The Living Daylights Mail" wrote of Dalton's Bond that "you get the feeling that on his off nights, he might curl up with the "Reader's Digest" and catch an episode of "Moonlighting"".Of the two films he made, Dalton admitted that this is his preferred. Roger Moore, discussing the Bond series in 2012, called "The Living Daylights" a "bloody good movie". The Living Daylights The Living Daylights is a 1987 British spy film, the fifteenth entry in the "James Bond" film series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by John Glen,
James Bond in film in the Academy Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"—and was performed by Lani Hall. Fleming's estate, financially backed by Eon Productions and MGM, made a final attempt to block the film in the High Courts in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and "Never Say Never Again" was permitted to proceed. When "Never Say Never Again" was released, it grossed $9.72 million ($ million in dollars) on its first weekend, which was reported to be "the best opening record of any "James Bond" film" up to that point and surpassing "Octopussy"s