BOND: DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER(1971)
Bond! James Bond!
The quintessential Bond: Sean Connery is back for one
more round! He set the bar in Dr. No, and continues on
with Diamonds are forever! After sitting out the last Bond
movie(On Her Majesties Secret Service) this becomes one
of the better of the Connery Bonds, and as always a must
watch!!!
Pretty much a straight story with very little gadgets, this
really relies on the plot, acting and script, which are all
very good! The music is very good with Shirley Bassey
returning to do the theme song(she also did Goldfinger),
with this one being the best of the three that she did(also
doing Moonraker)!
With another new Bloefeld, this has the wonderful Jimmy
Dean as the recluse Willard White! And also stars Jill St.
John as the love interest!
Shot for the most part in old Las Vegas(1971), this has
some really cool shots of some of the old casinos that
are now gone today! Much fun!! A
From another reviewer at Amazon:
Sean Connery retired from the 007 franchise after You
Only Live Twice (replaced by George Lazenby in the
underrated and underperforming On Her Majesty's
Secret Service) but was lured back for one last official
appearance as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever.
He's in fine form--cool but ruthless--in a sharp precredits
sequence hunting the unkillable Blofeld (a suavely
menacing Charles Gray in this incarnation), but the
MacGuffin of a story (involving diamond smuggling,
a superlaser on a satellite, and Blofeld's latest plot
to rule the world ) is full of the groaning tongue-in-cheek
gags that Roger Moore would make his signature.
Goldfinger director Guy Hamilton keeps the film
zipping along gamely from one entertaining set
piece to another, including a terrific car chase in
a parking lot, a battle with a pair of bikini-clad killer
gymnasts named Bambi and Thumper, and a deadly
game with a bizarre pair of fey, sardonic killers who
dispatch their victims with elaborate invention. Jill
St. John is the brassy but not too bright American
smuggler Tiffany Case, and country singer and pork
sausage king Jimmy Dean costars as a reclusive
billionaire with not-so-subtle parallels to Howard
Hughes. Shirley Bassey belts out the memorable
theme song, one of the series' best. Connery retired
again after this one but he returned once more,
for Never Say Never Again 15 years later for a rival
production company. --Sean Axmaker
Sean Connery ... James Bond
Jill St. John ... Tiffany Case
Charles Gray ... Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Lana Wood ... Plenty O'Toole
Jimmy Dean ... Willard Whyte
Bruce Cabot ... Albert R. 'Bert' Saxby
Putter Smith ... Mr. Kidd
Bruce Glover ... Mr. Wint
Norman Burton ... Felix Leiter
Joseph Fürst ... Dr. Metz (as Joseph Furst)
Bernard Lee ... 'M'
Desmond Llewelyn ... 'Q'
Leonard Barr ... Shady Tree
Lois Maxwell ... Moneypenny
Margaret Lacey ... Mrs. Whistler
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Music playing is:
Theme From James Bond:
Diamonds Are Forever!:
By: Shirley Bassey