Christopher Columbus: The Discovery of the Americas. Timothy Dalton and Isabella Rossellini, originally chosen to star in the picture, backed out when director George Pan Cosmatos was replaced by John Glen shortly before shooting began. Dalton later filed a suit against the producers for breach of contract and fraud, stating that they did not provide a bank guarantee for his $2.5 million salary. Glen had previously directed Dalton in both of his appearances as James Bond: "The Living Daylights" and "Licence to Kill". The film was not a commercial success, debuting at #4 and grossing $8 million against its $45 million budget. The film
James Dalton (pastoralist) James Dalton (pastoralist) James Dalton (1834 in County Limerick, Ireland — 17 March 1919 in "Duntryleague", Orange, New South Wales) was a wealthy Australian merchant and pastoralist who promoted Roman Catholicism and the development of food distribution throughout the Colony of New South Wales. He was the patriarch of the wealthy Irish Australian Dalton family. James Dalton was born in 1834 in Duntryleague, County Limerick, Ireland as the second son of James Dalton and his first wife Eleanor Dalton ("née" Ryan); he had an elder brother, Thomas, and an elder sister, Margaret. He lived in Duntryleague for the first 13