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Live and Let Die is the second James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, first published in 1954. It is also the eighth official film in the EON Productions Bond franchise and the first to star Roger Moore as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond. The film was released in 1973 and was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. This image is a book cover. ...
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The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ...
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Ian Fleming Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming, RNVR (May 28, 1908 â August 12, 1964) was an English author and journalist, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ...
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EON Productions is a film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. ...
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Albert Romolo Broccoli (April 5, 1909âJune 27, 1996) known to millions of movie fans as Cubby Broccoli (a nickname used by a cousin), produced more than forty movies, but will be remembered by most for his contribution to one of the most successful film franchises in history, James Bond. ...
Harry Saltzman (October 27, 1915 - September 28, 1994) was a film producer best known for co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli until selling his share of the franchise to United Artists in 1975. ...
The novel
1965 Pan Books paperback edition. Live and Let Die is considered one of Fleming's most controversial novels due to its depiction of blacks. In 2002 for the first time in the United States since the book was published, the original title of chapter five ("Nigger Heaven") was used. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (654x1040, 110 KB)James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die © 1965 Pan Books. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (654x1040, 110 KB)James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die © 1965 Pan Books. ...
Besides the 1973 film of the same name, major plot elements from this novel appeared in two other Bond films: For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Licence to Kill (1989). 2003 Penguin Books paperback edition For Your Eyes Only is a collection of James Bond short stories by Ian Fleming, first published in 1960. ...
Licence to Kill (released in the United States as License to Kill, but sold in the U.S. home video market with the British spelling) is the sixteenth film in the James Bond film series made by EON Productions. ...
Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. James Bond 007 is sent to New York City to investigate "Mr. Big", an underworld voodoo leader who is suspected by M of selling 17th century gold coins to finance Soviet spy operations in America. These gold coins have been turning up in Harlem and Florida and are suspected of being part of a treasure that was buried in Jamaica by the Welsh pirate Sir Henry Morgan. Although Bond was reluctant to take on the mission when he was briefed, Bond's attitude quickly changes upon learning that Mr. Big is an agent of SMERSH and that this mission offers him a chance of retaliation for previously being tortured and branded on his hand by another SMERSH operative, Le Chiffre, in Casino Royale. Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ...
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A large sequined Voodoo drapo or flag by the artist George Valris The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based spiritist-animist religious tradition. ...
M is the title and code letter for James Bonds boss and fictional head of the British Secret Intelligence Service or MI6. ...
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SMERSH (in capitalised letters) is a Soviet counterintelligence agency that was featured in Ian Flemings early James Bond novels and films as 007s nemesis. ...
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Le Chiffre is a fictional character and the main villain in the Ian Fleming novel Casino Royale. ...
A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Casino Royale is the first James Bond novel by author Ian Fleming. ...
In Harlem, Bond meets up with his counterpart in the CIA, Felix Leiter, and the two are captured by Mr. Big where Bond is subsequently quizzed by Big's fortune telling-girlfriend, Solitaire. After escaping with Solitaire, they all go to St. Petersburg, Florida where they confirm in a warehouse that Mr. Big is indeed smuggling 17th century coins underneath sand in fish tanks. While at the warehouse, Solitaire is recaptured by Big's minions and Leiter loses an arm and a leg after being fed to a shark. The CIAs seal features an eagle atop a sixteen-point compass. ...
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Bond continues his mission in Jamaica where he meets Quarrel and John Strangways, the head of station in Jamaica. Later Bond swims through shark and barracuda infested waters to Mr. Big's island and manages to plant a limpet mine on the hull of his boat before being captured once again by Mr. Big. In the grand finale, Big ties both Solitaire and Bond up to his boat and attempts to drag them over the shallow coral reef, however, they are saved once Bond's limpet mine explodes. The following is a list of recurring and notable allies found throughout the James Bond films and novels. ...
The following is a list of recurring and notable allies found throughout the James Bond films and novels. ...
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Ian Fleming Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming, RNVR (May 28, 1908 â August 12, 1964) was an English author and journalist, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ...
Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. ...
A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Casino Royale is the first James Bond novel by author Ian Fleming. ...
A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Moonraker is the third James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ...
Trivia - Live and Let Die was originally titled The Undertaker's Wind. The title was used for the seventeenth chapter.
- A sizable portion of the novel is devoted to voodoo, a subject of much interest to Ian Fleming. In one scene, Bond reads The Traveller's Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor, a friend of Fleming's.
