The Living Daylights is a movie directed by John Glen in 1987 and based on the book The Living Daylights: Octopussy & the Living Daylights by Ian Fleming, first published in 1966. The movie features Timothy Dalton, Maryam d’Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Art Malik, and others.
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Storyline
James Bond is assigned to aid the defection of a KGB officer, General Georgi Koskov, covering his escape from a concert hall in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia during intermission. Disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he instead shoots the rifle from her hands with a Walther WA 2000, then uses the Trans-Siberian Pipeline to smuggle Koskov across the border into Austria and then on to Britain.
Movie vs Book
Year
1987
Minutes
130
Movie Rate
6.70
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Living Daylights
Director: John Glen
Country: UK
Year: 1987
Length: 2h10m
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Year
1966
Pages
27
Book Rate
7.12
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Book
The Living Daylights
Subtitle: Octopussy & the Living Daylights
Author: Ian Fleming
Country: UK
First published in: 1966
Length: 27 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: James Bond Original Series
User polls & recommendations
“As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic.”
MARCUS SAKEY (Writer)
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