Diamonds Are Forever
The man who made 007 a household number.
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Country
Production
Budget
$7 200 000
Revenue
$115 819 547
Director
Actors
Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Putter Smith, Bruce Glover, Norman Burton, Joseph Fürst
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Ted Moore
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Bert Bates, John W. Holmes
All team (50)
All team (50)
Short description
Diamonds Are Forever follows James Bond as he investigates a large-scale diamond smuggling operation. The missing stones are not reaching the international market as expected, and Bond's inquiries lead him to Amsterdam, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and eventually to his recurring adversary Ernst Stavro Blofeld. A diamond smuggler named Tiffany Case becomes caught up in the case, while Bond assumes another man's identity to work his way into the network.
Guy Hamilton directed the film, the seventh of the thirteen features he directed in chronological order, arriving between Battle of Britain and Live and Let Die. Sean Connery returns as Bond, with Jill St. John as Tiffany Case and Charles Gray as Blofeld. Tom Mankiewicz and Richard Maibaum wrote the screenplay, and Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman produced. The large credited cast and crew reflect the scale of the production, which was made for about 7 million dollars and returned roughly 116 million dollars worldwide, a strong result for its time.
Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb the film holds 6.5 out of 10 from around 122,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 out of 10 from about 2,400 votes. A critics' rating of 6.1 out of 10 from 53 reviews places professional opinion close to the audience scores, with neither group rating it among the highest-regarded entries in the series.
What's left behind the scenes
- Actor Bruce Glover (Mr. Wint) is the father of Crispin Glover, who played George McFly – Marty McFly's father – in the first film of Robert Zemeckis' trilogy 'Back to the Future'.
- Bond drives past the Golden Nugget hotel on Las Vegas Boulevard more than six times in a single scene.
- The Moon Buggy was designed by Ken Adam – the creator of most of the props in the Bond films. In 2004, the Moon Buggy, fully restored by its previous owner, Graham Rye, the editor-in-chief of "007 Magazine," was sold for $46,337 to the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.
- Interestingly, cars for almost all Bond films were custom-made. Only this 'Ford' was a standard production vehicle. According to the plot, it belonged to the film's main heroine – Tiffany Case, and agent 007 was initially just a passenger. But then, during a breathtaking chase through the streets of Las Vegas, he took the wheel. By the way, to film the chase through the streets of Las Vegas, Albert R. Broccoli, who had many influential friends in the city, persuaded the authorities to close traffic in the center for three nights!
- In the opening scene of the film, when James Bond falls to the floor, dirt gets on his clothes. However, when Bond gets up, his jacket looks perfectly clean.
- Under the contract Sean Connery signed with United Artists for the film "Diamonds Are Forever," the studio was obligated to finance two films of his choosing. The first was "The Offence." The next was to be "Macbeth." However, due to the poor performance of "The Offence" and the resulting losses for the studio, the film version of "Macbeth" starring Connery was cancelled.
- In "Diamonds Are Forever," Bond emerges from the ocean onto Blofeld's oil rig, stepping inside a floating sphere. Today, a company in New Zealand produces numerous variations of this type of transport called Zorb.
- During the filming of the pool scene, where Lana Wood's character (Plenty O'Toole) was killed, the rope attached to the actress's feet was secured in such a way that she could lift her head out of the water and breathe between takes. However, like most pools, this one also had a sloping bottom, and the weight to which the actress's feet were tied gradually slid into deeper water. Lana Wood was unable to lift her head out of the water. Fortunately, the film crew's lifeguards noticed this in time and dived into the water to untie the actress's feet.
- Raquel Welch, Jane Fonda, and Faye Dunaway were considered for the role of Tiffany Case. However, Jill St. John ultimately landed the part. She was the first American woman to be a Bond girl.
- The owner of the "Circus! Circus!" casino starred as the mad scientist with the large ape.
- The last scene filmed with Sean Connery as James Bond in the official Bond series was the episode in the coffin.
- To drive through the narrow gap between two buildings, Bond tilts his 'Ford Mustang Mach 1' to the right, but the car emerges from the gap tilted to the left. This happened because this episode was filmed at three different studios by different crews: the entrance to the dead-end alley was filmed at Universal Studios (Southern California), the exit on the streets of Las Vegas, and the interior at Pinewood Studios (England). Hence the famous blooper. On the DVD (Special Edition) of this film, you can find a take where the Ford Mustang exits correctly, on its right wheels, but a large crowd of onlookers is visible in the background, making this take unusable.
- In the screenplay, Mr. Wint kills the dentist by shoving a scorpion into his mouth.
- Initially, there was an idea to make the twin brother of Auric Goldfinger (“Goldfinger”, 1964) the main villain of the film.
- Actor Charles Gray (Blofeld) played Henderson in the film "You Only Live Twice" (1967).
- A scene featuring Bert Saxby (the casino manager) discussing a contract with Sam Davis Jr., a popular Black comedian at the time, did not make it into the film. His photograph can be seen next to a photograph of Shady Tree in a magazine that Bond is flipping through while lying in the bath in his apartment.
- Due to Sean Connery's large fee, the film's special effects budget was significantly reduced.
- During the chase after the moon buggy, a wheel fell off. We see it rolling in the frame. In the next scene, the wheel is back in place.
- The image of Willard Whyte, the reclusive billionaire living in one of the Las Vegas hotels, was largely based on Howard Hughes, who, incidentally, personally approved the film's screenplay.
- During some scenes with Sean Connery, actress Lana Wood (Plenty O'Toole) had to stand on a stool to fit in the frame with him. She was too short.
- The film’s title quotes the slogan from a famous 1946 De Beers advertising campaign.
- Bambi and Thumper are characters from the Disney animated film “Bambi.” Bambi is a fawn, and Thumper is a rabbit.
- Actress Lana Wood (Plenty O'Toole) is the sister of the famous Hollywood actress Natalie Wood. (Incidentally, she is the daughter of Russian immigrants.) Initially, Jill St. John was planned for the role of Plenty. Ultimately, Jill St. John played the main female role – the smuggler Tiffany Case.
- Sean Connery donated his $1,200,000 fee for the film "Diamonds Are Forever" to the Scottish International Education Fund. In addition to this, Connery received 12.5% of the film's box office revenue as part of his contract.
- Actor Shane Rimmer (head of security at Willard White’s space lab, named Tom) played Captain Carter in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and appeared at the very beginning of "You Only Live Twice" as one of the employees of the American space flight control center.
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