A View To A Kill, 1985/Roger Moore

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A View To A Kill, 1985/Roger Moore
A white padded Bognor ski jacket with concealed zip and press stud fastening, the zip fastner in the form of a letter B, the left sleeve embroidered in silver thread with the Bognor logo, four patch pockets with velcro fastening, (lacking detachable hood), with pink, grey and cream checked cotton lining, labelled inside Bognor, the label additionally inscribed in black ballpoint pen R. Moore No.1 -- purchased for Roger Moore as James Bond in the 1985 United Artists/Eon production A View To A Kill; accompanied by a black and white reproduction of a corresponding still and a letter concerning the provenance from the film's Wardrobe Supervisor, Tiny Nicholls (3)

Literature

FOULKES, Nick The Style Secrets Of James Bond in Dressed To Kill, James Bond The Suited Hero edited by Colin Woodhead, Paris/New York: Flammarion, 1996, p.89 (illus.)

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Lot Essay

Roger Moore as James Bond is seen wearing an identical ski jacket in the opening pre-title sequence set in Siberia and filmed at a glacier in Iceland and in Vadrietta di Scersen in the Swiss Alps. The specialist camerman for this sequence was the veteran Olympic skier, Willy Bognor, who also shot the George Lazenby bobsleigh chase in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969, as well as the ski sequences in For Your Eyes Only, 1981 [see lot 276].

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