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This may be Roger Moore’s quintessential outing as James Bond, but The Spy Who Loved Me suffers from a wretched co-starring performance from Barbara Bach (Mrs. Ringo Starr) and a boisterous, sloppily choreographed climax on the sea. This is also the Bond that begins to tilt the franchise’s tone from ‘tongue-in-cheek’ to slapstick, thanks primarily to the introduction of the goofy Jaws (Richard Kiel) character. Marvin Hamlisch’s score is painfully dated, but Carly Simon provides a terrific title song with the classic “Nobody Does It Better.”

Oscar Nominations: Song, Score, Art Direction