
The Living Daylights
“The new James Bond...living on the edge.”
Director: John Glen
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Tom Pevsner
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.
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Cast

Timothy Dalton
James Bond

Maryam D'Abo
Kara Milovy

Joe Don Baker
Brad Whitaker

Art Malik
Kamran Shah

John Rhys-Davies
General Leonid Pushkin

Jeroen Krabbé
General Georgi Koskov

Andreas Wisniewski
Necros

Thomas Wheatley
Saunders

Desmond Llewelyn
Q

Robert Brown
M

Geoffrey Keen
Minister of Defence

Walter Gotell
General Anatol Gogol
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Reviews
6.0Wuchak
September 5, 2018
_**Solid Bond film with Timothy Dalton taking over as 007**_ "The Living Daylights" was the first of two James Bond films featuring Timothy Dalton as 007. It's a solid Bond flick, but rarely cited when the best films of the franchise are discussed. The "problem" isn't Dalton because he makes a fine James Bond and…
8.0JPV852
April 19, 2020
Great entry into the series and wonderful debut for Dalton who was charming, and for me far and away better than any of Roger Moore's movies (though found some of his to be entertaining enough). Not all that fond of this theme song but still catchy enough I suppose. Also features some great aerial stuntwork. **3.75/5**
7.0CinemaSerf
July 29, 2022
So Roger Moore has handed the baton of Ian Fleming's "007" to Timothy Dalton and this first outing is not at all bad. The story is, perhaps, not the best but this is still an action packed adventure with loads of pyrotechnics and daft gadgets that really does move along swiftly for over two hours. "Bond" is assigned to…
10.0GenerationofSwine
January 11, 2023
I don't understand all the hate on Dalton as 007, I actually thought he was a decent Bond, I thought he brought back some of the cold blooded assassin that personified the first of the Connery Era films. And I think he was a much needed change of pace away from Moore's silliness. However, I think some of the hate…
8.0drystyx
April 18, 2023
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 abou…