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The hotel room of a voluptuous deep-sea fishing enthusiast (VALERIE LEON) who makes love to James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) in Never Say Never Again. It's where 007 is enjoying himself when SPECTRE assassin

SPECTRE (Sony/MGM, 2015)

The twenty-fourth film in the Eon Productions James Bond series. US release date: November 6, 2015. Budget: $245 million. Worldwide box office gross: $879.5 million

WALLACE, JULIE T.

Comical British character actress who portrayed resourceful Rosika Miklos, a Czechoslovakian gasworks employee who helps James Bond (TIMOTHY DALTON) spirit defecting Russian General Georgi Koskov (JEROEN KRABBE) into Austria

KLEINMAN, DANIEL

Evocative title designer who replaced the late Maurice Binder on GoldenEye and has continued in that capacity on every James Bond movie since, except Quantum of Solace.

CONNERY, MICHELINE

French wife of Sean Connery, who not only encouraged her husband to return to the role of James Bond in Never Say Never Again, but also coined the film's title.

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ense plate on the British military police jeep that pulls up in front of James Bond's (SEAN CONNERY) Hong Kong hotel room in You Only Live Twice.

WALLIS, WING COMMANDER KENNETH H.

Former Royal Air Force officer who designed, built, and flew Little Nellie, the autogyro that James Bond (Sean Connery) flies in You Only Live Twice. A native of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, who served as a bomber pilot in World War II

QUANTUM OF SOLACE (Sony/MGM, 2008)

The twenty-second film in the Eon Productions’ James Bond series. US release date: November 14, 2008. Budget: $200 million. Worldwide box office gross: $591.7 million

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The supposed registration number on the back of James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) watch in Live and Let Die. The number is mentioned by Kananga (YAPHET KOTTO) during a tense interrogation sequence in New Orleans.

WALTHER PPK

Semiautomatic pistol that is famously James Bond’s weapon of choice in the 007 film series. In Dr. No, Bond (Sean Connery) originally prefers his Beretta 418, but MI6 armorer Major Boothroyd (Peter Burton) recommends the 7.65mm PPK for its superior stopping power. After M (Bernard Lee) orders Bond to make the switch, 007 quickly takes to the Walther

LAFITTE ROTHSCHILD 1959

Champagne ordered by French detective Achille Aubergine (JEAN ROUGERIE) during his Eiffel Tower lunch with James Bond (ROGER MOORE) in A View to a Kill.

STAGE D

Pinewood Studios soundstage where production designer Ken Adam created the Fontainebleau Hotel cabana area where Dink (Margaret Nolan) massages James Bond (Sean Connery) in Goldfinger. Designed to match exteriors shot on location in Miami Beach, the set was also used for close-ups of the gin game

CROCODILE FARM

A principal setting in Live and Let Die, where James Bond (Roger Moore) is left to die by Tee Hee (Julius Harris). Captured in New Orleans, Bond is brought out to the farm, where he is stranded on an island in the middle of a small stream infested with hundreds of crocodiles and alligators.

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Identification number on the Coast Guard helicopter—a French Aerospatiale model—that carries James Bond (TIMOTHY DALTON), Felix Leiter (DAVID HEDISON), and Sharkey (FRANK MCRAE) to Cray Cay in the Licence to Kill teaser.

CUNEO, ERNEST

American lawyer, newspaperman, author, and former pro football player, a friend of Ian Fleming and a partner in Ivar Bryce’s Xanadu Productions, who contributed early story elements to the late-1950s James Bond film adaptation project that eventually became the novel “Thunderball”.

PATE, MICHAEL

rolific Australian-born character actor who portrayed Clarence Leiter, a British agent who assists an American James Bond (Barry Nelson) in the 1954 live television adaptation of Casino Royale. A native of Drummoyne, New South Wales,

GIRL FIGHT

The fight to the death in rural Istanbul between two beautiful gypsy girls (Martine Beswick and Aliza Gur) who love the same man, in From Russia with Love. One of the James Bond series’ best moments takes place in art director Syd Cain’s sprawling gypsy camp

CASEY, BERNIE

Tough-guy actor and former professional football player who portrayed CIA agent Felix Leiter in Never Say Never Again. Casey was the first African American actor to play James Bond’s counterpart in the Central Intelligence Agency. His part was small and underwritten.

STAVIN, MARY

Striking Swedish actress, the former Miss World 1977, who portrayed gorgeous Kimberley Jones, a Secret Service colleague of James Bond (Roger Moore) who pilots the camouflaged iceberg launch in the pre-credits teaser for A View to a Kill.

GIRL IN PHILADELPHIA, THE

The woman with whom James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) had his best sexual experience, as told to wicked SPECTRE assassin Fatima Blush (BARBARA CARRERA) in Never Say Never Again. This new

WAYBORN, KRISTINA

Swedish beauty who portrayed Magda, the circus performer, pickpocket, and girl Friday to Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan) in Octopussy. According to Graham Rye in his book The James Bond Girls, Wayborn was born on a small island in the Baltic Sea

STEAK PIZ GLORIA

James Bond's (GEORGE LAZENBY) initial dinner entree at Blofeld's (TELLY SAVALAS) Swiss mountain hideaway in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Agent 007, posing as heraldry expert Sir Hilary Bray and dressed remarkably in a Scottish kilt,

CASINO ROYALE (Columbia Pictures, 1967)

★: James Bond spoof produced by Charles K. Feldman and Jerry Bresler. US release date: April 19, 1967. Budget: $9 million. Worldwide box office gross: $41.7 million (US gross: $22.7 million; international gross: $19.0 million). Running time: 131 minutes.

STEARS, JOHN

Two-time Oscar-winning British special effects expert who worked on the first six James Bond movies. Stears created and destroyed the miniature bauxite mine for Dr. No; blew up the SPECTRE helicopter and speedboats in From Russia with Love; flew the private and presidential jets in Goldfinger;

GLEN, JOHN

British film director who joined the Bond series as a second unit director and editor on On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, later directed the famous Asgard Jump on The Spy Who Loved Me, then went on to direct five James Bond films

PENFOLD HEARTS

The brand of golf ball used by James Bond (Sean Connery) during his high-stakes challenge match against Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe).

D’ABO, MARYAM

British actress of Dutch and Russian heritage who portrayed Kara Milovy, the Czechoslovakian cellist who falls in love with James Bond (Timothy Dalton) in The Living Daylights.

MONTES, CAMILLE

Revenge-obsessed Bolivian mystery woman rescued by James Bond (Daniel Craig), portrayed by Olga Kurylenko in Quantum of Solace.

STERLING, MR. AND MRS. ROBERT

Cover identities used by James Bond (Roger Moore) and KGB major Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) while visiting billionaire shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) at his Atlantis facility off Sardinia in The Spy Who Loved Me

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