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Live and Let Die

1973 · directed by Guy Hamilton · 121 min
23,424 feet · Prominence
1,168th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw78

Lifetime worldwide gross $126m, re-releases included; about $939m in 2026 money.

Rank224 of 11,051In 19734 of 48

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise62

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics61 baseAwards5 signal → +1 lift

Oscars1 nominated Original Song
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy48

Judged directly: The Wings theme outlives the film.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb6.7 from 123kWikipedia39k views a monthAge53 years

Scored beside it · 1,190 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 78 praise 62 legacy 48averages 63, placing it at23,424 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Yaphet Kotto

In these careers — elevation for this film

Roger Moore19,486 ftYaphet Kotto18,782 ftJane Seymour18,329 ftClifton James18,106 ft