James Bond: Every Roger Moore Movie Ranked Worst To Best

After the first two films of the Roger Moore era performed relatively lukewarmly at the box office, producer Cubby Broccoli resolved to go all in on the third with a spectacular cinematic extravaganza to remind the world of just how huge 007 could be. With The Spy Who Loved Me, they achieved all that and then some!

Harkening back to the high-stakes plots of the Connery films, Bond faces off against a seafaring madman set on world destruction, with the ultimate aim of starting a new civilisation under the sea. It’s a truly bombastic epic, and the prototypical globe-trotting adventure, taking Bond from the snowy peaks of Austria to the sands of Egypt and the coasts of Italy.

It’s difficult to think of a fault, packed as the film is with iconic 007 elements. The majestic pre-title sequence, Carly Simon’s classic theme, Richard Kiel’s towering henchman Jaws, Barbara Bachs’ buxom Russian agent, Stromberg’s gigantic lair, cars, choppers, Pyramids, sharks; the producers throw absolutely everything at us to revive James Bond as a global force, and Roger Moore’s hero is the star of it all.

True, the story is merely the first in a long line of You Only Live Twice retreads, but when the production is as lavish, iconic, and as much of a behemoth of cinematic thrills as this one, that can easily be forgiven.

Best Moore Moment: “Keeping the British end up, Sir.” Bond being inadvertently caught by his superiors in bed with his latest conquest at the end of the film was a staple of the Moore era, and it’s never better than here. With the trademark raise of an eyebrow and a cool double-entendre, Sir Roger effortlessly solidifies Bond as the man all men wish they were.