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1971 film by Guy Hamilton

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*Diamonds Are Forever* is a 1971 spy and action film directed by Guy Hamilton. The screenplay was written by Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz, and Ian Fleming, based on the work *Diamonds Are Forever*. Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, and Lana Wood appear in the cast. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Q72652, with production handled by Eon Productions and United Artists. John Barry composed the music, and Ted Moore served as the director of photography.

The narrative is set in London, South Africa, and Los Angeles, while filming took place in Amsterdam, Los Angeles, California, and Germany. The movie has a runtime of 120 minutes and was released in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. It is distributed by Netflix and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound. The film’s budget was 7200000, and it earned 116019547 in revenue.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Diamonds Are Forever is referenced by 415 other articles, and connects out to Academy Award for Best Sound, European Audiovisual Observatory and list of James Bond villains.

It sits within the topics 1970s action thriller films, 1970s spy films and 1971 British films.

Its subject is documented across 52 Wikipedia language editions.

Film · TMDB

6.4

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

Released: 1971-12-14120 minDir: Guy HamiltonAction, ThrillerBudget: $7.2MBox office: $116MPart of: James Bond Collection

Cast

  • Sean Connery as James Bond
  • Jill St. John as Tiffany Case
  • Charles Gray as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
  • Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole
  • Jimmy Dean as Willard Whyte
  • Bruce Cabot as Albert R. Saxby

Themes

  • smuggling (contraband)
  • fight
  • amsterdam, netherlands
  • cat
  • spy
  • secret organization
  • moon buggy
  • satellite
  • secret agent
  • plastic surgery

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Ratings

IMDb

6.5/10

123,526 votes

Year
1971
Runtime
120 min
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
film
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English language
Main subject
terrorism
Director
Guy Hamilton
Screenwriter
Ian Fleming
Cast member
Dick Crockett
Composer
John Barry
Production company
United Artists
Cinematographer
Ted Moore
Narrative location
Los Angeles
Filming location
Las Vegas Valley
Duration
120
FilmAffinity ID
809946
Distribution format
video on demand
Image
Sean Connery as James Bond (1971).jpg
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soundtrack release
Diamonds Are Forever
Commons category
Diamonds Are Forever (film)
publication date
1971-12-30
title
Diamonds Are Forever
distributed by
Netflix
production designer
Ken Adam
after a work by
Ian Fleming
characters
Q
assessment
Bechdel test
different from
Diamonds Are Forever
review score
64%
box office
43819547
capital cost
7200000
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Encyclopedic overview

Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film and the seventh film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. 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).

The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel and is the second of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The story has Bond impersonating a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling ring and uncovering a plot by his old enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld to use the diamonds to build a space-based laser weapon. Bond sets out to stop the smuggling but discovers he must defeat Blofeld before he destroys Washington, D.C., in his plan to blackmail the world with nuclear supremacy.

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