20 James Bond References You Might Have Missed In Die Another Day

5. The Hong Kong Yacht Club

In The Man With The Golden Gun, Roger Moore's James Bond trails Maud Adams's Andrea Anders from Macau to Hong Kong onboard a hydrofoil after she has acquired some golden bullets for that film's villain, Francisco Scaramanga. They come to dock at The Hong Kong Yacht Club, where Andrea is collected by a dark green Rolls Royce, whilst Double-0 Seven is waylaid by his former secretary and current field agent, Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) who is clearly smitten with him.

In Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan's Double-0 Seven escapes from a secure hospital ward aboard a British naval frigate and jumps overboard. Coming ashore in Hong Kong, James Bond - soaking wet and complete with a beard and bedraggled hospital pyjamas - pulls himself out of the water at The Hong Kong Yacht Club.

Although this sequence was filmed in the Paddock Tank at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, as opposed to the on-location footage in the ninth Bond film, Bond's knowing glance at the yacht club sign behind him indicates that he may be recalling the earlier event, perhaps not knowing whether Goodnight might waylay him again.