A View to a Kill

Bond recovers a microchip in Siberia that can survive an electromagnetic pulse, made by industrialist Max Zorin's company. He investigates Zorin at a horse sale in France with Sir Godfrey Tibbett and finds the horses win on drugs. Zorin spots the spy, has Tibbett killed and tries to drown Bond. The product of Nazi steroid experiments, Zorin is brilliant and unstable. His plan is to blow up a mine under the Hayward and San Andreas faults, flooding Silicon Valley so he can corner the microchip market. Bond teams up with geologist Stacey Sutton. Zorin's bodyguard May Day, abandoned by him in the mine, helps Bond haul out the bomb and dies in the blast. The final fight is atop the Golden Gate Bridge, and Zorin falls.

1. Behind the scenesBowie said no

   David Bowie turned down Max Zorin: he didn't want to spend five months watching his stunt double fall off cliffs. Sting was approached too before Christopher Walken signed on.

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2. CameoDolph Lundgren as an extra

   Dolph Lundgren was on set visiting his girlfriend, Grace Jones. Director John Glen put him in as a KGB agent in the racetrack scene.

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3. Behind the scenesDuran Duran asked for it

   Bassist John Taylor, a bit drunk at a party, asked Broccoli when he'd get someone decent to do a theme song. Duran Duran's song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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