20 Things You Didn’t Know About Live And Let Die (1973)

15. A Familiar Office

Live and Let Die Bond Solitaire
MGM/UA

Dr. Kananga poses as San Monique’s humanitarian leader, championing the rights of his people to the world at large. However, he is really a despot who forces them to maintain the vast poppy fields that fuel his heroin-funded life of luxury by using the voodoo threat represented by Baron Samedi (Geoffrey Holder) to ensure their loyalty.

Kananga has all the accoutrements of an influential leader and commands the Caribbean island nation from a pristine palace, which may or may not be the same sprawling mansion that Solitaire is imprisoned in.

Nevertheless, Kananga’s Prime Ministerial office is seen fleetingly at several points during the film. Despite the presence of a few exotic-looking plants, Kananga's official residence was actually constructed in The Hitchcock Room and Conservatory at Pinewood Studios, which overlooks the formal gardens that doubled for SPECTRE Island in From Russia With Love (1963).

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