Licensed to Kill
Licensed to Kill is an Eastmancolor 1965 superspy imitation James Bond film starring Tom Adams as British secret agent Charles Vine. It was directed and co-written by Lindsay Shonteff. Producer Joseph E. Levine picked it up for American and worldwide distribution and reedited it under the title The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World.
Plot
Facing numerous assassination attempts, a Swedish scientist who has invented an anti-gravity device and his assistant seek to provide the invention to the United Kingdom. With James Bond unavailable, H.M. Government provides Agent Charles Vine, a former mathematician, as a bodyguard and assassin.
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| author | Lindsay Shonteff |
|---|---|
| director | Lindsay Shonteff |
| editor | Ron Pope |
| genre | action adventure comedy |
| keywords | anti-gravity assassination attempt james bond united kingdom |
| musicBy | Herbert Chappell |
| producer | Alistair Films James Ward |
| publisher | Embassy Pictures |
| theme | parody spy comedy |