- Bond's underwater swim through the coral reefs to Mr. Big's island was inspired by Fleming's first scuba diving experience with Jacques Cousteau in 1953. Fleming describes his experience in length in a similar description to Bond's own experience in 3 articles for The Sunday Times in which Fleming covered a salvage operation of a Graeco-Roman galley from around 250 BC.
A large sequined Voodoo drapo or flag by the artist George Valris The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based spiritist-animist religious tradition. ...
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Comic strip adaptation - Main article: James Bond comic strips
Fleming's original novel was adapted as a daily comic strip which was published in the British Daily Express newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from December 15, 1958 to March 28, 1959. The story was truncated, omitting much of the detail and background information to compress the story into 15 weeks of strips, making Live and Let Die much shorter and less faithful than the previous strip Casino Royale. Starting in 1958 and continuing to 1983, James Bond, the fictional character created by author Ian Fleming appeared in 52 comic strips that were syndicated in British newspapers, 7 of which were initially published abroad. ...
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1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Casino Royale is the first James Bond novel by author Ian Fleming. ...
The adaptation was written by Henry Gammidge and illustrated by John McLusky. The strip was reformatted from the original cells of the strip and reprinted in full in the 1967 James Bond Annual, the only 007 strip to be reprinted in this way. Titan Books reprinted the strip in the early 1990s and again by Titan in 2005 as part of the Casino Royale collection that includes Casino Royale and Moonraker. John McLusky, born the son of creole lesbians, lived a life of prostitution and debauchery. ...
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The film Sean Connery's return as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever was only ever seen as a temporary one, so after the film was released, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman got to work trying to find the next actor to portray James Bond. At one point, the producers decided they would not hire another actor and instead hire someone from the Armed Services. Acting upon this EON Productions advertised in various army magazines with the line: "Are you 007?" This idea was later thrown out after Equity objected and demanded they stop. By 1972, Broccoli and Saltzman had auditioned or considered a number of actors for the role, most notably Julian Glover (later the villain in the 1981 Bond film For Your Eyes Only), Jeremy Brett, and frontrunner Michael Billington, who ultimately lost the role to Roger Moore. Thereafter Billington was always a constant frontrunner to replace Moore if Moore did not return to the role, notably for Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, and Octopussy; he also starred in the 1977 film, The Spy Who Loved Me as a villain who is killed in the pre-title sequence. 007 - Live and Let Die movie poster File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ...
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Octopussy is a short story by Ian Fleming and the title of the thirteenth James Bond film made by EON Productions, as well as a character in the film. ...
2003 Penguin Books paperback edition The Spy Who Loved Me is a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming first published in 1962. ...
Moore, for sure, had previously been considered for the role of Bond after You Only Live Twice, but was quickly dismissed due to his popularity as Simon Templar in the television series The Saint. There are also some reports that Moore was considered in 1962 for Dr. No, however, these are seen by some fans and researchers as apocryphal given that most of the evidence used to support these reports are false or misleading (see: the search for James Bond). 2003 Penguin Books paperback edition You Only Live Twice is the twelfth novel by Ian Fleming featuring James Bond, secret agent 007; it was published in 1964, around the time Fleming died. ...
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2002 reissue of the original novel. ...
2002 reissue of the original novel. ...
The film, Live and Let Die, was released during the height of the 1970s blaxploitation era, and the influence of those films is quite evident. For instance, the film departs from conventional Bond plots (which entailed villainous plots to disrupt world power structures) and instead places its emphasis on drug trafficking, a common hallmark of the blaxploitation genre. The film further deviates from most Bond films, in that it takes place in the African American cultural centers of Harlem, New Orleans, and the Caribbean Islands. Furthermore, the film contains several blaxploitation archetypes, most notably afro hairstyles, derogatory racial epithets (i.e "honky"), black gangsters, and "pimpmobiles". In addition, the white police officers, especially Sheriff J.W. Pepper, are poorly displayed with several negative stereotypes. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...
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Live and Let Die marked several milestones for Bond films. It was the first time a fictional country would be used as a setting (this would happen again in Licence to Kill), and it was also the only occasion in which 007 commits what amounts to a political assassination, since Kananga is the leader of a nation. Live and Let Die is also the first James Bond film from which Q was absent. Furthermore, Live and Let Die marked the appearance of the first romantically-involved African American Bond girl, Rosie Carver (played by Gloria Hendry, an actress who starred in several blaxploitation films, including Black Caesar and its sequel Hell Up in Harlem). When the film was first released in South Africa, the love scenes between Gloria Hendry and Roger Moore were removed because interracial affairs were prohibited by the apartheid government. Q is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. ...
