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The Living Daylights (1987)

PG06/29/1987Action, Adventure, Thriller2h 10m
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The new James Bond...living on the edge.

Overview

After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.

Top Billed Cast

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    Timothy Dalton

    James Bond

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    Maryam d'Abo

    Kara Milovy

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    Joe Don Baker

    Brad Whitaker

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    Art Malik

    Kamran Shah

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    John Rhys-Davies

    General Leonid Pushkin

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    Jeroen Krabbé

    General Georgi Koskov

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    Andreas Wisniewski

    Necros

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    Thomas Wheatley

    Saunders

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    Desmond Llewelyn

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The last of the very good 007 films. The last of the fun 007 films for sure. Here, Bond is supposed to stop an assassination of a Russian VIP defecting to the West, but Bond senses something, and instead of killing the assassin (a shapely female violinist), he shoots the weapon from her hand. Something is amiss about the defector, and it's obvious to the viewer, though perhaps not obvious to someone who is in the story. We get lots of great scenery, lots of action, lots of wit, and some great horse play, such as riding a violin case like a sled to escape bad guys. It's perhaps the most "f...