Bond resigns after turning down the assignment, but M suspends Bond instead and revokes his licence to kill. They discover a marine research centre run by Krest, where Sanchez has hidden cocaine and a submarine for smuggling.Īfter Bond kills Killifer using the same shark tank used for Leiter, M meets Bond in Key West's Hemingway House and orders him to an assignment in Istanbul, Turkey. Bond, with Leiter's friend Sharkey, start their own investigation. When Bond learns Sanchez has escaped, he returns to Leiter's house to find Leiter has been maimed and that Della has been murdered-and by implication raped. Sanchez has Leiter lowered into a tank holding a bull shark. Meanwhile, Sanchez's henchman Dario and his crew ambush Leiter and his wife Della and take Leiter to an aquarium owned by one of Sanchez's accomplices, Milton Krest. Sanchez bribes DEA agent Ed Killifer and escapes. Afterwards, Bond and Leiter parachute down to the church in time for the ceremony. Bond and Leiter capture Sanchez by attaching a hook and cord to Sanchez's plane and pulling it out of the air with a Coast Guard helicopter. Broccoli, although he would later act as a consulting producer for GoldenEye before his death.ĭEA agents collect MI6 agent James Bond and his friend (and CIA agent) Felix Leiter, on their way to Leiter's wedding in Key West, to have them assist in capturing drugs lord Franz Sanchez. It is also the final Bond film for actors Robert Brown (as M) and Caroline Bliss (as Moneypenny), screenwriter Richard Maibaum, title designer Maurice Binder, editor John Grover, cinematographer Alec Mills, director and former Bond film editor John Glen, and producer Albert R. The film earned over $156 million worldwide, and enjoyed a generally positive critical reception, with ample praise for the stunts, but attracted some criticism of Dalton's dark and violent interpretation of Bond and the fact that the film was significantly darker and more violent than its predecessors.Īfter the release of Licence to Kill, legal wrangling over control of the series and the James Bond character resulted in a six-year delay before production of the next Bond film which resulted in Dalton deciding not to return.
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