Make mine a 007...Licence to Kill (1989)

Licence to Kill (1989)

M: “We’re not a country club, 007!”

Overview: This time, it’s personal. A cruel attack on Felix Leiter and his new bride prompts 007 to take down evil drug lord Franz Sanchez. In this film, just about everyone takes a seat at the bar, even Q.

What does Bond drink?

During Felix and Della’s wedding reception, Bond carries around a flute of champagne.
At the Barrelhead Bar in Bimini, Pam orders a “Bud with lime.” Bond tells the waitress, “Yeah, same.” After she leaves, Dario and another henchman join Bond and Pam at the table. When the waitress returns, she puts the order on the table, saying “Here we go, two beers. That’ll be $3.50.” (The two Budweisers have large pieces of lime on top.) She then asks “Do your friends want something?” The second henchman (reaching for his gun) says “I’ll get it.” Bond quickly knocks him out by slamming his head on the table (knocking over the beers in the process) and says, “He’s had enough, run a tab.” During the subsequent bar free-for-all, Pam uses a bottle of Cutty Sark scotch to knock out a villain.
When Bond and Pam are shown their hotel suite in Isthmus City, Bond tells the assistant manager “I’d like a case of champagne—Bollinger R.D.”
As he waits in the Banco de Isthmus for the completion of his deposit, Bond sits in a chair holding a flute of champagne.
As Bond plays blackjack in the casino, he has a flute of champagne next to him. When Sanchez checks out Bond on the casino’s closed-circuit television system, 007 is seen taking a drink. Later, we see that Pam also has a flute.
When Lupe replaces the dealer at the blackjack table, Bond tells asks “Miss Kennedy, would you get me a medium-dry vodka martini?” When Pam begins to protest, Bond cuts her off with a sharp “Shaken, not stirred.” Later (after pantomiming shaking versus stirring to the bartender) she sees Bond get on the elevator with Lupe. An obviously annoyed Pam raises the glass, and drinks down the martini. When she finishes, she makes a face, as if she didn’t like the drink very much (perhaps the bartender used Siamese vodka).
The next night in the casino, when Bond tells Pam to leave Isthmus City, he has a glass of champagne in front of him on the bar. When Bond poses as a waiter to gain access to the casino’s roof, he carries a tray with three glasses of champagne.
During the party at the end of the film, Bond sits at a bar and talks with Felix on the phone. He holds a highball glass of undetermined liquor, possibly whiskey.

Other people’s drinks:

During the wedding reception, there are flutes and bottles of champagne everywhere. One guest noisily pops a bottle of bubbly in Leiter’s pool.
When Bond goes to retrieve Felix from his office, it appears that Leiter has a tropical drink (with a straw) sitting on his desk. During Killifer’s visit, Felix asks him to “Stay and have a drink with us.” Later, bottles of what appear to be vodka and vermouth are seen sitting by the window.
Sanchez drinks almost as frequently as Bond. We see him drink two shots of liquor in Krest’s office, an undetermined highball on the rocks in his own casino office, and a glass of champagne at the processing facility. Sanchez also has a very nice bar cart in his casino office, complete with crystal decanters and glasses.
A bottle of liquor is seen on a bar cabinet in Krest’s stateroom aborad the Wavekrest.
A disheveled Krest holds a drink (there is a decanter on the table) as Sanchez questions him aboard the Wavekrest.
At the processing facility, Sanchez and the Asian “franchisees” toast their new partnership.
A tuxedoed Q turns into a suave drinking machine. During the final scene, he takes two glasses of champagne from a server and hands one to Pam. Q toasts her, saying “Here’s to you, my dear.” She says “Cheers,” and they both drink. When Pam sees Lupe kissing Bond, she hands Q her drink and runs away. Later, as Q stands on the balcony holding the two glasses, he watches Bond and Pam cavort in the pool. Q noticably sighs and drains one of the two glasses.

Other observations:

During the sequence in the Barrelhead Bar, the waitress puts two full bottles of Budweiser on the table. When Bond knocks over the beers a little while (and a shot change) later, the bottles appear to be empty.
During his television show, Professor Joe Butcher makes an appeal to “You guys out there, with your beer and your popcorn...”

Product placement:

In the Barrelhead Bar, several hanging lights advertising Michelob Light and Busch beer are noticable. There is a green neon Carlsberg beer sign over the bar (looking like the same sign used in The Living Daylights).
In the casino bar, bottles of Stolichnaya vodka and Cutty Sark scotch are plainly visible.
Bollinger champagne gets its usual mention in the closing credits. There’s so much of the champagne in this film, it’s a wonder that the pool used in the final scene contains water.

By the book: Based on “The Hildebrand Rarity” (1960) and Live and Let Die (1954).

Total: Five. A whopping four glasses of Bollinger (and it’s implied there’s a good bit more) and an undetermined liquor drink.