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Release Date:
27 June 1973 (USA)
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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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Heroin
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James Bond
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Cards
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Tarot Card
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 wins
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2 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(20 articles)
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Lean, mean, but lacklustre
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Roger Moore | ... | James Bond | |
| Yaphet Kotto | ... | Kananga / Mr. Big | |
| Jane Seymour | ... | Solitaire | |
| Clifton James | ... | Sheriff J.W. Pepper | |
| Julius Harris | ... | Tee Hee (as Julius W. Harris) | |
| Geoffrey Holder | ... | Baron Samedi | |
| David Hedison | ... | Felix Leiter | |
| Gloria Hendry | ... | Rosie Carver | |
| Bernard Lee | ... | M | |
| Lois Maxwell | ... | Miss Moneypenny | |
| Tommy Lane | ... | Adam | |
| Earl Jolly Brown | ... | Whisper | |
| Roy Stewart | ... | Quarrel Jr. | |
| Lon Satton | ... | Strutter | |
| Arnold Williams | ... | Cab Driver 1 |
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Also Known As:
Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
121 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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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:
Ian Fleming based the Bond Girl Solitaire's name on the Jamaican Solitaire bird. Her actual full name in the novel is Simone Latrelle but this is never mentioned in this movie.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In order for Tee Hee to be able to break the gun, he would need to have quite a bit of strength in both his claw and his real hand equally, otherwise the gun would just slip out of his hand when he tried to bend it.
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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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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 Harry Saltzman: Showman (2000) (V)
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Soundtrack:
LIVE AND LET DIE
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Who were the three people killed in the opening scenes?What exotic places does Bond visit in this movie?
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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 ?"