Things are looking decidedly bleak for British Intelligence in both senses of the term. SMERSH has begun to sabotage global stability; no less than 11 agents have been lost; & to make matters worse our greatest secret agent 007 is languishing in stately retirement.M
- together with the heads of the CIA (from Washington D.C.) & KGB (from the U.S.S.R.)
- have only one hope: to bring Sir James Bond (David Niven) out of retirement & into the field. Finding himself pitched against an opposition of fiendish intensity
- an array of female secret agents armed with explosive grouse; a baccarat-playing illusionist (Orson Welles) & a neurotic megalomaniac (Woody Allen)
- Bond launches his brilliant plan... 'from now on all agents will be known as James Bond including the girls'.