Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small San Francisco firm of Shuman, Agnew & Co. Inc. in order to get salesmen who know how to deal with small investors. Now that common stocks are no longer a favored investment vehicle, brokerage firms are being forced to offer a variety of investment services, from handling tax-free bond funds to trading in commodities...
Plot seems snipped from previous installments. Bond tangles with female Russian spy: From Russia with Love. They team up against seagoing megalomaniac who captures nuclear subs belonging to both East and West and plans to destroy world: shades of Diamonds Are Forever. Lots of underwater stuff: Thunderball. Also skiing: On Her Majesty 's Secret Service. (Think about: Curt Jurgens, as megalomaniac, pronounces O07's name Bund. This hint he's crypto-Nazi? Farfetched, but can anything be too farfetched in a film like this...
Amphibian Bondmobile. Series getting awfully ingrown. Sexual innuendo coarser. In London HQ, Bond reported to be on assignment in Austria, meaning he's doing you-know-what in front of fireplace in Alpine hideaway. Thunders M: "Tell him to pull out-immediately!" Only moment of real wit: amphibian Bondmobile drives into sea and becomes two-seater submarine; it veers to elude underwater pursuers, but only after flashing turn signal-for the wrong direction...
...Bond girl, Barbara Bach. Very pretty, especially as seen in cushioned escape bubble. But dewy as a debutante ("Oh! James!"). Hard to believe her as dangerous spy. Where are the Honor Blackmans and Diana Riggs of yesteryear? Roger Moore, as Bond, a road-company Sean Connery. At least he's improvement on that instant-trivia question, George Lazenby...
...victims' spinal cords. Name: Jaws. Orthodontist's nightmare. Running gag is that each time he is dispatched-trapped in building cave-in, flung from speeding train, tossed into shark tank, even torpedoed-Jaws (Richard Kiel) implacably reappears. In his silly, mechanical, likable way, a perfect symbol for Bond films. They're attacked, dismissed, put out of mind, but keep coming back and back and back...