Here is what is hopefully the final draft - if there's anything you want to see modified, now's your chance to shout it from the rooftops!
GUN BARREL OPENS ON -
Night. Water laps against a cliff, then we're on a car tire moving down a road and we're ...
THE UKRAINEA single car winds its way along the coastroads of the Ukraine, pulls over on a grassy verge and a man climbs out. We cannot make out who he is, but he walks along a path towards a building on the edge of a cliff - this is the Swallow's Nest and, for the past forty years, it has been off-limits to the public. Which makes it a perfect meeting place --
-- for SPECTRE! The man removes a few floorboards and removes a case from the space underneath them. Inside the case is a radio that requires it be wound up by hand to work. The man winds the radio up and speaks into it, opening a channel to SPECTRE HQ - at the other end, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Anthony Dawson version - though he is uncredited in the title sequence) picks up a phone and speaks to the man.
The man explains to Blofeld that he has been approached by certain individuals within the Soviet Army about SPECTRE assisting in a military coup to overthrow and replace the leadership. Blofeld questions as to how the coup would benefit SPECTRE - the leaders of the coup have offered SPECTRE diplomatic immunity.
Blofeld decides he will consider the overture and be in contact with the man in the future with further instructions. The man puts the phone down, replaces it into the case and seals it under the floorboards again as we -
THE NETHERLANDSBond is enjoying a romp under the covers in Rotterdam with a stunning blonde in the aftermath of a mission. In the afterglow, as he smokes a cigarette, Bond declares he needs to leave, dresses and heads out to the Aston Martin which is parked in the street outside. There, he is taken by surprise by four Nordic thugs - although he puts up a fight, he is thrown into the back of the Aston Martin along with two Nordic thugs - whilst a third and fourth sit in the front.
Whilst driving over the Van Brienenoordbrug, Bond removes his cigarette case from his pocket and leans forward to ask the driver and the man in the passenger seat if they'd - "Care for a smoke?". As he does so, he presses a button -
Smoke fills the car - the rear of the cab ejects, Bond is shot out the back of the car on an ejector seat. The seat drifts downwards, lands in a river - as the car SMASHES INTO A PILLAR on the bridge and EXPLODES!
Bond swims for the banks and hauls himself out of the water -
- and off the lapping of the water against the bank, we transit into a TITLE SEQUENCE designed by Maurice Binder. We are shown an abstract journey through Russian history - a girl emerging from a Faberge egg, covered in jewels, writhing in time to the music; the silhouette of James Bond, 007, making his way through a snowstorm; vast swathes of red - silhouetted women, holding guns, reclining on a hammer and sickle, caressing the barrels of their guns. All to a themetune by Johnny Cash -
CB.n PRESENTS
SEAN CONNERY
as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
in
CBN MEMBERS'
MY ENEMY'S ENEMY
Eartha Kitt
Charmain Carr
Steve McQueen
Angela Lansbury
David Prowse
Eunice Gayson
Walter Gotell
Wilhelmina Cooper
Peter Ustinov
Lois Maxwell
Desmond Llewelyn
with
Bernard Lee as M
"My Enemy's Enemy" sung by Johnny Cash
"My Enemy's Enemy" composed by Johnny Cash and John Barry
Soundtrack by John Barry
Directed by Terence Young
Titles Designed by Maurice Binder
ENGLANDA camera moves through the crowded casino - and finds a poker game in progress. A handsome blonde man holds his cards - looks at the other players as one of them, with an unmistakeable voice, raises the stakes. 'And your name is?' the blonde man asks, with a Greek accent, a familiar accent that we recognise - as we recognise him. It's the man from Swallow's Nest in the Ukraine.
