Never Say Never Again (Original title)Warhead (Working title)James Bond of the Secret Service (Working title)James Bond, Secret Agent (Working title)
Dates: 1983 (Copyright), 16 December 1983 (Release)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirected by: Irvin Kershner
Synopsis: Spy adventure. British agent James Bond, a little older and less healthy than he used to be, is sent to a health farm, Shrublands. There he encounters some suspicious behaviour involving US airman Jack Petachi and his violent nurse, and Bond comes under attack from a thug, Lippe, whom Bond defeats more through luck than skill. Bond later connects these Shrublands mysteries with the stealing of two nuclear warheads by the criminal organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E.. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas, where the warheads are being hidden, and during his investigation he becomes involved with the unhinged millionaire businessman (and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. operative) Maximillian Largo, his mistress Domino and the flamboyant, predatory Fatima Blush (Petachi's ruthless 'nurse' and in fact another S.P.E.C.T.R.E. operative). Blush does her best to kill Bond using, variously, sharks, a bomb and a gun. When the investigation moves to the south of France, Bond is joined by Felix Leiter of the C.I.A., though from there Largo takes Bond on his yacht to his north African fortress called Palmyra, where Bond is imprisoned. Bond remains determined to escape, save Domino and prevent the nuclear bombs from going off.
Genre: Action and Adventure
Subjects: Espionage, Nuclear weapons, Blackmail
Releases
Date: 07 October 1983Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 134 mins Length: 12028 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1983 (Copyright), 16 December 1983 (Release)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirected by: Irvin Kershner
Synopsis: Spy adventure. British agent James Bond, a little older and less healthy than he used to be, is sent to a health farm, Shrublands. There he encounters some suspicious behaviour involving US airman Jack Petachi and his violent nurse, and Bond comes under attack from a thug, Lippe, whom Bond defeats more through luck than skill. Bond later connects these Shrublands mysteries with the stealing of two nuclear warheads by the criminal organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E.. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas, where the warheads are being hidden, and during his investigation he becomes involved with the unhinged millionaire businessman (and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. operative) Maximillian Largo, his mistress Domino and the flamboyant, predatory Fatima Blush (Petachi's ruthless 'nurse' and in fact another S.P.E.C.T.R.E. operative). Blush does her best to kill Bond using, variously, sharks, a bomb and a gun. When the investigation moves to the south of France, Bond is joined by Felix Leiter of the C.I.A., though from there Largo takes Bond on his yacht to his north African fortress called Palmyra, where Bond is imprisoned. Bond remains determined to escape, save Domino and prevent the nuclear bombs from going off.
Genre: Action and Adventure
Subjects: Espionage, Nuclear weapons, Blackmail
Releases
Date: 07 October 1983Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 134 mins Length: 12028 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: European Banking Company, ©: Manufacturers Hanover Limited, ©: M.F.I. Group plc, ©: Midland Montagu Leasing, The First National Bank of Chicago [London Branch], a Taliafilm production: Taliafilm Productions, Made by: Woodcote Productions, In association with: Producers Sales Organization, Jack Schwartzman & Kevin McClory present: Jack Schwartzman, Kevin McClory, Executive Producer: Kevin McClory, Produced by: Jack Schwartzman, Associate Producer: Michael Dryhurst, 2nd Unit - Unit Manager: Evzen Kolar, Production Manager (UK): John Davis, Production Manager (Bahamas): Malcolm Christopher, Production Manager (France): Jean Pierre Avice, Production Manager (Spain): Arnold Ross, Apolinar Rabinal, Production Supervisor: Alex de Grunwald, Production Co-ordinator: Gladys Pearce, Production Controller: Jack Smith, Production Accountant: Paul Tucker, Location Consultant: Anne Glanfield, Consultant to the Producer: Talia Shire Schwartzman, Production Assistant: Linda Rabin, Production Assistant: Jill Bender, Production Assistant: Beatrice Geffriaud, Assistant to Mr [Irvin]] Kershner: Anne Marie Stein, Gillian Case, Associate to Mr [Jack] Schwartzman: Julian Plowden, Assistant to Mr [Jack] Schwartzman: Yvonne Mcgeeney, Anne Schwebel, Standby Crew: Robert Betts, Standby Crew: George Gibbons, Standby Crew: Stephen Hargreaves, Standby Crew: Allan Williams, Standby Crew: Joseph Dipple, Robert Hill, Underwater Sequence Directed by: Ricou Browning, 2nd Unit Director: Michael Moore, 1st Assistant Director: David Tomblin, Assistant Director: Roy Button, Assistant Director: Carlos Gil, Assistant Director: Greg Dark, Assistant Director: Steve Harding, Script