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[jmarks4life]

There's so many I cant remember them all, but one that comes to mind is Connery in DAF when he was luckily saved from being creamated.

[AMC Hornet]

Stepping across the crocodiles - no question.

2nd - skiing off a cliff and deploying a Union Jack parachute

3rd - driving a motorcycle off a cliff to catch up with a plummeting airplane.

Granted, the latter was spoiled by dodgy special effects, but the audacity of the concept deserves some credit.

[Double Naught spy]

When Roger Moore narrowly avoids Bibi's bedroom advances in For Your Eyes Only.

 

Seriously though - I vote for when Connery managed to bluff his way out of being sliced up by Goldfinger's laser.   Ironically, this scene came on the heels of one of 007's worst escape attempts.  Getting tricked by a giant mirror?  Really?  Somewhere out there, Blofeld's white cat is saying, "Been there, done that!"

[Binyamin]

The Dr. No passageway crawl. He uses brains -- bypassing the electrified gates -- and brawn to crawl through hellish conditions and finish the mission. Truly excellent. 

[Ed83]

I love them all, but #1 for me has to be the BD Jet escape in Octopussy.  No matter how many times I see it, it never gets old seeing the hanger get blown to pieces as he flies narrowly through the doors.

 

#2 would be when Bond hijacks the C130 in The Living Daylights.  I love when he fires the plane up and revs it over the wheel chocks.

[tdalton]

As already mentioned, the crocodile escape in Live and Let Die.

[Professor Pi]

The underwater-harpoon gun-barefoot water ski-steal Sanchez's seaplane with millions in cash from Licence to Kill.  Never before or since has Bond been able to turn the odds from so bad with so many against him to so good without any gadgets and all due to his resourcefulness.

[S K Y F A L L]

Moon buggy.

[Hansen]

Sean : Laser scene in GF

George : the whole escape scene from Piz Gloria is near-perfect. His desperate look just before Tracy finds him at the ice-skating ring is truly emotional

Roger : the shoe-lace trick when climbing the Meteors in FYEO. Clever and tenseful scene. (honourable mention to the 2CV chase earlier in the film)

Tim : the barefoot chase in LTK

Daniel : hard to say as the only escape scenes I have in mind are in QoS. Let's say it is something to come

[thecasinoroyale]

So many greats!

I think that split second in `The Living Daylights` after defeating Whitaker and that guard bursts in ready to shoot him... and Pushkin arrives just in time! The look on Bonds face is fear I've never seen before, he thought he was a gonner!!

[jmarks4life]

So many greats!
I think that split second in `The Living Daylights` after defeating Whitaker and that guard bursts in ready to shoot him... and Pushkin arrives just in time! The look on Bonds face is fear I've never seen before, he thought he was a gonner!!

That was a good one

[tdalton]

I think that Bond's killing of Sanchez at the end of Licence to Kill could qualify as a great escape.  Bond's just crashed over a cliff on the back of a tanker truck and is then unarmed and at the business end of a machete, yet manages to get away relatively unscathed.

[hilly]

The SWLM ski jump
LALD crocodiles
FRWL- enticing Grant into opening the attaché case, thereby starting the fight on the train. Not an escape as such, but he is moments away from the start of a "slow and painful" death and talks his way out of it.
OHMSS- hanging from the cable car wire at Piz Gloria
DAF- The coffin

[WhatMeWorry?]

Bilbao bank escape (TWINE)

[jmarks4life]

I'm gonna change mine. I think the motorcycle escape with Bond & Wai Lin in TND was incredible, so I'm going with that.

Edited by jmarks4life, 14 June 2013 - 03:39 PM.

[jmarks4life]

The escape in TLD when Bond & Kara escape in Bond's Astin Martin then in Kara's cello is a cool escape too.

[trevanian]

Dalton's escape from the WAVEKREST in LTK. It's just about the only time I can recall being nervous in a Bond movie, and not knowing how he was going to get out of it when they cut his oxygen tube and have him surrounded underwater.

 

Probably the most thrilling moment outside of jet packs & Lil Nellies, along with the fun gypsy camp fight in FRWL. 

[The Shark]

Please return to B&B, trev. I'll buy you a delicatessen! In stainless steel!

[AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän]

Bonds ski escape from Piz Gloria. No gadgets or witty quips, just a man against the odds. Brilliantly choreographed, photographed and scored.

 

And its literary counterpart is one of Flemings greatest passages.

Edited by AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän, 25 June 2013 - 02:33 PM.

[Sir Godfrey]

Dalton's escape from the WAVEKREST in LTK. It's just about the only time I can recall being nervous in a Bond movie, and not knowing how he was going to get out of it when they cut his oxygen tube and have him surrounded underwater.

 

 

Yes ! A very exciting scene !

[trevanian]

Please return to B&B, trev. I'll buy you a delicatessen! In stainless steel!

Didn't know anyone cared.

 

Okay, will think about it once current couple articles are done. (will give me time to remember why it was I left in such a huff!)

[jmarks4life]

Dalton's escape from the WAVEKREST in LTK. It's just about the only time I can recall being nervous in a Bond movie, and not knowing how he was going to get out of it when they cut his oxygen tube and have him surrounded underwater.

 
 
Yes ! A very exciting scene !

I have to agree, when I first saw that I was nervous too. Lol!!