The voice doesn't respond - a woman does: "His name is Bond, James Bond -" The woman is Syvlia Trench, the man with the unmistakeable voice is James Bond, Agent 007 of Her Majesties Secret Service. Bond returns her smile - there's unfinished business between them, that much is clear - "Sylvia. It's been a while -"
Time passes - the game finishes, Bond looses against the blonde man and goes to pick up his coat. He finds Sylvia at the coat-check too and offers to drive her home. "I don't think so, James -" He walks after her - "Perhaps you can help me - that man I was playing against: his name, please?" Sylvia cracks a smile: "His name is Timotheos Spangopolous, Greek businessman - in import and exports, like yourself".
Bond cracks a smile in return, "I sincerely doubt that". Bond explains that he thinks Spangopolous was cheating and Sylvia admits that he always wins. "Now, about that lift?" Bond flashes Sylvia a charming smile, Sylvia looks like she's trying to make her mind up -
THE NEXT DAY and Bond slips out of bed (whether it's to leave Sylvia there asleep, or not, is unclear) and arrives at the office where he tosses his hat onto a coatrack, flirts with Moneypenny and then goes before M. M spreads two pictures out on the desk before Bond - they're both of the blonde man from the casino or, at least, they both appear to be of the blonde man from the casino but in each picture he's wearing a different suit.
M explains that the man on the left is Jack Spang, a Swiss-American homeopath, and the person on the right is Brion Spangarov, a Russian pyschiatrist. Bond mentions that they both look suspiciously like a Greek businessman he met the previous night - which intrigues M.
MI6 are suspicious about the connection between Spang and Spangarov and want Bond to investigate this, moreso now that Bond has encountered a third person of identical appearance and of a similar name.
Bond visits Q before he departs on his mission - the wreckage of the Aston Martin sat in the background of the vast room. Q presents Bond with his gadgets, with the usual quips - a device filled gadget watch, a packet of explosive cigarettes and a bug detector. He also introduces Bond to the Ford Gran Turismo Mark III which MI6 are investigating using as a replacement for the Aston Martin - it has been equipped with all the usual refinements (a la Goldfinger).
In the background, one of the gadgets that is demonstrated is a viola that is converted into a crossbow - as a technician works on the device in the background and fires a bolt into a mannequin, Q is introducing the Ford Gran Turismo Mark III and asks Bond what he thinks of the refinements: 'Like music to my ears,' quips Bond.
Q prepares a kit for Bond for his cover identity - but Bond asks for the cover identity of Sandy Bizet, Shoe Salesman. Q points out that the Soviets blew that cover several years ago. Bond nods - because that's exactly why he wants it.
EAST GERMANYBond arrives in West Germany via the Berlin Tegel Airport and drives across the border at a checkpoint to East Germany using the Sandy Bizet identity. There, he checks into a hotel, scans the room for bugs and goes to eat food at a simple restaraunt. As he walks back to the hotel, he is stalked by a man in a trenchcoat - he checks into his hotel room, scans the room for bugs and finds out that one has now been planted. He turns the lights off, checks that the man is standing across the road from the hotel, goes into the bathroom and turns the shower on -
The man in the trenchcoat creeps into the hotel room, but Bond has hidden in the bathroom and gets the drop on him. The pair fight in the hotel room, the furnishings are demolished and both men are bruised but Bond gets the upperhand and knocks the man out. The man comes round to find that he has been tied to one of the sole remaining chairs in the room -
Bond is sat on the bed with his Walther PPK in his hands. It's quickly revealed that the man, Yuri, is KGB and that the Sandy Bizet identity did what it was supposed to do - bring Bond's arrival in East Germany to the attention of the authorities. Bond tells Yuri that he wants to speak to a person in authority - and Yuri agrees.
Bond and Yuri leave the hotel and climb into his car - a packed out banger by any definition - and the two agents drive through the city. But, as they cross a bridge, the car is stopped by armed police. Supposedly an armed security checkpoint, it's actually an ambush and Yuri is shot between the eyes. Bond, strafed by gunfire, makes it to the edge of the bridge and throws himself over into the river -
Armed soldiers in a boat search the water by the bridge but he's actually hiding underneath in an air pocket under a drain, holding onto the metal girders. Blood dripping down from his wounded leg eventually gives him away and he's hauled from the water, captured and knocked unconscious.
