Live and Let Die (1973)

Preceded by: Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Followed by: The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)

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	Directed by: Guy Hamilton	COUNTRY UK/USA GENRE Spy/Action NORWEGIAN TITLE Å leve og la dø RUNNING TIME 121 minutes
	Produced by: Albert R. Broccoli Harry Saltzman
	Written by: Tom Mankiewicz
	Based on the novel by: Ian Fleming

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
James Bond	Roger Moore
Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big	Yaphet Kotto	½
Solitaire	Jane Seymour
Sheriff J.W. Pepper	Clifton James	½
Tee Hee Johnson	Julius W. Harris
Baron Samedi	Geoffrey Holder
Felix Leiter	David Hedison	-
Rosie Carver	Gloria Hendry	-
M	Bernard Lee	-
Miss Moneypenny	Lois Maxwell	-
Adam	Tommy Lane	-
Whisper	Earl Jolly Brown	-

Review

Boasting one of the best ever Bond themes, a young and absolutely dashing looking Roger Moore, and some of the chicest sets of the series aren't enough to make this first entry in Moore's tenure as 007 into anything more than a preposterous curiosity. The story is weak, revolving mainly around a ludicrous foray into voodoo and occultism on the Caribbean island of San Monique. And almost all the action sequences feel staged and are badly acted, with the exception of a vivifying speedboat chase through the Louisiana bayous. As the cardboard villains snicker and sneer and the girl screams her lungs out in pretended terror when the ending approaches, you realise that this is a comic book version of 007 at best, and not the slick spy-thriller for adults fans of Ian Fleming's books would had envisaged.