A deadly feline companion.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s introduction to the Bond series was also our first glimpse of his now iconic trademark cat, a white, blue-eyed Turkish Angora.
Follow that parachute!
“We had to figure out how long B.J. had before he had to open up the parachute. I did a little integral calculus. I said to him, ‘You’ve got about three and a half seconds, then you’ve got to pull it’.” – Michael G. Wilson, producer.
On this day in 1984 B.J. Worth, dressed as May Day (Grace Jones), jumped off the Eiffel Tower in A VIEW TO A KILL.
“They brought a real laser in, which looked great. It had a pencil-thin line, but as soon as you turn all the studio lights on, it disappeared. So John Stears and his team made up this fake one, and we optically put the laser beam on afterwards.” – Cliff Culley, Special Effects Supervisor.
Bond (Sean Connery) faces Goldfinger’s (Gert Fröbe) deadly laser in GOLDFINGER.
“I portrayed Pam as gritty and tough. When she meets Bond at the bar, she’s wearing a black leather vest and pants, and carrying a sawn-off shotgun. She’s flinging men over her shoulder and smashing bottles on their heads. Quite different from other Bond women.” – Carey Lowell.
On this day in 1988, filming of the first action sequence in the Barrelhead Bar took place between Bond (Timothy Dalton), Dario (Benicio del Toro), Pam (Carey Lowell) and Sanchez’ henchmen in LICENCE TO KILL.