The Living Daylights (Napoleon's World)

The Living Daylights is a 1988 film in the James Bond series, of which it is the 16th entry. The first film starring Alec Baldwin as Bond, The Living Daylights also starred Rolf Storm, Maria Villanueva, Gunther Kraucke, Ryan Shalley, Tom Nguyen, John Rhys-Davies, and Colin Hague. In the film, Bond investigates a suspicious Churat defector whom he suspects may be double-crossing the Americans, travelling to Spain, Portugal, Casablanca and Vietnam in his efforts to uncover a gun-smuggling operation.

The film, while a commercial and critical success, was not the runaway blockbuster that Pacific Print envisioned when it hired the young, attractive Baldwin to the role and remarketed the series to better compete with the resurgent Martin Jones franchise (Napoleon's World)Martin Jones series, which had in only two installments in 1985 and 1987 outgrossed three of the previous four Bond films combined. Producer Gene Hardy lamented that The Living Daylights was unable to "capture that Moonraker magic. Nevertheless, Daylights was the fourth-highest grossing film of 1987 and helped cement Baldwin as an international movie star.