@@demizer1968 No. I hate to be so blunt but Jane Seymour was born in 1951 which means she is 73 today (2024) and was 20 years old, at the least, when Live and Let Die was filming.
Totally agree , it was the right bond film at the right moment for box office especially in USA with blazing saddles, shalf, enter the dragon , the french connection 2 dirty harry, different types of culture films was happening
he did return in Goldeneye 64, and lightly referenced in Spectre. which was the most misleading poster ever. The baron SHOULD have been in that film, and would have been a good nod and worked well.
He passed just one month after Clifton James who played Sherrif JW Pepper. I met Roger several times when I worked the Stage Door/internal security at the Royal Albert Hall in London, one of the kindest, politest and most gentle of gentlemen I ever met. A TRUE star in how he carried himself and spoke to others, placing spending a few minutes and a handshake with fans above all else. An incredibly gracious individual much missed.
I loved Sheriff JW Pepper. I also noticed that in the early chase scene in the movie that every single involved car was a Chevrolet Impala. They must’ve had a deal with General Motors.
Amazing video, so well done too. This was my first Bond film, I was 7, when I saw this at the Cinema (London) with my Cousin Victor. I was blown away by the film, and Roger Moore became my childhood hero 😘
I've read Roger Moore's diary of the making of Live & Let Die. It is really interesting and has a lot of additional bits of information on the actors and actresses playing the various roles. Some quite salacious, Well worth a read.
I was too young, at nine, sadly (especially as I was a Beatles/Macca nut by then). My first Bond was ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. The queue at the Southend Odeon went round the corner, past the pub, the railway station & halfway down the high street!
Me too. I was 6 or 7 and was really frightened by the intro as well. Can you imagine seeing that women's head turning into a flaming skull, as a little kid, on a giant screen. Scary.
Being from New Orleans, this is my favorite Bond flick...one of my grammar school classmate's mom was an extra in the Second Line scene in the French Quarter when the 1st agent is killed.
@@Inglese001 Yes. I have to admit that during 'Octopussy' there is a scene where he falls through some jungle into a clearing, a tiger enters the other side, Moore's Bond says 'SIT' and the tiger does. At which point I left my seat, left the cinema, and have never returned for a Bond movie since. I loved that Bond movies always had that slight 'tongue in cheek' element not taking themselves 'too' seriously, but that moment was just crass idiocy and took me out of the movie completely. It ended 'Bond' for me in many ways.
@@TLChivz exactly. There were always jokes - even in the Sean Connery era - but it became a spoof. It’s a shame because Roger nailed it his early Bond films.
one of the best Bond films. and Jane Seymore was absolutely stunning. as she still is. and have to say Harry Wild is the best thing she ever did next to this movie.
It was all about the boat chase. The chase resulted in a world record-length boat jump of 110 feet, which remained in the Guinness Book throughout my childhood. The stunt boat was a specially-built, reinforced, and ballasted Glastron GT150, with a 115 HP Evinrude. Still the most epic boat chase movie scene of all time, and resulted in me personally owning several Glastrons. Still own them to this day.
If only other Bond movies had this level of edge of seat excitement and family entertainment and a little less of the ultra violence seen in Craig outings . Moore was the best . Brosnan was dammned close , Craig and Connery were outside parking the cars .
My favourite Bond movie of the lot. It had everything. Action, chases, bizarre characters, humour, mega villains, a gloriously 'off the wall' 'Sherrif' that almost stole the movie [Kudo's to this day to the late Clifton James, his Sherrif JW Pepper can never be forgotten!] and one of the greatest 'Bond Girls'. In recent years the Bond movies have taken themselves far too seriously and into 'Jason Bourne' and 'Mission Impossible' territories. Bond movies were fun. They are from books written by the guy that wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for lords sake! Now they are trying to be John Le Carre legit thrillers with everything that really made Bond so much FUN gone bar the outlandish stunts. Bond movies were always FUN and never took their eyes off that. And for me Live and Let Die was the pinnacle of that ethos.
I love the Roger Moore Bond films, I grew up with them. You are right, they have gone too serious lately. I like the new ones, but they are instantly forgettable!
What has McCartney go to do with it. Weird Al by doing satire can do what ever he pleases ,no permission needed and nobody can stop him or any other satirist.
I am always amazed at how many Bond actors are later dubbed. Even ones with great voices. It would seem like these movies could be made at half the cost if they just used actors with voices they liked.
