Street Corner Assassination, Live and Let Die - New Orleans, LA
N 29° 57.545 W 090° 03.741
15R E 783508 N 3317882
This street corner at 837 Chartres Street, New Orleans, was the film location for the famous jazz funeral assassination scene in the 1973 James Bond film, Live and Let Die.
Waymark Code: WM9KPV
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 08/30/2010
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In Roger Moore's first outing as Ian Fleming's James Bond, Bond is sent to check into the assassinations of three British agents who have been investigating drug smuggling.
One of the assassinations was filmed in New Orleans and can be seen at 1:50 in
this video.
Each murder is linked to a Harlem crime boss, Mr. Big, and an international diplomat, Kananga. The British send agent James Bond to investigate. When 007 arrives in New York he is nearly killed by one of Mr. Big's hoods, but the attempt gives Bond a lead and he soon discovers a plot to flood the US mainland with a billion dollars' worth of heroin.
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