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 (novel) manuscript Fleming had produced for a novel, being only 113 pages long. Fleming found the book the easiest for him to write, and apologised to his editor at Jonathan Cape for the ease. "The Spy Who Loved Me" has been described by Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett as Fleming's "most sleazy and violent story ever", which may have been indicative of his state of mind at the time. Fleming borrowed from his surroundings, as he had done with all his writing up to that point, to include places he had seen. One such location was a motel in the Adirondacks in