I remember seeing pictures of my Mama, And James Bond together. Because she worked at Joe Gemelli’s Haberdashery here in New Orleans where James Bond, and other male actors got all of their suits for the movie from
Roger Moore was actually one of the choices BEFORE Connery got the part of 007, but he was already contracted for another project at the time, 'The Saint', which IIRC continued until 1970 or there abouts.
Roger Moore:"I was offered the part of James Bond in about 1961, though I was unaware of this (it must have all been handled through his agent?). Nobody actually told me about the part at the time."
I was a kid and saw this at the drive inn in Slidell, LA not far from where the boat scenes were filmed. I’ll never forget the bathroom scene where he burns the snake with the shaving cream and cigar.
I love this film, my mom took me to see it when I was just eleven years old. It seems to have a lot of unique departures from past Bond movies. One unique touch that I loved, was the Smith and Wesson 44 magnum revolver used in the island scene toward the end of the film. This gun was certainly popularized in the 1971 classic "Dirty Harry" just two years before. Moreover, it gave Bond a whole new depth of character as an action star, and also made for a much more dramatic effect in the later climax scenes of the film. Great video - thanks for posting !
Timothy Dalton was also asked to play Bond in LALD but turned as he thought he was to young at 27 to play a commander of the royal navy just like he turned down OHMSS when he was 21
In the novel Fleming describes Solitaire as Creole, which usually means a person of mixed French and African heritage. She was not white in the book and Diana Ross would actually have been more in keeping with the Fleming novel.
They ran out of speedboats: they crashed so many that they had to buy in boats from way outside the area. In particular, trying to run boats past a wedding party, through a cake and into a swimming pool cost many knackered hulls and engines!
@3:38 OMG, you mean that's an ACTUAL Harlem, NYC scene? I thought for sure it was recreated. What a dive! Great movie, great Bond (one of my favorites) and great stories by the master of fiction Ian Fleming; read his novels to get a LOL with some pretty non-PC prose and an eye for detail and the telling innuendo, the sign of a master. Few mechanical recitations of scenes by Fleming.
Great video, I'm a bit of a James Bond nut and have seen all of the films on the big screen. I've also recently read all the Ian Fleming books on my Kindle for the first time and now working my way through the non-Fleming ones. Great story for LALD, both the book and the film versions. The theme by Paul McC & Wings is the best one (IMHO), Jane Seymore was stunning and played the part brilliantly. Without wishing to be disrespectful but Roger Moore wasn't my favourite JB, in fact well down the list.
@@rockywatchesmovies you forgot to mention that the only reason Paul McCartney was able to use "Live and Lie die" song , was thanks to Roger Moore, who argued for the song to been in the film, as he felt that , up until that point there had not been a hard rock song in the films and it suited the dark magic theme of the film
I always thought it strange Roger ditched the hat in the gun barrel opening but when he enters Money Penny's you see a hand throw the hat to the hat stand, obviously Roger , a tribute to Sean i think , so he must have worn a hat.
6:47 I'm skeptical that a captive would hold the ropes, like that. If you're putting up a genuine struggle against bondage in life-threatening situations, seems to me it would be almost instinctive to have palms away from the ropes.
The reason why Bond originally wore a hat in the first 7 gun barrel openings is because stuntman Bob Simmons, who performed the first 3, was doubling for Sean Connery. The filmmakers wanted to hide the fact that it wasn’t actually Connery.
Re the stunt boat scene, no-one, NO-ONE “improvises a stunt scene on the spot”. These things take meticulous planning and teams of people. Yes, the boat chase wasn’t scripted, it was built around the possibilities offered by the location by the expert production team on the ground, but absolutely not ‘improvised’.
After a more than lame George Lazenby and a weird entry "Diamonds are Forever" (which both I do love just the same as each of this beautiful series from 1962 until 1989) I saw Live and Let Die at the age of 12. Every week they showed the next Bond Movie. I watch Live and Let Die three times within the same week in that Cinema (Oscar in Berlin at the Ku-Damm-Eck).
Lazenby wasn't lame at all. He was inexperienced but they featured his physicality and it worked very well. Diamonds are Forever was truly, truly, awful on ever level. And it didn't even make clear what happened to Blofeld (sp?) at the end!
I still cannot believe my parents took me and my younger sisters to the drive in in a 1968 Ford station wagon in Madison Wisconsin to see this movie when I was 11 yrs old. I was most intrigued by the sexy women like Jane S. and the crocodile and car chase scenes not having ever seen anything like this before. However the voodoo scenes were quite disturbing to me as was the graphic violence and bizarre use of snakes.
