100 greatest Bond movie moments

With the reveal of the brand-new teaser for SPECTRE, we thought it was a good time to look back at the best moments from 007's illustrious career on Her Majesty's secret service a whopping 100 of them.

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The Film: Dr No (1962).

The Moment: M, unhappy with Bond's choice of a Beretta that is prone to jamming, orders him to change his firearm.

Most Iconic Element: The arrival of the Walther PPK, 007's gun of choice for nearly all of his subsequent adventures.

The Film: Moonraker (1979).

The Moment: Hugo Drax invites Bond on a hunt, so a treebound sniper can 'accidentally' bump him off. But 007 has other ideas.

Most Iconic Element: "You missed, Mr Bond," Drax suggests after no birds fall. "Did I?" muses Bond, as the dead sniper crashes out of the tree.

The Film: Octopussy (1983).

The Moment: 009, disguised as a clown, is hunted through the woods by knife-throwing assassins and crashes through the ambassador's window with vital evidence.

Most Iconic Element: When Roger Moore gets into clown gear later in the film it's a joke too far. Here, though, the tension and surrealism are harnessed into a weirdly chilling set-piece.

The Film: The Man With The Golden Gun (1974).

The Moment: On the hunt for assassin Scaramanga, Bond poses as his target in order to infiltrate crooked businessman Hai Fat's organisation.

Most Iconic Element: How does 007 convince Hai Fat that he's Scaramanga? With a fake third nipple!

The Film: The World Is Not Enough (1999).

The Moment: M realises she's made a terrible mistake as she realises too late that family friend Elektra King is the mastermind behind terrorist Renard.

Most Iconic Element: M is kidnapped! After 18 films mostly sitting behind a desk, the character gets properly involved in the action in a fitting role for Dench's take on Bond's boss.

The Film: Dr No (1962).

The Moment: 007 faces the first of many off-the-wall assassination attempts, as a tarantula is let loose in his hotel room.

Most Iconic Element: One of Bond's first on-screen kills, setting the benchmark for inventive dispatch as he batters the spider to death with her shoe.

The Film: Moonraker (1979).

The Moment: Another for the 'unusual assassination attempts' as Bond is nearly pressured to death in a centrifuge.

Most Iconic Element: This is about as realistic as Moonraker gets when it comes to the space travel theme and Roger Moore looks genuinely uncomfortable.

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Mafia boss Mr Solo ill-advisedly decides not to participate in Operation Grand Slam, and is driven to his doom by Oddjob.

Most Iconic Element: Given that Goldfinger kills all of the gangsters anyway, having Solo's body crushed in his car is just showboating.

The Film: From Russia With Love (1963).

The Moment: Bond helps Kerim Bey to shoot Commie agent Krilencu as he tries to escape through the "mouth" of an Anita Ekberg movie poster.

Most Iconic Element: Even when he's not pulling the trigger himself, Bond can't resist the post-death quip: "she should have kept her mouth shut."

The Film: Die Another Day (2002).

The Moment: Having been captured by the North Korean Army, Bond's captivity and torture is portrayed in abstract fashion during the jagged, jittery title sequence.

Most Iconic Element: A daring use of the credits to propel the story forwards... although the less said about Madonna's theme tune, the better.

The Film: Quantum Of Solace (2008).

The Moment: Bond fights an assassin on church tower scaffolding, the two men swinging around just out of grasp of their guns.

Most Iconic Element: Dangling upside-down, Bond grabs his gun, twists around and shoots.

The Film: Moonraker (1979).

The Moment: Hugo Drax's pilot Corinne Dufour is chased through the woods by hunting dogs after Drax discovers she has helped Bond.

Most Iconic Element: For all Moonraker 's camp reputation, this is a chilling, eerily-shot set-piece more reminiscent of The Conformist than typical 007 fare.

The Film: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).

The Moment: How is Bond going to get his car back when it's being guarded? With Q's latest gadget a remote control.

Most Iconic Element: The sight of Pierce Brosnan driving a car from the back-seat is a quintessential 007 move, combining silliness with thrilling stuntwork.

