20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

5. “When One Is In Egypt, One Should Delve Deeply Into Its Treasures.”

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Early in the production, it was envisaged that the gripping fight between Double-0 Seven and Sandor would take place in the Mummy Exhibit at The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, Egypt.

However, it was determined that it would cost far too much to replicate the exhibit on a soundstage at Pinewood Studios and so the idea was dropped. Instead, Bond battled Sandor both inside and on the rooftop garden of the Gayer-Anderson Museum, which showcases art in The City of the Living.

Nevertheless, the grand destruction that was intended for the Cairo mummy exhibit was realised soon afterwards, albeit in an Italian glass museum, when James Bond (Sir Roger Moore) battled the deadly Chang (Toshirō Suga) inside Hugo Drax’s (Michael Lonsdale’s) Venini Glass Museum in the following film, Moonraker.

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