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James Bond Special Edition 15 - The Living Daylights (1987)
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Glyn Baker 002
Joe Don Baker Brad Whitaker
Caroline Bliss Miss Moneypenny
Pierce Brosnan
Robert Brown M
Sean Connery
Maryam d'Abo Kara Malovy
Olivia D'Abo
Timothy Dalton James Bond
Jeroen Krabbe
Jeroen Krabbé General Georgi Koskov
Desmond Llewellyn
Desmond Llewelyn Q
Art Malik Kamran Shah
John Rhys-Davies Gen. Leonid Pushkin
John Terry Felix Leiter
Thomas Wheatley Saunders
Andreas Wisniewski Necros
Movie Details
Genre Action; Adventure
Director John Glen; John Glen (II)
Producer Albert R. Broccoli; Michael G. Wilson
Writer Richard Maibaum; Michael G. Wilson; Ian Fleming
Studio MGM/UA
Language English
Audience Rating PG (Parental Guidance)
Running Time 2 hr 10 mins
Country UK
Color Color
IMDb Rating 6.5
Plot
Sean Connery casts a long shadow over the James Bond legacy. He created the movie persona and starred in six of the first seven features, all but establishing the cool cold warrior as the world's most suave secret agent. The second Bond collection celebrates the Connery Bond with three of his classics, including From Russia with Love, 007's second and perhaps finest outing. A blond, buff Robert Shaw plays Bond's most ruthless nemesis, and Lotte Lenya and the great Pedro Armindáriz costar in this sleek, high-energy trip through the Iron Curtain. Connery travels to the Far East in You Only Live Twice, which introduces the international criminal conspiracy SPECTRE and its cat-loving mastermind, Blofeld (Donald Pleasence). After a brief retirement, Connery returned for Diamonds Are Forever, his final "official" appearance in the Bond series (15 years later he played Bond for a rival studio's Never Say Never Again). This more tongue-in-cheek adventure takes 007 to Las Vegas, where he battles Blofeld (this time played by Charles Gray) and his minions--namely, a pair of fey, sardonic henchmen and a team of bikini-clad karate killers.

Roger Moore took over the role and his fourth effort was Moonraker, a misguided sci-fi entry that takes Bond to space for a physically impressive but dramatically lackluster adventure with Richard Kiel's steel-dentured Jaws. After that brief digression, For Your Eyes Only returned Bond to globetrotting high adventure and teamed him with his most endearing ally (Topol as a gregarious smuggler). The torch was passed to Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights, an attempt to clear away the camp elements of Moore's portrayal and return to a lean, hard-edged spy thriller for the post-cold war era. It lacks the larger-than-life characters and spectacle of previous Bond pictures, but Dalton was a tough, ruthless 007 and a worthy inheritor of the legacy, which was then passed on to Pierce Brosnan. In The World Is Not Enough, Bond takes on post-Soviet geopolitics, with Robert Carlyle as the villainous Renard and Sophie Marceau and Denise Richards as love objects.

Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 166
Collection Status In Collection
Links DVD Empire
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Product Details
Edition Special Edition
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1)
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
UPC (Barcode) 027616853943
Chapters 36
Release Date 10/17/2000
Subtitles English (Closed Captioned); French; Spanish
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks Commentary [English]
Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Dolby Digital Surround [Spanish]
Nr of Disks/Tapes 7
Extra Features
"The Making of..." Documentary Bonus Tailers Cast Interviews Deleted Scenes Director's Commentary Interactive Menus Scene Selection Theatrical Trailers