Top 5 Stunts
5. Dangling out of a plane - The Living Daylights
The climax of Timothy Dalton's first outing sees him and a baddie grappling with each other while clutching on to a net which was hanging out of the back of a plane. The stuntmen did it for real, but hadn't anticipated the turbulence, and nearly couldn't hang on.
4. Dam dive - GoldenEye
This impressive bungee jump is one of the first things that we see in GoldenEye, and, though meant to be in Russia, was actually performed on the Versasca Dam in Switzerland. It's a suitably spectacular start to the Brosnan quartet.
3. Freefall fisticuffs - Moonraker
This opening sequence of Moonraker involves Bond and returning baddie Jaws duking it out in mid-air for one parachute. It's incredibly filmed, and actually required something like 80 separate real jumps to shoot. Pity it's all but ruined by the punchline - Jaws survives by landing on a circus tent. That's Moonraker for you.
2. Crocodile stepping stones - Live and Let Die
You'd think they would just use fake floating crocodiles, but that would be too mundane: Bond's escape from the crocodile farm in Roger Moore's debut actually involved a poor guy (the actual owner of said farm) running across real, living reptiles. Luckily, all he lost was a shoe.
1. Bridge jump - The Man With the Golden Gun
Another example in the Moore era of an incredible stunt almost being ruined in the quest for a cheap laugh, but the naff sound effect added to this spectacular corkscrew car leap can't disguise its daring. It was basically a one-shot deal, and even with so many variables involved, they nailed it, landing the car perfectly on the other side after rotating a full 360 degrees. It had never been done before.
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