A View To A Kill
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Cast & Crew
John Glen
Roger Moore
Christopher Walken
Grace Jones
Tanya Roberts
Patrick Macnee
Film Details
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Synopsis
When James Bond (Agent 007) is sent to investigate a security leak at the high-tech Zorin Industries, he discovers a hotbed of murder and deception. The company's mysterious owner, Max Zorin has devised a plan to corner the world's microchip market--even if he has to kill millions to do it. But before Bond can stop Zorin, he must confront the madman's beautiful and deadly companion May Day. With help from the gorgeous Stacey, Bond launches an all-out assault on Zorin's deadly scheme, which leads to a treacherous duel against May Day on the upper spans of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Cast
Roger Moore
Christopher Walken
Grace Jones
Tanya Roberts
Patrick Macnee
Patrick Bauchau
David Yip
Fiona Fullerton
Manning Redwood
Alison Doody
Willoughby Gray
Desmond Llewelyn
Robert Brown
Lois Maxwell
Walter Gotell
Geoffrey Keen
Jean Rougherie
Daniel Benzali
Bogdan Kominowski
Papillon Soo Soo
Mary Stavin
Dominique Risbourg
Carole Ashby
Anthony Chinn
Lucien Jerome
Joe Flood
Gerard Buhr
Dolph Lundgren
Tony Sibbald
Bill Ackridge
Ron Tarr
Taylor Mcauley
Peter Ensor
Seva Novgorodtsev
Sian Adey-jones
Samina Afzal
Celine Cawley
Nike Clark
Helen Clitherow
Maggie Defreitas
Gloria Douse
Caroline Hallett
Deborah Hanna
Josanne Haydon-pearce
Anne Jackson
Patricia Martinez
Kim Ashfield Norton
Elke Ritschel
Lou-anne Ronchi
Helen Smith
Jane Spencer
Paula Thomas
Mayako Torigai
Toni White
Crew
Azzedine Alaia
Peter Allwork
Eric Allwright
Ted Ambrose
James M Arnett
Kenny Atherfold
Agust Baldursson
Derek Ball
Pat Banta
Reginald A Barkshire
Bill Barringer
John Barry
John Barry
John Barry
Peter Bennet
Nicholas T Bennett
Steph Benseman
Maurice Binder
Robert Blasco
Willy Bogner
Willy Bogner
Mauricette Boisard
Christian Bonnichon
Jean-claude Bonnichon
Michael Boone
Brian Bowes
Laurent Bregeat
Albert R. Broccoli
Barbara Broccoli
Jillie Brown
Joanna Brown
Joe Brown
Katharina Brunner
David L Butler
May Capsaskis
Claude Carliez
Joan Carpenter
Daphne Carr
Larry Cavanaugh
John Chisholm
Ira Curtis Coleman
Jennifer Collen-smith
Ken Court
Gerry Crayson
Hazel Crombie
Jan D'alquen
Penny Daniels
Nick Daubeny
Peter Davies
Leslie Dear
Roger Deer
Christian Delagarde
Jean-marc Deschamps
Serge Douy
John Eaves
Tracey Eddon
Rory Enke
Michael Evans
Anthony Fairbairn
Nathalie Farjon
John Fenner
Stan Fiferman
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
Andrea Florineth
Elaine Ford
Geoff Freeman
Mike Frift
George Frost
Nigel Galt
Armin Ganz
Norma Garment
Gerry Gavigan
Leonhard Gmur
Ramon Gow
Martin Grace
Keith Hamshere
Jon Thor Hannesson
Graham V Hartstone
Simon Haveland
Sally Hayman
John Hayward
Nick Heckstall-smith
Robert Hillman
Janet Hirshenson
Rick Holley
Jean-claude Houbart
Edi Hubschmid
Alan Hume
Alan Hume
Simon Hume
Jane Jenkins
B D Johnson
Dominique Julienne
Michel Julienne
Remy Julienne
Charles Juroe
Alan Killick
Janine King
Christl Kirchner
Jack T Knight
Philip Kohler
Jean-claude Lagniez
Michael Lamont
Peter Lamont
Jean-pierre Lelong
Richard Lewzey
Robert Liechti
Steven Link
Mario Luraschi
Terry Madden
Richard Maibaum
Colin Manning
Debbie Mcwilliams
Jane Meagher
Serge Menard
Colin Miller
Douglas Milsome
Vera Mitchell
Roy Moores
James Morahan
John Morris
Ken Morris
Maureen Murphy
Francois Nadal
Willi Neuner
Tiny Nicholls
Ken Nightingall
Douglas Noakes
Monty Norman
John Nuth
Gidea Park
Thomas Pevsner
Bunty Phillips
Maciek Piotrowski
Emma Porteous
Ron Quelch
Nic Raine
June Randall
Michael Redding
Henry Richardson
John Richardson
Marcel Riou
Doug Robinson
Peter Rohe
Iris Rose
Michael Runyard
Crispian Sallis
Bobby Simmons
Thomas Sims
Ernest F. Smith
John S. Smith
Doris Spriggs
Charles Staffell
Jacqueline Stears
Chuck A. Tamburro
Alan Tomkins
Serge Touboul
Andre Trielli
John Tythe
Olivier Victor-thomas
