James Bond, Live and Let Die. Declassification of the 8th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• the UK ambassador to the UN, Dawes, is killed by a high-pitched noise, agent Hamilton is stabbed to death during a funeral procession in the streets of New Orleans, and agent Baines is ritualistically sacrificed by deadly snake bite in the Caribbean

Title Song/Credits

• "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney and Wings
• torch flames over naked women and a skull and naked silhouetted women moving gracefully

Villains

• Mr. Big, drug smuggler plotting to flood the American market with free heroin to create addicts and drive his rivals out of business (Yaphet Kotto)
• Tee Hee, bodyguard with metal clamp hand (Julius W. Harris)
• Baron Samedi, very tall bodyguard with top hat, cane and distinctive laugh (Geoffrey Holder)
• Whisper, heavy (Earl Jolly Brown)
• Rosie Carver, false CIA agent backup in the Caribbean (Gloria Hendry)
• Adam, assassin (Tommy Lane)

Girls

• Solitaire, Mr. Big's Tarot card reader (Jane Seymour)
• Rosie Carver, false CIA agent backup in the Caribbean (Gloria Hendry)
• Miss Caruso, girl in bed (Madeline Smith)

Gadgets

• Cadillac with dart-shooting side mirror
• bullet-deflecting hyper-intensified magnetic field and circular saw wrist watch
• scarecrows with camera eyes and shotgun mouths
• fake-face prosthetic mask
• revolving wall restaurant booth
• restaurant table chair that descends through trap-door floor
• elevator hidden behind armoire
• shark gun with compressed gas pellets
• underground monorail
• car cigarette lighter phone
• electronic bug detector
• Morse code transmitter hair brush
• radio transmitter flute

Chases

• double-decker bus chased by police motorcycles and cars, with top half of bus being taken off by low bridge
• taxiing plane chased by cars through hangars and on runway, with wings of plane being clipped off by closing hangar doors
• speedboat chased by three other speedboats through Louisiana waters with 120-foot jump over a road and two cars
• speedboat chased by two other speedboats through Louisiana waters with shortcuts over land where a wedding is taking place and over a road

Binds

• with taxi speeding out of control on highway after the driver is killed by dart, grabs the wheel from the back seat and veers through traffic and to a stop into a parked van
• with a gun at his back in an alley, jumps up, grabs fire escape ladder and pulls it down onto gunman and takes his gun
• with deadly snake approaching him in his hotel room, spots it in mirror, turns and sprays aftershave into his lit cigar tip, torching the snake to death
• captured by Mr. Big and about to be taken up to be dropped out of a plane, Solitaire creates a diversion that allows him to get away to another nearby plane
• with his pinkie in Tee Hee's metal clamp hand and orders from Mr. Big to clip it off on the first wrong answer from Solitaire, Solitaire seemingly answers correctly
• trapped on an island rock surrounded by thousands of crocodiles, uses his magnetic field watch to draw a nearby dinghy, but unfortunately it is tethered to a branch, so he finds a line of crocodiles and runs and jumps across their backs instead
• with speedboat fuel running low due to a bullet hole in the tank, veers onto a plantation yard, luring pursuing speedboat into the swimming pool, and then transfers to and gets away in plantation's docked speedboat
• pursued by faster speedboat, hides temporarily in an old shipyard, picks up some gasoline in a bucket, restarts, does a u-turn to pass by enemy boat and throw gasoline on pursuer and runs enemy boat into the hull of an old ship, causing a large explosion
• with Solitaire about to be ritualistically sacrificed by deadly snake bite, shoots and kills man with snake, frees Solitaire and detonates the bombs he had set in the surrounding poppy fields
• tied to a winch with Solitaire, bloodied and about to be descended into shark-ridden water, uses magnetic field wrist watch to draw compressed gas pellet and circular saw to cut himself free
• wrestling with Mr. Big underwater with shark approaching, forces compressed gas pellet into Mr. Big's mouth and swims away to watch him expand, rise up to the ceiling and explode
• fighting with Tee Hee on train and being choked by his metal clamp hand, uses wire cutters to cut the cable tendons of his metal hand and lock his clamp on the handle of the window, then slides the window down and flips him out the open window, detaching him from his metal hand

One-liners

• "Not married by any chance are you?" to Miss Caruso as they are interrupted by a knock at the door in the middle of the morning
• "Sheer magnetism, darling," to Miss Caruso's "Such a delicate touch" as he unzips her dress using magnetic field wrist watch
• "Funny how the least little thing amuses him," after Tee Hee bends his pistol with his metal clamp hand
• "Us? Now promise you'll stay right there. I shant be long," to Solitaire after choosing "The Lovers" card and while being escorted out to be killed
• "Where were you when I didn't need you?" to CIA agent Strutter when he comes on the scene after Bond has already disarmed the enemy
• "Oh, sure we'll be able to lick you into shape," to Rosie after she worries that she is too inexperienced to be of help to Bond
• "Why, it's just a hat, darling, belonging to a small-headed man of limited means who lost a fight with a chicken," to Rosie after she discovers an omen hat with bloody feathers in the hotel room
• "Absolutely, there's no sense in getting off half-cocked," when asked by Solitaire if there's time for lover's lesson #3
• "Let's just wing it, shall we, Mrs. Bell?" after she asks what's on for their flying lesson today
• "Same time tomorrow, Mrs. Bell?" after parking plane after its wings were clipped off by closing hangar doors
• "I once had a nasty turn in a booth," to Felix after he questions why he turned down a booth offered to them in the restaurant
• "Quite revealing," to Mr. Big after he tears off his fake-face mask
• "Butterhook," to Tee Hee as he fumbles with his metal clamp hand to remove Bond's wrist watch
• "Perhaps we can try something on an even simpler vein?" to Mr. Big as he cuts a Z on Bond's arm with a knife
• "He always did have an inflated opinion of himself," to Solitaire after exploding Mr. Big with the compressed gas pellet
• "Just being disarming, darling," to Solitaire after removing metal clamp hand from window and closing it

Locations

• New Orleans, United States
• New York, United States
• Jamaica

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