The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

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Sheikh Hosein: “Well, what can I offer you? Sheep’s eyes? Dates? Vodka martini?”

Overview: James Bond sinks Karl Stromberg’s plan to use captured British and Soviet missile subs to touch off World War III (thereby forcing mankind to live underwater). Speaking of liquids, 007’s favorite libation makes its return. We also find out Bond isn’t the only spy with a signature drink.

What does Bond drink?

• Many of Bond’s drinks in this film are implied. When 007 is with the girl in the Austrian log cabin, two bottles of what appears to be German white wine are sitting on the table. Two empty glasses are also noticable.
• At the Mojaba club, Bond sits at the bar. When Anya Amasova joins him, he aks “Buy you a drink, Major Amasova...or may I call you XXX?” When the barman takes their orders, Bond shows off his knowledge about Anya by saying, “The lady will have a Bacardi on the rocks.” Not to be outdone, she responds, “For the gentleman, vodka martini, shaken, not stirred.” Bond replies “Touché.” After a brief conversation, 007 leaves without having received his drink.
• When Bond is speaking with Kalba, Anya appears with the two cocktails. She remarks to 007, “You forgot your drink, Mr. Bond.” He raises the martini, replies “Thank you, na zdorovje,” and takes a sip. Later, Bond finishes the drink off, and asks Anya, “Another?” When she shakes her head in the negative, he leaves to find Kalba. As he walks, Bond places his empty martini glass on a passing waiter’s tray. (The tray holds two glasses of red wine, a glass of white wine, and what appears to be a whiskey on the rocks.)
• When Bond and Anya are on the train, he asks “How about a nightcap on the company—my company,” and slides back the door to his room, revealing a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket sitting on his bed. Two champagne flutes are nearby. Later, Bond uses the champagne bottle as a weapon against Jaws.
• When Naomi arrives to fly Bond and Anya to meet Stromberg, 007 asks her “Can we offer you a drink before we go?”
• A bottle of champagne in an ice bucket and two glasses are sitting on a table in Bond and Anya’s hotel suite in Sardinia. It’s safe to assume that Bond and Anya shared the bottle, which appears to be open.
• Stromberg’s escape pod is well-stocked, with two decanters (an amber liquor and a clear liquor) and a bottle of champagne in a golden ice bucket. There are also two champagne flutes. When Bond finds (and begins opening) the champagne, he remarks, “Huh, maybe I misjudged Stromberg. Any man who drinks Dom Perignon ’52 can’t be all bad!” Anya points her gun at 007 (intending to avenge her deceased lover), and says “The mission is over, commander.” But just as she is about to pull the trigger, Bond pops the cork, breaking the tension. (As he holds the bottle, the champagne fizzes out over his hand.)

It’s not just for happy hour anymore: As mentioned earlier, Bond breaks a bottle of champagne over Jaws’ back during the fight on the train.

Other people’s drinks:

• While difficult to make out, it appears that General Gogol has a bottle of vodka on his desk in his KGB office. Later, the same bottle is seen on the desk he is using in MI6’s Egyptian headquarters.
• When Bond goes to Fekkesh’s home, two decanters of liquor are seen next to a picture of Fekkesh.
• Stromberg is a wine drinker. When he first appears, he has a crystal carafe of red wine and an empty glass on his dinner table. Later, when Bond comes to put him out of business, Stromberg is sipping a glass of white wine, with the bottle nearby in an ice bucket.
• At the Mojaba club, Kalba has a snifter of brandy on the table in front of him. A bottle of champagne in an ice bucket is briefly glimpsed behind him.
• During the chase in the Lotus Esprit, a car with Jaws and several of Stromberg’s henchmen goes over a cliff. A Sardinian man is seen quietly enjoying a glass of red wine (from a large bottle) as the car suddenly plunges into his house.
• And so it begins. A man (played by Victor Tourjansky) is seen drinking from a bottle of red wine on the beach in Sardinia. When Bond drives the submersible Lotus out of the water and up the beach, the man does a double-take, looking at his bottle of wine with a bewildered expression. Better known as a second unit director on such films as The Eiger Sanction, Tourjansky will perform this same gag in two subsequent Moore films.

Memorable quotes:

• After Anya uses the van to smash Jaws into the wall of the Egyptian ruin, she quips “Shaken, not stirred!”

Product placement: Dom Perignon gets a prominent mention. Bloody Mary fans will notice a bottle of Tabasco® sauce on Stromberg’s dinner table (which raises the question, exactly where was he going to find more after he destroyed the surface world?).

By the book: Shares a title with The Spy Who Loved Me (1962).

Total: Four. Some white wine, a vodka martini, and at least two glasses of champagne, with one bottle identified as a Dom Perignon ’52.