The Film: Skyfall (2012) The Moment: As Silva and his goons launch an attack on Bonds ancestral home, the most iconic car in film history dies in flames. Most Iconic Element: The return of Goldfingers gadget-laden Aston Martin was the perfect nostalgic touch for the 50th anniversary adventure. Bonds fierce-eyed reaction to its destruction told us this was a deeply personal wound.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: Poisoned by Le Chiffre, Bond drags himself back to his Aston Martin for a self-administered defibrillation.

Most Iconic Element: So often the superhero, Daniel Craig redefines Bond as a man who is still prone to a) making a mistake and b) suffering for it.

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Pissed off at being out-cheated by Bond during their golf match, Auric Goldfinger tells his butler Oddjob to give a demonstration of his abilities.

Most Iconic Element: Oddjob decapitates a statue by throwing a razor-sharp bowler hat at it. Lethal and it also keeps his head warm.

The Film: You Only Live Twice (1967).

The Moment: An American spacecraft falls victim to SPECTRE's latest investment a super-sized hollow rocket that can swallow smaller ships whole.

Most Iconic Element: The slow-burn of John Barry's Capsule In Space theme half-menacing, half-majestic.

The Film: A View To A Kill (1985).

The Moment: MI6 agent Sir Godfrey Tibbett is killed by Mayday in a car wash while working undercover as Bond's chauffeur.

Most Iconic Element: Not so much iconic as a crying shame Patrick Macnee makes such a good sparring partner for Roger Moore he should have been this film's "Bond girl" instead of the wooden Tanya Roberts.

The Film: The Living Daylights (1987).

The Moment: Soviet killer Necros infiltrates an MI6 safehouse posing as a milkman with exploding milk bottles.

Most Iconic Element: A vividly surreal set-piece, benefitting particularly from a brutal fight in a kitchen between Necros and a British spy.

The Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981).

The Moment: With Kristatos holed up in mountaintop monastery St Cyril's, Bond faces a perilous cliff-side climb.

Most Iconic Element: The jaw-dropping fall as after henchman smashes Bond's ropes, performed by veteran Bond stuntman Rick Sylvester.

The Film: Live And Let Die (1973).

The Moment: Bond introduces himself to Harlem crime lord Mr Big, only to be told that "names is for tombstones, baby!"

Most Iconic Element: Mr Big orders his henchmen to "take this honky out and waste him." A bemused 007 replies, "Is that a good thing?"

The Film: You Only Live Twice (1967).

The Moment: An assassin tries to take out Bond while he sleeps using just a piece of string and a few drops of poison.

Most Iconic Element: Later referenced in Grosse Pointe Blank, the slow descent of the glistening kill-drops makes for an unusually relaxed set-piece.

The Film: The Living Daylights (1987).

The Moment: Bond has orders to kill the sniper threatening "defector" General Koskov's life, but he has a change of heart when he spots a woman pulling the trigger.

Most Iconic Element: Bond shoots the gun from her hands instead, reckoning that it's better to "scare the living daylights out of her."

The Film: Live And Let Die (1973).

The Moment: Bond despatches Kananga by forcing him to bite a shark gun pellet.

Most Iconic Element: The half-comic, half-horrific popped-balloon version of Kananga. "He always did have an inflated opinion of himself," reckons 007.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: Bond and Vesper Lynd, taking a break from casino duties, are assaulted by machete-wielding African warlord Steven Obanno.

Most Iconic Element: How do you remind the 007 faithful that, just because Casino Royale is men playing cards, it's still an action movie? By delivering the film's bloodiest, most brutal fight.

The Film: Goldeneye (1995).

The Moment: Bond gets frisky with tight-thighed killer Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) and has to extricate himself before being squeezed to death.

Most Iconic Element: Brosnan wagging his finger as he tells her off for trying to kill him: "No more foreplay."

The Film: From Russia With Love (1963).

The Moment: 007 arrives at HQ and throws his hat across Miss Moneypenny's office, little realising M is standing behind the door.

Most Iconic Element: The signature "hat toss" debuted in Dr No, but this is the point where it became a running joke, with the specifics of the set-piece changed from film to film.

The Film: Dr No (1962).

The Moment: Bond might be a prisoner of Dr No, but that doesn't mean his hook-handed host isn't civilised enough to invite 007 to dinner.

Most Iconic Element: Monologuing will become a staple of all Bond villains, but this scene also stands out for introducing the SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion, aka SPECTRE, Bond's primary enemy during the early years.

The Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981).

The Moment: After Bond's Lotus self-destructs, he and Melina Havelock have to escape in the next best thing: a Citroen 2CV.

Most Iconic Element: For Your Eyes Only stripped back the gadgetry, nowhere better than in this serio-comic car chase.

The Film: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

The Moment: Bond gets married to Tracy di Vicenzo, with M, Q and Moneypenny in attendance.

Most Iconic Element: The fact that Bond gets married, of course. But check out Lois Maxwell, giving her best performance as the heartbroken Miss Moneypenny.

The Film: Licence To Kill (1989).

The Moment: Ian Fleming had Felix Leiter fed to sharks as early as his second novel (Live And Let Die), but it took until the 16th Bond film to do the same.

Most Iconic Element: The first time one of the series' semi-regular heroes was seen to suffer serious physical harm.

The Film: The Living Daylights (1987).

The Moment: En route from Bratislava to Vienna, Bond and Kara Milovy reach a Soviet roadblock. Fortunately, Bond's Aston Martin V8 comes equipped with front-loaded missiles.

Most Iconic Element: Previous Bonds would have milked the script's gag "I've had some optional extras installed" for laughs, but Dalton plays it deadpan and cool, bringing a welcome dry wit to proceedings.

The Film: Skyfall (2012) The Moment: In dogged pursuit of an adversary in Istanbul, Bond leaps into a passenger train then takes a moment to casually adjust his cuffs. Most Iconic Element: Daniel Craig had redefined 007 as the ultimate blunt instrument. Here, finally, was a glimmer of Bonds old school insouciance. Matchlessly cool.

The Film: Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

The Moment: James Bond goes to Las Vegas in pursuit of diamond smugglers, but it's not long before he hits the gambling tables.

Most Iconic Element: Bond meets Plenty ("but of course you are") O'Toole ("named after your father perhaps?")

The Film: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

The Moment: 007 admits to his Russian counterpart and current lover Anya Amasova that he killed her ex-boyfriend in the line of duty.

Most Iconic Element: Anya coolly informs Bond, "When this mission is over, I will kill you." Talk about romantic tension.

The Film: From Russia With Love (1963).

The Moment: Escaping by boat, Bond and Tatiana Romanova are pursued by SPECTRE. The bad guys are so close they blast bullet holes into Bond's fuel reserves...

Most Iconic Element: …so 007 throws the barrels into the water and sets them on fire with a flare gun. Connery looks cool as hell firing it.

The Film: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).

The Moment: Bond is captured by Dr Kaufman, a German hitman who achieves precise results thanks to his training as a professor of forensic medicine.

Most Iconic Element: One of the wittiest of Bond henchmen. When Bond queries his ability to fake a suicide, Kaufman replies, "I could shoot you from Stuttgart und still create ze proper effect."

The Film: The Living Daylights (1987).

The Moment: A training exercise on the Rock of Gibraltar goes wrong when a Soviet agent starts bumping off the Brits.

Most Iconic Element: The brusque, brisk chase that begins the Timothy Dalton era is a noble statement of intent that some long-overdue grit is making a comeback into the 007 series.

The Film: Live And Let Die (1973).

The Moment: An MI6 agent keeping tabs on criminal lair Fillet Of Soul is taken by surprise when the funeral procession walking past turns out to be his funeral.

Most Iconic Element: This is part of one of the few pre-credit sequences in which Bond doesn't feature all the more surprising given that it's Roger Moore's debut.

The Film: Octopussy (1983).

The Moment: Bond's escape is all sorted, via an Acrostar mini-jet. All he has to do now is get that heat-seeking missile off his tail.

Most Iconic Element: Bond flies the jet through a hangar, squeezing through the doors a split second before they clang shut. Then the missile hits the doors KABOOM!

The Film: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

The Moment: While trying to uncover the whereabouts of Blofeld, Bond falls in love with Tracy di Vicenzo.

Most Iconic Element: For the first and more or less last time in a Bond movie, the spying is put on hold for a romantic montage, aptly set to Louis Armstrong's We Have All The Time In The World .

The Film: Thunderball (1965).

The Moment: The first of many Q-branch gadgets to take 007 skywards, as he escapes his enemies with the help of a jetpack.

