Where They Went

Live and Let Die (1973)

Directed by Guy Hamilton

After three British agents die in New York, New Orleans and the Caribbean, Bond trails a Caribbean dictator from Harlem to his island of San Monique and through the Louisiana bayous, with a tarot-reading psychic caught between them.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1Bond's flat
    London, England
    ≈ 00:09:00
    Inferred

    M and Moneypenny call on Bond at home early in the morning to send him to New York.

  2. 2Harlem, Fillet of Soul
    New York City, New York
    ≈ 00:14:00
    Stated on screen

    Bond's driver is killed on the way from the airport, and he is captured at the Fillet of Soul in Harlem, where he first meets Solitaire.

  3. 3San Monique
    ≈ 00:31:00
    Stated on screenFictional

    Bond meets Rosie Carver and Quarrel Jr., seduces Solitaire and escapes with her in a double-decker bus chase.

  4. 4New Orleans, Louisiana
    ≈ 00:57:00
    Stated on screen
  5. 5Crocodile farm and bayou boat chase
    Louisiana bayou country
    ≈ 01:18:00
    Inferred
  6. 6Voodoo ritual and underground base
    San Monique
    ≈ 01:40:00
    Stated on screenFictional

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
12,185 km
Places
5
Countries
2
Stops
6
  • Plane: 10,155 km
  • Not shown: 2,005 km
  • Car: 26 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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