…After five expanded scores to James Bond films in the last 18 months, La-La Land’s aim is steady as ever with a sixth: Michael Kamen’s score to 1989’s Licence to Kill, the second and final film featuring Timothy Dalton as Ian Fleming’s legendary literary spy. Dalton’s aim was to portray Bond more like the original books, with less of the fantastical gadgets and occasionally campy humor of previous installments. And Licence to Kill remains one of the series’ grittiest entries, finding 007 resigning from MI6 and enacting a personal mission of revenge after a drug lord maims his longtime CIA friend and associate Felix Leiter. (The character, who suffered a similar fate in Fleming’s Live and Let Die novel, appeared in several of the films and played bydifferent…

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