The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights is a 1987 film in which James Bond is aiding a Soviet KGB general defecting to the West - but the general is revealed to be hatching his own plans with an arms dealer in Morocco.
 * Directed by John Glen. Written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, based on a short story by Ian Fleming.

The new James Bond... living on the edge. taglines

Brad Whitaker

 * That's too bad, Bond. You could've been a live rich man, instead of a poor dead one.

Dialogue

 * [at a yacht just off Gibraltar]
 * Linda: [into phone] It's all so boring here, Margo - there's nothing but playboys and tennis pros. [sighs] If only I could find a real man.
 * [James Bond, having just dispatched an assassin in a burning truck in mid-air, lands on the boat with a smoldering parachute]
 * James Bond: I need to use your phone. [into phone] She'll call you back.
 * Linda: Who are you?
 * Bond: Bond, James Bond. [into phone] Exercise Control, 007 here. I'll report in an hour.
 * Linda: [offering drink] Won't you join me?
 * Bond: [into phone] Better make that two.


 * James Bond: Cheer up, Saunders. The operation's a success. And officially, its still yours.
 * Saunders: I have no intention of leaving it at that, 007! I'm reporting to M that you deliberately missed! Your orders were to kill that sniper!
 * Bond: Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl didn't know one end of a rifle from the other. Go ahead, tell M what you want. If he fires me, I'll thank him for it. Whoever she was, it must've scared the living daylights out of her.


 * General Georgi Koskov: The sniper was a woman.
 * James Bond: I noticed.
 * Koskov: Some of the best KGB shots are women.
 * Bond: Um-hum.
 * Koskov: Did you...
 * Bond: I'd rather not talk about it.


 * [Bond confronts General Pushkin over Koskov's claims about him reactivating the Smiert Spionam directive]
 * Leonid Pushkin: You are professional. You do not kill without reason.
 * James Bond: Two of our men are dead. Koskov named you. Now why should I disobey my orders?
 * Pushkin: I am in the dark as much as you are. It is a question of trust. Who do you believe? Koskov, or me?
 * Bond: If I trusted Koskov we wouldn't be talking. As long as you're alive, we'll never know what he's up to.
 * Pushkin: Then I must die.


 * [General Pushkin visits arms dealer Brad Whitaker]
 * Brad Whitaker: [referring to his life-size statues of famous military commanders] How do you like my personal pantheon of great commanders?
 * Leonid Pushkin: Butchers.
 * Whitaker: Surgeons. They cut away society's dead flesh.


 * [as General Koskov and Necros bring Bond and Kara to Afghanistan]
 * General Georgi Koskov: I'm sorry, James. For you I have great affection, but we have an old saying: duty has no sweethearts.
 * James Bond: We have an old saying too, Georgi. And you're full of it.


 * [Bond and Kara have successfully defeated the guards at a Soviet airbase's brig]
 * Kara Milovy: You were fantastic. [embraces Bond] We're free.
 * James Bond: Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan.


 * [Bond and Kara have just escaped the Soviet airbase, and Kamran Shah saves them on the way out. He talks to two men in a different language]
 * James Bond: What did you tell them?
 * Kamran Shah: I tell them you not Russian. They no kill you now.
 * Kara Milovy: Not now? How about later?
 * Bond: Don't worry, they'll save you for the hareem.


 * [General Pushkin and his men raid Whitaker's house and also capture General Koskov]
 * Leonid Pushkin: Put him on the next plane to Moscow...
 * General Georgi Koskov: Oh, thank you General, thank you so much...
 * Pushkin: ...in the diplomatic bag. [the Soviet troops haul off a startled Koskov]

Taglines

 * The new James Bond... living on the edge.
 * The most dangerous Bond. Ever.
 * Living on the edge. It's the only way he lives.
 * James Bond 007 at his most dangerous in The Living Daylights
 * Enigmatic. Dangerous... Always living on the edge.
 * Licensed to thrill.

Cast

 * Timothy Dalton - James Bond
 * Maryam d'Abo - Kara Milovy
 * Jeroen Krabbé - General Georgi Koskov
 * Joe Don Baker - Brad Whitaker
 * John Rhys-Davies - General Leonid Pushkin
 * Art Malik - Kamran Shah
 * Andreas Wisniewski - Necros
 * Thomas Wheatley - Saunders
 * Desmond Llewelyn - Q
 * Robert Brown - M
 * Geoffrey Keen - Sir Frederick Gray
 * Walter Gotell - General Anatol Gogol
 * Caroline Bliss - Miss Moneypenny
 * John Terry - Felix Leiter