Live & Let Die

1973/Action, Rated-PG, 2Discs/3:16:43
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Crew: Directors and cast members (includes IMDB links)
Details: (Netflix summary)
Content:
Disc 1 - Theatrical Version 2:01:30
- Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore
- Commentary by director Guy Hamilton, Tom Mankiewicz & cast & crew
Disc 2 - Extras ~1:15:13
- Bond 1973 The Lost Documentary 21:39
- Roger Moore as James Bond Circa 1964 7:44
- Live & Let Die Conceptual Art 1:39
- Inside Live & Let Die 29:45
- On Set With Roger Moore (5:41): 1. Funeral Parade 1:43, 2. Hang Gliding Lessons 3:58
- Theatrical Archive (4:40): 1. Much More Roger Moore 2:53, 2. Everything You've Ever Loved 1:47
- TV Broadcasts (2:35): 1. UK Milk Board Commercial 1:02, 2. It's a Matter of Death 1:01, 3. It's a Matter of Life & Death :32
- Radio Communications (1:30): 1. Livelier Deadlier :30, 2. All Against One Man 1:00
- 170 Image Database (Slideshow) Includes: 1. The New 007 (4), 2. Portraits (19), 3. Filmmakers (114), 4. Ross Kananga (4), 5. Joie Chitwood's Driving Team (3), 6. Mr. Big's Make-Up (11), 7. James Bond & His Gadgets (2), 8. Marketing (2), 9. Around the World with 007 (11)
Eggs: (Eeggs, Eggs, DVD Town)
Musical Highlights: Paul McCartney & Wings-Live & Let Die
Factoids: (IMDB, Mistakes, BondMovies, Wiki) Mi6
1. The Tarot card deck used by Solitaire features contemporary paintings by Fergus Hall, "Courtesy of the Portal Gallery Limited, London, England". A duplicate set was published in Switzerland by Agmueller and Cie, distributed worldwide by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. New York. The cards in the film had a red, patterned background featuring the "007" emblem, but the commercial set is blue instead (same pattern). The tarot cards say 007 on the back. The High Priestess card was deliberately designed to resemble Jane Seymour. The deck was released as the "James Bond 007 Tarot Deck" and, along with an instruction book and layout mat as the "James Bond 007 Tarot Game." This deck is still available, with a different back pattern, as the "Tarot of the Witches Deck".
2. In an attempt to shift the focus away from Bond's gadgetry, Q does not appear. The only Bond film since his first appearance in From Russia with Love (1963) not to feature Q (Desmond Llewelyn). Fans demanded his return in the next film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
3. Roger Moore becomes the first actor to perform the gun-barrel sequence without a hat.
4. We see Bond's apartment for the second and (to date as of Casino Royale '06) final time in the series. Among the fixtures is a machine for making coffee that is treated as a gadget. Today's audiences will easily recognize it as either an espresso or cappuccino machine, which were uncommon in 1973.
5. Roger Moore and Jane Seymour caught dysentery while shooting in Jamaica.
6. Roger Moore was 45 when he made his debut as 007, making him the oldest actor to do so. The youngest was George Lazenby who made his debut at age 29.
7. Part of Roger Moore's contract stipulated that he have an unlimited supply of hand-rolled Monte Cristo cigars. In one 007 movie the final bill comes to 3176.50 pounds.
8. The character of Quarrel, Jr. is a direct reference to the first Bond film, Dr. No (1962) which also featured a character named Quarrel. The original novel takes place before Dr. No (in which, as in the movie version, Quarrel is killed) and features the first appearance of the character.
9. This is the first James Bond film to use extensive adult language. The old woman whose flying lesson is hijacked by Bond utters the word "shit" (US network-television viewers never hear this), Sheriff Pepper begins uttering the F-word when he first sees Bond's powerboat but doesn't get beyond "fu-", and the partial expletive "mother" is also heard numerous times. Even in 1973, that was not enough to have the film rated past PG in the USA. Viewers would have to wait until 1985 for A View to a Kill in which the word "shit" is muttered several times by Stacey Sutton during the fire engine chase (this is most notable in the closed captioning) and when a police officer audibly mutters the word afterwards. More notably however, in 1989 for Licence to Kill (coincidentally also partly based on the novel Live and Let Die) such language was heard again.
10. This was the first and, to date, only James Bond film to acknowledge the supernatural. Although there are indications that Baron Samedi is simply a magician and showman, and that his "resurrection" after falling into a coffin of snakes could be explained as a trick, Solitaire's psychic abilities are more difficult to rationalise.
11. Sean Connery was allegedly offered $5.5 million to play Bond one more time. He refused.
12. The collision between the second power boat and the police car was an accident but when it turned out to look so good in film, the script was duly changed.
13. According to Paul McCartney, after the director heard the title song, complete with orchestra and all, he said "Yeah, that's good for a demo but when are you going to do the real record!" The Theme song "Live And Let Die" by Paul McCartney And Wings was the first Bond theme to make the Billboard Top Ten. It reached #2.
14. Madeline Smith, who played Miss Caruso said that additional awkwardness of a bedroom scene was created by Roger Moore's overprotective wife who was on the set during the filming.
15. In order to establish the effect of Bond unzipping Miss Caruso's blue dress with his magnetic watch, a thin wire was attached to the zipper from the watch to create the effect.
16. The first Bond film to be filmed 'flat' (i.e. with spherical lenses rather than using the Panavision anamorphic widescreen process) since Goldfinger (1964).
17. The first 007 movie not to deal with the theme of world-domination (the subject is drugs). The drug theme would later surface in Licence to Kill (1989).
Comments: B. The Ultimate Collectors Edition adds 31:02 new material to approximately 44:11 of older material.