Most Iconic Element: The sequence leading up to the escape, as Bond (having discovered his target has faked his death and is disguised as his own widow) fights a man in drag.

The Film: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

The Moment: New Bond star George Lazenby is bemused as Tracy di Vicenzo, the woman he's just saved from drowning, drives away without a word of thanks.

Most Iconic Element: Lazenby's fourth-wall breaking aside, "This never happened to the other fella," has sparked decades of fan debate. Is the name of "James Bond" handed down from agent to agent?

The Film: Licence To Kill (1989).

The Moment: Bond sabotages Franz Sanchez's convoy of cocaine-enriched petrol tankers in style, aggressively taking control of one tanker until all are destroyed.

Most Iconic Element: The ridiculous-but-still-thrilling set-piece of Bond tilting an eighteen-wheeler onto two wheels to avoid being hit by a missile.

The Film: A View To A Kill (1985).

The Moment: Bond vs Max Zorin. Roger Moore vs Christopher Walken. Blimp vs Golden Gate Bridge.

Most Iconic Element: A View To A Kill is commonly cited as a low-point in Bondage, but you have to admire the chutzpah of a film that ends with such mad ambition.

The Film: You Only Live Twice (1967).

The Moment: Q travels to Japan to give Bond his latest accessory an armed autogyro copter known as Little Nellie.

Most Iconic Element: 007's first air chase adds a new dimension to the movies' action.

The Film: From Russia With Love (1963).

The Moment: Bond's second film begins with him apparently being killed by Red Grant… but the victim is really just a SPECTRE goon in a Sean Connery mask, killed as part of a training exercise.

Most Iconic Element: The first pre-credit sequence sets the bar: an attention-grabbing set-piece that functions as the hors d'oeuvres to the main course.

The Film: Die Another Day (2002).

The Moment: Halle Berry's Bond Girl Jinx rises from the sea. We assume that it's not only Pierce Brosnan's eyebrows that are raised as he watches her.

Most Iconic Element: The most obvious and certainly the best of scattered nods to previous Bond films, with Berry's moves echoing Ursula Andress' in Dr No forty years earlier.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: Daniel Craig's 007 emerges from the ocean wearing just a pair of swim shorts.

Most Iconic Element: The sly callback to Ursula Andress' entrance in Dr No . Yes, another one.

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Bond and Felix Leiter race against the clock to defuse the atomic bomb with which Auric Goldfinger hopes to contaminate all of the gold in Fort Knox.

Most Iconic Element: The timer stops, not at the last second, but a far more iconic 007 seconds.

The Film: You Only Live Twice (1967).

The Moment: After several films in which Blofeld kept behind the scenes, he finally takes centre-stage (and stands up) when Bond arrives in his lair.

Most Iconic Element: The role has been recast several times, but it's Donald Pleasence's Nehru-jacketed, bald-headed, scar-faced portrayal that remains the most indelible. Just ask Dr Evil.

The Film: Thunderball (1965).

The Moment: Bond joins Felix Leiter's men in a pitched undersea battle with Emilio Largo's henchmen.

Most Iconic Element: Thunderball was the first Cinemascope Bond movie, and this takes full advantage with the screen full of dangerous divers.

The Film: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

The Moment: Hired killer Jaws drops in on Bond and Anya Amasova, ripping off the roof of their van with his bare hands.

Most Iconic Element: Even without his steel teeth, seven-foot-tall Richard Kiel makes a formidable Bond henchman and the only one to survive for another film.

The Film: Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

The Moment: Killers Mr Wint and Mr Kidd mop up a loose end in the diamond smuggling chain with the help of a scorpion.

Most Iconic Element: The dandyish, hand-holding killers are the 007 films' most memorable (and, if we're honest, only) homosexual double-act.

The Film: The World Is Not Enough (1999).

The Moment: All of Q's encounters with 007 are great, but the last gains added poignancy from the knowledge that Desmond Llewelyn was retiring. The less said about John Cleese's successor, the better.

Most Iconic Element: Q's final advice: "Never let them see you bleed...and always have an escape plan."

The Film: Moonraker (1979).

The Moment: Bond leaves a flying jet without a parachute, with Jaws in hot pursuit.

Most Iconic Element: Bond's daredevil, vertigo-inducing freefall dive to wrestle a chute off a hapless bad guy's back.

