20 Things You Didn't Know About A View To A Kill (1985)

7. Roger Moore Did It!

Proving that Double-0 Seven still had all of his vitality, cunning, and skill in Roger Moore's last adventure, the pre-credits sequence features the British agent’s daring escape from a Siberian facility after he has recovered a microchip from the frozen body of Double-0 Three.

Although Moore's scenes were shot on the significantly warmer soundstages of Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, whilst a team of stuntmen, professional skiers, and snowboarders ventured to Iceland and the Swiss Alps for filming, it is still an exciting sequence.

James Bond skis up behind a snowmobile-riding Soviet troop and attaches a hook to his belt, yanking the soldier off the vehicle when a grappling hook at the other end goes taut. If viewers listen carefully when the unfortunate Russian soldier is left dangling over the edge of a glacier, in amongst his panicked cries is the name “Roger Moore”!

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