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Film Dossier: Diamond Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever promotional poster (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever promotional poster (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever promotional poster (1971)

Title Card:

Production:

  • Released: 1971
  • Director:Ā Guy Hamilton
  • Screenplay: Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz
  • Music:Ā John Barry

Theme Song:

  • ā€œDiamonds Are Foreverā€ performed byĀ Shirley Bassey

Villain:

  • Ernst Stavro BlofeldĀ (Charles Gray)

Evil Plot:

Having kidnapped and stolen the identity of Vegas mogul Willard Whyte, Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Bond: ā€œWEREN’T YOU A BLONDE WHEN I CAME IN?ā€

smuggles diamonds into a Nevada lab, where he uses them to built a satellite, equipped with a powerful laser.

Locations:

  • London
  • Amsterdam
  • Los Angeles
  • Las Vegas

Tiffany case: ā€œCould be.ā€

Bond Girls:

  • Tiffany CaseĀ (Jill St. John)
  • Plenty O’TooleĀ (Lana Wood)

Supporting Cast:

Bond: ā€œI tend to notice little things like that, whether a girl is a blonde or a brunette.ā€

Felix Leiter (Norman Burton)

Willard WhyteĀ (Jimmy Dean)

Mr. WintĀ (Bruce Glover)

Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith)

Bert Saxby (Bruce Cabot)

Tiffany Case: ā€œWhich do you prefer?ā€

Q (Desmond Llewelyn)

M (Bernard Lee)

Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)

Dr. Metz (Joseph Furst)

Peter Franks (Joe Robinson)

Notable Moments:

The pre-title sequence features Bond asking severalĀ sources where he can find Blofield.

Bond: ā€œWell, as long as the collar and cuffs matchā€¦ā€

Homosexual partners, Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, assassinate a dentist (and diamond smuggler) in South Africa by placing a scorpion in the back of his shirt.

Bond assumes the identity of Peter Franks, a diamond smuggler, in Amsterdam, where he meets Tiffany Case. While in her apartment, she secretly takes his fingerprints and runs them through a computer. He checks out because Q had fitted his fingers with fake skin, designed to replicate Franks’s prints.

Bond kills Franks after a fight in an elevator. He places his own identification on Franks, which Tiffany Case later finds. ā€œYou just killed James Bond,ā€ she says, in shock. .

Bond smuggles the diamonds into the United States by placing them in the dead body of Peter Franks.

In Las Vegas, Bond stays at The Whyte House, a hotel owned and operated by the reclusive Willard Whyte. Upon arrival, he meets Plenty O’TooleĀ and invites her to his room, where hit men are waiting for them. Plenty is thrown out the window and lands in the swimming pool below. ā€œExceptionally fine shot,ā€ Bond says, looking down at her landing. ā€œI didn’t know there was a pool down there,ā€ one of the men says.

Tiffany Case receives the diamonds in a large plush animal she won by playing an arcade game at Circus Circus.

Bond tracks the diamonds to a aerospace lab outside Las Vegas. After sneaking in and learning of the satellite, his presence is learned. Bond escapes in a moon buggy prototype.

Bond leads police in a car chase through downtown Las Vegas.

After learning of Blofeld’s evil plan, Bond looks for Willard Whyte at his home. Two female guards, Bambi and Thumper, attack him.

Blofeld dresses in drag to escape the Whyte House.

Bond stopsĀ Blofeld’s plan, with some help from Tiffany Case, on an oil rig off the coast of Baja.

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