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A View to a Kill (Original title)From a View to a Kill (Working title)
Dates: 1985 (Copyright), 06 August 1984 (Production), 14 June 1985 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Glen

Synopsis: James Bond adventure. Microchip manufacturer and industrialist Max Zorin hatches a plot to destabilise the San Andreas fault in California, destroying Silicon Valley and enabling him to monopolise the market. Bond travels from Siberia to Ascot, and from Paris to San Francisco in his bid to stop Zorin.

Genre:
Action and Adventure

Subject:
Espionage
Releases
Date: 13 June 1985Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 131 mins Length: 11785 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (187)
©: Danjaq S.A., Made by: Eon Productions, From: MGM/UA Distribution Co., Presents/Produced by: Albert R. Broccoli, Produced by: Michael G. Wilson, Associate Producer: Thomas Pevsner, Unit Manager: Iris Rose, Production Manager: Philip Kohler, Production Manager: Serge Touboul, Production Manager: Leonhard Gmür, Production Manager: Ned Kopp & Co., Production Manager: Jón Thór Hannesson, Production Supervisor: Anthony Waye, Production Co-ordinator: May Capsaskis, Production Co-ordinator: Nathalie Farjon, Production Co-ordinator: Norma Garment, Production Co-ordinator: Sally Hayman, Production Co-ordinator: Maureen Murphy, US Contacts: Mary Stellar, Tina Banta, Production Controller: Reginald A. Barkshire, Production Accountant: Douglas Noakes, Location Accountant: Hazel Crombie, Location Accountant: Mauricette Boisard, Location Accountant: Jane Meagher, Cristl Kirchner, Location Manager: Nick Daubeny, Location Manager: Agust Baldursson, Location Manager: Stefan Zürcher, Location Manager: Jean-Marc Deschamps, Location Manager: Steph Benseman, Location Manager: Rory Enke, Production Secretary: Joanna Brown, Janine King, Mr [Roger] Moore's Assistant: Doris Spriggs, 2nd Unit Directed and Photographed by: Arthur Wooster, Ski Sequence Directed and Photographed by: Willy Bogner, Assistant Director: Gerry Gavigan, Assistant Director: Peter Bennett, Additional Assistant Director: Edi Hubschmid, Additional Assistant Director: Laurent Brégeat, Additional Assistant Director: Serge Menard, Additional Assistant Director: Terry Madden, Additional Assistant Director: Andrew Warren, Additional Assistant Director: Simon Haveland, Additional Assistant Director: Nick Heckstall-Smith, Barbara Broccoli, Continuity: June Randall, Continuity: Penny Daniels, Daphne Carr, Casting by: Debbie McWilliams, US Casting: Jane Jenkins, Janet Hirshenson, Screenplay by: Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, [Possessory Credit for] James Bond 007: Ian Fleming, Director of Photography: Alan Hume, Additional Photography: Jan D'Alquen, Additional Photography: Egil Woxholt, Model Photography: Leslie Dear, Aerial Camera: David Butler, Aerial Camera: Peter Allwork, Doug Milsome, Camera Operator: Michael Frift, Camera Operator: Malcolm Vinson, Camera Operator: Robert Hillman, Focus: Simon Hume, Michael Evans, Electrical Supervisor: John Tythe, Camera Grip: Colin Manning, Ken Atherfold, Stills: Keith Hamshere, George Whitear, Front Projection: Charles Staffell, Roy Moores, Special Effects Supervisor: John Richardson, Special Effects: John Morris, Special Effects: Joss Williams, Special Effects: Ken Morris, Special Effects: André Trielli, Special Effects: Larry Cavanaugh, Special Effects: Willy Neuner, Computer Effects: Ira Curtis Coleman, Editor: Peter Davies, Additional Editor: John S. Smith, Henry Richardson, Production Designed by: Peter Lamont, Art Director: John Fenner, Additional Art Director: Michael Lamont, Additional Art Director: Ken Court, Additional Art Director: Alan Tomkins, Additional Art Director: Serge Douy, Additional Art Director: Armin Ganz, Katharina Brunner, Assistant Art Director: James Morahan, Assistant Art Director: Ted Ambrose, Assistant Art Director: Michael Boone, Set Decorator: Crispian Sallis, Assistant Set Decorator: Jille Brown, Sketch Artist: Roger Deer, Maciek Piotrowski, Scenic Artist: Ernest Smith, Scenic Artist: Jacqueline Stears, Production Buyer: Ron Quelch, Property Master: John Chisholm, Construction Manager: Michael Redding, Costumes Designed by: Emma Porteous, Costume Supervisor: Tiny Nicholls, Costumes Made by: C & G Costumers Ltd, Additional Wardrobe for Ms [Grace] Jones: Azzedine Alaia, Make-up Supervisor: George