![]() ![]() He finds out Whyte's location and rescues him, Saxby being killed in the gunfight. ![]() Bond escapes, then calls Blofeld, using a similar electronic device to pose as Saxby. He is then knocked out by gas, picked up by Wint and Kidd and taken out to Las Vegas Valley, where he is placed in a pipeline and left to die. Bond kills one of the Blofelds, which turns out to be a look-alike. He is instead met by two identical Blofelds, who use an electronic device to sound like Whyte. When Bond's cover is blown, he escapes by stealing a moon buggy and reunites with Tiffany.īond scales the walls to the Whyte House's top floor to confront Whyte. Bond enters the apparent destination of the diamonds - a research laboratory owned by Whyte, where a satellite is being built by Professor Doctor Metz, a laser refraction specialist. She drives Bond to the airport, where the diamonds are given to Whyte's casino manager, Bert Saxby, who is followed to a remote facility. ![]() However, seeing that O'Toole was killed after being mistaken for her, Tiffany changes her mind. Tiffany reneges on her deal and flees, passing off the diamonds to the next smuggler. Bond spends the rest of the night with Tiffany, instructing her to retrieve the diamonds at the Circus Circus casino. Gangsters ambush them, throwing O'Toole out the window and into the pool. Bond discovers there that Tree has been killed by Wint and Kidd, who did not know that the diamonds were fake.Īt the craps table Bond meets the opportunistic Plenty O'Toole, and after gambling, brings her to his room. Bond then goes to the Whyte House, a casino-hotel owned by the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte, where Tree works as a stand-up comedian. Bond tells Leiter to ship the real diamonds. ![]() Bond is nearly killed by Wint and Kidd when they try to cremate him, but Tree stops the process when he discovers that the diamonds in Franks' body were fakes, planted by Bond and the CIA. At a funeral home, Franks' body is cremated and the diamonds are passed on to another smuggler, Shady Tree. Customs Inspector, then travels to Las Vegas. Tiffany and Bond then go to Los Angeles, smuggling the diamonds inside Franks' corpse.Īt the airport, Bond meets his CIA ally Felix Leiter who is disguised as a U.S. 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. Disguised as professional smuggler and assassin Peter Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet contact Tiffany Case. 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. Bond kills a test subject, and later the "real" Blofeld, by drowning him in a pool of superheated mud. James Bond-agent 007-pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld and eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld look-alikes are being created through plastic surgery. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound. Diamonds Are Forever was a commercial success and received positive reviews, though retrospective reviews were critical of its camp tone. Locations included Las Vegas, California, and Amsterdam. The producers were inspired by Goldfinger as with that film, Guy Hamilton was hired to direct, and Shirley Bassey performed vocals on the title theme song. Broccoli tested other actors, but studio United Artists wanted Connery back, paying a then-record $1.25 million salary for him to return. and extorting the world with nuclear supremacy.Īfter George Lazenby left the series, producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Bond has to battle his enemy for one last time to stop the smuggling and stall Blofeld's plan of destroying Washington, D.C. The story has Bond impersonating a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling ring and soon uncovering a plot by his old enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld to use the diamonds to build a space-based laser weapon. The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name and is the second of four James Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. 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). Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film, the seventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. ![]()
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