Live and Let Die (1973)
Live and Let Die (1973)
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Cast & Crew.
Roger Moore
James Bond
Yaphet Kotto
Kananga/Mr. Big
Jane Seymour
Solitaire
Clifton James
Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Julius Harris
Tee Hee
Geoffrey Holder
Baron Samedi / Choreographer
David Hedison
Felix Leiter
Gloria Hendry
Rosie Carver
Bernard Lee
M
Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny
Tommy Lane
Adam
Earl Jolly Brown
Whisper
Lon Satton
Strutter
Madeline Smith
Miss Caruso
Roy Stewart
Quarrel
Arnold Williams
Cab Driver 1
Robert Dix
Hamilton
James Drake
Dawes (uncredited)
Dennis Edwards
Baines
Brenda Arnau
Singer
Kubi Chaza
Sales Girl
Michael Ebbin
Dambala
Joie Chitwood
Charlie
Ruth Kempf
Mrs. Bell
Stephen Hendrickson
M. Bleeker / Art Direction
Louis Saint-Juste
Chef des voudous
Don Topping
Animateur
Lance Gordon
Eddie
Alvin Alcorn
Assassin
Roy Hollis
Shérif
James Langston Drake
Dawes
Tony Amelchi
Danseur
Della McCrae
Danseuse
Keith Forte
Garde
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Femme qui pleure
Irvin Allen
Garçon
Dan Jackson
Garçon
Gabor Vernon
Délégué hongrois
Vic Armstrong
Policier / Stunt Double
Jack Cooper
Policier
Peter Brayham
Homme de main
Paul Weston
Homme à l'aéroport
Nikki Van der Zyl
Solitaire (voice) (uncredited)
Guy Hamilton
Director
Ian Fleming
Novel
Tom Mankiewicz
Screenplay
Albert R. Broccoli
Producer
Harry Saltzman
Producer
George Martin
Original Music Composer
Ted Moore
Director of Photography
Bert Bates
Editor
Raymond Poulton
Editor
John Shirley
Editor
Weston Drury Jr.
Casting
Robert W. Laing
Art Direction
Peter Lamont
Art Direction
Julie Harris
Costume Design
Bob Minor
Stunts
Jophery C. Brown
Stunts
Ron Quelch
Production Assistant
Henry Kingi
Stunts
Eddie Powell
Stunts
David Wynn-Jones
First Assistant Camera
Paul McCartney
Theme Song Performance
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 27, 1973
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 1m
Content RatingPG
Budget$7,000,000
Box Office$126,400,000
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom · New Orleans, United States · New York City, United States of America
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This Movie Is About.
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Live and Let Die is a 1973 spy film, the eighth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Guy Hamilton and produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, while Tom Mankiewicz wrote the script.
The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1954 novel of the same name. The storyline involves a Harlem drug lord known as Mr. Big who plans to distribute two tons of heroin for free to put rival drug barons out of business and then become a monopoly supplier. Mr. Big is revealed to be the alter ego of Dr. Kananga, a corrupt Caribbean dictator, who rules San Monique, a fictional island where opium poppies are secretly farmed. Bond is investigating the deaths of three British agents, leading him to Kananga, and he is soon trapped in a world of gangsters and voodoo as he fights to put a stop to the drug baron's scheme.
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 derogatory racial epithets ("honky"), black gangsters, and pimpmobiles. It departs from the former plots of the James Bond films about megalomaniac super-villains, and instead focuses on drug trafficking, a common theme of blaxploitation films of the period. It is set in African-American cultural centres such as Harlem and New Orleans, as well as the Caribbean Islands. It was also the first James Bond film featuring an African-American Bond girl romantically involved with 007, Rosie Carver, who was played by Gloria Hendry.
The film was a box-office success and received generally positive reviews from critics. Its title song, written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by their band Wings, was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.