Diamonds Are Forever (film)

Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh James Bond film produced by EON Productions, with Sean Connery as James Bond. The film was released in 1971. It is based on the novel from 1956.

However, the creators of the film have been but moderately held to the novel. It is the latest official Bond movie with Sean Connery as James Bond. Connery would later creep another two times in the role of Bond; in 1983 in the unofficial Bond film Never Say Never Again and in 2005 for a computer game, which is based on From Russia With Love .



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[hide] *1 summary  ==Summary[ Edit] == ===Prologue[ Edit] === In the prologue of the movie is Bond Ernst Stavro Blofeld, looking for vengeance upon him. After searching in all corners of the world he knows Blofeld, who was working to create a doppelganger to kill. ===Story[ Edit] === As MI6 informed about a global diamond smuggling, which seriously threatens to move the diamond market, James Bond is sent to investigate. Meanwhile in South Africa, however, the members of the smuggling ring, one by one, killed by the sadistic couple Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.
 * 1.1 Prologue
 * 1.2 Story
 * Origin title 2
 * 3 filming locations
 * 4 Cast
 * 5 Wallpaper
 * 5.1 book and film
 * 6 Trivia

Bond takes the identity of the smuggler Peter Franks about and contacts with Tiffany Case in Amsterdam. She is the one for whom he had the diamonds from Amsterdam to the US needs to smuggling and transfer to the contact there. The problems start as the real smuggler pops up and starts a fight with Bond. Bond wins this fight and clogged portfolio in this man his inner pocket, so Tiffany thinks the dead man James Bond is. The diamonds are hidden in the body and, with some help of Felix Leiter, in the US turned over to the CIA. In order not to arouse suspicion bootlegs Bond fake diamonds to the next stop in the smuggling line: a crematorium. WINS and Kidd trying to live, but as the next Bond cremation smuggler, Shady Tree, discovered that the diamonds are false go he and the Chief of the crematorium Bond search and rescue him so.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Bond goes to Las Vegas, where Tree works as a comedian. But then Tree also killed by Wint and Kidd. After a failed love affair with one Plenty O'Toole Tiffany meets Bond again. Tiffany discovered that Bond is a infiltrator, but if she survives an assassination attempt (Plenty is killed in her place) she decides Federal side. Bond discovers that a mysterious laboratory in the desert of Nevada is probably the last stop of smuggling line. Bond escapes into a Moon buggy and is brought back to the city by Tiffany. The laboratory was owned by the eccentric businessman Willard Whyte, who lives in the penthouse above his casino, but all five years no longer has come from here. Bond calls Whytes penthouse within and comes to the discovery that Whyte is kidnapped and none other than no. 1 SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has taken its place. The man murdered by Bond was also a doppelganger! Blofelds, in fact, on the other hand, two Bond and kills just the wrong one.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Bond is in the elevator should leave but of Blofeld numbed with gas. WINS and Kidd stopping him in a pipeline that is buried in the desert ground, but Bond escapes. With reinforcement of the CIA and Q know Bond with a voice Scrambler (like Blofeld used to for Whyte to continue) contact with Blofeld as his henchman Bert Saxby, whereby he finds out where Whyte trapped. Whyte is rescued, but Blofeld escapes from Las Vegas and kidnaps Tiffany hereby. Then it turns out that Blofeld the Whyte Group used with the diamonds to make a laser satellite. Blofeld destroys nuclear installations this various military the Russians, Americans and Chinese. After this, he sends an ultimatum that the highest bidder will remain saved.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Bond discovered Blofeld on an oil rig in the California golf. Bond manages to with Tiffany the cassette with the codes from the satellite and changing. Led by Leiter and Whyte is the oil rig attacked. Blofeld tries to escape in a small submarine, but Bond hijacks the crane with the dive boat coming and flings the submarine is so against the satellite control room, after which the oil rig blown.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Now the mission accomplished is taking a cruise on a ship of Bond and Tiffany Whyte. WINS and Kidd, disguised as waiters, seek them there is still a culinary way to bring, but find their end in itself here. ==Origin title<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="335" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Diamonds Are Forever the title refers to the title song of the film, sung by Shirley Bassey (the whole plot of the movie is about diamonds). ==Film Locations<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Wallpaper<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Book and film<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The book was originally seen as one of the lesser. Just some of the things look like the film, namely:
 * Japan
 * Cairo, Egypt
 * Pinewood Studios in London, England
 * The port of Dover in England
 * Canals of Amsterdam in Netherlands
 * The Magere brug, Amsterdam in Netherlands
 * Reguliersgracht 36, Amsterdam in Netherlands
 * Los Angeles International Airport from Los Angeles, United States
 * Elrod House in Palm Springs, California, United States
 * Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, United States
 * Car Park Universal Studios Los Angeles, United States
 * Circus Circus hotel in Las Vegas, United States
 * International Hotel in Las Vegas, United States (now Las Vegas Hilton)
 * Pabco Gypsum in Las Vegas, United States
 * The Palm Mortuary and Cemetery in Henderson, Nevada (United States)
 * The filmmakers had an agreement with Ford. Almost every car in the movie is therefore of Ford.
 * The film is included in Great Britain, France, United States, Netherlands and Germany.
 * Originally actor John Gavin take on the role of Bond. Employee of distributor United Artists David Picker was not agree. He wanted that Connery would play the role of Bond again. No money would come into play. Eventually earned Connery two million dollars for his role. Converted to the present (2006) this amounts to 20 million dollars.
 * The original idea was that the villain in this film the twin brother of Auric Goldfinger Gert Fröbe, and that would play this role also. The plan was changed after Albert r. Broccoli had a dream that he would go to visit at his friend Howard Hughes, but found someone else in his apartment. Willard Whyte is based on Howard Hughes.
 * Character Willard Whyte says in the film that the first laser was made using a Diamond. However, inventor Theodore h. Maiman used a synthetic Ruby.
 * The film grossed $ 116.000.000 on.

==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * the Bond girl Tiffany Case, although with red instead of blonde hair;
 * the sadistic villains WINS and Kidd. In the novel is speculated about their homosexuality while there in the movie seem very strong implications. So makes Mr. Kidd the note ' Ms. Case is very attractive ', after which he gets a startled look of Mr. Wins. This adds to the words ' for a woman ' Kidd, after which Wins looks at him with a Swooning look relieved. In their very first scene they walk hand in hand they also comment on the image, and Huey, Dewey, and Kwak -like manner (the one starts, the other makes af) situations.
 * the diamond smuggling from Africa, with the help of a dentist;
 * a mud bath-scene, although very different from the novel.
 * Merho, the draughtsman and writer of the well-known comic strips, Kiekeboe-let himself inspire by this film. In the album no. 28, small talk, after all, the battle scene in which imitated the draughtsman Bond fights against two women in bikinis. In the James Bond strip Merho replaced by Peekaboo.
 * In the scene In Amsterdam, where Bond runs into Peter Franks and the evening itself as a casual passer-by occurs, greets Bond Franks in German rather than in the Dutch.
 * Sammy Davis Jr. had a cameo appearance in the film, but it was edited out. The scene, however, is intact on the deleted scenes of the DVD from Diamonds Are Forever.