The Spy Who Loved Me (film) The Spy Who Loved Me (film) The Spy Who Loved Me is a 1977 British spy film, the tenth in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. Barbara Bach and Curt Jürgens co-star. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum. The film takes its title from Ian Fleming's novel "The Spy Who Loved Me", the tenth book in the James Bond series, though it does not contain any elements of the novel's plot. The storyline
The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack) Chopin crops up later, when Bond first meets Stromberg, as reportedly does an excerpt from Saint-Saëns' "The Aquarium" from "The Carnival of the Animals". Finally, Hamlisch cheekily segues his score into an excerpt from that of David Lean's 1962 film "Lawrence of Arabia" when Bond and Anya Amasova are wandering through the desert; according to a documentary on the DVD, this idea was originally a joke by one of the film editors who played the music over the dailies of the scene. It became a trend, with the subsequent two films in the series similarly referencing 'classic' film music within