A great movie and Jane Seymore was stunning.
Not looking too shabby at 73! She was incredible here though.
@@grahamnunn8998 You are correct! She is still stunning.
and she was only 16 or 17 when it was filmed.
I had a crush on her after watching this movie as a kid
@@demizer1968 No. I hate to be so blunt but Jane Seymour was born in 1951 which means she is 73 today (2024) and was 20 years old, at the least, when Live and Let Die was filming.
I was 6 years old when I saw Live And Let Die for the first time - Baron Samedi scared the hell out of me!
Why?
Same!!!!
Probably my favorite Bond. The casting, song, performances, and theme are perfect.
Totally agree , it was the right bond film at the right moment for box office especially in USA with blazing saddles, shalf, enter the dragon , the french connection 2 dirty harry, different types of culture films was happening
My favorite Bond Movie
Best Bond film and best Bond ever ❤
Poor Baron Samedi, because he wasn't brought back, he was forced to hawk 7Up for all eternity.
The cola nut and the uncola nut.
And he made a boatload of money doing that.
he did return in Goldeneye 64, and lightly referenced in Spectre. which was the most misleading poster ever. The baron SHOULD have been in that film, and would have been a good nod and worked well.
I mis-read that as "he was forced to hawk-up for all eternity." 🙄😄
The Uncola nut never dies 😮
Rest in peace Sir Roger Moore legends never die
He passed just one month after Clifton James who played Sherrif JW Pepper. I met Roger several times when I worked the Stage Door/internal security at the Royal Albert Hall in London, one of the kindest, politest and most gentle of gentlemen I ever met. A TRUE star in how he carried himself and spoke to others, placing spending a few minutes and a handshake with fans above all else. An incredibly gracious individual much missed.
My favourite Bond. Saw it at least 6 times in 1973.
One of the greatest bond movies!!!
My second most favorite of classic Bond (with You Only Live Twice being the first). Thanks for the memories.
Same as my top 2 but in the opposite order. Live and Let Die is number one.
I loved Sheriff JW Pepper. I also noticed that in the early chase scene in the movie that every single involved car was a Chevrolet Impala. They must’ve had a deal with General Motors.
What are you boy some kinda doomsday machine? 🤣
Amazing video, so well done too. This was my first Bond film, I was 7, when I saw this at the Cinema (London) with my Cousin Victor. I was blown away by the film, and Roger Moore became my childhood hero 😘
Glad you enjoyed it!
Madeline Smith as Miss Caruso, she was gorgeous
Moore never stopped being the saint .
My FAVORITE movie!
My favourite James Bond film ever.
So glad i got to meet Geoffrey Holder RIP 🙏🏼
Moore‘s book is a really good read, even after all this time. Some great yarns.
Jane is the most beautiful Bond girl.
Diana Rigg would beg to differ.
@OroborusFMA Not even close. There are many who come before her.
How about Rosa Klebb?
@@TucsonDude I'm getting a chubby thinking about her,
Very true
I've read Roger Moore's diary of the making of Live & Let Die. It is really interesting and has a lot of additional bits of information on the actors and actresses playing the various roles. Some quite salacious, Well worth a read.
I was 10 when I was taken to the cinema to see this - my abiding memory was being scared sh1tless with the cemetery voodoo scenes.
I was too young, at nine, sadly (especially as I was a Beatles/Macca nut by then). My first Bond was ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. The queue at the Southend Odeon went round the corner, past the pub, the railway station & halfway down the high street!
Me too. I was 6 or 7 and was really frightened by the intro as well. Can you imagine seeing that women's head turning into a flaming skull, as a little kid, on a giant screen. Scary.
Funny I don’t like horror but I didn’t find that bit scary
Bond's first interracial engagement on the screen would have occurred in You Only Live Twice or Dr No with Miss Taro(the character was eurasian)
Correct.
Shows the institutional racism in Hollywood through their omission of Asians as a minority.
How can you say we did not see that here in South Africa? Don't believe everything you hear from the BBC.
Definitely in You Only Live Twice. And if Dr. No or Miss Taro were anything other than caucasian I’m a monkey’s uncle.
The actress was Zena Marshall playing Taro.
My Dad. (RIP) loved this film along with Paul McCartney and Wings
Being from New Orleans, this is my favorite Bond flick...one of my grammar school classmate's mom was an extra in the Second Line scene in the French Quarter when the 1st agent is killed.
