Post by ant-mac on Nov 9, 2018 11:20:37 GMT
LIVE AND LET DIE (1973) 3/5.
The eighth entry in the JAMES BOND film series produced by Eon Productions. It’s also the first JAMES BOND film to star Roger Moore in the lead role, after Sean Connery once again retired from the film series at the end of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. The screenplay is by Tom Mankiewicz and is loosely based upon LIVE AND LET DIE, the second novel in Ian Fleming’s JAMES BOND book series. The film soundtrack was written by George Martin and the title song was written by Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda McCartney, while it was performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. The film is produced by Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and directed by Guy Hamilton.
The film stars Roger Moore as James Bond, Jane Seymour as Solitaire, David Hedison as Felix Leiter, Gloria Hendry as Rosie Carver, Clifton James as Sheriff JW Pepper, Bernard Lee as M, Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny and Yaphet Kotto as Doctor Kananga. It also features Julius Harris, Geoffrey Holder, Roy Stewart, Earl Jolly Brown, Lon Satton and Madeline Smith.
James Bond, who is investigating the deaths of three British agents, is lead to Doctor Kananga, a corrupt Caribbean dictator, who rules San Monique and as his alter ego, a Harlem drug lord known as Mister Big, plans to distribute two tons of heroin for free in New York City, to put rival drug barons out of business and then become a monopoly supplier. LIVE AND LET DIE was released during the height of the blaxploitation era and many blaxploitation archetypes and clichés are depicted in the film, including black gangsters, pimpmobiles, derogatory racial epithets and so on and so forth. Another poor effort from the JAMES BOND film series.
The eighth entry in the JAMES BOND film series produced by Eon Productions. It’s also the first JAMES BOND film to star Roger Moore in the lead role, after Sean Connery once again retired from the film series at the end of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. The screenplay is by Tom Mankiewicz and is loosely based upon LIVE AND LET DIE, the second novel in Ian Fleming’s JAMES BOND book series. The film soundtrack was written by George Martin and the title song was written by Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda McCartney, while it was performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. The film is produced by Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and directed by Guy Hamilton.
The film stars Roger Moore as James Bond, Jane Seymour as Solitaire, David Hedison as Felix Leiter, Gloria Hendry as Rosie Carver, Clifton James as Sheriff JW Pepper, Bernard Lee as M, Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny and Yaphet Kotto as Doctor Kananga. It also features Julius Harris, Geoffrey Holder, Roy Stewart, Earl Jolly Brown, Lon Satton and Madeline Smith.
James Bond, who is investigating the deaths of three British agents, is lead to Doctor Kananga, a corrupt Caribbean dictator, who rules San Monique and as his alter ego, a Harlem drug lord known as Mister Big, plans to distribute two tons of heroin for free in New York City, to put rival drug barons out of business and then become a monopoly supplier. LIVE AND LET DIE was released during the height of the blaxploitation era and many blaxploitation archetypes and clichés are depicted in the film, including black gangsters, pimpmobiles, derogatory racial epithets and so on and so forth. Another poor effort from the JAMES BOND film series.
