Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film, the seventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery, who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, having declined to reprise the role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
Plot
James Bond—agent 007—pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld and eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld look-alikes are being created through surgery. Bond kills a test subject, and later the "real" Blofeld, by drowning him in a pool of superheated mud. While assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd systematically kill several diamond smugglers, M suspects that South African diamonds are being stockpiled to depress prices by dumping, and assigns Bond to uncover the smuggling ring. Disguised as professional smuggler and assassin Peter Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet contact Tiffany Case. The real Franks shows up on the way, but Bond intercepts and kills him, then switches IDs to make it seem like Franks is Bond. Tiffany and Bond then go to Los Angeles, smuggling the diamonds inside Franks' corpse.
Cast
- Bernard Lee
- Bruce Cabot
- Bruce Glover
- Burt Metcalfe
- Charles Gray
- David de Keyser
- David Healy
- Denise Perrier
- Desmond Llewelyn
- Dick Crockett
- Ed Bishop
- Jill St. John
- Jimmy Dean
- Joe Robinson
- Joseph Furst
- Lana Wood
- Larry J. Blake
- Laurence Naismith
- Leonard Barr
- Lois Maxwell
- Marc Lawrence
- Norman Burton
- Putter Smith
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Sean Connery
- Shane Rimmer
- Sid Haig
- Valerie Perrine
More details
| author | Ian Fleming Richard Maibaum Tom Mankiewicz |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London Los Angeles South Africa |
| director | Guy Hamilton |
| editor | Bert Bates John Holmes |
| events | terrorism |
| genre | action thriller |
| keywords | baja california bond girl circus circus circus circus las vegas crap cruise ship drown dump ernst stavro blofeld felix leiter follow funeral home gamble gang member kill knock out las vegas laser satellite m midget submarine moon buggy mr. wint and mr. kidd nuclear weapons oil platform pass plenty o\'toole research laboratory smuggling ring south african soviet union ss canberra steal sun gun test subject tiffany case wrecking ball |
| musicBy | John Barry |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Sound |
| producer | Albert R. Broccoli Harry Saltzman |
| productionCompany | Eon Productions |
| publisher | United Artists |
| recordedAt | Amsterdam California Chicago Germany Las Vegas Valley London Los Angeles Pinewood Studios Riviera Hotel and Casino |
| theme | sequel spy terrorism |