With regular law enforcement agencies powerless to prevent their deaths, Her Majesty's Government sends in their top agent Charles Bind who is licensed to kill.

In 1965, Canadian director Lindsay Shonteff directed and co-wrote Licensed to Kill, a low budget British made James Bond imitation/parody exploitation film.

[6] The sequel was not released until 1979 under the title Licensed to Love and Kill with Gareth Hunt replacing Nicky Henson who had signed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A good deal more violent but no less appealing than the Charles Vine James Bond spoofs of the Sixties, this knockabout spy picture returns to familiar territory.

Nicky Henson is undoubtedly a more animated Bond substitute than Tom Adams, and Lindsay Shonteff hurries the proceedings along with a certain breathless verve.

1 of the Secret Service and its sequel Licensed to Love and Kill as "the odd picture [that] turned up in the cinema schedules", refers to both films as "crude parodies".