The filmmakers wanted to use the French Riviera but considered it to be too over-exposed and not photogenic enough. Only a brief clip is shown of Bond crossing the famous 25 de Abril Bridge in Lisbon – but most fans will still remember the scene. Being Vegas, however, a great deal has transformed since Bond ripped through the strip, and it is almost comical to compares 50 years on. This feat alone requires a portion of the Vegas Strip to be closed at night for three days. The production shot including almost all of Las Vegas’s biggest hotel and casino properties at the time, including The Riviera, Landmark Hotel & Casino, Dunes Hotel, International Hotel, Las Vegas Hilton, and Circus Circus Las Vegas.īond, however, stayed at the Tropicana Las Vegas – though we dare say he would choose a less dated Vegas hotel these days. Black Rock Desert, McCarran International Airport, and Fremont Street were also used as filming locations, but we dare say the most memorable scene of James Bonds’s trip to Vegas is the car chase scene through downtown Las Vegas. As Sean Connery’s sixth and final appearance in the official James Bond film series (we don’t count Never Say Never Again here), he went where so many of us do these days, to Vegas!įollowing a diamond smuggling investigation, James Bond heads to Las Vegas, where he unveiled a sinister plot headed by his nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
