Three British agents
have been mysteriously killed, one in New York, one in New Orleans and another
on a Caribbean island. James Bond begins
in New York to investigate and he starts to track Mr. Big. He is a self-producing heroin supplier
and he plans to flood the Western Hemisphere market with free heroin in order
to attract more addicts for future business. This venture will also put other heroin dealers out of the
business. Working for Mr. Big is Tee
Hee with a metal claw for one hand, Baron Samedi is a voodoo master and
Solitaire reads tarot cards.
This is the ninth
Bond film and the first with Roger Moore in the lead. It is also the second film to show where Bond lives. Dr. No also had scenes of the Bond
residence. Roger Moore received
this role because he used to gamble at least once a week with Cubby Broccoli
and Harry Saltzman. They invited
him to see Dr. No starring Sean Connery.
Moore doesn’t like heights, guns or explosions but this is acting after
all. I thought this was
interesting and good except for Tee Hee.
You can tell his arm with the metal claw is longer than his other arm. It seems they could done a better
job to make them the same length?
3 ½* (I liked this movie)
121
min, Action directed by Guy Hamilton with Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane
Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris, Geoffrey Holder, David Hedison, Gloria
Hendry, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Tommy Lane.
Note: Imdb 6.8 out of 10, 66% critic 65%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*, Amazon 4* out of 5* with 402
reviews.
Special
Note: Paul, Linda McCartney and
Wings sing the title song. This
movie was filmed in Jamaica, New York, Louisiana and England. Jane Seymour was 22 at the time of
filming. Roger Moore was also in
the TV series The Saint as Simon Templar.
His Bond films are The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me,
Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy and A View to a Kill from 1973 to
1985.
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