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- This was the first Bond film to be based on one of Fleming's short stories, instead of on a novel. Interestingly, there are several scenes in this film lifted from other Fleming tales. The assault on the smugglers' boat and warehouse is lifted intact from a short story entitled 'Risisco'. The sequence featuring Bond and the girl being towed through the coral is actually lifted from the climax from "Live & Let Die."
- Sheena Easton becomes the first vocalist to appear during the credits sequence of a James Bond film.
- Roger Moore announced that he was reluctant to play 007 again, but was lured back at the last moment for an undisclosed sum. To avoid any continuity problems associated with a new actor playing Bond, the scriptwriters included a scene in which 007 visits the grave of his murdered wife.
- Director John Glen (II) had previously edited and was second-unit director on a number of previous Bond films.
- The pre-title sequence is a dig at Kevin McClory, who owns the rights to Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE. The unnamed man in a wheelchair is obviously mean to be Blofeld, and disposing of him so early was producer Albert R. Broccoli's way of saying that the success of 007 did not depend on him.
- To enter the identigraph booth, Q enters a four digit code. Those four digits were the first four notes to the chorus of "Nobody Does It Better", the theme to a previous Bond film . James Bond responds by entering the final three notes.
- Stuntman Paolo Rigon died during the filming of the bobsled chase.
- Bernard Lee (I), who played M for the last eleven 007 films, died while preparing for the role. As a mark of respect, Broccoli refused to recast the role, changing the script to say that M was on leave
- One of the Bond girls was played by Tula Cossey, who was later revealed to be a former male.
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