Live and Let Die (1973)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour
Synopsis:
007 is sent to the West Indies, where voodoo has become a cover for industrial-scale opium production.
Review:
Bond meets 1970s blaxploitation in Moore's first outing as the suavely philandering, and ever quipping British agent. The action has become increasingly gimmicky, with sharks, alligators, speedboats and a car chase with a double decker bus all attempting to sustain interest in a character and espionage world that were no longer taking themselves seriously. For one brief moment, as our hero simply unholsters his Baretta in the poppy fields and despatches two or three assailants, to the strains of the Bond theme, we experience a frisson of forgotten thrills, but then the silliness returns. Wings provide a creditable soundtrack, and Jackie Gleason makes the first of two franchise appearances as a hick police captain out of his depth.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour
Synopsis:
007 is sent to the West Indies, where voodoo has become a cover for industrial-scale opium production.
Review:
Bond meets 1970s blaxploitation in Moore's first outing as the suavely philandering, and ever quipping British agent. The action has become increasingly gimmicky, with sharks, alligators, speedboats and a car chase with a double decker bus all attempting to sustain interest in a character and espionage world that were no longer taking themselves seriously. For one brief moment, as our hero simply unholsters his Baretta in the poppy fields and despatches two or three assailants, to the strains of the Bond theme, we experience a frisson of forgotten thrills, but then the silliness returns. Wings provide a creditable soundtrack, and Jackie Gleason makes the first of two franchise appearances as a hick police captain out of his depth.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour
Synopsis:
007 is sent to the West Indies, where voodoo has become a cover for industrial-scale opium production.
Review:
Bond meets 1970s blaxploitation in Moore's first outing as the suavely philandering, and ever quipping British agent. The action has become increasingly gimmicky, with sharks, alligators, speedboats and a car chase with a double decker bus all attempting to sustain interest in a character and espionage world that were no longer taking themselves seriously. For one brief moment, as our hero simply unholsters his Baretta in the poppy fields and despatches two or three assailants, to the strains of the Bond theme, we experience a frisson of forgotten thrills, but then the silliness returns. Wings provide a creditable soundtrack, and Jackie Gleason makes the first of two franchise appearances as a hick police captain out of his depth.