Supervisor: Pamela Mann Francis, Casting: Maggie Cartier, Casting (US): Mike Fenton, Jane Feinberg, Screenplay by: Lorenzo Semple Jr, [Additional Dialogue]: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Based on an original story by: Kevin McClory, Based on an original story by: Jack Whittingham, Ian Fleming, [Screenplay Adviser during Post-production]: Tom Mankiewicz, Director of Photography: Douglas Slocombe, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Paul Beeson, Dirctr of Photo for Underwater Sequences: Bob Steadman, Aerial Photography: Peter Allwork, Camera Operator: Chic Waterson, Camera Operator: Wally Byatt, Camera Operator (Underwater): Jordan Klein, Mike Ferris, Focus Puller: Robin Vidgeon, Focus Puller: Keith Blake, Underwater Gaffer: Montie Taylor, Electrical Gaffer: Martin Evans, Best Boy: Ray Meehan, Camera Grip: Brian Osborne, Stills Photographer: Bob Penn, Supervisor of Special Visual Effects: David Dryer, Special Effects Supervisor: Ian Wingrove, Special Effects Technician: David Beavis, Special Effects Technician: David Harris, Special Effects Technician: David Watkins, Special Effects Technician: Trevor Neighbor, Special Effects Technician: Roger Nicholls, Branwell McClory, Electronics Graphics Supervisor: Rob Dickenson, Television/Computer/Electric Effects: Ira Coleman, Supervising Film Editor: Robert Lawrence, Film Editor: Ian Crafford, Additional Editing: Peter Musgrave, Assistant Film Editor: Wally Nelson, Assistant Film Editor: John Nuth, Assistant Film Editor: Nicholas Moore, Assistant Film Editor: Kant Pan, Assistant Film Editor: Bill Barringer, Assistant Film Editor: Joe Seaton, Annie Charvein, Production Designer: Philip Harrison, Production Designer: Stephen Grimes, Supervising Art Director: Leslie Dilley, Art Director: Michael White, Art Director: Roy Stannard, Assistant Art Director: Don Dossett, Assistant Art Director: George Djurkovic, Assistant Art Director: John Wood, Set Decorator: Peter Howitt, Property Master: Peter Hancock, Property Buyer: John Lanzer, Construction Manager: Bill Welch, Costume Designer: Charles Knode, Wardrobe Supervisor: Ron Beck, Furs/Leather Designed for B. Carrera by: Rome Fendi Ltd., Chief Make-up Artist: Robin Grantham, Make-up/Hairdresser to Mr [Sean] Connery: Ilona Herman, Chief Hairdresser: Stephanie Kaye, Hairdresser: Sue Love, Main/End Titles Designed/Produced by: R/Greenberg Associates, Optical Effects by: Apogee Inc. (Los Angeles), Optical Special Effects Prodn Supervisor: Robert R. Shepherd, Optical Supervisor: Roger Dorney, Optical Chief Camera Operator: Douglas Smith, [Opticals] Technical Adviser: Guy Alimo, Additional Opticals: General Screen Enterprises, Colour by: Technicolor, Filmed in: Panavision, Music by: Michel Legrand, [Title Song] Trumpet Solo by: Herb Alpert, Title Song Produced by: Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendez, Music Editor: Valerie Lesser, Music Mixer: Keith Grant, Sound Recordist: Simon Kaye, Sound Mixer: David Allen, Sound Boom: David Sutton, Sound Maintenance: Taffy Haines, Dubbing Mixer: Bill Rowe, Dubbing Assistant: Ray Merrin, Re-recorded at: Thorn-EMI Elstree Studios Ltd., Dubbing Editor: Norman Wanstall, John Poyner, Stunt Co-ordinator: Vic Armstrong, Stunt Consultant 1st and 2nd Units: Glenn Randall, Divemaster: Gavin Mckinney, Boatmaster: 'Moby' Griffin, Motorcycle Stunts by: Mike Runyard, Stunts: Roy Alon, Stunts: Dickie Beer, Stunts: Marc Boyle, Stunts: Edward Garcia Garcia, Stunts: Frank Henson, Stunts: Billy Horrigan, Stunts: Wendy Leech, Merchandising Co-ordinator: Jeff Freedman, Underwater Consultant: Scott Carpenter, Title' Never Say Never Again' by: Micheline Connery, Lighting Equipment Supplied by: Lee Electric (Lighting), Unit Publicist: Sara Keene, Made at: Elstree Studios
Cast
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Sean Connery (James Bond), Klaus Maria Brandauer (Maximillian Largo, 'Max'), Max von Sydow (Ernst Stavro Blofeld), Barbara Carrera (Fatima Blush), Kim Basinger (Domino Petachi), Bernie Casey (Felix Leiter), Alec McCowen (Algernon, 'Algy', 'Q'), Edward Fox ('M'), Pamela Salem (Miss Moneypenny), Rowan Atkinson (Nigel Small-Fawcett), Valerie Leon (lady fishing in Bahamas), Milow Kirek (Kovacs), Pat Roach (Lippe, thug in Shrublands), Anthony Sharp (Lord Ambrose), Prunella Gee (Patricia Fearing, Shrublands back nurse), Gavan O'Herlihy (Captain Jack Petachi), Ronald Pickup (Elliott, M's aide), Robert Rietti, Guido Adorni (Italian minister), Vincent Marzello (Culpepper), Christopher Reich (Number 5), Billy J. Mitchell (Captain Pederson), Manning Redwood (General Miller), Anthony Van Laast (Kurt), Saskia Cohen-Tanugi (Nicole, French agent), Sylvia Marriott (French minister), Dan Meaden (bouncer at casino), Michael Medwin (doctor at Shrublands), Lucy Hornak (nurse at Shrublands (requesting sample)), Derek Deadman (porter at Shrublands), Joanna Dickens (cook at Shrublands), Tony Alleff (auctioneer), Paul Tucker (ship's steward), Brenda Kempner (masseuse), Jill Meager (receptionist at health spa), John Stephen Hill (communications officer), Wendy Leech (girl hostage), Roy Bowe (ship's captain), Joan Macdonald