Indeed, you could make a case that the 007 adventure, released 40 years ago this week in the U.S. (on July 13, 1977), was the best of the late Roger Moore's James Bond movies, with perhaps the best pre-credit sequence (that ski jump!), one of the best cars (that Lotus Esprit that converts into a submarine), a great henchman (Richard Kiel's Jaws), and an even better Bond girl -- Barbara Bach's Agent XXX, a.k.a. Anya Amasova, who's every bit as skilled, smart, and lethal a spy as 007.
