Trivia
(A View To A Kill)

Two scenes in the shooting script never made it to the finished film:

1) After Bond has been arrested following his destructive pursuit of May Day through Paris, we were to have seen Bond being released from his prison cell and collecting his belongings at the police station front desk. The desk sergeant [who was to have been played by Albert Simons] would have handed Bond his collection of gadgets, singing his eyebrows on a cigarette lighter that concealed a powerful oxy-acetylene torch.

2) The second excised scene would have formed part of Bond's reconnaissance of Zorin's pumping station. Bond was due to have used the electronic snooping device created by Q [seen only briefly in the finished film, once when Bond arrives to see M and again when Q uses it to locate Bond and Stacey in the shower]. When the device is threatened by guard dogs, it sprays them, skunk-like, with a noxious liquid, and then gets stuck in a tunnel. Q later berates Bond for deserting "a fellow agent in the field."

Dolph Lundgren, then an unknown and the boyfriend of Grace Jones, appears very briefly as one of the KGB heavies who menace Zorin at the racetrack.

It has been suggested that the ski sequences in A View to a Kill helped to initiate the interest in snowboarding.

Bond's opening mission behind the Iron Curtain is the first time we actually see Bond at work on Soviet soil.

During the fire engine chase two crew members can be seen clutching a camera and hanging on to the back of the truck.

As May Day pushes the Rolls Royce into the lake, the cable pulling it is momentarily visible.

A boom mic can be seen reflected in a car window when Bond drives off in a taxi at the Eiffel Tower.

An impressively high score rate on the tottyometer this time out: he gets his end away with Kimberley Jones, May Day, Pola Ivanova and, right at the end of the film, Stacey Sutton. Curiously, he gets a chance with Sutton earlier in the film but opts instead to sleep in a chair watching over her as she sleeps.