James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total
- Tee Hee
- (as Julius W. Harris)
- Director
- Writers
- Tom Mankiewicz
- Ian Fleming(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaIt took crocodile wrangler and stuntman Ross Kananga (the villain in the movie was named after him) 6 takes to complete the scene were he doubles for Sir Roger Moore when Bond flees the bad guys by running across the backs of 3 crocodiles in a swamp. Kananga received $60,000 for the stunt, filmed at Swamp Safaris, his 350 acres of mangrove swamp on Jamaica's north coast, where he kept a herd of over 1000 crocodiles. In a 1973 interview, he explained; "something like that is almost impossible to do. So, I had to do it six times before I got it right. I fell five times. The film company kept sending to London for more clothes. The crocs were chewing off everything when I hit the water, including shoes. I received one hundred ninety-three stitches on my leg and face."
- GoofsIn 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.
If there were enough strength within Tee-Hee's claw to crimp the gun hard enough, he would not need an equal amount of strength in his own organic hand for it to bend.
- Quotes
Sheriff J.W. Pepper: There's that son of a bitch. I got him.
[to Bond]
Sheriff J.W. Pepper: What are you? Some kinda doomsday machine, boy? Well, *we* got a cage strong enough to hold an animal like you here!
Felix Leiter: Captain, would you enlighten the Sheriff, please?
State Trooper: Yessir. J.W., let me have a word with ya. J.W., now, this fellow's from London, England. He's a Englishman workin' in cooperation with our boys, a sorta... secret agent.
Sheriff J.W. Pepper: Secret agent? On whose side?
- Crazy creditsThe End of Live and Let Die James Bond will return in The Man with the Golden Gun
- Alternate versionsIn the chase scene where Sheriff J.W. Pepper passes a slow-moving truck and shouts "Did you ever think of getting a driver's license, boy?", some TV versions have the line replaced with "Why don't you build a fence around it?".
- ConnectionsFeatured in James Paul McCartney (1973)
- SoundtracksLive and Let Die
Music by Paul McCartney
Lyrics by Linda McCartney
Performed by Paul McCartney and Wings
Here Bond faces Dr. Kananga, Baron Samedi (a paranormal entity), ferocious crocodiles, a venomous snake, Tee Hee, a henchman who has a pincer for a hand, Dambala, a henchman with a penchant for snakes and wears a goat pelt on his head, Whisper, a fatty who cannot speak properly and various henchmen in red tshirts and blue pants.
Bond gets to cool off with Madeline Smith, Jane Seymour and Gloria Hendry, a babe with an amazing toned obliques n rectus abdominis.
The film has a lovely boat chase which is amazingly well photographed in Louisiana around the Irish Bayou. I am a big fan of movies shot in the marshy areas n the bayou of Louisiana.
In the novel, Tee Hee is a henchman without the metal claw and he breaks the little finger of Bond's left hand.
In the novel, Whisper's quiet voice is attributed to a bout of tuberculosis during infancy.
- Fella_shibby
- Dec 10, 2020
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die
- Filming locations
- 826 Chartres Street, French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA(Fillet of Soul restaurant)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $7,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $35,377,836
- Gross worldwide
- $35,384,098
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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