The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights is a 1987 spy film, the fifteenth entry in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the first of two to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by John Glen, the film's title is taken from Ian Fleming's short story "The Living Daylights", the plot of which also forms the basis of the first act of the film. It was the last film to use the title of an Ian Fleming story until the 2006 instalment Casino Royale. It is also the first film to have Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny, replacing Lois Maxwell. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, his stepson Michael G. Wilson, and co-produced by his daughter, Barbara Broccoli. The Living Daylights grossed $191.2 million worldwide, and received mixed reviews from critics.
Plot
James Bond is assigned to help KGB General Georgi Koskov defect, covering his escape from a concert hall in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. During the mission, Bond notices that the KGB sniper assigned to "protect" Koskov is a female cellist from the orchestra. Disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he shoots the rifle from her hands, then uses the Trans-Siberian Pipeline to smuggle Koskov across the border to the West.
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| author | Michael G. Wilson Richard Maibaum |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Afghanistan Baluchistan Bratislava Gibraltar Tangier Vienna |
| director | John Glen |
| editor | John Grover Peter Davies |
| genre | action adventure thriller |
| keywords | abduct across the border air base arms dealer capture concert hall condemn czechoslovak socialist republic czechoslovakia debrief democratic republic of afghanistan dressing room embezzlement felix leiter gun battle help james bond kgb kill last second meet mi6 moscow mujahideen opium prater secret intelligence service smiert spionam soviet union track down trans-siberian pipeline west |
| musicBy | John Barry |
| producer | Albert R. Broccoli |
| productionCompany | Eon Productions United Artists |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United International Pictures |
| recordedAt | Austria California Gibraltar Morocco Pinewood Studios Vienna |
| theme | sequel spy war |