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[scaramunga]

I am curious about a cut scene from Live and Let Die. It appears on the poster that there is a very large gun being fired.

Is there any mention of this or other cut scenes being filmed in Roger Moore's James Bond Diary?

Is this a reference to Navy LST mentioned in the Live and Let Die radio ad?

Also I saw this cut scene referenced on IMDB.com alternate versions..

TV prints shown on ABC in the 1970s-early 80s omitted a bizarre sequence where Bond and Rosie Carver encounter Samedi in the forest.

Why was Live and Let Die at a different aspect ratio than Diamonds and Spy? cost savings?

The first Bond film to be filmed 'flat' (i.e. with spherical lenses rather than using the Panavision anamorphic widescreen process) since Goldfinger (1964).

Edited by scaramunga, 21 September 2007 - 03:56 AM.

[ACE]

I am curious about a cut scene from Live and Let Die. It appears on the poster that there is a very large gun being fired.

Is there any mention of this or other cut scenes being filmed in Roger Moore's James Bond Diary?

Well, the poster images comes from a series of publicity shots Roger Moore did with said gun. It is referenced in Roger Moore's James Bond Diary. Those shots were incorporated in the publicity material but do not reference anything actually filmed for the movie. Certainly, no sequence is mentioned on the DVD, the script and in any book or material on the film uncovered to date.

Is this a reference to Navy LST mentioned in the Live and Let Die radio ad?

Also I saw this cut scene referenced on IMDB.com alternate versions..

I do not see any such reference. Sorry, scaramunga, but can you tell me where is the cut scene referenced in ? http://www.imdb.com/...ternateversions

I believe the advert references the LST that Bond steers Adam into at the climax of the boat chase. The explosion formed the background to a publicity shot of Roger coolly sipping wine while all hell breaks loose behind him.

Why was Live and Let Die at a different aspect ratio than Diamonds and Spy? cost savings?

The first Bond film to be filmed 'flat' (i.e. with spherical lenses rather than using the Panavision anamorphic widescreen process) since Goldfinger (1964).

Yes. UA had been acquired by Transamerica Corporation in the late 1960's and in the early 1970's, for a range of economic reasons, budgets were pulled in. Also, there was a feeling of limiting the risk with the new Bond.

The one deleted scene I have heard of from the film is a sequence involving Bond meeting a contact in an exotic garden. Said contact gives Bond information in a microdot concealed in his contact lens. Bond then ushers the man out of the garden through a gate and we pull back to reveal that the garden is on a rooftop and the contact was a double agent. He falls to his death in a neat, bizarre Bond reversal. This sequence was meant to be in Italy, I believe and is the job referenced by M in the body of the film at Bond's flat. It also explains why and who Miss Caruso is. I believe the scene was prepared for but never filmed. Some of this information is contained in Yes, Mr Bronson by Michael Sheard, the late UK character actor who would have played the contact in the scene and by anecdotal conversations.

[Blabbermouth]

There is a cut scene in the UE version of LALD, where Bond visits a fortune teller.

I remember seeing stills of Bond fighting with some henchmen ontop of a building, but have never seen the scene.

[Royal Dalton]

I believe the scene was prepared for but never filmed.

Yeah, it's a shame that one was cut. It sounded like a pretty good intro for Roger Moore.

[ACE]

There is a cut scene in the UE version of LALD, where Bond visits a fortune teller.

I remember seeing stills of Bond fighting with some henchmen ontop of a building, but have never seen the scene.

The fortune telling scene is not from the movie. It is actually Roger Moore visiting a fortune teller. It was never in the movie.

The rooftop scenes you have seen are not from LALD. The LALD scenes were never filmed.

[draxingtonstanley]

That's a fascinating peice of information ACE,something I'd never heard about. Thanks for that. Presumably that would have been part of the PTS,after showing Baines,Hamilton and Dawes being knocked off,cut to M's office; "Where's Bond?" "Rome sir" cut to Bond in exotic garden.
I wish they'd put it in. My only complaint about Live And Let Die is the lack of Bond in the PTS. And that would,indeed,have been a great intro for Roger Moore's Bond-suitably bizarre,and slightly sadistic,death delivered with the most charming of manners!

Edited by draxingtonstanley, 21 September 2007 - 05:12 PM.

[Qwerty]

The one deleted scene I have heard of from the film is a sequence involving Bond meeting a contact in an exotic garden. Said contact gives Bond information in a microdot concealed in his contact lens. Bond then ushers the man out of the garden through a gate and we pull back to reveal that the garden is on a rooftop and the contact was a double agent. He falls to his death in a neat, bizarre Bond reversal. This sequence was meant to be in Italy, I believe and is the job referenced by M in the body of the film at Bond's flat. It also explains why and who Miss Caruso is. I believe the scene was prepared for but never filmed. Some of this information is contained in Yes, Mr Bronson by Michael Sheard, the late UK character actor who would have played the contact in the scene and by anecdotal conversations.

Very interesting. Wonder why this one doesn't get a mention on the DVD or in more Bond reference books.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Wasn't the bofors gun (I'm sure that's what it is called) used inconjunction with a milk ad that the production was commissioned to appear in? There were a couple of TV ads shown on the DVD, but I think the gun was used for a milk ad in the print media. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[scaramunga]

Ace - This was the deleted scene I was referring to: TV prints shown on ABC in the 1970s-early 80s omitted a bizarre sequence where Bond and Rosie Carver encounter Samedi in the forest. Sorry for the confusion!

Thanks for enlightening me on the Navy ship reference from the radio ad too! Illuminating! : )

Anyone - Any idea why the milk ads for Man With The Golden Gun were not included on the UE dvd as they were for Live and Let Die?

Thanks for the info on UA being bought too and why the films had a different aspect ratio! Very interesting!

Really interesing on the scene that was planned but not filmed!

What are the known cut scenes from Live and Let Die? Filmed and cut..

It would be really cool to have a source with both filmed scenes cut and planned or scripted scenes that were not filmed.

I think that would be really interesting. Also studying how the film scripts were written versus how the directors ended up filming them, etc.

Cool stuff for Bond fans? I think so. : )

Edited by scaramunga, 23 September 2007 - 12:37 AM.

[scaramunga]

Do any of the stills or lobby cards for Live and Let Die have deleted scenes on them?

What about for the other Bond films?

[Simon]

Not deleted scenes, but a publicity shot of Baron and Solitaire on the beach struggling not related to the film.

As for other lobby cards, there are tonnes of examples but these are all in this article I have written, referred to in your other thread.

[scaramunga]

Ace - Was the garden scene, featured in the script for Live and Let Die?

I'm trying to locate a copy of this script, along with Diamonds and The Man With The Golden Gun.

Thanks!