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US Mall 1 - Bond: Live & Let Die
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris
Directed By: Guy Hamilton
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302510003
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6302510007
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 1999-10-19
Running Time: 121
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1973-06-27
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Summary: Live and Let Die
Comment: This 007 movie is a really good Roger Moore as James Bond movie. It also has an awesome soundtrack. Roger Moore is great as Bond. If you like 007, you'll enjoy this one!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Roger Moore's Debut As 007 Isn't Top-Notch But This Is Worth Watching for All Hardcore Bond Fans.
Comment: Roger Moore made his cinematic debut as Ian Fleming's James Bond, Agent 007, in director Guy Hamilton's "Live and Let Die," the eighth official entry in the Albert R. Broccoli & Harry Saltzman franchise for United Artists. Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, David Hedison, and Geoffrey Holder co-starred with Moore in this above-average outing. Chiefly, the sudden rage in movies about African-American heroes prompted Broccoli & Saltzman to exploit the black angle to market the film's appeal across cultures. Moore ranks "Live and Let Die" as his second favorite 007 escapade after Lewis Gilbert's "The Spy Who Loved Me." In my opinion, however, "Live and Let Die" qualifies as above average as a movie, but least impressive as a Bond movie, edged out the ninth Bond opus, Guy Hamilton's "The Man with the Golden Gun."
Basically, nothing either surprising or electrifying occurs in this installment. Nevertheless, "Live and Let Die" boasts several assets, for example, the careening speed boat chase through the Louisiana bayous, Tom Mankiewicz's witty dialogue, the notorious villain's heroin trafficking scheme, the various predicaments that Bond finds himself in from Harlem to the Caribbean with voodoo witchcraft shading in the background, and Paul McCartney's Oscar nominated rock song title tune. Additionally, the editing by Bert Bates, Raymond Poulton, and John Shirley is exceptionally crisp.
"Live and Let Die" featured a number of firsts for the James Bond franchise. The producers lensed this entry in 1.85.1 screen format, after they had converted to the Panavision widescreen process of 2.35.1 with "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," and "Diamonds Are Forever." The smaller screen ratio cramps the epic scale of adventure that made the previous James Bond sagas the larger-than-life series that it is. The producers sought to contrast Roger Moore's Bond from Sean Connery's. According to Mankiewicz, Connery was more aggressive while Moore was more suave. Moore smoked cigars rather than the cigarettes that Connery puffed. Bond receives his briefing his own flat under tense conditions rather than in at M's office. Moore shuns hats unlike Connery. Indeed, Moore appears in the gun-barrel sequence without headgear. Moore's Bond hang-glided here as well as in "Moonraker." Q is conspicuously absent from "Live and Let Die." Bond travels to an imaginary country for the first time, and Moore's Bond cuddles up with an African American woman, Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry), 007's first interracial romance. Sheriff J.W. Pepper blurted out the first profanity in a Bond movie. George Martin produced an inferior orchestral score, compared to John Barry's superb scores. "Live and Let Die" also incorporated a supernatural theme, something that no other Bond has ever done.
The opening gambit qualifies as one of the least provocative. British agents at the United Nations in New York City, in the French Quarter in New Orleans, and in San Monique--a remote island in the Caribbean--die under mysterious circumstances. M barges in on Bond at 5:48 AM to brief him, while Miss Moneypenny helps a female Italian agent hide from M. No sooner does 007 lands in the Big Apple than Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto of "Across 110th Street") sends his henchmen to kill him. They kill his driver with poisonous dart in New York traffic and our hero struggles to control his swerving car from the backseat. Later, Bond blunders into Harlem, walks into a trap at the Fillet of Soul restaurant, and encounters, Solitaire (Jane Seymour), who can predict the future. She works for Mr. Big, but she doesn't sleep with him. Actually, Mr. Big and Dr. Kananga, an island diplomat, are one in the same, but their dual personality doesn't come as much of a surprise. Nevertheless, the unmasking scene pre-dates Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible."