"Do you like 7-Up?" Ha ha ha!
The best of the Roger Moore Bond’s.
His first three movies were great, then it went silly.
@@Inglese001 Yes. I have to admit that during 'Octopussy' there is a scene where he falls through some jungle into a clearing, a tiger enters the other side, Moore's Bond says 'SIT' and the tiger does. At which point I left my seat, left the cinema, and have never returned for a Bond movie since. I loved that Bond movies always had that slight 'tongue in cheek' element not taking themselves 'too' seriously, but that moment was just crass idiocy and took me out of the movie completely. It ended 'Bond' for me in many ways.
@@TLChivz exactly. There were always jokes - even in the Sean Connery era - but it became a spoof. It’s a shame because Roger nailed it his early Bond films.
I like 👍 all of 007 movies 🎥
My first bond film
On holiday in Bournemouth age 9 with the family
I still love this film
Saw at the drive in. Wish we still had a drive in!!!
Land is too valuable for that these days.
Not a big Bond fan but this is my favourite!
one of my favourite film
"What are you, some kind of doomsday machine? 🤣
People forget that " Dr Quinn Medicine Woman" was a babe. She was gorgeous.
Every guy in this 50s remembers her as a babe.
My niece looks just like Jane Seymour as Solitaire.
@@BillLaBrie As a guy in his 50s, I concur.
That New Orleans jazz funeral was the highlight for me.
21st thing you didn't know: my grandfather was an extra in the New Orleans Mardi Gras scenes.
that is cool
Funeral scenes*
@@ScarysReviews Same difference in New Orleans. 😆
I wonder how much he was paid.
one of the best Bond films. and Jane Seymore was absolutely stunning. as she still is. and have to say Harry Wild is the best thing she ever did next to this movie.
It was all about the boat chase. The chase resulted in a world record-length boat jump of 110 feet, which remained in the Guinness Book throughout my childhood. The stunt boat was a specially-built, reinforced, and ballasted Glastron GT150, with a 115 HP Evinrude. Still the most epic boat chase movie scene of all time, and resulted in me personally owning several Glastrons. Still own them to this day.
If only other Bond movies had this level of edge of seat excitement and family entertainment and a little less of the ultra violence seen in Craig outings . Moore was the best . Brosnan was dammned close , Craig and Connery were outside parking the cars .
Good point.
And now I also get another "Blazing Saddles" reference. (Richard Dicks)
Remember when Richard Dicks tried to take over this town ?
Best boat chase in movie history.
Shame about the death of the main villain... absolutely terrible!
Yaphet Kotto,hated it.
I disagree. Kananga got what he deserved! How do you feel about Dr.No being buried under a ton of bird poo? It happened in the book!
He was disappointed with the way it was done.
It looked so fake!
That's why he hated it.
Grate film good information
8:43 sorry, couldnt help myself. Great video.
My favourite Bond movie of the lot. It had everything. Action, chases, bizarre characters, humour, mega villains, a gloriously 'off the wall' 'Sherrif' that almost stole the movie [Kudo's to this day to the late Clifton James, his Sherrif JW Pepper can never be forgotten!] and one of the greatest 'Bond Girls'. In recent years the Bond movies have taken themselves far too seriously and into 'Jason Bourne' and 'Mission Impossible' territories. Bond movies were fun. They are from books written by the guy that wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for lords sake! Now they are trying to be John Le Carre legit thrillers with everything that really made Bond so much FUN gone bar the outlandish stunts.
Bond movies were always FUN and never took their eyes off that. And for me Live and Let Die was the pinnacle of that ethos.
I love the Roger Moore Bond films, I grew up with them. You are right, they have gone too serious lately. I like the new ones, but they are instantly forgettable!
My first Bond movie.
McCartney won’t let weird Al spoof the theme .. chicken pot pie
What has McCartney go to do with it. Weird Al by doing satire can do what ever he pleases ,no permission needed and nobody can stop him or any other satirist.
My favourite Bond flick. The second one I watched with Roger Moore’s Bond. But, Connery was my favourite actor.
Well done!
Liked and subscribed! 🏆
I am always amazed at how many Bond actors are later dubbed. Even ones with great voices. It would seem like these movies could be made at half the cost if they just used actors with voices they liked.
I think voice dubbing has more to do with inferior microphone technology at the time when filming outdoors vs not liking the voices of the actors.
