10 Worst Things James Bond Has Ever Done

Live And Let Die (1973) propelled Bond straight into seventies blaxploitation, all the while turning our hero into a saint (or vice versa) in every which way but one.

The first in the series to star the suave lover of the one-liner, Roger Moore, the film leaps into action with a voodoo-tinged storyline that finds its foothold in the streets and scenery of Harlem, New Orleans and the Caribbean.

Along the way, Bond encounters a tarot reader named Solitaire, who is under threat from the two-faced drug lord and politician Dr Kananga. In the salacious fashion of the film series, Bond uses Solitaire's belief against her, and the young woman's naivety ultimately allows Bond to relieve her of her virginity, her powers and her dignity.

He rigs her tarot deck so that the card she draws could only be The Lovers, and she takes this to be her true destiny. Solitaire's look of shock and sadness might only be in relation to the impending loss of her psychic abilities (which are said to depart with her virginity - go figure), but it's hard not to also take this as dismay at the spirits forcing her to sleep with a lecherous middle-aged man.

By the film's conclusion, Solitaire has become another one of Bond's adoring floozies, so it all worked out well in the end. Right? Right??