Bond comes round to discover that he has been tied to a post in the centre of a warehouse - there is a skylight casting a spotlight over Bond and a chair that has been positioned across from him. A door to the warehouse is slid open and a figure enters, slowly crosses to the chair, and takes a seat. The woman introduces herself as Marna Krutch, a Colonel in the KGB.
She explains that Yuri wasn't KGB - but still demands to know what Bond is in the country to do. Bond remains tight-lipped, he doesn't entirely trust Krutch, and stands up to her interrogation techniques (think of something suitably like the torture sequence in CR, but suitably safe for sixties cinema) before a cannister is thrown into the room - smoke fills the warehouse, obscuring Bond's view, there is the sounds of gunfire and we can make out soldiers in gasmasks moving through the smoke.
Marna vanishes and Bond is soon untied by a man in a Soviet Army uniform who hands Bond a gasmask and escorts him from the building, helping him into a more up-scale car which is driven through the streets towards Schonefield Airport -
LENINGRADBond is placed onto a plane and taken to Leningrad where he is introduced to General Gogol, the Head of the KGB. Gogol's 'interrogation' technique is much more civil than Marna Krutch's. Gogol apologises for Krutch, feeds Bond and pours him a glass of wine which Bond cautiously accepts - "... after all, a man who knows the right temperature to serve a Dom Perignon can't be all bad". Bond explains his reason for heading to Russia - the identical triplet of Spang, Spangarov and Spangopolous - and Gogol agrees that the Soviets are not behind the operation and do not know who is.
As the discussion comes to a close, Gogol agrees to have the KGB work with Bond ("My enemy's enemy is my friend ..."). Gogol will arrange a cover for Bond with unlimited travel clearance, allowing Bond to move across the borders whenever he needs to.
First stop? The clinic in St. Moritz that Jack Spang works at.
SWITZERLANDBond checks into the clinic and he is put through a health check by a beautiful young Swiss nurse called Gretel. Gretel clearly falls for Bond's brutish charms, blushing as he removes his shirt and she takes his pulse and listens to his heart - explaining what naturopathic treatments are avaliable - including a massage. Bond tries to divert the conversation onto Spang but Gretel manages to keep the conversation on-topic.
Later, advised that he needs to relax his muscles, Bond enters the steam-room which is full of steam - and climbs into the roof, crawling along a ventilation shaft and dropping down into Spang's office. Bond searches Spang's papers, finds an itinerary of a series of hiking trips that all pass through the same location - and a list of the people who are on the hiking trips, all men with Russian sounding names. Bond escapes from the office, back into the the ventilation ducts, moments before Spang steps into his office.
Spang looks round, with the sense that someone has been inside the office - as we believe that Bond's investigation has gone on unnoticed, Spang notices a fingerprint on the ceiling next to the hatch that Bond escaped through. He's been caught! Spang lifts up the phone - "Mr Szasz, you're needed".
Bond sits at the communal meal later, eats some watery soup made out of nettles or water cress (either way, it's not appetising) and realises that a tall, muscle-bound orderly is keeping a tight watch on him. Bond smiles as Gretel enters, waves her over and asks her about the Russian names on the list - she points the men out: they're all muscle-bound, physically fit men (think Red Grant). Bond is even more curious and brings up the possibility of joining the hiking trips that he heard one of the other clinic patients talking about - but Gretel says that the trips are invitation only and personally overseen by Doctor Spang himself.
Bond wangles an introduction to Spang and asks about the hiking trips. Spang shoots Bond's invitation down point-blank straight away. But Bond doesn't accept that. Later that night, he sneaks through the corridors of the clinic - and drops a liquid into a glass of water of one of the Russian men, causing him to vomit and defecate profusely. Bond is almost discovered by Mr Szasz, but slips through a doorway and finds himself in the bedroom of Gretel - he begins to unzip the leisure suit as she looks on: "About that massage?" questions Bond.