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Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry), about to get her head together. Rosie Carver played by Gloria Hendry is the sixth villain in the James Bond film Live And Let Die. ...
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Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Several British agents monitoring the operations of Dr. Kananga, the dictator of a small Caribbean island called San Monique, are murdered in mysterious circumstances. James Bond is sent to New York City, where the last agent was killed and where Kananga is currently visiting the UN, to investigate. As soon as Bond arrives in New York City, his driver is killed while taking him to meet Felix Leiter of the CIA. Mr. ...
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The driver's killer leads Bond to Mr. Big, a gangster who runs a chain of restaurants throughout the United States. It is during his confrontation with Mr. Big that Bond first meets Solitaire, a beautiful tarot expert who has the uncanny ability to see the future. Bond follows Kananga back to San Monique where he seduces Solitaire. Their love had been foretold in the cards, but was actually set up by Bond, having created a deck of only "The Lovers" cards, which, by "compelling to earthly love," takes away her power. Mr. ...
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It transpires that Kananga is producing two metric tonnes of heroin and is protecting the poppy fields through fear of voodoo and the occult. Through his alter ego Mr. Big (Kananga in disguise), he would distribute the heroin from his chain of Fillet Of Soul restaurants for free until the number of drug addicts doubles, and his rival drug lords around the world are put out of business, leaving Kananga with a monopoly. In the closing scene of the film, the central voodoo character, Baron Samedi, is seen perched on the front of the speeding train in which Bond and Solitaire are travelling, in his voodoo outfit and laughing mysteriously, despite having been supposedly killed by Bond during the film's climax. Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
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A large sequined Voodoo drapo or flag by the artist George Valris The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based spiritist-animist religious tradition. ...
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Baron Samedi is a popular fictional character from the James Bond novel and film, Live and Let Die. ...
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Cast & characters The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ...
Moore and Curtis in The Persuaders! (1971/72) Moore, Liv Ullmann and Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1973 Oscars Sir Roger George Moore, CBE (born October 14, 1927) is an English actor known for his suave and witty demeanor. ...
M is the title and code letter for James Bonds boss and fictional head of the British Secret Intelligence Service or MI6. ...
Bernard Lee as M in The Man with the Golden Gun Bernard Lee (January 10, 1908 â January 16, 1981) was a British actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films. ...
Miss Moneypenny is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. ...
Lois Maxwell (born February 14, 1927) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise. ...
Felix Leiter is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. ...
David Hedison is seen playing CIA agent Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die. ...
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Tee Hee Johnson was a fictional henchman in the novel and film Live and Let Die. ...
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Baron Samedi is a popular fictional character from the James Bond novel and film, Live and Let Die. ...
Geoffrey Holder as Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die. ...
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Albert Romolo Broccoli (April 5, 1909âJune 27, 1996) known to millions of movie fans as Cubby Broccoli (a nickname used by a cousin), produced more than forty movies, but will be remembered by most for his contribution to one of the most successful film franchises in history, James Bond. ...
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Soundtrack
Original Live and Let Die soundtrack cover Taking a temporary hiatus from scoring Bond films, John Barry subsequently passed the baton over George Martin. This was the first James Bond film that Barry was, in at least some aspect, not a part of. 007 - Live and Let Die soundtrack cover This is an album cover. ...
007 - Live and Let Die soundtrack cover This is an album cover. ...
John Barry, OBE (born John Barry Prendergast on November 3, 1933 in York, England) is considered one of the Big Four of modern film composers (the others being John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and Henry Mancini). ...
Sir George Martin Sir George Martin C. B. E. (born January 3, 1926) is sometimes referred to as the fifth Beatle, a title that he owes to his work as producer of almost all of the Beatles records. ...
For the theme song, Martin teamed with former-Beatle Paul McCartney, who had previously been considered for Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. This was the first time the pair worked together since Abbey Road in 1969. The theme was written by Paul and his wife Linda McCartney and performed by Paul and his group, Wings. The tune, the first true rock and roll song used to open a Bond film, was a major success in the U.S. (#9) and the UK (#2), Paul's best showings in over a year. For many years "Live and Let Die" was a highlight of his live shows, complete with fireworks and lasers and in 2005 was performed live by McCartney during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXIX. In 1991 the song was covered by the rock band Guns N' Roses. The Beatles were a pop and rock music group from Liverpool, England, who continue to be held in the very highest regard for their artistic achievements, their huge commercial success, and their groundbreaking role in the history of popular music. ...
