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Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   21,962 votes
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Director:

Guy Hamilton

Writer:

Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay)
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Release Date:

27 June 1973 (USA) more

Tagline:

Roger Moo7re is James Bond more

Plot:

007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. full summary | full synopsis

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Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(18 articles)

Mel Gibson too short to play James Bond (IrishCentral)
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Bond Role Was Too Tall An Order For Gibson
 (From WENN. 10 November 2009, 12:11 AM, PST)

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Lean, mean, but lacklustre more (190 total)

US TV Schedule:

Thur. Nov. 261:30 PMSYFY   


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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:

121 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | Hungarian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Iceland:12 | Ireland:PG | South Korea:15 | Brazil:Livre | New Zealand:PG | Canada:14A (video rating) | Portugal:M/12 | UK:PG (tv rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (TV rating) | Australia:PG (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1973) | Peru:14 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG | UK:A (original rating) | Netherlands:12


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Trivia:

Early in the production, Roger Moore was hospitalized with kidney stones. Then, Roger Moore and Jane Seymour caught dysentery while shooting in Jamaica. more

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Factual errors: In the U.N., the U.K. is shown seated next to Honduras, but countries are actually seated in alphabetical order. more

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[first lines]
UN Translator: [translating for Hungarian delegate] ... was so ably pointed out by the Secretary General in his opening remarks. But - and I must emphasize this point - no formula can or will ever cover each case. For instance...
[audio feed is unplugged]
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in Inside 'Licence to Kill' (1999) (V) more

Soundtrack:

LIVE AND LET DIE more


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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Lean, mean, but lacklustre, 31 October 2005
6/10
Author: ian-433 from Edinburgh, Scotland

Roger Moore's debut as 007 was a bit wan but, in retrospect, probably his best outing. He looked pretty lean and mean for a 45 year-old. For a British audience, Moore (The Saint, The Persuaders) was the natural successor to Sean Connery.

Director Guy Hamilton makes this an expertly staged but somehow lacklustre affair. While the background voodoo theme is suitably bizarre, the main McGuffin about drugs smuggling is rather under-whelming for a Bond movie. Yaphet Kotto is a potentially strong baddie but has too little to do amid the familiar carnage and boat chases. And the introduction of the series' first out-rightly comic character in Sheriff JW Pepper presaged the self-defeating lapse into self-spoofing the films would increasingly take.

Nor does a heavy-handed score by Beatles producer George Martin help. Unlike regular Bond composer John Barry's music, Martin's is ponderous, overlaid onto the action rather than organic to it.

Still, Paul McCartney's blistering title-song really jolts Bond into the 70s. And Live and Let Die does have one of the best jokes in the entire series, in the opening sequence when a CIA agent, watching a New Orleans jazz funeral, innocently asks a nondescript fellow bystander: "Who's funeral is it…?"

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