Based on the very first Bond novel Ian Fleming ever wrote, the story examines the dark, rough beginnings of this famous secret agent.

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But the scriptwriters' attempts to tone down the comedy, made Dalton's Bond in The Living Daylights and A Licence To Kill, a dark, vulnerable, humourless man.

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