![]() ![]() There's a particularly long speedboat chase across a bayou where JB encounters Sheriff J.W. The action then moves to Lousiana and a savage Caribbean island as JB uncovers a massive heroin plot. His stunned reactions when they mess with his head are seriously funny. The funny thing about Moore is that he's very proper and British and doesn't think anything of walking into a tough Harlem bar while dressed up like the Duke of Edinburgh. And they've got a seemingly endless bag of tricks to play on him. Standing out like a Muslim in an airport, almost every single black person JB encounters in Harlem is on Mister Big's payroll. Q himself, or Major Boothroyd if you want to call him by his proper name, doesn't make any appearance in this one. Before sending him to America to investigate a Harlem pimp known as Mister Big he delivers some gadgets from Q-Branch, including a very useful watch. It begins with M turning up at JB's house in the early hours while he's pumping some Italian agent for information (don't you just love his initialled dressing gown). But it's definitely the weirdest Bond ever with loads of utterly bizarre moments. Roger Moore's first outing as JB is, in equal measures, comical and action-packed. In the novel, Whisper's quiet voice is attributed to a bout of tuberculosis during infancy.Īnd none the worse for it, since every Bond film needs a fresh spin on the same old formula. In the novel, Tee Hee is a henchman without the metal claw and he breaks the little finger of Bond's left hand. I am a big fan of movies shot in the marshy areas n the bayou of Louisiana. The film has a lovely boat chase which is amazingly well photographed in Louisiana around the Irish Bayou. Bond gets to cool off with Madeline Smith, Jane Seymour and Gloria Hendry, a babe with an amazing toned obliques n rectus abdominis. Kananga, Baron Samedi (a paranormal entity), ferocious crocodiles, a venomous snake, Tee Hee, a henchman who has a pincer for a hand, Dambala, a henchman with a penchant for snakes and wears a goat pelt on his head, Whisper, a fatty who cannot speak properly and various henchmen in red tshirts and blue pants. ![]() Big, thereby trapping him in a world of gangsters, dictator, drug traffickers and voodoo occultists. Here 007 is sent to New York to investigate the deaths of three British agents, leading him to Kananga n Mr. This is the eighth film in the Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as James Bond. I first saw this in the early 90s on a vhs. ![]()
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