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Live and Let Die Trailer

Synopsis:

• Three MI6 agents have died - in New Orleans, on the island of San Monique and in Harlem, New York. M dispatches 007 to investigate. Bond's arrival in Harlem is predicted by a medium named Solitaire, and he is immediately a marked man. Her guardian, Dr. Kananga, rules the island of San Monique. Under the alias of Harlem hood, Mr. Big, he plans to flood US homes with home-grown heroin, relying on Solitaire's uncanny skill with a tarot pack to keep several steps ahead of the law. 007 has to find a way to get a couple steps ahead of Solitaire herself.

Release Date:

• July 6, 1973

Plot:

• Total control of the heroin market

Box Office Results:

• $126.4 million

Running Time:

• 2 hours, 2 minutes

Issued Sidearm:

• Walther PPK

Gadgets:

• Suitcase Of Goodies
• Rolex Plus
• "Shark Gun" with compressed air bullets

Director:

• Guy Hamilton

Screenplay:

• Tom Mankiewicz

Main Theme:

• 'Live and Let Die' by Paul and LInda McCartney
• Sung by Paul McCartney and Wings

Starring:

• Roger Moore as James Bond

Villain:

• Yaphet Kotto as Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big

Henchmen:

• Julius W Harris as Tee Hee
• Earl Jolly Brown as Whisper
• Geoffrey Holder as Baron Samedi
• Tommy Lane as Adam
• Gloria Hendry as Rosie Carver
• Earl Jolly Brown as Whisper

Bond Girls:

• Jane Seymour as Solitaire
• Madeline Smith as Miss Caruso

Supporting Cast:

• David Hedison as Felix Leiter
• Roy Stewart as Quarrel Jr.
• Clifton James as Sheriff J.W. Pepper

• Bernard Lee as M
• Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny

Filming Locations:

• London, UK; Fictional country of San Monique (Jamaica); New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; New York City, New York, USA; Slidell, Louisiana, USA

Best Quote: (According to mi6.co.uk)

• Bond: "Why it's just a hat darling, belonging to a smallheaded man of limited means who lost a fight with a chicken."

sheriff j w pepper shouts "a secret agent on who's side"
Best Mistake: (According to mi6.co.uk)

• On the back of Solitaire's cards is a red and white design featuring the number 007 repeated over and over

Distinguishing Feature:

• First appearance by Roger Moore as Bond. Also second time the pre-credit scene didn't include Bond himself.

Vital Statistics (According to mi6.co.uk)

• Conquests: 3
  
• Martinis: 0
  
• Kills: 6
  
• "Bond, James Bond": 1
  

Detailed synopsis:

Three British MI6 agents, including one "on loan" to the American government, are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours while monitoring the operations of Dr. Kananga, the dictator of a small Caribbean island called San Monique. James Bond is sent toNew Yourk City, where the first agent was killed and where Kananga is currently visiting the UN, to investigate. As soon as Bond arrives in New York City, his driver is killed while taking him to meet Felix Leiter of the CIA and Bond is nearly killed in the ensuing car crash.




The driver's killer leads Bond to Mr. Big, a gangster who runs a chain of Fillet of Soul restaurants throughout the United States. It is during his confrontation with Mr. Big that Bond first meets Solitaire, a beautiful virgin tarot expert who has the uncanny ability to see both the future and remote events in the present. In disguise as Mr. Big, Kananga demands that his henchman kill Bond, who manages to escape unscathed. Bond follows Kananga back to San Monique, where he subsequently meets Rosie Carver, a CIA double agent, who is subsequently murdered on the island by Kanaga's scarecrow men after Bond suspects her of working for Kananga. Later he meets the boatman Quarrel, Jr. who takes him to the home of Solitaire. Using a stacked tarot deck of only cards showing "The Lovers", Bond seduces her. Solitaire, losing her virginity as a result of coupling with Bond, loses her foresight abilities and is forced into cooperating with Bond to bring down Kananga.