Licensed to Kill

Licensed to Kill is a 1965 superspy imitation James Bond film starring Tom Adams as British secret agent Charles Vine. It was directed and co-written by Lindsay Shonteff. Producer Joseph E. Levine picked it up for American and worldwide distribution and reedited it under the title The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World. Facing numerous assassination attempts, a Swedish scientist who has invented an anti-gravity device and his daughter seek to provide the invention to the United Kingdom. With James Bond unavailable, H.M. Government provides Agent Charles Vine, a former mathematician, as a bodyguard and exterminator. After making two films in the horror genre, director Shonteff made an entertaining low budget James Bond exploitation film. Tom Adams' saturnine Charles Vine, like Bond has a licence to kill and is also accompanied by his own electric guitar theme music. Vine is a well dressed cool womaniser and a cold blooded killer who makes quips after performing both...