The Living Daylights
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The Living Daylights (1987)

PG
29/06/1987 (GB)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
2h 10m

The new James Bond...living on the edge.

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.

  • John GlenDirector
  • Michael G. WilsonScreenplay
  • Richard MaibaumScreenplay
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $40,000,000

  • Revenue

    $191,185,897

Keywords

  • prison
  • london, england
  • assassination
  • airplane
  • escape
  • arms smuggling
  • england
  • secret mission
  • arms deal
  • spy
  • falsely accused
  • big wheel
  • secret intelligence service
  • drug trafficking
  • secret identity
  • cello
  • villain
  • kgb
  • renegade
  • special car
  • tangier morocco
  • country estate
  • orchestra
  • freedom fighter
  • czechoslovakia
  • bratislava, slovakia
  • afghanistan
  • schloss schönbrunn
  • vienna, austria
  • moscow, russia
  • appreciative

Top Billed Cast

Timothy Dalton

Timothy Dalton

James Bond

Maryam d'Abo

Maryam d'Abo

Kara Milovy

Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

Brad Whitaker

Art Malik

Art Malik

Kamran Shah

John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies

General Leonid Pushkin

Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Krabbé

General Georgi Koskov

Andreas Wisniewski

Andreas Wisniewski

Necros

Thomas Wheatley

Thomas Wheatley

Saunders

Desmond Llewelyn

Desmond Llewelyn

Q

Robert Brown

Robert Brown

M

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