The Living Daylights Movie Review 1987

After being used as a pawn in a fake Russian defector plot, our intrepid spy tracks down an international arms and opium smuggling ring. Fine debut by Dalton, who takes his role as 007 in a more serious vein, in a rousing, refreshing cosmopolitan shoot-em-up. Let's be frank: we were all getting a little fatigued by Roger Moore. The 15th film in the series.

Distribution

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 130 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Cold War Spies, Smuggler's Blues, James Bond, Books to Film: Ian Fleming

Screenplay

Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson

Cast

Timothy Dalton, Maryam D'Abo, Jeroen Krabbe, John Rhys-Davies, Robert Brown, Joe Don Baker, Desmond Llewelyn, Art Malik, Geoffrey Keen, Walter Gotell, Andreas Wisniewski

Cinematography

Alec Mills

Director

John Glen

Music

John Barry

Producer

Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson