The Living Daylights

Director: John Glen, Albert R. Broccoli John Glen

Overview

The Living Daylights represents the first appearance by Timothy Dalton as "Bond...James Bond." Based very, very loosely on an obscure Ian Fleming short story, the film finds Bond assigned to aid in the defection of KGB agent Jeroen Krabbe. 007 must prevent an unknown sniper from killing Krabbe before he can reach the West. The mysterious assailant turns out to be the luscious Maryam d'Abo, who like practically everyone in the film except Bond is Not All That She Seems. The plot wends its way through a scheme to trade several million dollars' worth of diamonds for weapons, which will be shipped off to mercenaries worldwide. The climax takes place high above the clouds in a cargo plane loaded with opium. Dalton would play Bond one more time in License to Kill (1989) before handing the franchise over to Pierce Brosnan.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/15/2015
UPC:	0883904333197
Original Release:	1987
Rating:	PG
Source:	Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Language:	English
Sales rank:	4,804

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Timothy Dalton	James Bond
Maryam D'Abo	Kara Milovy
Joe Don Baker	Brad Whitaker,002
John Rhys-Davies	Gen. Leonid Pushkin
Art Malik	Kamran Shah
Andreas Wisniewski	Necros
Thomas Wheatley	Saunders
Desmond Llewelyn	`Q'
Robert Brown	`M'
Walter Gotell	Gen. Anatol Gogol
Caroline Bliss	Miss Moneypenny
John Terry	Felix Leiter
Geoffrey Keen	Actor
Julie T. Wallace	Actor
Kell Tyler	Actor
Catherine Rabett	Actor
Dulice Liecier	Actor
Virginia Hey	Actor
Nadim Sawalha	Actor
Alan Talbot	Actor
Carl Rigg	Actor
Tony Cyrus	Actor
Atik Mohamed	Actor
Derek Hoxby	Sergeant Stagg,Sergeant Stagg
Leslie French	Lavatory Attendant
Jeroen Krabbé	General Georgi Koskov
Alec Mills	Actor
John Glen	Actor
Eric Allwright	Actor
John Bowe	Colonel Feyador
John Barry	Actor
Albert R. Broccoli	Actor
Maite Sánchez	Girl
Richard Maibaum	Actor
Ross Adams	Actor
Roy Alon	Actor
Terry Ackland-Snow	Actor
Chris Corbould	Actor
Michael G. Wilson	Actor
Belle Avery	Linda
Frederick Warder	004
Michael Moor	Kamran's Man
Sumar Khan	Kamran's Man
Ken Sharrock	Jailer
Peter Porteous	Gasworks Supervisor
Antony Carrick	Blayden Male Secretary
Richard Cubison	Actor
Bill Weston	Actor
Pål Waaktaar	Composer

Technical Credits

Michael G. Wilson

Richard Maibaum

Ian Fleming

Albert R. Broccoli	Producer,Director
Remy Julienne	Stunts
John Richardson	Special Effects
Paul Weston	Stunts
Michael G. Wilson	Producer,Screenwriter
B.J. Worth	Stunts
John Glen	Director
Richard Maibaum	Screenwriter
Chris Corbould	Special Effects
Ross Adams	Sound Effects
Ian Fleming	Screenwriter
Leslie Dear	Special Effects
Derek Ball	Sound Effects
Bill Barringer	Sound Effects
Robert Gavin	Sound Effects
Robi Güver	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Blame it on the age of AIDS and safe sex, or simply an attempt to produce a kinder and gentler James Bond, but The Living Daylights was supposed to usher in an era of the notorious ladykiller becoming a one-woman man. Never mind that a new love interest would eradicate Bond's monogamy in License to Kill (1989) -- for the moment, at least, audiences got to enjoy the quaint images of Timothy Dalton and Maryam d'Abo in such chaste pursuits as holding hands and riding a ferris wheel. That this would become a focus of Dalton's first Bond movie says a lot about what the rest of the film has to offer. Dalton's two Bond films clearly found the franchise at a low point, but The Living Daylights is at least lighter on its feet and more fun that the dark and violent License to Kill. The plot is almost headache-inducing, but the set pieces are carried off with veteran Bond director John Glen's usual panache -- including a thrilling Aston Martin gadget sequence and an airborne escape in a Jeep -- so fans weren't ready to have Dalton's head just yet. Dalton is certainly debonair enough, but he's humorless -- any good Bond needs to learn to lighten up. The Living Daylights marks the first appearance in the Bond series of Joe Don Baker, though he would be better known for a different character, the talkative good guy Jack Wade in Goldeneye (1995) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).

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