Bond escapes from Mr. Big and meets an African-American CIA agent Rosie Carver in San Monique. Our hero escapes narrowly from a snake in his bathroom and wields a rather handy bottle of after-shave. When Bond gets rough with Rosie, Kananga has her executed. Eventually, Bond meets Solitaire again, makes love to her, and tries to help her escape. Since she is no longer a virgin, Solitaire cannot foretell the future so she flees with 007 to Louisiana. The double-decker bus scene is a revision of the "Diamonds Are Forever" car chase where the villains think that they have Bond cornered. Bond discovers that Mr. Big wants to give away a billion dollars worth of heroin to run the Mafia out of the junk business.
Momentarily, Bond eludes Mr. Big's thugs during an amusing chase around a hanger in a propeller-driven plane and later in a bayou boat chase that goes on too long but ends explosively. Bond and Mr. Big engage in hand-to-hand combat in Mr. Big's underground headquarters where he blows the villain to smithereens. Tee Hee (Julius Harris of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar") makes a menacing villain with a steel pincer that can bend gun barrels. They tangle briefly on a train at the end. Clearly, their train tussle recalls Sean Connery's free-for-all with Robert Shaw in "From Russia, With Love" on the Orient Express and later Roger Moore's Donnybrook with Richard Kiel as Jaws in "The Spy Who Loved Me." Unfortunately, David Hedison does little more than deliver exposition as Felix Leiter. Sheriff J.W. Pepper--a forerunner to Jackie Gleason's redneck cop in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies--is strictly comic relief and a little too broad. Actually, Pepper is a variation on the Las Vegas cop that pursues Bond down a back alley.
"Live and Let Die" was above-average, but this PG-rated Bond lacked the tenacity of earlier Bond movies. Guy Hamilton helms the film with his usual smooth style, but "Live and Let Die" nor the next Bond in line "The Man with the Golden Gun" can compare with "Goldfinger" or "Diamonds Are Forever." Roger Moore came into his own with the vastly superior Bond epic "The Spy Who Loved Me."
Director Guy Hamilton's commentary track is worth listening to and so is Roger Moore's commentary. This is simply a terrific must have DVD for loyal Bond fans!
Customer Rating:
Summary: 3 stars out of 4
Comment: The Bottom Line:
An interesting combination of blaxploitation and James Bond, Live and Let Die suffers from the exceptionally annoying character of JW Pepper and a seemingly-interminable car chase, but otherwise offers a lot of enjoyable situations and villains; not a great Bond, but not one of the worst either.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "No sense going off half cocked."
Comment: Roger Moore's maiden voyage as James Bond -- and the third different actor in the role in three consequetive films -- is actually a fairly entertaining movie with the usual set pieces, babes, and Moore's laid back performance. Tom Mankowicz (who wrote for both Connery and Moore) had the best observation. In the scene where Moore enters the Fillet of Soul in Harlem, if you have Connery you know there is going to be a fight. Jane Seymour's big break, Yaphet Koto as Kananga/Mr. Big, Julius Harris as his henchman "T" and David Hedison in his first outing as Bond's CIA buddy Felix Leiter. The first 007 since DR. NO not to be scored by John Barry, the music is courtesy of Sir George Martin (who produced the Beatles records) with a title song (and an energetic one at that) by Paul McCartney and Wings. A pleasant romp, I actually like this one more than Connery's last, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Live and Let Die - Blu-ray Info
Comment: Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / High Profile 4.1
Running time: 2:01:38
Movie size: 33,12 GB
Disc size: 42,12 GB
Average video bit rate: 29.15 Mbps
Subtitles: English SDH / French / Spanish
Number of chapters: 31
DTS-HD Master Audio English 3631 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 3631kbps (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
#Audio Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore
#"The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary Featuring Guy Hamilton
#Audio Commentary Featuring Tom Mankiewicz
#"Declassified: M16 Vault" - Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
#Roger Moore as James Bond, Circa 1964
#Live and Let Die Conceptual Art
#"007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Live and Let Die
#Inside Live and Let Die
#On Set With Roger Moore
#"Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications
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Summary: Live and Let Die
Comment: This 007 movie is a really good Roger Moore as James Bond movie. It also has an awesome soundtrack. Roger Moore is great as Bond. If you like 007, you'll enjoy this one!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Roger Moore's Debut As 007 Isn't Top-Notch But This Is Worth Watching for All Hardcore Bond Fans.
