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The Living Daylights (film)

The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights - UK cinema poster.jpg
British cinema poster for The Living Daylights, illustrated by Brian Bysouth
Directed by John Glen
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli
Michael G. Wilson
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum
Michael G. Wilson
Based on James Bond
by Ian Fleming
Starring
Music by John Barry
Cinematography Alec Mills
Edited by John Grover
Peter Davies
Production
company
Distributed by MGM/UA Communications Company (US)
United International Pictures (International)
Release date
  • 27 June 1987 (1987-06-27) (London, premiere)
Running time
131 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $40 million
Box office $191.2 million

The Living Daylights (1987) is the fifteenth entry in the James Bond film series and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by John Glen, the film's title is taken from Ian Fleming's short story "The Living Daylights". It was the last film to use the title of an Ian Fleming story until the 2006 instalment Casino Royale.

The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, his stepson Michael G. Wilson, and his daughter, Barbara Broccoli. The Living Daylights was generally well received by most critics and was also a financial success, grossing $191.2 million worldwide.

James Bond is assigned to aid the defection of a KGB officer, General Georgi Koskov, covering his escape from a concert hall in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia during intermission. During the mission, Bond notices that the KGB sniper assigned to prevent Koskov's escape is a female cellist from the orchestra. Disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he instead shoots the rifle from her hands, then uses the Trans-Siberian Pipeline to smuggle Koskov across the border into Austria and then on to Britain.

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 to forestall further killings of agents and escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West. Bond 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".


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