Never Say Never Again

Amos Stevens

New Member
Never Say Never Again [1983]

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1983
Running Times: 121 134 mins
Format: Technicolor Super Panavision 35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: 70mm 6-Track Dolby

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Taliafilm / Woodcote / Producers Sale Organization / European Banking Company / MFI
Furniture Group / Midland Montagu Leasing / First National Bank of Chicago / B.A. Turner / Manufacturer Hanover Limited / Warner Brothers
Executive Producer: Kevin McClory
Producer: Jack Schwartzman
Associate Producer: Michael Dryhurst
Production Supervisor: Alexander De Grunwald
Production Co-Ordinator: Gladys Pearce
Production Manager [UK]: John David
Production Manager [Bahamas]: Malcolm Christopher
Production Manager [France]: Jean-Pierre Avice
Production Manager [Spain]: Arnold Ross, Apolinar Rabinal
2nd Unit Unit Manager: Evzen Kolar

SCRIPT
Script: Lorenzo Semple Jr
Additional Dialogue: Dick Clement, Ian Le Frenais [uncredited]
Novel: Thunderball by Ian Fleming
Story: Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ian Fleming

DIRECTION
Director: Irvin Kerschner
Underwater Sequences Director: Ricou Browning
2nd Unit Director: Michael Moore
Assistant Director: David Tomblin, Roy Button, Carlos Gil, Gregory Dark, Steve Harding

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Douglas Slocombe
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Paul Beeson
Underwater Sequences Photography: Robert Steadman
Aerial Sequences Photography: Peter Allwork
Camera Operator: Chic Waterson, Wally Byatt
Underwater Camera Operator: Jordan Klein, Michael Ferris
Gaffer: Martin Evans
Best Boy: Ray Meehan
Grips / Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd

EDITING
Supervising Editor: Robert Lawrence
Editor: Ian Crafford
Additional Editor: Peter Musgrave

MUSIC
Music: Michel Legrand
Lyrics: Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman [All Time High]
Song Perfortmed By: Lani Hall
Music Editor: Valerie Lesser
Scoring Mixer: Keith Grant

SOUND
Sound Recording: Simon Kaye, David Allen
Sound Re-Recording: Bill Rowe
Sound Editor: Norman Wanstall, John Poyner

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Robin Grantham
Make Up For Connery: Ilona Herman
Costume Designer: Charles Knode
Wardrobe: Ron Beck

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Visual Effects Supervisor: David Dryer
Special Effects Supervisor: Ian Wingrove
Special Effects Technicians: Dave Beavis, David Harris, David watkins, Trevor Neighbor, Roger Nicholls, Branwell McClory
TV / Computer / Electric Effects: Ira Curtis Coleman
Electronic Graphics Supervisor: Rob Dickenson (Dickinson?)
Opticals: Apogee

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Philip Harrison, Stephen Grimes
Supervising Art Director: Leslie Dilley
Art Director: Michael White, Roy Stannard
Set Decorator: Peter Howitt
Title Designer: R/Greenberg Associates

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Pamela Mann Francis
Production Continuity: Jack Smith
Production Assistant: Linda Rabin, Jill Bender, Beatrice Geffriaud
Technical Advisor: Guy Alimo
Consultant to Producers: Talia Shire Schwartzman
Assistant Accountant: Alex Matcham
Secretary to Connery and Dryhurst: Gail Samuelson

LOCATIONS
Locations: The Bahamas; Malta; Spain; UK; Villefranche sur mer, France; Elstree Studios, UK
Location Consultant: Anne Glanfield

STUNTS
Stunt Consultant: Glenn Randall
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Vic Armstrong
Divemaster: Gavin McKinney
Motorcycle Stunts: Mike Runyard
Stunts: Roy Alon, Dickie Beer, Marc Boyle, Edward Garcia Garcia, Frank Henson, Billy Horrigan,
Wendy Leech
Martial Arts Instructor: Steven Seagal