The Film: Licence To Kill (1989).

The Moment: Bond sets up Franz Sanchez's business partner Milton Krest in order to gain his trust, and Sanchez exacts revenge in the bloodiest way imaginable.

Most Iconic Element: Krest's head explodes as Sanchez takes an axe to the decompression chamber in which he's trapped a key reason for this being a 15-certificate James Bond film.

The Film: The Man With The Golden Gun (1974).

The Moment: Stuck on the wrong side of the river and the bridge broken and buckled beyond repair, Bond has no choice but to attempt an impossible car jump.

Most Iconic Element: The one-take, computer-planned stunt is one of 007's best… but turn the volume down unless you want the effect ruined with a rubbish comedy sound effect.

The Film: Thunderball (1965).

The Moment: Bond pauses mid-clinch with Domino to shoot sadistic henchman Vargas with a spear gun.

Most Iconic Element: Never interrupt 007 when he's with a lady, OK? "I think he got the point," Bond reckons.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: Sparks fly as 007 meets Vesper Lynd, the money ("and worth every penny").

Most Iconic Element: Eva Green nails the brief to be a new kind of Bond girl as she astutely summarises James' character "you think of women as disposable pleasures, rather than meaningful pursuits."

The Film: Goldeneye (1995).

The Moment: Judi Dench's M makes her mark on the role by giving 007 a dressing-down.

Most Iconic Element: M pre-empts the critics by accusing Bond of being "a sexist, misogynist dinosaur" and "a relic of the Cold War".

The Film: Quantum Of Solace (2008).

The Moment: The second Daniel Craig 007 movie begins with a blistering, breathless car chase that highlights the kinetic, post-Bourne action style of the Daniel Craig era.

Most Iconic Element: The realisation that we're watching events moments after the end of Casino Royale , as Bond takes Mr White out of his car boot.

The Film: The Man With The Golden Gun (1974).

The Moment: A meeting of equals, as Bond and Scaramanga go head-to-head in a deadly showdown.

Most Iconic Element: For all the surrealism of the funhouse setting, the real pleasure lies in the sparring of Christopher Lee, perfectly cast as Scaramanga.

The Film: Moonraker (1979).

The Moment: Jaws attacks 007 and Holly Goodhead on the cable car between Rio De Janeiro and Sugarloaf Mountain.

Most Iconic Element: The vertiginous stuntwork, achieved without harnesses. If it looks dangerous, it was Richard Graydon slipped and nearly fell to his death.

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Physically overshadowed by Oddjob, Bond needs brain as well as brawn to figure out that if he electrifies those metal bars just as his foe is reaching for his steel-rimmed hat...

Most Iconic Element: Harold Sakata falls face-first to his death, a stunt the actor did himself.

The Film: Skyfall (2012) The Moment: In Shanghai, Bond scraps with mercenary Patrice, their combat silhouetted against an ever-shifting neon lightshow. Most Iconic Element: Master cinematographer Roger Deakins made Skyfall one of the most beautiful, most breathtaking of the Bonds. This was the ultimate view to a kill.

The Film: Live And Let Die (1973).

The Moment: Trapped on an island surrounded by crocodiles, 007 escapes the way only Roger Moore's incarnation could.

Most Iconic Element: Bond dashes across the backs of half a dozen strategically-placed crocs.

The Film: The World Is Not Enough (1999).

The Moment: The treacherous Elektra King taunts Bond, claiming that he wouldn't have the stomach to kill her because "you'd miss me."

Most Iconic Element: Bang! "I never miss," Bond replies, too coldly to be meant as a pun. This is 007 as his most serious.

The Film: The Living Daylights (1987).

The Moment: Bond and Soviet killer Necros fight to the death, while hanging out of the back of a bomb-loaded plane, connected only by a flimsy cargo net.

Most Iconic Element: How difficult does Bond need to make it? This is proper, old-school stuntmen-with-balls Bond action.

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Shirley Bassey belts out John Barry, Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse's theme song.

Most Iconic Element: A huge, operatic tune backed by surreal lyrics and Bassey's up-to-11 voice, this set the standard for Bond themes, with Bassey invited back twice more.

The Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981).

The Moment: After a chase, assassin Locque is marooned in his car on the edge of a crumbling cliff top. Bond helps him on his way.

