After having been closed for many years, it's now been restored to its art nouveau splendour. Sanchez’s office is El Teatro de la Ciudad (The City Theatre), 36 Donceles, the city’s first theatre, dating from 1918. The Gran Hotel's lobby crops up again in the opening sequence of 2015's Spectre, with Daniel Craig as 007. The modest exterior, though, is the Biblioteca de la Banca de Mexico (Library of the Bank of Mexico). It was built in 1899 to accommodate the Centro Mercantil, Mexico City’s first shopping centre. ‘El Presidente’, the hotel, in which Bond stays with Pam Bouvier ( Carey Lowell), is the splendid art nouveau Gran Hotel Ciudad De Mexico, Calle 16 de Septiembre at the Zocale, the Mexico City’s gigantic square. Licence To Kill location: Bond’s ‘El Presidente’ hotel in ‘Isthmus City’: Gran Hotel de la Ciudad de Mexico, Calle 16 de Septiembre, Mexico | Photograph: flickr/Rosskka If the property appeals, it could be yours for a mere $29 million. Built by Baron Enrico di Portanova, one of the most flamboyant members of the international jet set (he once listed the best things in life as ''sun, sex and spaghetti''), the estate – which houses an underwater-themed disco, called Poseidon Discotheque – has no fewer than three swimming pools, a rooftop helipad, and of course the funicular railway seen in the film, which runs down to the beach. Sanchez’s house is Villa Arabesque, the di Portanova Estate, Costera Guitarrón 62A, Guitarron, on the beach near Las Brisas in Acapulco. Most of the movie, though, was made in Mexico. You can see the real Bimini, by the way, at the end of Silence of the Lambs. It was the Harbor Lights Bar – now the Thai Island Restaurant, 711 Eisenhower Drive at Palm Avenue, overlooking Garrison Bight Marina. In fact, there are around 60 – many of which are polydactyl (they have extra toes).Īlso in Key West – though supposedly in ‘Bimini’ in the Bahamas, is the fictitious ‘Barrelhead Bar’. And, yes, as seen in the film, it is home to dozens of cats. The 1851 Spanish-Colonial house was home to the writer from 1931 until his death in 1961. Licence To Kill location: M strips Bond of his licence to kill: Ernest Hemingway House, Key West, Florida | Photograph: Wikimedia / Acroterionĭeciding to go it alone, after Leiter loses a leg to villain Sanchez’s sharks, Bond gets his licence to kill revoked during a confrontation with M ( Robert Brown) at the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, 907 Whitehead Street at Truman Avenue, Key West. The film's underwater sequences were filmed in its crystal waters. Isla Mujeres (Spanish for 'Island of Women') is not far from the resort of Cancún, with the same beautiful beaches but a more peaceful atmosphere. In Mexico, Bond and CIA buddy Felix Leiter ( David Hedison) find drug lord Sanchez ( Robert Davi) at the Isla Mujeres, an island about eight miles off the Yucatán Peninsula coast in the Caribbean Sea. The film's locations are mainly divided between Florida and Mexico (where the production was based at the famous Churubuscu Studios in Mexico City). In Licence To Kill, Bond’s HQ is the Old War Office Building, in Whitehall. Before MI6 went public with its attention-grabbing Vauxhall Cross HQ, Bond movies saw the secretive organisation operate out of various buildings around Westminster, where the prime requirement for the intelligence services seems to be a clear view of Nelson’s Column. Its comparative lack of box office bang meant it was to be the last Bond for six years (until GoldenEye), and was the first not to use Pinewood Studios – there's only the briefest glimpse of the UK. Probably the dourest of the Bonds (until the franchise was reinvented with Daniel Craig), as Timothy Dalton – in his second outing – distances himself from the increasingly flippant Roger Moore agent.
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