License to Kill is a 1989 action-thriller film, the sixteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the second and final film featuring Timothy Dalton as MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond resigns from MI6 to seek revenge against drug lord Franz Sanchez, who ordered an attack on Bond's CIA friend Felix Leiter and the murder of Felix's wife following their wedding.

License to Kill was the fifth and final Bond film directed by John Glen, the last to feature Robert Brown as M and Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny. It was also the final film for screenwriter Richard Maibaum, title designer Maurice Binder, and producer Albert R. Broccoli, all of whom passed away in the following years.