Most Iconic Element: 007's kick is an uncharacteristic, Connery-esque moment from Roger Moore whose toughness isn't alleviated by the typical quip: "he had no head for heights."

The Film: The Living Daylights (1987)

The Moment: Within sight of the border but lacking skis or a vehicle, Bond and Kara Milovy have to improvise their downhill escape using Kara's cello case.

Most Iconic Element: As ludicrous as anything in 80s Bond but because it's played straight it's also a strangely charming and romantic moment as Bond and Kara waltz across the border towards Vienna.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: Bond chases after Vesper Lynd's kidnappers in his Aston Martin, only to take drastic action when he spots Vesper lying in the road.

Most Iconic Element: The seven-times car roll by stuntman Adam Kirley, a Guinness World Record.

The Film: Licence To Kill (1989).

The Moment: Bond dispatches an oil-soaked Franz Sanchez by setting him on fire - one of the darkest kills in 007's repertoire.

Most Iconic Element: The sick gag of Bond getting payback for Felix Leiter by using an actual lighter.

The Film: The World Is Not Enough (1999).

The Moment: After the mysterious Cigar Girl causes an explosion at MI6, Bond gives chase along the Thames in Q's latest speedboat.

Most Iconic Element: A rare UK-based action set-piece, whose climax comes at the then-new Millennium Dome.

The Film: Goldeneye (1995).

The Moment: Pierce Brosnan shows he's not going to be a pushover in the role as he coldly dispatches friend-turned-foe Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) by letting him fall into a radar dish.

Most Iconic Element: "For England, James?" pleads Trevelyan using his signature line. Bond replies simply, "No, for me," and lets him go.

The Film: From Russia With Love (1963).

The Moment: As if her ice-cold personality wasn't enough to put Bond off taking SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebb as a dance partner, she also has poisoned spikes hidden in her high heels.

Most Iconic Element: Proof that Bond's foes are just as obsessed with daft gadgets as 007 is himself.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: At the mercy of Le Chiffre, James has to undergo a painful interrogation by rope-to-the-balls.

Most Iconic Element: 007 ironically emasculates Le Chiffre by making light of the situation "I've got a little itch, down there. Would you mind?"

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Bond runs Goldfinger's henchmen ragged in his customised Aston Martin DB5.

Most Iconic Element: Even after Bond is captured and forced to drive at gunpoint, this car has plenty of hidden tricks notably, the ejector seat.

The Film: From Russia With Love (1963).

The Moment: Behind the scenes at SPECTRE, as "Number 1" aka Ernst Stavro Blofeld unleashes his dastardly plan to discredit Bond using a sex scandal.

Most Iconic Element: Face unseen, Blofeld is depicted sitting at his desk, stroking a white Turkish Angora cat the classic Bond villain.

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Thinking his mission is over, Bond relaxes into a kiss… but spots the reflection of an assassin in his lover's eyes.

Most Iconic Element: Arguably Bond's finest improvised kill, as he throws his assailant in a full bath and then whips a plugged-in lamp after him. "Shocking, positively shocking," quips 007.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: Shot in moody monochrome, the clock is rewound to depict the kills that earned Bond his status as 007.

Most Iconic Element: Dryden, who still thinks that Bond is a 00-virgin, tries to tell him that the second kill is easier. Bond shoots him mid-thought. "Yes, considerably."

The Film: Moonraker (1979).

The Moment: When M and the Minister of Defence attempt to debrief Bond by live satellite link-up, 007 is caught indulging in zero gravity sex with Holly Goodhead.

Most Iconic Element: Q's immortal one-liner when asked what Bond is doing: "I think he's attempting re-entry, Sir."

The Film: Live And Let Die (1973).

The Moment: Bond escapes by boat from Kananga's men through the Louisiana bayou, with Sheriff J.W. Pepper also in hot pursuit.

Most Iconic Element: The then-Guinness World Record-breaking speedboat jump.

The Film: Goldeneye (1995).

The Moment: An hour into Brosnan's debut and he gets his defining set-piece, chasing a crooked ex-Soviet general through the streets of St Petersburg in a tank.

Most Iconic Element: The Bond theme makes a dramatic, triumphant appearance over the scene, in a film otherwise notable for Eric Serra's controversial score.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: Dramatic irony alert, as a bartender chooses the wrong moment to ask Bond if he wants his vodka martini shaken or stirred.

