On this day in 1972, Guy Hamilton directed the boats leaping over Sheriff J.W. Pepper and destroying his car in LIVE AND LET DIE (1973). Roger Moore learnt to drive the GT-150 speedboat which meant a cameraman and director Guy Hamilton could lie on the front of the boat to shoot close-ups. | James Bond 007

Bond faces off against Oddjob in the vaults of Fort Knox in GOLDFINGER. The crew weren’t allowed to film in the actual gold depository in the US. Director Guy Hamilton said, “We realised it was probably really dull inside anyhow. So I said to designer Ken Adam, ‘You know, nobody’s ever been in Fort Knox, so we can design anything and nobody can prove us wrong’.” | James Bond 007