Name: Live and Let Die
Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller
Released: 1973-06-27
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 6.5

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James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.

Theatrical

Jun 27, 1973

Box Office

$126.4M

Budget

$7.0M

Return

18.1x

DVD / Blu-ray

Oct 19, 1999

Theaters

Director

Guy Hamilton

Writer

Tom Mankiewicz

Producers

Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli

Music

George Martin

Studio

EON Productions, United Artists

Themes

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Methods for Disabling a Crocodile

Tee-Hee There are two ways to disable a croc, you know.

[on a telescopic wooden bridge to the crocodilian enclosure at the farm that Kananga produces heroin at; the bridge is being wound back by Adam]

James Bond I don't suppose you'd care to tell me what they are.

[stranded on a little island in the enclosure's big lake]

Tee-Hee One way is to take a pencil and jam it into the pressure hole behind his eye.

Bond And the other?

Tee-Hee Oh, the other way is twice as simple. You just put your hand in his mouth and pull his teeth out.

[gets off the now wound-back bridge and hands the metal feeding tray to Adam as he shuts the gate; slides the gate's locking bolt into position; starts laughing loudly as he, Adam and the other two henchmen walk away to the laboratory]

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