "He met his Waterloo." "General Pushkin!" "Thank God you're still alive!" "Whitaker has held me here for weeks." "Thank you for rescuing me!" "Thank you!" "Georgi!" "Georgi!" " Put him on the next plane to Moscow." " Oh, thank you, General!" "Thank you so much!" "Thank you!" "In the diplomatic bag." "What about Kara?" "She is a defector, too." "What shall we do about her?" "Are you going to stay in France now?" "Oh, you were marvellous!" "Will you excuse us?" "General Gogol, Miss Kara Milovy." "Magnificent!" "I hope you can find time to play in Moscow very soon." "It's all right." "General Gogol is with their foreign service." "He's arranged an immigration visa, so you can come and go as you like." "Wonderful!" "Excuse me." "I'm sorry we missed the concert." "We had some trouble at the airport." "I can't imagine why!" "General Gogol, I don't believe you've met Kamran Shah." " My pleasure." " Where's James?" " Unhappily, he's on assignment abroad." " I'll be with you shortly." "You didn't think I'd miss this performance, did you?" "Oh, James." "Visiontext subtitles:" "David Van-Cauter" " Who are you?" " Bond." "James Bond." "007 here." "I'll report in an hour." "Won't you join me?" "Better make that two." "should record the theme for each new James Bond film." "As this year is the 25th anniversary of the series, the producers were very glad to sign one of Europe's most successful groups for "The Living Daylights"." "The Norwegian trio, a-ha, posed for photographers to announce their signing and that they'd be working with the man who's composed most of the Bond soundtracks, John Barry." "I was familiar with their music." "Then I came over a while ago and went to a concert they were doing in Croydon and saw them for the first time perform and met them." "I think we get on well together." "We're gonna have fun with it." "We were asked to come up with a demo, which we did, and it sort of took us here." "And it'll be a collaboration, once we get in the studio and start working out the song." "We wrote that at the end of the tour, so it's semifinished." "He's been working on it, so it's gonna be interesting to see what he's come up with." " What's it going to be called?" " Big surprise."The Living Daylights"." "Recording the single is only half the business of having a hit today." "There's still the video to make." "This video, their first, "Take On Me", won them international acclaim." "For "The Living Daylights" they had the same team." "Director Steve Barron chose as his setting the biggest sound stage outside Hollywood, the vast 007 stage at Pinewood Studios, built especially for the Bond films." "Outside the stage they were setting up a dramatic helicopter shot, while inside they used giant projectors to beam scenes from the film down onto the group below." "To these shots were carefully added other Bond images, until they'd achieved the effect they wanted." "I think a lot is gonna happen in postproduction." "They've only got us for one day to do this, so it has to be fairly quick." "When you make a video with a film, like a Bond thing, and the archives..." "You have a free video right there." "Steve Barron is pretty snappy with the old superimposing and video tricks." "With this one in particular, I think, I had no idea what I was supposed to do until I arrived here, because it's come up pretty instantly." " You still have no idea." " I have no idea what it's gonna look like." "It was actually quite hard to write, because normally we don't have any thoughts of the movie or something we have to fit in, so it was very hard to get the lyrics not sounding this or that." "So we had to make it a bit abstract." "But I guess the key words in the song are..." " Living daylights." " It wasn't my answer, but it's a good one." "And, after countless hours of editing, the team have the result they want."