Dentonite toothpaste with the Lark Mild cigarettes detonator from Licence To Kill (1989)
Wayne Newton cameos as Joe Butcher in Licence To Kill (1989)
Pam Bouvier has that effect on a secret agent – from Licence To Kill (1989)
I remember watching Licence To Kill on TV when I lost my first tooth. The above GIF was the first scene I remember watching from a James Bond movie!
Kananga/Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto) from Live And Let Die (1973) or Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) from Licence To Kill (1989)?
There isn’t a more brutal James Bond villain than Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) from Licence To Kill (1989). In this scene alone, Sanchez shows his true self: a murderer, torturer and abuser.
Unlike other Bond villains, Sanchez is intimately involved in the cruel ways he shows his power. He doesn’t sit on a throne and stroking a white cat or avoid conflict by pushing a button in an escape pod. No – without hesitation, Sanchez orders a murder and tortures a defenseless woman.
Lupe’s somber “por favor, Franz” and the unsettlingly compliant way she bows to him for punishment is just awful and an obviously regular occurrence. And it’s telling that Sanchez comes with the small whip on his person – he knew Lupe’s fate before listening to any explanation.
Although disturbing, it’s scenes like this that define a Bond villain. It distinguishes Sanchez’s darker persona from other villains that take a more hands-off approach to evil.
Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) in Licence To Kill (1989)
In Licence To Kill (1989) as Bond investigates Leiter’s shark attack at Milton Krest’s warehouse, 007 tosses a security guard into a fish food drawer to a seemingly horrifying death. “Food for the fish food.”
This scene has a particular significance for me, as it’s the earliest memory I have of watching a James Bond movie in my life. I can distinctly remember this scene during a live ABC or NBC broadcast of this movie in the early 1990s. I also distinctly remembering the pity I felt for the security guard, banished to die by tiny bites in a claustrophobic drawerful of menacing-looking fish food.
At the same time, I can remember wiggling and eventually pulling a tooth out of my mouth. I was six or seven years old.
“James Bond Will Return” is a signature phrase splashed at the end of (almost) every James Bond movie that promotes 007’s never-give-up/against-all-odds attitude and shows a sense of pride in the world’s longest running movie series.
Throughout the years, it has been used to reveal the movie title of the forthcoming James Bond movie, albeit sometimes in error. It has also not been used at all. Some quick facts:
- It does not appear at the end of any of the unofficial movies (Casino Royale (1954), Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983)
- It does not appear in Dr. No or Thunderball
- It has been bland with just words (The World Is Not Enough), has had a fancy backdrop (The Living Daylights), and has had a custom image to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movies (Skyfall)
- The incorrect next movie is listed at the end of The Spy Who Loved Me as For Your Eyes Only – the next movie is in fact Moonraker (thanks, Star Wars)
- The title of A View To A Kill is incorrect at the end of Octopussy, adding “From” to the beginning of the title
Regardless, below are all of the instances where “James Bond Will Return” appears in the credits from all of the movies:
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of From Russia With Love (1963)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Goldfinger (1964)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of You Only Live Twice (1967)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Live And Let Die (1973)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Moonraker (1979)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of For Your Eyes Only (1981)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Octopussy (1983)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of A View To A Kill (1985)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of The Living Daylights (1987)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Licence To Kill (1989)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of GoldenEye (1995)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of The World Is Not Enough (1999)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Die Another Day (2002)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Casino Royale (2006)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Quantum Of Solace (2008)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Skyfall (2012)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Spectre (2015)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of No Time To Die (2021)
Which is your favorite?