Spang discovers that one of his hiking trip participants has been poisoned the following day which allows Bond to petition being allowed to join it once again. Spang is hesitant, but Mr Szasz whispers something in the naturopaths ear and Spang relents and allows Bond on the trip. The trip sets out an hour after breakfast and moves into the mountains - into a ravine where a hidden Nazi bunker has been discovered, filled with stolen treasures and bars of gold bullion.
Bond is held at gunpoint by Spang and Mr Szasz whilst the treasures and bullion are loaded into the hiking teams backpacks and begins the long process of being taken back to the clinic. Bond appears to have been locked inside the bunker, but uses one of his explosive cigarettes to blast the door of the bunker open - and allowing him to escape.
Catching up with the hiking party, Bond sets of an avalanche which comes down on the hikers and covers them. Bond smiles - but, unseen to Bond, a hand breaks the surface of the snow and Mr Szasz pulls himself out of the snow. The sole surviving member of the hiking party ...
GREECEBond checks into an offshore hotel after driving the Gran Turismo from the airport - a former castle, modelled on the castle of Bourtzi, converted by an international company. There, he puts himself before Spangopolous once again in the gaming arena. Spangopolous wins in the first game, but Bond's playing gets noticed by a rotund Greek man named Zographos - a professional gambler who also suspects that the younger Greek man is also cheating.
“It was like this, Mr Bond.” Zographos had a precise way of speaking with the thin tips of his lips while his half-hard half-soft Greek eyes measured the reaction of his words on the listener… “The Russians are chess players. They are mathematicians. Cold machines. But they are also mad. The mad ones forsake the chess and the mathematics and become gamblers. Now, Mr Bond.” Zographos laid a hand on Bond`s sleeve and quickly withdrew it because he knew Englishmen, just as he knew the characteristics of every race, every race with money, in the world. "Now, although Mr Spangopolous is Greek, he plays like a Russian -"
“There are two gamblers… the man who lays the odds and the man who accepts them. The bookmaker and the punter. The casino and, if you like” – Mr Zographos`s smile was sly with the “shared secret” and proud with the right word – “The suckers.”Under Zographos' careful tutelage, Bond is eventually able to beat Spang at the game table which angers the Greek. But, as it is in public, he is gracious in defeat. At some point, Bond meets, flirts with, and is rebuffed by Spang's stunning African-American concubine, Miss Silhouette, when she performs a version of the movie's them on a stage.
At a masquerade ball the following evening - Spangopolous is dressed as the Red Death, Bond is dressed as Robin Hood and Miss Silhouette is dressed in a form fitting outfit. Bond dances with Miss Silhouette and she begins to warm to Bond, explaining that she's less of a lover than a professional companion (in short, she's a prostitute). Spangopolous cuts in and Bond watches him dancing with Miss Silhouette from the edge of the dancefloor -
An imposing figure dressed as a harlequin clown starts a fight with Bond and the fight, in full view of the participants who all think that this is part of the entertainment. In the confusion, Spangopolous and Miss Silhouette sneak out - and Bond is knocked out and hauled out of the ballroom, loaded onto a boat, tied up and taken to the airport. As he sits in the back of the boat, the harlequin clown removes his mask - to reveal that it is Mr Szasz.
Arriving at the airport, Bond is passed off as a mentally ill patient and loaded onto the plane. Bond groggily comes to, then struggles to break free from his bonds before he is loaded onto Spang's private plane by Viktor Szász; he finally manages to alert the airport officials, who realize the situation, but it's too late -- Szász runs down the loading area and the plane takes off, but Bond is no longer in the villain's clutches, Miss Silhouette having covertly loosened the ropes binding his wrists..
