Felix Leiter

The film is best described from this quick Wikipedia thing.

In this film, Bond resigns from MI6 in order to take revenge against the drug lord, Fran Sanchez, who ordered an attack against Bond's friend and CIA agent, Felix Leiter, and the murder of Felix's wife after their wedding.

so much more simple why couldn't we just have said that anyway now such was my enjoyment of this film i did a kind of dual watch for this so i watched it on vhs and anyone who's seen any of these james bond films the widescreen collection will will know exactly how it always starts so it starts with the i'm not going to do the rest of it But it's a 90s version of the James Bond theme tune.

Amongst clips from Connery, from Lazenby, Moore, and obviously Timothy Dalton as well.

It's a lot more hardcore.

There is a lot of brutality within this.

You've got Felix Leiter getting tortured in the way that he does.

The fact that they go after Felix and his wife so early.

The synopsis goes something like this.

South of the border drug kingpin Franz Sanchez decided it was best to eliminate Felix Leiter.

You know, James doesn't have many close personal friends, but Felix is one of them.

So Franz Sanchez is in a lot of trouble.

we'll start the discussion by adjusting your score barometer properly we're doing one to ten five is average i mean it's okay i liked it it was fine six seven eight nine ten you start really liking things four three two one you have things to work on let's get into category one Category one is a story.

How engaging or original did you find the story to be? Alan, License to Kill.

It's funny you said earlier on about Sanchez getting in trouble with Bond because he hurt Felix Leiter.

Because when we finished watching it, Jill turned around and she said, I've never really thought about it before.

So the original film from 1958, actually, it stars David Hedison, who you just saw in License to Kill.

He was Felix Leiter.

Oh, okay.

Before Jeffrey Wright, he was the only actor to play Felix Leiter twice, even though it was 20 years apart.

So he plays the scientist, and the way that film presents it, the same idea, he goes through the teleporter, a fly goes into the machine as well, and they essentially swap parts.

And so the scientist, his head and arm are... transposed onto a fly while the fly's head and arm are put onto the scientist

Yeah.

Felix Leiter from Never Say Never Again.

Felix

Leiter, yeah.

Non-canonical Felix Leiter, yeah.

And as they're sitting and talking, discussing, you know, will you come and work for me full time? And he's basically saying, no, I'd rather be freelance.

There's something going on behind them.

Um, I will say, though, that even though he's not the one that they advertise, David Hedison is really good in this film.

And folks may know David Hedison as the only guy who ever played Felix Leiter to two bonds.

in Live and Let Die with Roger Moore and License to Kill with Timothy Dalton.

He was also the star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which was a primetime hit from Irwin Allen, the producer of Lost in Space and Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel.

So

he plays Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die, and then comes back in the second Timothy Dalton Bond movie, which I believe is License to Kill, because the whole premise is that goes to Cuba, and there's a drug ring, and...

It's Felix is getting married and his wife is murdered.

And then he's fed to a shark and has his legs eaten.