The Living Daylights
“The new James Bond...living on the edge.”
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Studio
EON Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Living Daylights performed
Budget
$40.0M
Worldwide Gross
$191.2M
Gross Profit
$151.2M
Return
4.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$25M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
James Bond
Timothy Dalton
James Bond
Kara Milovy
Maryam D'Abo
Kara Milovy
Brad Whitaker
Joe Don Baker
Brad Whitaker
Kamran Shah
Art Malik
Kamran Shah
General Leonid Pushkin
John Rhys-Davies
General Leonid Pushkin
General Georgi Koskov
Jeroen Krabbé
General Georgi Koskov
Necros
Andreas Wisniewski
Necros
Saunders
Thomas Wheatley
Saunders
Q
Desmond Llewelyn
Q
M
Robert Brown
M
Minister of Defence
Geoffrey Keen
Minister of Defence
General Anatol Gogol
Walter Gotell
General Anatol Gogol
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