Frost, Make-up: Eric Allwright, Make-up: Bunty Phillips, Hairdressing Supervisor: Ramon Gow, Hairdresser: Vera Mitchell, Joan Carpenter, Main Title Designed by: Maurice Binder, Title Opticals: National Screen Service Ltd., Filmed in: Panavision, {Colour by}: Technicolor, Prints in: Metrocolor, Music Composed and Conducted by: John Barry, Title Song Composed by: Duran Duran, John Barry, The James Bond Theme Written by: Monty Norman, Title Song Performed by: Duran Duran, Orchestrations: Nicholas Raine, Title Song Produced by: Bernard Edwards, Music Editor: Alan Killick, Music Mixer: Dick Lewzey, Sound Recordist: Derek Ball, Boom Operator: Ken Nightingall, Re-recording Mixer: Graham Hartstone, John Hayward, {Recorded in}: Dolby Stereo, Sound Editor: Colin Miller, Dubbing Editor: Jack Knight, Dubbing Editor: Nigel Gatt, Dubbing Editor: Stanley Fiferman, Assistant Dubbing Editor: Bill Barringer, Sound Effects: Jean-Pierre Lelong, Driving Stunts Arranger: Rémy Julienne, Action Sequences Arranger: Martin Grace, The Stunt Team - Supervisor: Jim Arnett, The Stunt Team - Supervisor: Bob Simmons, Claude Carliez, The Stunt Team: Jason White, The Stunt Team: Mike Runyard, The Stunt Team: Tracey Eddon, The Stunt Team: Bill Weston, The Stunt Team: Elaine Ford, The Stunt Team: Doug Robinson, Pat Banta, The Driving Team: Michel Julienne, The Driving Team: Dominique Julienne, The Driving Team: Christian Bonnichon, The Driving Team: Jean-Claude Lagniez, The Driving Team: Jean-Claude Bonnichon, The Driving Team: Jean-Claude Houbart, Robert Blasco, The Aerial Team - Eiffel Tower Jump: B.J. Worth, The Aerial Team - Skyship 500: Nicholas T. Bennett, The Aerial Team - Pilot: Marc Wolff, The Aerial Team - Pilot: Rick Holley, The Aerial Team - Pilot: Chuck Tamburro, The Aerial Team - Pilot: Robert Liechti, Gerry Crayson, The Horse Team: Olivier Victor-Thomas, The Horse Team: Christian de Lagarde, The Horse Team: Marcel Riou, The Horse Team: François Nadal, The Horse Team: Mario Luraschi, The Horse Team: Brian Bowes, Anthony Fairbairn, The Snow Team: Peter Rohe, The Snow Team: John Eaves, The Snow Team: Thomas Sims, The Snow Team: Steven Link, The Snow Team: Joe Brown, Andrea Florineth, Iceland Adviser: Iceland Breakthrough, Tony Escritt, Director of Marketing: Charles Juroe, Publicity Assistant: Jennifer Collen-Smith, Unit Publicist: Geoff Freeman, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (58)
Roger Moore (James Bond, 007), Christopher Walken (Maximillian Zorin, 'Max'), Tanya Roberts (Stacey Sutton), Grace Jones (May Day), Patrick Macnee (Sir Godfrey Tibbett), Patrick Bauchau (Scarpine), David Yip (Chuck Lee), Fiona Fullerton (Pola Ivanova), Manning Redwood (Bob Conley), Alison Doody (Jenny Flex), Willoughby Gray (Dr Carl Mortner), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Robert Brown (M), Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny), Walter Gotell (General Gogol), Geoffrey Keen (Minister of Defence), Jean Rougerie (Achilles Aubergine), Daniel Benzali (W.G. Howe, Director of Oil and Mines), Bogdan Kominowski (Klotkoff, KGB agent May Day picks up), Papillon Soo Soo (Pan Ho), Mary Stavin (Kimberley Jones, agent in iceberg boat), Dominique Risbourg (butterfly act compère), Carole Ashby (whistling girl), Anthony Chin (Taiwanese tycoon), Lucien Jérôme (Paris taxi driver), Albert Simono (Paris police sergeant), Joe Flood (U.S. police captain), Gérard Buhr (auctioneer), Dolph Lundgren (Venz, KGB agent at racecourse), Tony Sibbald (mine foreman), Bill Ackridge (O'Rourke), Ron Tarr, Taylor Mcauley (guard), Peter Ensor (tycoon), Seva Novgorodtsev (helicopter pilot), Sian Adey-Jones, Samina Afzal, Celine Cawley, Nike Clark, Helen Clitherow, Maggie Defreitas (hatless, dark-haired woman in navy dress near Zorin at Ascot), Gloria Douse (woman in off-white, shoulderless dress at chateau party), Caroline Hallett (woman in blue dress Bond greets outside Zorin's office window at chateau party), Deborah Hanna, Josanne Haydon-Pearce (white-gloved woman with binoculars by Zorin at Ascot), Ann Jackson (blonde woman in light blue strapped dress at chateau party), Terri Johns, Karen Loughlin, Angela Lyn, Patricia Martinez, Kim Ashfield Norton (escort with Bob Conley at chateau party), Elke Ritschel, Lou-Anne Ronchi, Helen Smith, Jane Spencer (short-haired woman in black cocktail dress at chateau party), Paula Thomas, Mayako Torigai, Toni White (woman near Zorin at Ascot/woman displaying '007' in opening titles)