@@automan25 The X-Ray comments on Amazon just point out how often it was done. It was like half the cast was redubbed.
By far my favourite Bond film. Great video and channel. 🇦🇺 😊
Thanks so much, I hope you keep enjoying the videos
I've read the roger moore book and the speedboat stuck in the car wasn't an accident. it was created especially for the scene.
I remember seeing pictures of my Mama, And James Bond together. Because she worked at Joe Gemelli’s Haberdashery here in New Orleans where James Bond, and other male actors got all of their suits for the movie from
Roger was the right age in this film whereas by for your eyes only he was way older than many of his love interests
To be fair on Roger, a lot of young women found him attractive when he was waaay past the age of 50. So the age gap isn’t so unbelievable, IMO.
Roger Moore was actually one of the choices BEFORE Connery got the part of 007, but he was already contracted for another project at the time, 'The Saint', which IIRC continued until 1970 or there abouts.
Roger Moore:"I was offered the part of James Bond in about 1961, though I was unaware of this (it must have all been handled through his agent?). Nobody actually told me about the part at the time."
I watched this in a theatre in 1974
21. They only removed the _'Carry On...'_ prefix at the last minute.
I was a kid and saw this at the drive inn in Slidell, LA not far from where the boat scenes were filmed. I’ll never forget the bathroom scene where he burns the snake with the shaving cream and cigar.
I love this film, my mom took me to see it when I was just eleven years old. It seems to have a lot of unique departures from past Bond movies. One unique touch that I loved, was the Smith and Wesson 44 magnum revolver used in the island scene toward the end of the film. This gun was certainly popularized in the 1971 classic "Dirty Harry" just two years before. Moreover, it gave Bond a whole new depth of character as an action star, and also made for a much more dramatic effect in the later climax scenes of the film. Great video - thanks for posting !
Gloria Hendry was the GOAT Bond girl!!!!
You missed a big point. In the crocodile scene the stuntman fell in a he required about a 100 stitches after the crocs got him..
That would have been a good addition, the man was obviously insane 🤣
The stunt driver was Morrison Patchet , he was a LONDON Bus driver examiner up until 1995
The most entertaining Bond film imo.
At 8:01 I think you can see the guys hand, at the foot of the shot, pulling down the string/zip!🤔😉✌️
True, if you slow the video down you can see his hand.
Thought the snakes were rubber.
Timothy Dalton was also asked to play Bond in LALD but turned as he thought he was to young at 27 to play a commander of the royal navy just like he turned down OHMSS when he was 21
and thus began my lifelong crush on Jane Seymour ❤
I've never watched this movie....I know many of the famous scenes though....I think I'll give it a watch this weekend
It's worth it
@@rockywatchesmovies Live and Let Die this Friday night it is then! 👍
It was good to see Bond using a more powerful handgun
I saw this movie from the back seat of a Nova at Azusa drive in
Gratuliere, großes Arrangement
Samedi is the French word for Saturday and should be pronounced as such!
My apologies, I wasn't wearing my onion necklace that day 😊
In the novel Fleming describes Solitaire as Creole, which usually means a person of mixed French and African heritage. She was not white in the book and Diana Ross would actually have been more in keeping with the Fleming novel.
what! obviously you weren't a teenager in 1985
@@rockywatchesmoviesI was and I have no idea what this means
@@rockywatchesmovies I'm 57, so I was a teenager in the 80s and in New York City as well and also am not sure what this means either.
@@rockywatchesmovies Sorry, I was a teenager in 1985 and I have no idea what that statement means.
I was a teenager in 1985, and it's pretty obvious what he means when you think about it.
Couldn’t help but notice the list of book chapters at 1.37….chapter 5 or V is interesting!
His other watch was a Hamilton PSR, the first digital watch. It cost a fortune back then. He’s wearing it in the Rolex bit.
I thought it was a PULSAR.
@ Yes, pre Hamilton
The boat jump was in the Guinness Book of World Records for many years as the longest boat jump
We use too much computer graphics these days . Go back to practical action.
I already knew about most of this, the Honey Ryder story was a surprise.
Now you did it ! NOW YOU DID IT !!!
I now have to rewatch all James Bond movies ... and it's all YOUR fault ! 😉
They ran out of speedboats: they crashed so many that they had to buy in boats from way outside the area. In particular, trying to run boats past a wedding party, through a cake and into a swimming pool cost many knackered hulls and engines!
