A View to a Kill (opens in a new tab), Sir Roger Moore (opens in a new tab)‘s last outing as James Bond was definitely not his finest hour, although it is memorable for a few reasons, including Christopher Walken (opens in a new tab)‘s turn as the psychotic bad guy Max Zorin, Duran Duran’s great title theme (opens in a new tab) and the appearance of the incomparable Grace Jones (opens in a new tab) as Mayday, Zorin’s accomplice. She may not be the greatest actress but she’s never anything less than a striking presence and is definitely not a lady to mess with, as British chat show presenter Russell Harty (opens in a new tab) infamously found out (opens in a new tab).

The film features a climactic fight atop the Golden Gate Bridge (opens in a new tab) in San Francisco, which sees Bond and Stacey Sutton (Tanya Roberts (opens in a new tab)) face off against Zorin and his henchmen in the Zorin Industries airship. Special effects supervisor John Richardson filmed a series of sequences featuring stunt performers on top of the actual bridge that were later matched up against green-screen shots of the actors. This was the first Bond film to have its premiere held outside the UK; it opened on the 22nd of May, 1985 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts (opens in a new tab).

The excellent artwork depicting an action scene on the Eiffel Tower in Paris (which is not exactly accurate in terms of events in the film) is by the American poster artist Dan Goozee who was also responsible for the other ‘legs’ advance and the final US one sheet which features another action-packed scene. He also worked on the posters for a few other Bond posters, including Moonraker and Octopussy, as well as several other classic posters designs from the 1980s. See the other posters I’ve collected by him.