Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The Cast Sean Connery (James Bond), Jill St. John (Tiffany Case), Jimmy Dean (Willard Whyte), Norman Burton (Felix Leiter), Charles Gray (Blofeld)
The Supporting Cast Bernard Lee (“M”), Desmond Llewelyn (“Q”), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), Lana Wood (Plenty O`Toole), Bruce Cabot (Burt Saxby), Putter Smith (Mr. Kidd), Bruce Glover (Mr. Wint), Joseph Furst (Dr. Metz), Leonard Barr (Shady Tree), Margaert Lacy (Mrs. Whistler), Joe Robinson (Peter Franks), David Bauer (Morton Slumber); Trina Parks (Bambi), Donna Garrett (Thumper)
Credits Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman; Directed by Guy Hamilton; Screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz; Music by John Barry; Theme Song performed by Shirley Bassey; Titles by Maurice Binder; Title Song lyrics by Don Black; Edited by Bert Bates and John W. Holmes; Running Time 2 hours;
Mission: Bond must investigate an unusual amount of diamond smuggling taking place from South Africa, Holland and on to Las Vegas.
Villain`s Idiosyncrasy: Love of white cat with diamond necklace.
Locations covered: Holland; South Africa; Las Vegas, Nevada; Baja California
Release dates:U.S December 17th, 1971; U.K. December 30th, 1971
Box office:$116 million worldwide ($476,228,153.10 in 1998 dollars)
Best Lines: Mr. Kidd, as her body is being pulled from an Amsterdam canal:”Mrs. Whistler did want some pictures of the canals for the children.”
Mr. Kidd: `I must say, Ms. Case is certainly attractive. For a woman.`
Bond: “I`ve smelled that aftershave before, and both times i`ve smelled a rat.”
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Plenty O`Toole: “Hi, I`m Plenty.” Bond: “But of course you are.”
Willard Whyte, on Burt Saxby whose just been shot to death: “Saxby? Burt Saxby? Tell him he`s fired!”.
Review by Michael Kersey
Connery`s last film as 007 in the EON/United Artist series. Connery seems to be sleepwalking through this role, and with his unprecedented salary for returning as Bond one last time, you`d be forgiven for expecting more out of him.
Looking old, out of shape, haggard and tired, Connery picks up where Lazenby`s Bond left off…avenging Tracy. But you`d hardly guess that Bond was bent on revenge at the beginning of this film by the way everyone plays their scenes. Connery acts as though avenging his wife is as casual as driving through a pick up window at McDonalds. No mention is made of Tracy.
The real story though is Bond, hot on the heels of diamond smugglers. A certain amount of smuggling is accepted by the British in their South African mines, but lately an alarming amount is leaving the area and not being sold on the black market. MI6 is concerned that someone may be stockpiling diamonds in an effort to create economical havoc. Bond is assigned to infiltrate the smuggling pipeline and find out where it leads and for what purpose.
That pipeline begins with Peter Franks. He`s about to be detained in Amsterdam so that Bond can take his place and follow the pipeline. He meets up with Tiffany Case, an expert diamond smuggler who gives him his first shipment: 50,000 karats worth of diamonds. Franks manages to escape his captors and tries to meet up with Tiffany, but Bond intercepts him and kills him, placing his own wallet on Franks` body to make it look like he just killed James Bond. They then shove the diamonds up Franks` backside and send the body off to Las Vegas, where Bond pretends to be the brother of the deceased victim, here to pay his last respects. Hot on his tail is Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.
Bond figures he`ll be double crossed somewhere down the line, so the diamonds that he was supposed to place in an urn at Morton Slumber`s funeral home are fakes. When he gets the real cash, he tells everyone, they`ll get the real diamonds.
Tiffany catches up with Bond in his bedroom and together they conspire to leave the real diamonds at the airport and see who picks them up. A Dr. Metz picks up the diamonds and Bond jumps in the back of Metzes van, which drives off to a secret, underground laboratory in the Nevada desert. There, Bond sees Metz work on a top secret satellite dish encrusted with diamonds. There he begins to realize that the diamonds may serve a higher purpose other than reeking economical havoc on the West. He begins to suspect elusive multimillionaire Willard Whyte is involved in the scheme, as it is his laboratory that is funding the project. But it is soon discovered that Whyte has been kidnapped, and in his place, Blofeld has been running the show.
The return of Connery to the role was the drawing power of this film, but it`s really the cast, other than Bond, that is the real backbone of the film. Wonderfully written characters dot the `Diamonds` landscape. Charles Gray, with a full head of hair, takes over the Blofeld duties, and is much better than his predecessors. There`s a certain camp factor involved with this Blofeld, and though you hardly feel any danger around him, he is quite fun to watch squaring off against Bond. Wint and Kidd, and Bambi and Thumper are great tag-team villains, with the films best lines always going to Mr. Kidd
A return for nostalgia`s sake is not enough of a reason to make a film if the actor doesn`t get to the root of the character. For the most part, Connery nor Bond resemble our first look at him in Dr. No. Connery seemed distracted and uninterested at times and he`s actually more of a passenger in this film than the driver, as the camp humor and cheesy dialogue foreshadow the films to come.