Licence to Kill (1989)
Licence to Kill (1989)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Timothy Dalton
James Bond
Carey Lowell
Pam Bouvier
Robert Davi
Franz Sanchez
Talisa Soto
Lupe Lamora
Anthony Zerbe
Milton Krest
Frank McRae
Sharkey
Everett McGill
Killifer
Wayne Newton
Professor Joe Butcher
Benicio del Toro
Dario
Anthony Starke
Truman-Lodge
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
President Hector Lopez
Desmond Llewelyn
Q
David Hedison
Felix Leiter
Priscilla Barnes
Della Churchill
Robert Brown
M
Caroline Bliss
Miss Moneypenny
Don Stroud
Heller
Grand L. Bush
Hawkins
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Kwang
Alejandro Bracho
Perez
Guy De Saint Cyr
Braun
Rafer Johnson
Mullens
Diane Hsu
Loti (as Diana Lee-Hsu)
Christopher Neame
Fallon
Jeannine Bisignano
Stripper
Claudio Brook
Montelongo
Cynthia Fallon
Consuelo
Enrique Novi
Rasmussen
Osami Kawawo
Oriental
Roger Cudney
Wavekrest Captain
Honorato Magaloni
Chief Chemist
Jorge Russek
Pit Boss
Sergio Corona
Bellboy
Stuart Quan
Ninja (as Stuart Kwan)
Teresa Blake
Ticket Agent
Samuel Benjamin Lancaster
Della's Uncle
Juan Peláez
Casino Manager (as Juan Peleaz)
Humberto Elizondo
Hotel Assistant Manager (as Umberto Elizondo)
Edna Bolkan
Barrelhead Waitress
Eddie Edenfield
Clive (as Eddie Enderfield)
Jeff Moldovan
Warehouse Guard
Carl Ciarfalio
Warehouse Guard
Branscombe Richmond
Barrelhead Bar Patron
Albert R. Broccoli
Producer
Alec Mills
Director of Photography
Dennis Bosher
Art Direction
Michael Lamont
Art Direction
Richard Maibaum
Screenplay
Michael Ford
Set Decoration
Michael G. Wilson
Screenplay / Producer
Jane Jenkins
Casting
John Grover
Editor
Janet Hirshenson
Casting
John Glen
Director
Michael Kamen
Original Music Composer
Peter Lamont
Production Design
Jodie Lynn Tillen
Costume Design
Barbara Broccoli
Associate Producer
Stephen McLaughlin
Music Programmer
Gladys Knight
Theme Song Performance
Jeff Pescetto
Songs
Ian Fleming
Characters
Maurice Binder
Main Title Designer
Anthony Waye
Production Supervisor
Ramón Bravo
Underwater Director of Photography
Douglas Noakes
Production Accountant
Paul Weston
Stunt Coordinator
Philip Kohler
Production Manager
Miguel Gil
Assistant Director
Miguel Lima
Assistant Director
Mike Frift
Camera Operator
Edward Tise
Sound Recordist
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 13, 1989
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 13m
Content RatingPG-13
Budget$32,000,000
Box Office$156,167,015
Filming LocationsMexico · Florida, United States
Genres
Wiki.
Licence to Kill is a 1989 action-thriller film, the sixteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the second and final film to star Timothy Dalton as the MI6 agent James Bond. It sees Bond resigning from MI6 as he pursues the drug lord Franz Sanchez, who has ordered an attack against Bond's CIA friend Felix Leiter and the murder of Felix's wife after their wedding.
Licence to Kill was the fifth and final Bond film directed by John Glen, the last to feature Robert Brown as M and Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny. It was also the last to feature the work of the screenwriter Richard Maibaum, the title designer Maurice Binder and the producer Albert R. Broccoli, all of whom died in the following years.
Licence to Kill was the first Bond film to not use the title of an Ian Fleming story. Originally titled Licence Revoked, the name was changed during post-production due to American test audiences associating the term with driver's license. Although its plot is largely original, it contains elements of the Fleming novel Live and Let Die and the short story "The Hildebrand Rarity", interwoven with a sabotage premise influenced by Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo.
For budget reasons, Licence to Kill became the first Bond film shot entirely outside the United Kingdom: principal photography took place on location in Mexico and the US, while interiors were filmed at Estudios Churubusco instead of Pinewood Studios. The film earned over $156 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews, with praise for the stunts, but attracted criticism for its darker tone, which carried into Dalton's portrayal of Bond.