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Track listing - "Live and Let Die (Main Title)" — Paul McCartney & Wings
- "Just a Closer Walk With Thee / New Second Line"
- "Bond Meets Solitaire"
- "Whisper Who Dares"
- "Snakes Alive"
- "Baron Samedi's Dance Of Death"
- "San Monique"
- "Fillet Of Soul-New Orleans / Live and Let Die"
- "Bond Drops In"
- "If He Finds It, Kill Him"
- "Trespassers Will Be Eaten"
- "Solitaire Gets Her Cards"
- "Sacrifice"
- "James Bond Theme"
- "Gunbarrel / Snakebit"
- "Bond To New York"
- "San Monique (Alternate)"
- "Bond And Rosie"
- "The Lovers"
- "New Orleans"
- "Boat Chase"
- "Underground Lair"
Vehicles & gadgets - Main articles: List of James Bond vehicles and List of James Bond gadgets
- Magnetic watch — Given to Bond by M. When turned on, it could snag any light weight metallic item. In theory, Bond claims it can even deflect a bullet. It also has a saw built into it.
- Bug sweeper — Bond uses a handheld device that can sweep a room for electronic microphones.
- Although not an official gadget, Bond improvises a small flamethrower using a can of after-shave lotion and a lit cigar.
- Bond has an espresso machine at his home. In 1973, such devices were uncommon for home use (much as Bond in From Russia with Love had a pager and car-based telephone years before cell phones were invented).
- Similarly, early on in the film, Bond is seen using a Pulsar digital watch, which only entered distribution as recently as 1972. Bond's has an LED display which was activated by pushing a button on the side.
Throughout the James Bond series of films Q Branch has given Bond a wide variety of vehicles with which to battle his enemies. ...
One popular element of the James Bond franchise is the exotic equipment and vehicles he is assigned on his missions, which often prove to be critically useful. ...
M is the title and code letter for James Bonds boss and fictional head of the British Secret Intelligence Service or MI6. ...
This article is about a coffee beverage. ...
A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition From Russia with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ...
Locations Film locations This article is about the British city. ...
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Shooting locations Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated approximately 20 miles west of London among the pine trees on what was the estate of Heatherden Hall, near the village of Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. ...
Awards The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. ...
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media has been awarded since 1988. ...
Established in 1973 this film award is given to outstanding achievement in British film by the British newspaper Evening Standard. ...
Trivia - The producers made a conscious effort to distance the new James Bond from the character made famous by Sean Connery, perhaps an effort to avoid repeating the George Lazenby fiasco. For example: Roger Moore's Bond never orders a vodka martini (neither shaken, nor stirred), he drinks bourbon whiskey; the mission briefing occurs in Bond's flat (not seen since Dr. No in '62); Roger Moore's James Bond does not wear a hat; he smokes cigars, not cigarettes. In time, as Moore grew in to the role, many old Bond-isms returned, and some new elements were dropped.
- Live and Let Die is the first of two films featuring Louisiana Sheriff J.W. Pepper portrayed by Clifton James, who later reprised the role in The Man with the Golden Gun. It is also the first of two films featuring David Hedison as Felix Leiter, who later reprised the role in Licence to Kill; no other actor has played Leiter more than once.
- The Jamaican agent, Quarrel Jr., is the son of Quarrel from Dr. No. In the novel series, Live and Let Die was the first appearance of Quarrel, followed by his death in Dr. No.
- This is the first James Bond film to use extensive adult language. The old woman whose flying lesson is hijacked by Bond utters the word "shit" (network-television viewers never see this), Sheriff Pepper begins uttering the F-word when he first sees Bond's powerboat but doesn't get beyond "fu-", and the partial expletive "mother" is also heard numerous times. Even in 1973, that was not enough to have the film rated past PG; viewers would have to wait until 1989, for Licence to Kill (coincidentally also partly based on the novel Live and Let Die) until such language was heard again.
- This was the first and, to date, only James Bond film to acknowledge the supernatural. Although there are indications that Baron Samedi is simply a magician and showman, and that his "resurrection" after falling into a coffin of snakes could be explained as a trick, Solitaire's psychic abilities are more difficult to rationalise.
- In a zoom-in shot of what is (supposedly) the CIA headquarters in New York the then-under construction World Trade Center can be seen briefly in the background.
- Coachbuilder Les Dunham provided a Chevrolet Corvette conversion (the Corvorado) which uses components from a 1971 or 1972 Cadillac Eldorado; this car was briefly seen in the blaxploitation film Superfly. He kept the vehicle for several years as a show car. One of the vehicles 007 is pursuing in the film (as a passenger in a taxicab) is a Cadillac Fleetwood Pimpmobile, along with an Eldorado coupe.
