Live and Let Die

1973 film directed by Guy Hamilton

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"Live and Let Die" is a 1973 James Bond film directed by Guy Hamilton that follows agent 007 on a mission involving a Caribbean villain involved in drug trafficking. The film is notable as the first Bond movie starring Roger Moore in the iconic role and features one of the franchise's most memorable theme songs by Paul McCartney.

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James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.

Released: 1973-06-27121 minDir: Guy HamiltonAdventure, Action, ThrillerBudget: $7.0MBox office: $126MPart of: James Bond Collection

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Cast

Roger Moore as James Bond
Yaphet Kotto as Kananga/Mr. Big
Jane Seymour as Solitaire
Clifton James as Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Julius Harris as Tee Hee
Geoffrey Holder as Baron Samedi

Themes

new york city
london, england

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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, the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and the third in the series directed by Guy Hamilton. It was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli and written by Tom Mankiewicz.

It is based on Ian Fleming's 1954 novel. The storyline involves a drug lord in Harlem, New York City, known as Mr. Big, who plans to distribute two tons of heroin for free to put rival drug lords 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 Kananga's scheme.