License to Kill
Movies Set in the Florida Keys

Year Released - 1989
Director - John Glen
Stars - Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell
Length - 133 minutes

Perhaps the most violent of the Bond films involves Bond going ballistic when his best friend and new wife are attacked on their wedding night. Bond hooks up with a rough-and-tough woman who is quite his equal. Some think this film is bad because it's not about casinos and upper-crust discussions ... but in many ways this is more the "real" Bond of the books.

One classic scene has a prison break occur on Seven Mile Bridge, with the prisoner escaping underwater. This was filmed at the bridge and at the John Pennekamp Coral Reef Park.

The scene where Bond is told about this is at the Key West International Airport. He talks to M at Ernest Hemingway's house on the second floor - you even see one of the famous cats at the beginning of that scene. Bond says, "I guess it's a Farewell To Arms."

Bond meets his girl in the Harbour Lights Bar on Key West, which is actually the Barrelhead Bar.

Other spots include St Mary's Star Of The Sea Catholic Church - where Felix gets married, and the Garrison Bight Marina in Key West

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