- Solitaire's Tarot cards have '007' printed on the backs of them. The High Priestess card was deliberately designed to resemble Jane Seymour. This deck is also known as the Tarot of the Witches Deck designed by Fergus Hall.
- Director Guy Hamilton liked the running over alligators stunt so much he named the villain after the stuntman who performed it, Ross Kananga, the owner of the alligator farm where the scene was filmed. The filmmakers discovered the farm while scouting for locations when they saw a sign warning that "TRESPASSERS WILL BE EATEN." This sign is also seen in the film. The sequence of Bond running over the alligator's was a real stunt performed by Kananga. In one take of the stunt, the last gator snapped at Kananga's heel, tearing his trousers. This is detailed on the Special Edition DVD, complete with slow-motion replay.
- Bond's boat in the speedboat jump scene over the bayou unintentionally set a Guinness World Record at the time, and a villain's boat that made the jump later unintentionally destroyed Sherriff Pepper's patrol car. Due to Clifton James's spontaneous character acting in that scene, it was kept.
- Bond evades several police officers when commandeering a double-decker bus - two Chevrolet Novas were seen as police vehicles. Although the Chevrolet vehicles were on loan from GM, this was a few years before the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department experimented with a similar Nova for police duty to which law enforcement agencies ordered them in bulk.
- Madeline Smith, who played the beautiful young Italian agent Miss Caruso who is in bed with Bond in the film's opening, was recommended for the part by Roger Moore after working with her on TV. Smith said Moore was very polite to work with but she felt very uncomfortable being clad in only her panties since Moore's over protective wife was on the set overseeing the scene.
- Roger Moore toned down his famous mannerisms, cultivated in the role of Simon Templar, The Saint, in particular, the cocking eyebrow.
Sean Connery as he appears in the James Bond films. ...
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The martini is the classic cocktail. ...
Vodka martini: shaken, not stirred is the famous, or perhaps cliché, drink preference of movie spy James Bond, agent 007, first uttered by actor Sean Connery in the film Goldfinger (1962). ...
Bourbon bottle, 19th century Bourbon is an American form of whiskey made from (pursuant to U.S. trade law) at least 51% corn, or maize, (typically about 70%) with the remainder being wheat, rye, and malted barley. ...
2002 reissue of the original novel. ...
2004 Penguin Books paperback edition The Man with the Golden Gun is the thirteenth and final James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and published posthumously in the United Kingdom and the United States by Glidrose Productions, in 1965. ...
Licence to Kill (released in the United States as License to Kill, but sold in the U.S. home video market with the British spelling) is the sixteenth film in the James Bond film series made by EON Productions. ...
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2002 reissue of the original novel. ...
The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and territories and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ...
Licence to Kill (released in the United States as License to Kill, but sold in the U.S. home video market with the British spelling) is the sixteenth film in the James Bond film series made by EON Productions. ...
The supernatural (Latin: super- exceeding + nature) refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding. ...
The term magician can refer to a practitioner of either paranormal magic or illusionism. ...
The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings mostly designed by Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki and developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. ...
The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car first manufactured by Chevrolet in 1953. ...
The Eldorado model was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2002. ...
Post of film Superfly is a 1972 (see 1972 in film) blaxploitation film known primarily for its soundtrack by soul singer Curtis Mayfield (see Superfly (soundtrack)). In fact, Superfly is the only movie ever to have been outgrossed by its soundtrack. ...
The Fleetwood name was used on the top of the Cadillac line since 1927. ...
Superfly poster showing pimpmobile A pimpmobile is a large luxury automobile that has been heavily customized in a garish, extravagant style to advertise its owners wealth and importance. ...
The Eldorado model was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2002. ...
The Tarot is a set of 78 cards with allegorical representations today used for divination, that first appeared in Medieval times. ...
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The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...
Clifton James is an actor born on May 29, 1921. ...
The Chevrolet Nova or Chevy II was an American compact car introduced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors in 1962. ...
Madeline Smith (born on 2 August 1949) is a British actress/comedienne who was a model in the 1960s and appeared in many 1960s/1970s comedy films ( including several Carry_On_films ) and TV series and Hammer horror films. ...
Miss Caruso is the shapely, dark haired, dark eyed, and beautiful in an innocent way Italian agent who is sleeping with James Bond (Roger Moore) in the opening of Live & Let Die (1973). ...
The Saint in a 1955 paperback edition. ...
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