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Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill film poster
James Bond	Timothy Dalton
Also starring	Carey Lowell Robert Davi Talisa Soto
Directed by	John Glen
Produced by	Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Novel/Story by	Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum
Screenplay	Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum
Cinematography by	Alec Mills
Music by	Michael Kamen Narada M.Walden
Main theme	Licence to Kill
Composer	N. Michael Walden Jeffrey Cohen Walter Afanaseiff
Performer	Gladys Knight
Editing by	{{{editing}}}
Distributed by	MGM/UA Distribution Co.
Released	July 14, 1989
Running time	133 min.
Budget	$32,000,000
Worldwide gross	$156,200,000
Preceded by	The Living Daylights (1987)
Followed by	GoldenEye (1995)
IMDb profile

Licence to Kill (1989), directed by John Glen, is the 16th James Bond spy film, and the second and last featuring Timothy Dalton. Licence to Kill is the first, original (non-Fleming) title, that adapts the Live and Let Die story with elements from the short story The Hildebrand Rarity, concerning agent 007's resignation from MI6 to pursue revenge against Franz Sánchez, a Latin American drugs baron. The title refers to Bond's discretionary licence to kill, originally, the title was Licence Revoked.

Licence to Kill was commercially unsuccessful, fetching only $256,701,197 worldwide. Given screenwriter Richard Maibaum had died, and internecine lawsuits over ownership of the film series, this was the last film for six years, the series' longest interval, and the last film by producer Albert R. Broccoli.