CAST
Sean Connery [James Bond]
Klaus Maria Brandauer [Largo]
Max Von Sydow [Ernst Stavro Blofeld]
Barbara Carrera [Fatima Blush]
Kim Basinger [Domino Petachi]
Bernie Casey [Felix Leiter]
Alec McCowen [Q / Algy]
Edward Fox [M]
Pamela Salem [Miss Moneypenny]
Rowan Atkinson [Nigel Small-Fawcett]
Valerie Leon [lady in Bahamas]
Milow Kirek [Kovacs]
Pat Roach [Lippe]
Anthony Sharpe [Lord Ambrose]
Prunella Gee [Patricia]
Gavin O'Herlihy [Jack Petachi]
Ronald Pickup [Elliott]
Robert Rietty, Guido Adorni [Italian ministers]
Vincent Marzello [Culpepper]
Christopher Reich [Number Five]
Billy J. Mitchell [Captain Pedersen]
Manning Redwood [General Miller]
Anthony Van Laast [Kurt]
Saskia Cohen Tanugi [Nicole]
Sylvia Marriott [French minister]
Dan Meaden [bouncer at casino]
Michael Medwin [doctor at Shrublands]
Lucy Hornak [nurse at Shrublands]
Derek Deadman [porter at Shrublands]
Joanna Dickens [cook at Shrublands]
Tony Alleff [auctioneer]
Paul Tucker [ship's steward]
Brenda Kempner [masseuse]
Jill Meager [receptionist at health spa]
John Stephen Hill [communications officer]
Wendy Leech [girl hostage]
Roy Bowe [ship's captain]

SUMMARY

SPECTRE agents steal a pair of Tomahawk cruise missiles from a US air force in Britain and threaten to detonate them if the NATO powers don't give in to their demands. British Intelligence reactivate the disgraced "00" agents and send an ageing James Bond back into the field to locate the weapons and kill SPECTRE Number 1, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Though it's great to see Sean Connery back as Bond, this really is a rather dull and uninspiring effort. That it remakes one of the least impressive of the Bond films, the lacklustre Thunderball [1965], should be warning enough. Still, Connery is on top-notch form and he's worth the price of admission alone - but only just.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Brothers

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Finland
Rating: K-16

France
Rating: U

Germany
Rating: 12

Norway
Rating: 15

Sweden
Rating: 15 [cut by 13 minutes]

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG

TIMELINE

1983
October
7: USA - theatrical release

November
30: France - theatrical release

December
16: Finland - theatrical release
16: Sweden - theatrical release
16: UK - theatrical release

1984
January
20: Denmark - theatrical release
20: West Germany - theatrical release

1986
December
25: UK TV [ITV - Thames]

1999
August
12: UK TV [ITV]

2002
April
27: USA - television broadcast [on ABC]

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Warhead - early title
Agente 007, mai dire mai - Italian title
Mai dire mai - Italian title
James Bond 007 - Sag niemals Nie - German title

LINKS

REMAKE OF
Thunderball [1965]

SEE ALSO
Dr No [1962]
From Russia with Love [1963]
Goldfinger [1964]
Thunderball [1965]
You Only Live Twice [1967]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service [1969]
Diamonds Are Forever [1971]
Live and Let Die [1973]
The Man with the Golden Gun [1974]
The Spy Who Loved Me [1977]
Moonraker [1979]
For Your Eyes Only [1981]
Octopussy [1983]
A View to a Kill [1985]
The Living Daylights [1987]
Licence to Kill [1989]
Goldeneye [1995]
Tomorrow Never Dies [1997]
The World Is Not Enough [1999]
Die Another Day [2002]
King Kongs Faust [1985]
Trainspotting [1996]
The James Bond Story [1999]

REFERENCES

Daily Star 17 December 1983 p.16
review

Hoffman's p.258
review, credits

Photoplay January 1984 pp.29 - 34
illustrated review

Sean Connery [Robert Tanitch] pp.150-152
illustrated article

Search for Information on Film and Television database [British Film Institute]
credits, timeline

The Sun 14 December 1983 p.15
illustrated review
 
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