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This Saturday evening (30th July), ITV will once again air a classic Bond flick in the prime-time 8pm slot \u2013 and this time Timothy Dalton\u2019s second and final 007 adventure Licence to Kill is the chosen film.<\/p>\n
Although the film was met with something of a mixed reception upon its initial release in 1989, its reputation has grown in the intervening years \u2013 and indeed it cracks the top 10 of RadioTimes.com<\/a>\u2018s own definitive Bond ranking<\/a>.<\/p>\n But something that you might not know about the film is that it was originally set to be released under a slightly different title.<\/p>\n During production, the film was referred to as Licence Revoked \u2013 which, of course, is in keeping with the events of the film, in which Dalton\u2019s 007 goes rogue and breaks away from MI6. It was only after feedback from American test screenings that it was altered to its eventual title.<\/p>\n The issue was that American audiences claimed the original title was too closely associated with the rather banal Department of Motor Vehicles \u2013 with \u2018license revoked\u2019 being a common American phrase for the withdrawal of a driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n