POLANDBond makes his way to the train station in Warsaw from where a train heads down a track and, at one point, gets diverted onto a private track to Spectreville Asylum. The asylum itself, designed by Ken Adams, is built into the side of a mountain, standing over a town by a river. Pulling a man dressed in scrubs into the bathroom, Bond knocks him out and swaps clothes - wheeling the man onto the train in a wheelchair pretending to be an orderly. The train leaves Warsaw, diverts onto the private stretch of track and Bond gets off - finds himself with a gun pointed at him, he is manhandled and injected with a drug that plunges him into unconsciousness.
Bond wakes up in the town beneath the Spectreville asylum itself, which would be set-up like a small Western ghost town with the asylum looming above it. The "inmates" of the asylum are roaming the ghost town, with Spangarov using the asylum building itself for his villainous activities. Bond is at first rather unsettled and confused when he wakes up in the middle of the dirt road that would run through the ghost town and finds the inmates roaming the town. He investigates the town itself (with a scene where he wanders into a saloon and an inmate standing in as the bartender asks him if he'd like a drink, to which Bond responds by walking out) for any sign of Spangarov, Spangopolous or their people - he finds only Miss Silhouette cowering inside a faux shop in the ghost town after Spangarov and his brother realised that she helped Bond to escape.
Bond frees Miss Silhouette and the two spend a few hours to recuperate before heading to the asylum itself to find Spang. Once there, he's snuck up on by Spangarov and his brother, who beat him to a pulp, after which Spangopolous (the mastermind out of the three brothers) gives him the grand speech about his villainous plans and how there's nothing Bond can do to stop him then - the gold and treasures have been recovered from Switzerland and used to fund a military coup in Russia. Spangarov rifles through Bond's pockets and finds the packet of explosive cigarettes - with a single cigarette remaining in the crumpled packet. The asylum director removes the cigarette to smoke, since Bond won't be needing them anymore, only to have it blow up when he lights it, killing him, and giving Bond a chance to escape.
Bond lures Spangopolous into the streets of the ghost town where they have an old fashioned duel - with Bond winning and shooting Spang dead. Returning to the Spectreville Asylum, he frees Miss Silhouette who has been locked in a room in the asylum guarded by Mr Szasz. Mr Szasz is killed in a fight with Bond - wherein Bond uses the gadget watch given to him by Q as a knuckle duster (smashing Mr Szasz' nose, he quips 'Glad to see it had it's use') - which allows Bond and Miss Silhouette escape.
LONDONM recieves a call from his counterpart in Russia, General Gogol, that Bond has stopped the Spang brothers and cut off the coup in its formative stages. The leaders of the coup have been 'dealt with'. Gogol explains that Bond and 'his friend' have left Poland. M hangs up - and asks Moneypenny where Bond is. "Taking in some mountain air, Sir -"
ST. VERANBond and Miss Silhouette are enjoying some rest and relaxation somewhere on the snow covered hills of Saint Veran, the third highest village in Europe. We encounter them post-coitally, Bond smoking a cigarette as the pair snuggle underneath a reindeer skin blanket -
Bond passes to the window, leans out of the window where a chilled bottle of champagne is resting in a window basket. He picks two glasses from a cabinet, pops the cork and pours - off the bubbles in the champagne, Bond: "Beautifully chilled ..."
We cut to:
THE END OF 'MY ENEMY'S ENEMY'
BUT
JAMES BOND WILL RETURN
IN
'YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE'
I shall need to make them clearer.
), but what if we recast the role and had her arc finished in the pre-titles. The reason I make the suggestion is that, even though I understand the difficulties of getting around the fact that the actress would not have been able to continue in the role anyway, the Bunt character was the one that actually killed Bond's wife, which makes me feel as though we should see Bond getting his resolution with her character on screen. It could be done in the PTS or very early on, making room for the Marna Krutch character to serve as Blofeld's right-hand for the bulk of the story (or whatever you ultimately had in mind for the character), while giving Bond a chance to get back at the person who was physically responsible for what happened to him at the end of OHMSS.
