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The Spy Who Loved Me is both a 1962 James Bond book by Ian Fleming and a 1977 Bond movie, starring Roger Moore. The movie was produced by Albert R. Broccoli.
The Spy Who Loved Me book is a clear departure from the previous Bond books of Ian Fleming, in that Bond is not the central character. Instead the central character and narrator is "Vivienne Michel," a young British woman who has ended up running a cheap motel in the Adirondack Mountains to pay for a trip through America. The first section of the novel deals with her sheltered yet unhappy past; the second with the danger she encounters in the motel, and the third with her rescue by a mysterious stranger (Bond on his way back from a mission).
In order to maintain the fiction of Vivienne Michel (and, some critics suggest, distance himself from a book with which he was unsatisfied), Fleming gave "Michel" co-author credit and later claimed that the manuscript had been mailed to him from a mysterious source. The most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, it was banned in some countries and was not released in a paperback edition in Britain until several years after Fleming's death.
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth official James Bond movie and the third to star Roger Moore as Bond. Fleming was never terribly happy with the plot of the book and so only gave permission for the title to be used. Consequently the film tells a very different story, and was subsequently novelised by Christopher Wood. As such, it is considered the first wholly original Bond film.
The film is best known for the introduction of Jaws, a giant and indestructible assassin with steel teeth (played by Richard Kiel) who is the only henchman of James Bond villains privileged to appear in more than one film. He later appeared in Moonraker. Although Ian Fleming had requested that no elements of his novel be used, the book does include a steel-toothed villain, but no one as outlandish as Jaws.
The film was a hit in both the U.S. and abroad. It grossed over USD$185 million worldwide on a production budget of USD$14 million. Due to the success of this movie, subsequent to its release, Barbara Bach posed nude for the men's magazine Playboy.
A submarine from the royal navy and a submarine from the Soviet fleet are stolen by the villain, Karl Stromberg in an attempt to launch their nuclear weapons at targets around the globe. In this adventure, James Bond teams up with Major Anya Amasova or Agent Triple X from the Soviet Union to find out what happened and prevent a possible World War III.
The title song was performed by Carly Simon and unlike most opening songs for James Bond is not titled the same as the movie. The song was titled "Nobody Does it Better" and became a hit that is still popular today. The soundtrack to the movie was composed by Marvin Hamlisch.
Robert Brown also has a smaller role in The Spy Who Loved Me as Admiral Hargreaves. Brown would go on to replace Bernard Lee as M in Octopussy. It has never been established as to whether Brown was supposed to be still playing Lee's character, a promoted Hargreaves, or someone else.
Walter Gotell makes his first appearance as General Gogol of the KGB. Gogol would appear in all future Roger Moore Bond films and would make his final appearance in Timothy Dalton's The Living Daylights.
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