Comment: Roger Moore made his cinematic debut as Ian Fleming's James Bond, Agent 007, in director Guy Hamilton's "Live and Let Die," the eighth official entry in the Albert R. Broccoli & Harry Saltzman franchise for United Artists. Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, David Hedison, and Geoffrey Holder co-starred with Moore in this above-average outing. Chiefly, the sudden rage in movies about African-American heroes prompted Broccoli & Saltzman to exploit the black angle to market the film's appeal across cultures. Moore ranks "Live and Let Die" as his second favorite 007 escapade after Lewis Gilbert's "The Spy Who Loved Me." In my opinion, however, "Live and Let Die" qualifies as above average as a movie, but least impressive as a Bond movie, edged out the ninth Bond opus, Guy Hamilton's "The Man with the Golden Gun."
Basically, nothing either surprising or electrifying occurs in this installment. Nevertheless, "Live and Let Die" boasts several assets, for example, the careening speed boat chase through the Louisiana bayous, Tom Mankiewicz's witty dialogue, the notorious villain's heroin trafficking scheme, the various predicaments that Bond finds himself in from Harlem to the Caribbean with voodoo witchcraft shading in the background, and Paul McCartney's Oscar nominated rock song title tune. Additionally, the editing by Bert Bates, Raymond Poulton, and John Shirley is exceptionally crisp.
"Live and Let Die" featured a number of firsts for the James Bond franchise. The producers lensed this entry in 1.85.1 screen format, after they had converted to the Panavision widescreen process of 2.35.1 with "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," and "Diamonds Are Forever." The smaller screen ratio cramps the epic scale of adventure that made the previous James Bond sagas the larger-than-life series that it is. The producers sought to contrast Roger Moore's Bond from Sean Connery's. According to Mankiewicz, Connery was more aggressive while Moore was more suave. Moore smoked cigars rather than the cigarettes that Connery puffed. Bond receives his briefing his own flat under tense conditions rather than in at M's office. Moore shuns hats unlike Connery. Indeed, Moore appears in the gun-barrel sequence without headgear. Moore's Bond hang-glided here as well as in "Moonraker." Q is conspicuously absent from "Live and Let Die." Bond travels to an imaginary country for the first time, and Moore's Bond cuddles up with an African American woman, Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry), 007's first interracial romance. Sheriff J.W. Pepper blurted out the first profanity in a Bond movie. George Martin produced an inferior orchestral score, compared to John Barry's superb scores. "Live and Let Die" also incorporated a supernatural theme, something that no other Bond has ever done.
The opening gambit qualifies as one of the least provocative. British agents at the United Nations in New York City, in the French Quarter in New Orleans, and in San Monique--a remote island in the Caribbean--die under mysterious circumstances. M barges in on Bond at 5:48 AM to brief him, while Miss Moneypenny helps a female Italian agent hide from M. No sooner does 007 lands in the Big Apple than Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto of "Across 110th Street") sends his henchmen to kill him. They kill his driver with poisonous dart in New York traffic and our hero struggles to control his swerving car from the backseat. Later, Bond blunders into Harlem, walks into a trap at the Fillet of Soul restaurant, and encounters, Solitaire (Jane Seymour), who can predict the future. She works for Mr. Big, but she doesn't sleep with him. Actually, Mr. Big and Dr. Kananga, an island diplomat, are one in the same, but their dual personality doesn't come as much of a surprise. Nevertheless, the unmasking scene pre-dates Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible."