6:27 I never noticed the pyrotechnics blast. when the bus hit the “bridge”. Probably to detach the upper level hold down.
@3:38 OMG, you mean that's an ACTUAL Harlem, NYC scene? I thought for sure it was recreated. What a dive! Great movie, great Bond (one of my favorites) and great stories by the master of fiction Ian Fleming; read his novels to get a LOL with some pretty non-PC prose and an eye for detail and the telling innuendo, the sign of a master. Few mechanical recitations of scenes by Fleming.
By the early 70s a lot of urban centers were in really bad shape.
I have one thing to say and one thing only.
Abobo!,,,
Great video, I'm a bit of a James Bond nut and have seen all of the films on the big screen. I've also recently read all the Ian Fleming books on my Kindle for the first time and now working my way through the non-Fleming ones. Great story for LALD, both the book and the film versions. The theme by Paul McC & Wings is the best one (IMHO), Jane Seymore was stunning and played the part brilliantly. Without wishing to be disrespectful but Roger Moore wasn't my favourite JB, in fact well down the list.
I don't mind RM as bond, but like you nowhere near the top. I was in love with Jane Seymour after this film 😂
@@rockywatchesmovies you forgot to mention that the only reason Paul McCartney was able to use "Live and Lie die" song , was thanks to Roger Moore, who argued for the song to been in the film, as he felt that , up until that point there had not been a hard rock song in the films and it suited the dark magic theme of the film
I always thought it strange Roger ditched the hat in the gun barrel opening but when he enters Money Penny's you see a hand throw the hat to the hat stand, obviously Roger , a tribute to Sean i think , so he must have worn a hat.
Connery was a fool. Going out on the embarrassment Diamonds Are Forever. Live and Let Die is infinitely better.
6:47 I'm skeptical that a captive would hold the ropes, like that. If you're putting up a genuine struggle against bondage in life-threatening situations, seems to me it would be almost instinctive to have palms away from the ropes.
YES THE BEST BOND MOVIE . AND WITH VOODOO AND TAROT CARDS . ALSO THE BEST ROLEX DIVE WATCH WITHOUT THE UGLY DATE WINDOW 😮😮😮😮😮😮
They sent over a London bus instructor so that they could be taught how to drive the bus for the filming.
IMO the cheesy sound effect on the amazing car jump ruined a great stunt.
Do you mean the car jump in Man with the Golden Gun?
early film for legendary stunt man and Harrison Ford stunt double Vic Armstrong, he doubled Roger Moore for many of the stunts in this movie.
The reason why Bond originally wore a hat in the first 7 gun barrel openings is because stuntman Bob Simmons, who performed the first 3, was doubling for Sean Connery. The filmmakers wanted to hide the fact that it wasn’t actually Connery.
My fave Bond movie and I saw it in our local ODEON cinema and they had a red speed boat in foyer similar to the one in boat chase!
What about the record set by the boat jump car screen?
Re the stunt boat scene, no-one, NO-ONE “improvises a stunt scene on the spot”. These things take meticulous planning and teams of people. Yes, the boat chase wasn’t scripted, it was built around the possibilities offered by the location by the expert production team on the ground, but absolutely not ‘improvised’.
"You can't do that on Film anymore'
(Apologies to Frank Zappa)
After a more than lame George Lazenby and a weird entry "Diamonds are Forever" (which both I do love just the same as each of this beautiful series from 1962 until 1989) I saw Live and Let Die at the age of 12. Every week they showed the next Bond Movie. I watch Live and Let Die three times within the same week in that Cinema (Oscar in Berlin at the Ku-Damm-Eck).
Lazenby wasn't lame at all. He was inexperienced but they featured his physicality and it worked very well. Diamonds are Forever was truly, truly, awful on ever level. And it didn't even make clear what happened to Blofeld (sp?) at the end!
I still cannot believe my parents took me and my younger sisters to the drive in in a 1968 Ford station wagon in Madison Wisconsin to see this movie when I was 11 yrs old. I was most intrigued by the sexy women like Jane S. and the crocodile and car chase scenes not having ever seen anything like this before. However the voodoo scenes were quite disturbing to me as was the graphic violence and bizarre use of snakes.
One of my favourite 007 movies.
Harlem in 1973 at 3:35 what does that part of town look like today?
Doesn't everyone have access to Google Maps or Google Earth to find out?
I'm into watches and despite loving all the Bond watches, my favourite was his Seiko g757-4000 that he wore in Octopussy.