Malcolm Vinson
Antonio Vivaldi
Andrew Warren
Anthony Waye
Bill Weston
Jason White
George Whitear
Joss Williams
Brian Wilson
Michael G. Wilson
Michael G. Wilson
Marc Wolff
Arthur Wooster
Egil Woxholt
Stefan Zurcher
Film Details
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A View to a Kill
Production ran from August 6, 1984 until January 1985, with principal photography shot at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, where a special "Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage" had been built for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), but that stage burned down just as production on A View to a Kill was set to begin. Crews were able to rebuild the stage to its original size in a little over four months, but it necessitated having the repair crew work while the sets themselves were being constructed. While interiors were being filmed at Pinewood, as many as six units were working simultaneously in places as diverse as Iceland, Switzerland, Paris, Chantilly and several locations around San Francisco, California, including Potrero Hill, the Civic Center, Fisherman's Wharf and China Hill, with the pier scenes shot in Richmond. According to Daily Variety, the production brought $4 million to the local economy. Although the film's climactic sequence was set on top of San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge, it was actually filmed by using three separate scale models created by Peter Lamont. Likewise, the Eiffel Tower Restaurant's interiors were filmed at Pinewood, with exteriors shot at the tower in Paris. Surprisingly, according to director John Glen, the film came in $5 million under the projected $35 million budget, despite being two weeks over schedule.
A View to a Kill premiered on May 22, 1985 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, only a few yards from the Golden Gate Bridge, making it the first James Bond film to premiere outside of London. A special royal charity gala for the Prince of Wales Trust and the British Deaf Association was held in the British capital on June 12th, the day before the film went into general release in the UK. A View to a Kill was the highest grossing Bond film to date at the UK box office, earning $604,376 in only 11 days. By 1998, the total worldwide gross had exceeded $152 million, despite reviews like Janet Maslin's in The New York Times. In it, she called the latest effort in the Bond franchise "strenuous to watch, now that the business of maintaining Bond's casual savoir-faire looks like such a monumental chore. The effort involved in keeping Roger Moore's 007 impervious to age, changing times or sheer deja-vu seems overwhelming, particularly since so much additional energy goes into deflecting attention away from him and onto the ever-stronger supporting characters whose presence is meant to rejuvenate the Bond formula. But as the scenery improves, the Bond films lose personality [...] A View to a Kill should be no surprise to anyone who has seen the other recent Bond films with Mr. Moore and no strain on the intelligence or memory of anyone else." The film may not have won over the critics, but its title track, performed by Duran Duran, became the first Bond film to reach the top of Billboard Hot 100 charts.
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AFI|Catalog. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58416-A-VIEWTOAKILL?sid=45052805-4ded-4284-9529-582e5dd82e4d&sr=16.57039&cp=1&pos=0
A View to a Kill (1985). (1985, May 24). Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
Maslin, J. (1985, May 24). THE SCREEN: JAMES BOND. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/24/movies/the-screen-james-bond.html
By Lorraine LoBianco
A View to a Kill
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Released in United States Summer May 24, 1985
Formerly distributed by CBS/Fox Video.
Began shooting August 6, 1984.
Released in United States Summer May 24, 1985