Live and Let Die

Roger Moore’s fun and colorful debut as 007

Agent 007 (Roger Moore) travels from Harlem to the Caribbean to Louisiana to stop a black heroin mogul (Yaphet Kotto) fortified with a multifarious organization and a lovely tarot card reader (Jane Seymour).

This was Moore’s dynamic debut as Bond. H...

By my clock, this era started with Diamonds are Forever... the era of the Silly Bond.

But Diamonds are Forever was a Connery Bond and it kind of sucked because of it.

So... Live and Let Die is the first of the GOOD silly Bond movies.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm on team Connery. Team Connery...

This 007 film aged very well. 007 follows in the footsteps of three prior agents who were assassinated. There's a lot of "jive" in this one, since this is the one where the villain is black, and he uses mostly black helpers, so the white James Bond really sticks out. And thus we get a lot more co...

When I first watched this opening outing for Roger Moore in the "007" role, I wasn't very impressed. Now, when I watch it though, I appreciate more the sophisticated and subtle approach that the star brought to the role. Gone is much of the chauvinism of the Connery days, replaced by a more subtle, ...

Live and Let Die is a brilliant use of a new Bond (Roger Moore) and an iconic title song for one of the best Bonds there is.