Additional information for The Living Daylights, which has a domestic theatrical release set for July 31, 1987. The film is being distributed by United Artists and has not yet been rated. The Living Daylights has a total running time of 130 minutes.
PG
Australia
K-14
Finland
PG
Ireland
16
Norway
T
Spain
15
Sweden
PG
UK
PG
USA
12
West Germany
PG
Singapore
PA
Canada
12
Netherlands
12
Iceland
15
South Korea
12
Brazil
M/12
Portugal
130min
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James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.
James Bond - agent 007 and sometimes referred to as simply '007' - and two other MI6 agents conduct a training exercise at a military base in Gibraltar with the SAS. There an assassin disguised as an MI6 agent gives a message to one of the agents (004) - presumably "Smiert' Spionam" - and then kills him by cutting his rappelling line, causing the agent to fall to his death. Bond witnesses the assassin trying to escape in a vehicle and pursues him, which results in the assassin's death.Bond is assigned to conduct the defection of a KGB officer, General Georgi Koskov, covering his intermission escape from a concert hall in Bratislava. During the mission, Bond notices that the KGB sniper assigned to prevent Koskov's escape is a female cellist from the orchestra. He shoots at her rifle, blowing out the breech, preventing her from shooting Koskov. Koskov is taken by car to an operating center of the Russian gas pipeline and is shot into Austria in a cleaning plug.In his post-defection debriefing, Koskov informs MI6 that the KGB's old policy of Smiert' Spionam, meaning "Death to Spies", has been revived by General Leonid Pushkin, the new head of the KGB. Koskov is later abducted from the safe-house and assumed to have been taken back to Moscow. Bond is directed to track down Pushkin in Tangier and kill him in order to forestall further killings of agents and escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West. Although Bond's prior knowledge of Pushkin initially leads him to doubt Koskov's claims, he agrees to carry out the mission when he learns that the assassin who killed 004 (as depicted in the pre-title sequence) left a note bearing the same message, "Smiert Spionam."
Necros, Brad Whitaker and General Georgi Koskov in Tangier.Bond returns to Bratislava to track down the cellist, Kara Milovy. He determines that Koskov's entire defection was staged, and that Milovy is actually Koskov's girlfriend. Bond convinces Milovy that he is a friend of Koskov's and persuades her to accompany him to Vienna, supposedly to be reunited with him. Meanwhile, Pushkin meets with arms dealer Brad Whitaker in Tangier, informing him that the KGB is cancelling an arms deal previously arranged between Koskov and Whitaker.During his brief tryst with Milovy in Vienna, Bond meets his MI6 ally, Saunders, who discovers a history of financial dealings between Koskov and Whitaker. As he leaves their meeting, Saunders is killed by Necros (Koskov and Whitaker's henchman), who again leaves the message "Smert Spionam."Bond and Milovy promptly leave for Tangier, where Bond confronts Pushkin. Pushkin disavows any knowledge of "Smert Spionam", and reveals that Koskov is evading arrest for embezzlement of government funds. Bond fakes Pushkin's assassination, inducing Whitaker and Koskov to progress with their scheme. Meanwhile, Milovy contacts Koskov, who tells her that Bond is actually a KGB agent and convinces her to drug him so he can be captured.Koskov, Necros, Milovy, and the captive Bond fly to a Soviet air base in Afghanistan, where Koskov betrays Milovy and imprisons her along with Bond. The pair escape and in doing so free a condemned prisoner, Kamran Shah, leader of the local Mujahideen. Bond and Milovy discover that Koskov is using Soviet funds to buy a massive shipment of opium from the Mujahideen, intending to keep the profits with enough left over to supply the Soviets with their arms.With the Mujahideen's help, Bond plants a bomb aboard the cargo plane carrying the opium, but is spotted and has no choice but to barricade himself in the plane. Milovy drives a jeep into the back of the plane as they take off, and Necros also leaps aboard at the last second. After a struggle, Bond throws Necros to his death and deactivates the bomb.The film concludes with Bond returning to Tangier to dispatch Whitaker, as Pushkin arrests Koskov.
John Glen
Director(s)
Ian Fleming
Richard Maibaum
Michael G. Wilson
Writer(s)
Albert R. Broccoli
producer
Barbara Broccoli
associate producer
Tom Pevsner
associate producer
Michael G. Wilson
producer
Producer(s)
John Barry
Composer(s)
James Bond
Timothy Dalton
Kara Milovy
Maryam d'Abo
General Georgi Koskov
Jeroen Krabbé
Brad Whitaker
Joe Don Baker
General Leonid Pushkin
John Rhys-Davies
Kamran Shah
Art Malik
Necros
Andreas Wisniewski
Saunders
Thomas Wheatley
Q
Desmond Llewelyn
M
Robert Brown
Minister of Defence
Geoffrey Keen
General Anatol Gogol
Walter Gotell
Miss Moneypenny
Caroline Bliss
Felix Leiter
John Terry
Rubavitch
Virginia Hey
Colonel Feyador
John Bowe
Rosika Miklos
Julie T. Wallace
Linda (as Kell Tyler)
Belle Avery
Liz
Catherine Rabett
Ava
Dulice Liecier
Tangier Chief of Security
Nadim Sawalha
Koskov's KGB Minder
Alan Talbot
Imposter
Carl Rigg
Chief of Snow Leopard Brotherhood
Tony Cyrus
Achmed
Atik Mohamed
Kamran's Man
Michael Moor
Kamran's Man
Sumar Khan
Jailer
Ken Sharrock
Gasworks Supervisor
Peter Porteous
Blayden Male Secretary
Antony Carrick
004
Frederick Warder
002
Glyn Baker
Sergeant Stagg (as Derek Hoxby)
Scott Hoxby
Blayden Butler
Bill Weston
Trade Centre Toastmaster
Richard Cubison
Vienna Hotel Concierge
Heinz Winter
Lavatory Attendant
Leslie French
Girl
Odette Benatar
Girl
Dianna Casale
Girl
Sharon Devlin
The Living Daylights
No theatrical release dates have been decided.
Director(s)
Richard Maibaum
Michael G. Wilson
Writer(s)
producer
Barbara Broccoli
associate producer
Tom Pevsner
associate producer
Michael G. Wilson
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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