The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights 1987 is the fifteenth entry in the James Bond film series and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The films title is taken from Ian Flemings short story, The Living Daylights. It was the last film to use the title of an Ian Fleming story until the 2006 instalment Casino Royale.
James BondAgent 007is assigned to aid the defection of a KGB officer, General Georgi Koskov, covering his escape from a concert hall in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia during the orchestras intermission. During the mission, Bond notices that the KGB sniper assigned to prevent Koskovs escape is a female cellist from the orchestra. Disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he instead shoots the rifle from her hands, then uses the TransSiberian Pipeline to smuggle Koskov across the border into Austria and then on to Britain.In his postdefection debriefing, Koskov informs MI6 that the KGBs old policy of Smiert Spionom, meaning Death to Spies, has been revived by General Leonid Pushkin, the new head of the KGB. Koskov is later abducted from the safehouse and assumed to have been taken back to Moscow. Bond is directed to track down Pushkin in Tangier and kill him in order to forestall further killings of agents and escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West. Although Bonds prior knowledge of Pushkin initially leads him to doubt Koskovs claims, he agrees to carry out the mission when he learns that the assassin who killed 004 as depicted in the pretitle sequence left a note bearing the same message, Smiert Spionom. ........
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