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| - For Queen and Country (1991) is the seventeeth official entry in the James Bond film series, and the third to star Timothy Dalton as 007. It is also the first Bond film of the 90s and takes place sometime between Live and Let Die and For Your Eyes Only, with Donald Pleasence briefly reprising his role as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the pre-title sequence. In the film Bond is dispatched by MI6 to Algeria, where American weapons mogul Walter LaFayette is meeting with Algerian Minister of Defence Muhamad Nasouf to establish a weapons agreement with the United States and Algeria. But Bond soon discovers LaFayette has ties with KGB agent Leov Karsovski, and they are planning on forcing the U.S into a military presence in Algeria and provoking Soviet intervention, thus causing a full scale war. The film was released on July 20th 1991, earning $67,0000 in opening week and receiving mixed to positive reviews. Dalton's performance and those of the supporting cast were praised, though the convoluted and confusing story were criticized by some while praised by others. The film was included in the 007 video game Ultimate Bond: Dr. No To Die Another Day, released in 2009 and chronicling each Bond film from 1962-2002.
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