Most Iconic Element: Daniel Craig hisses back, "Do I look like I give a damn?" and it's so intense we forget it's an in-joke.

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Bond discovers that Jill Masterson the employee of Auric Goldfinger who he "turned" has been murdered in retaliation at the betrayal.

Most Iconic Element: The manner of Jill's death spray-painted head to foot in gold, becoming the Bond girl who is more recognisable in death than alive.

The Film: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

The Moment: Bond has fun with Q's latest toy a Lotus you can drive off a pier without it rusting.

Most Iconic Element: The underwater car complete with sea-to-air missile is second only to Goldfinger 's Aston Martin in the pantheon of classic 007 vehicles.

The Film: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

The Moment: Bond escapes from Blofeld's mountaintop base Piz Gloria the only way he can downhill.

Most Iconic Element: The first and greatest of Bond's many ski chases is an edgy, inventive action set-piece given added drama by John Barry's propulsive theme.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: After the familiar theme tune has been kept at bay throughout 007's reboot, the end of the film acts as the catalyst to resume normal service.

Most Iconic Element: Daniel Craig finally gets to deliver his character's signature line. "The name's Bond, James Bond."

The Film: Dr No (1962).

The Moment: Bond is seemingly caught in the sights of a gunbarrel but he turns and shoots at us!

Most Iconic Element: Repeated in every official Bond movie, this is the most recognisable movie ident ever created for a single franchise.

The Film: You Only Live Twice (1967).

The Moment: Bond discovers that Blofeld's secret rocket base is located inside a volcano.

Most Iconic Element: The strangest, most grandiose and memorably brilliant set design by Bond regular Ken Adam, this is the home that all supervillains aspire to.

The Film: Goldeneye (1995).

The Moment: 007 had been away for six years, the Berlin Wall had fallen and there was a danger Bond was a relic. And then he found another wall specifically, a 720ft high dam from which to make his comeback.

Most Iconic Element: That jump.

The Film: Dr No (1962).

The Moment: Bond thinks he and buddy Quarrel are the only ones in Crab Key until Honey Ryder emerges from the sea singing 'Under The Mango Tree.'

Most Iconic Element: The bikini-clad Ursula Andress defined the fantasy female of the Bond girl for… ooh, at least the next 50 years.

The Film: From Russia With Love (1963).

The Moment: SPECTRE assassin Red Grant has 007 just where he wants him but with a little help from Q's briefcase of doom, Bond turns the tables and the two fight to the death in the confined quarters of an Orient Express train carriage.

Most Iconic Element: An urgently edited, intensely physical fight that marked a new level of brutality in movie fight scenes and showcased Bond's modernity.

The Film: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

The Moment: Bond's mountainside escape from the Russians is seemingly thwarted by a sheer drop, but you don't get to be 007 without planning ahead.

Most Iconic Element: The "skiing off a mountain" stuntwork is impeccable enough, but this moment is really on the list for the cute patriotism of 007's Union Jack parachute.

The Film: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

The Moment: Driving away from their wedding, Bond and Tracy's honeymoon is short-lived as she is shot dead by SPECTRE agent Irma Bunt.

Most Iconic Element: 007 films aren't meant to end like this. A truly gut-punching moment that ranks amongst blockbuster cinema's most daring endings.

The Film: Casino Royale (2006).

The Moment: Can James Bond survive in the post-Bourne 21st Century? You betcha, as Daniel Craig demos his action chops chasing after parkour-loving villain Mollaka.

Most Iconic Element: The "did he really just do that?" cool with which Craig catches an empty gun thrown at him and then chucks it back without missing a beat.

The Film: Goldfinger (1964).

The Moment: Auric Goldfinger has Bond at his mercy, spread-eagled before a laser beam that's pointing straight at his manhood.

Most Iconic Element: The revelation that this isn't an interrogation, because Goldfinger doesn't expect Bond to talk. "I expect you to die!"

The Film: Dr No (1962).

The Moment: Good-time gal Sylvia Trench catches the eye of a gentleman at a London club.

Most Iconic Element: The man introduces himself as he lights a cigarette. "The name's Bond. James Bond." A legend is born.