Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hijacking, whatever the American sympathies in the case. The refugees were arrested, and for the first time since Castro came to power in 1959, anti-Castro Cubans were ordered to return to their native country. The Cubans appealed the deportation order and are now free in Florida on bond...
Filmed in Jamaica and New Orleans, with scenes yet to be shot in Harlem, the movie takes Agent 007 to the fictional island of San Monique, where Mr. Big, the first black villain in a Bond movie, runs a heroin-smuggling ring. There Bond-played for the first time by Roger Moore, star of TV's The Saint -meets a telepathic beauty named Solitaire (Jane Seymour), a black double agent (Gloria Hendry) and the usual assortment of outrageous villains, their seemingly indestructible henchmen and an obstacle course of hazards that would have sent even Superman running for his Valium...
...producers, Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, have already grossed $200 million from the seven previous Bond movies: Dr. No (1963), From Russia with Love (1964), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971).* Investment in the latest: $7,000,000. "We spend a lot of money," says Saltzman. "You see it and you feel it. The physical size is there. It isn't done with mirrors. I think a lot of the appeal of a Bond movie is that you know that this...
...pond on a crocodile and alligator farm in Jamaica. Since crocs are sluggish once they are fed, 86 of the monsters, specially selected for size and meanness, were starved for three months, just so they could stay awake and snap their jaws with appropriate conviction. How does Bond, who has been placed by Mr. Big on a little island in the middle, escape? He throws them some chicken heads, which were supposed to attract the killers to himself, and while the crocodiles are dining, walks across their backs to shore. Of course...
...another Jamaican scene, Bond commandeers a double-decker bus and races away from Mr. Big's black thugs. A low-lying bridge shears the top off the bus and it lands neatly atop the pursuing car. Cost to prepare the bus, including two extra top decks, and shoot the episode: $500,000. In one bizarre scene in New Orleans, a Bond colleague stands watching a funeral. It is his own, and as the coffin is carried up to him, he is stabbed by Mr. Big's men. He falls, and the bottom of the coffin opens to take...