Bond escapes from Mr. Big and meets an African-American CIA agent Rosie Carver in San Monique. Our hero escapes narrowly from a snake in his bathroom and wields a rather handy bottle of after-shave. When Bond gets rough with Rosie, Kananga has her executed. Eventually, Bond meets Solitaire again, makes love to her, and tries to help her escape. Since she is no longer a virgin, Solitaire cannot foretell the future so she flees with 007 to Louisiana. The double-decker bus scene is a revision of the "Diamonds Are Forever" car chase where the villains think that they have Bond cornered. Bond discovers that Mr. Big wants to give away a billion dollars worth of heroin to run the Mafia out of the junk business.
Momentarily, Bond eludes Mr. Big's thugs during an amusing chase around a hanger in a propeller-driven plane and later in a bayou boat chase that goes on too long but ends explosively. Bond and Mr. Big engage in hand-to-hand combat in Mr. Big's underground headquarters where he blows the villain to smithereens. Tee Hee (Julius Harris of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar") makes a menacing villain with a steel pincer that can bend gun barrels. They tangle briefly on a train at the end. Clearly, their train tussle recalls Sean Connery's free-for-all with Robert Shaw in "From Russia, With Love" on the Orient Express and later Roger Moore's Donnybrook with Richard Kiel as Jaws in "The Spy Who Loved Me." Unfortunately, David Hedison does little more than deliver exposition as Felix Leiter. Sheriff J.W. Pepper--a forerunner to Jackie Gleason's redneck cop in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies--is strictly comic relief and a little too broad. Actually, Pepper is a variation on the Las Vegas cop that pursues Bond down a back alley.
"Live and Let Die" was above-average, but this PG-rated Bond lacked the tenacity of earlier Bond movies. Guy Hamilton helms the film with his usual smooth style, but "Live and Let Die" nor the next Bond in line "The Man with the Golden Gun" can compare with "Goldfinger" or "Diamonds Are Forever." Roger Moore came into his own with the vastly superior Bond epic "The Spy Who Loved Me."
Director Guy Hamilton's commentary track is worth listening to and so is Roger Moore's commentary. This is simply a terrific must have DVD for loyal Bond fans!
Customer Rating:
Summary: 3 stars out of 4
Comment: The Bottom Line:
An interesting combination of blaxploitation and James Bond, Live and Let Die suffers from the exceptionally annoying character of JW Pepper and a seemingly-interminable car chase, but otherwise offers a lot of enjoyable situations and villains; not a great Bond, but not one of the worst either.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "No sense going off half cocked."
Comment: Roger Moore's maiden voyage as James Bond -- and the third different actor in the role in three consequetive films -- is actually a fairly entertaining movie with the usual set pieces, babes, and Moore's laid back performance. Tom Mankowicz (who wrote for both Connery and Moore) had the best observation. In the scene where Moore enters the Fillet of Soul in Harlem, if you have Connery you know there is going to be a fight. Jane Seymour's big break, Yaphet Koto as Kananga/Mr. Big, Julius Harris as his henchman "T" and David Hedison in his first outing as Bond's CIA buddy Felix Leiter. The first 007 since DR. NO not to be scored by John Barry, the music is courtesy of Sir George Martin (who produced the Beatles records) with a title song (and an energetic one at that) by Paul McCartney and Wings. A pleasant romp, I actually like this one more than Connery's last, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Live and Let Die - Blu-ray Info
Comment: Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / High Profile 4.1
Running time: 2:01:38
Movie size: 33,12 GB
Disc size: 42,12 GB
Average video bit rate: 29.15 Mbps
Subtitles: English SDH / French / Spanish
Number of chapters: 31
DTS-HD Master Audio English 3631 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 3631kbps (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
#Audio Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore
#"The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary Featuring Guy Hamilton
#Audio Commentary Featuring Tom Mankiewicz
#"Declassified: M16 Vault" - Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
#Roger Moore as James Bond, Circa 1964
#Live and Let Die Conceptual Art
#"007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Live and Let Die
#Inside Live and Let Die
#On Set With Roger Moore
#"Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications
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