Advantages: Great fun, terrific action sequences Disadvantages: Slightly dated in places
...Hamilton (director on the forthcoming Live and Let Die) suggested the American actor for Bond. Other options included Michael Billington, best known for a part in Gerry Anderson's camp television series UFO. Broccoli looked for a compromise and started thinking about Roger Moore again. Roger Moore, now 45, had been considered for Bond more than once in the sixties but television contracts had always made him unavailable. His tv show The Persuaders ... ...back seat in busy traffic. Live and Let Die has some terrific action sequences.
David Hedison makes a decent Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die. Hedison and Moore are good friends in real life and this is evident in the secenes they act in together. The trail leads Bond to the
Fillet of Soul restaurant run by a criminal figure called Mr Big. Roger Moore looks a tad conspicuous wandering around Harlem as if he's just stepped out his Saville Row tailers ...
arthurpringle 22.09.2007
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Advantages: New Bond, clearer picture and Audio, Good Story line. Disadvantages: Limited new extra's
...being a perfect marriage. Live and Let Die being the opening tune. The credits follow the up and down nature the song and is a shot of pure brilliance from Binder.
After the credits, we get introduced to Bond (Moore). After the death of the last agent in San Monique, M (Bernard Lee) and Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) visit Bond, early in the morning, at Bonds house. M sends Bond on a mission to New York, to investigate these deaths and the apparent link ... ...Monique.
However, even as Bond travels to New York, he has been spotted by the mysterious Solitaire, who has seen him in the Tarot cards. Bond lands in New York and is being taken to see Felix Leiter (David Hedison) when his driver is attacked and killed by Whisper (Earl Jolly Brown), a henceman of Kananga. Putting the evidence together, Bond traces the car to an occult shop. Meanwhile, across town, Dr Kananga, who is been watched by Felix, has ...
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