This was not part of the film series produced by MGM and Danjaq. Executive producer Kevin McClory, who was producer and co-writer of Thunderball (1965), won a legal battle against Ian Fleming to make his own Bond movie. The settlement stipulated that it had to effectively be a remake of Thunderball.

A young Steven Seagal was the movie's martial arts instructor. One day, he got so angered by Sir Sean Connery during a training session that he broke his wrist. Connery went along with that injury for a number of years, thinking it was just a minor pain.

This is Rowan Atkinson's first movie. He later parodied James Bond in the "Johnny English" films.

George Lazenby was considered by executive producer Kevin McClory to play Bond, but was dropped from consideration when Sir Sean Connery confirmed he wanted the role.

Sir Sean Connery was 52 at the time of filming, so the writers decided to make James Bond a retired secret agent. However, he was three years younger than Sir Roger Moore when he played the still-serving Bond in Octopussy (1983).

Continuity

Fatima Blush skis with one ski, but when she skis into James' arms, she's on two.

In between the time Fatima sees Bond and his "fishing" partner posing with their catch, and when she runs into the hotel to plant the bomb under Bond's bed, she somehow manages a complete change of clothes.

Bond loses his shoes, shirt and jacket when he jumps the horse into the ocean.

Leiter emerges from the water after spying on the yacht and removes a hood - that he wasn't wearing underwater.

When Bond is making love to Fatima Blush below deck, her hair is inconsistent - in the first and last shot her hair is straight, but in the middle shot her hair is curly.



Factual errors

Nigel Small-Fawcett introduces himself to Bond as being from the British Embassy in Nassau. Because The Bahamas is a member of the Commonwealth, the UK would not have an embassy there - the diplomatic mission of one Commonwealth country to another is called the High Commission.

Air Force officers are shown with silver chin straps around the base of the crowns of their military hats. These chins straps were reserved for honor guards and were not part of the regular uniform of the Air Force until the ill-advised and short-lived ceremonial uniform debuted a year after this movie came out.

The US President does not use his eyeball for nuclear weapons release. It is performed with a coded challenge with a senior military officer who uses the challenge to verify the person is the President. Only then will the President read out a strike option.

The 2 nukes on the hijacker's radar has them both travelling at speeds of 5km/sec (or about Mach 10) well in excess of anything that could travel that fast at the time.

When the SPECTRE technician is tracking the two cruise missiles by ship-borne radar, the radar dish is sweeping back and forth on a roughly 90 degree angle, but the radar scope is showing a full sweep in one direction (not to mention the strobe light in the center of the radar dish, which has nothing to do with transmitting radar energy).



Incorrectly regarded as goofs

When Bond realizes that Largo's men are escaping with one of the missiles, he takes a shortcut into an underwater cavern which leads to the sea by jumping into the village well. This may show that the villagers are drinking from a salt water source. On the other hand, the well could be fed by a fresh-water, non-tidal underground river that empties into the sea.

When the guard comes into the prison after Bond cuts himself loose, he does not appear to have a magazine in his AK-47 rifle - however, this is because this particular rifle was loaded with a 10-round box magazine which, along with removing the pistol grip, was intended to make it look like an SKS rifle.

Fatima Blush attempts to kill Bond by blowing up his hotel room, but he is in Nicola's room at the time, so how is it that Small-Fawcett manages to phone Bond? He would have assumed he'd be in his own room as well. When there was no answer at Bond's room, he started phoning around. He probably saw them together earlier.



Revealing mistakes

When 007 poses as a masseur to speak with Domino, he picks up a bottle of massage oil which is clearly empty, goes through the motions of pouring nothing out onto his hand and then rubs his hands together.

Just before James Bond enters the room filled with opposing forces during his training exercise at the beginning of the film, he throws a grenade from the rooftop through the window. The grenade lands on a table with a chessboard used by two adversaries. When Bond swings through the same window in the next scene, it gets clear that it was impossible for him to throw the grenade straight onto the chessboard because the table is too far away from the window.

During the fight in the gym, the assassin already has his hand open and ready to catch Bond's fist, and what's more, Bond aims his punch straight for it.

In the cave battle, when Bond pushes the large boulder onto the henchmen below, you can see the paper-mache "rocks" breaking apart are hollow inside.

Water-skiing double for Fatima during the wide shots.



Miscellaneous

When ships radar is tracking missiles, distance readings go "15km, 12 km, 10km, 4km, 5km, 3km..." There are two missiles. At different ranges.

The nuclear warheads fly very low and very loud, yet, nobody seems to notice them. At that altitude and speed, they pass faster than the eye can process. Plus, the only people who could possibly notice them are two kids engrossed in making sand castles on the beach, and they were not interested.

During the computer game the movements of Bond and Largo with their joysticks don't match the movements of the computer screens before them. Max programs his joysticks the way he likes them.

When Domino is being rescued by Bond from the bidders, she's not wearing her "Tears Of Allah" pendant. However, inside the naval vessel, she produces the pendant when asked for it by Bond. If she wasn't wearing it, she must have been carrying it someplace else.

When Bond and fishing gal return to hotel desk Bond gets room key # 623 and fishing gal gets key for her room # 728 - Fatima plants the BOMB in Bond's room 623 . But when Bond and the fishing gal are in bed in "HER" room, they look out the window at Bond's room exploding from the Bomb, they are looking upward at least one floor to floor# 6, so how does Room # 728 become on a lower floor than room # 623? Different room numbering system for the wing on a lower level.



Anachronisms

The cruise missiles were launched from USAF bombers looking like B-1 bombers. Such bombers were never stationed in the UK during the Cold War. The most were F-11Fs.



Audio/visual unsynchronised

When Bond throws the henchman off the cliff and into the water, the "splash" sounds long before the body even hits the water.



Errors in geography

The subterranean location where Largo is going to hide the second bomb is supposed to be along the Mediterranean shores in North Africa and in an area rich of oilfields, however the map Bond examines on the submarine with the "tears of Allah" silhouette shows a section of the Eritrean costs of the Red Sea and there are no oilfields in Eritrea.



Character error

In the opening where the guards are playing chess the board is set up backwards - white or the lighter color square is always placed in the right hand corner.

Fatima tells Jack he's not supposed to smoke after his eye surgery, as she's saying this she walks right by a fireplace with large clouds of smoke billowing out.