Additional information for Diamonds Are Forever, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 17, 1971. The film is being distributed by United Artists and has not yet been rated. Diamonds Are Forever has a total running time of 120 minutes.
G
Canada
12
Iceland
16
West Germany
15
South Korea
12
Brazil
PG
New Zealand
A
UK
PG
USA
13
Argentina
M
Australia
K-16
Finland
16
Norway
14
Peru
T
Spain
15
Sweden
120min
Los diamantes son eternos
Argentina
Los diamantes son eternos
Mexico
Los diamantes son eternos
Peru
007 - Os Diamantes São Eternos
Brazil
007 - Os Diamantes São Eternos
Portugal
Ian Fleming's Diamonds Are Forever
UK
Ian Fleming's Diamonds Are Forever
USA
Les diamants sont éternels
Canada
Les diamants sont éternels
France
Ölümsüz elmaslar
Turkey
007: Diamonds Are Forever
Australia
007: Los diamantes son eternos
Mexico
Agente 007, una cascata di diamanti
Italy
Brylanty sa na zawsze
Poland
Diamanter varer evig
Norway
Diamanter varer evigt
Denmark
Diamantes para la eternidad
Spain
Diamantfeber
Sweden
Diamants per a l'eternitat
Spain
Diamenty sa wieczne
Poland
Dijamanti su vecni
Serbia
Dijamanti su vjecni
Croatia
Gyémántok az örökkévalóságnak
Hungary
James Bond 007 - Diamantenfieber
West Germany
James Bond, praktor 007: Ta diamantia einai pantotina
Greece
Timantit ovat ikuisia
Finland
December 14, 1971
West Germany
December 17, 1971
Denmark
December 17, 1971
USA
December 20, 1971
France
December 20, 1971
Spain
December 20, 1971
Sweden
December 22, 1971
Italy
December 23, 1971
Hong Kong
December 23, 1971
Netherlands
December 25, 1971
Finland
December 25, 1971
Japan
December 26, 1971
Norway
December 30, 1971
Argentina
December 30, 1971
UK
January 13, 1972
Mexico
November , 1972
Turkey
August 29, 1984
Spain
September 11, 2001
Russia
"Diamonds Are Forever"...forever...forever...forever...
Sean Connery as James Bond 007 [Australian theatrical daybill movie poster]
Bond is back...with a vengeance [British advance double crown poster ; Style D]
Bond is back...with the action [British advance double crown poster ; Style A]
BOND IS BACK - Sean Connery is BOND [British advance quad poster]
Bond is back...with the excitement [British advance double crown poster ; Style B]
Bond is back...with the girls [British advance double crown poster ; Style C]
The man who made 007 a household number
James Bond (Sean Connery) is relentlessly pursuing Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray). After interrogating several of Blofeld's associates worldwide, Bond traces him to a facility where he is surgically creating look-alikes of himself. Bond kills a test subject who is lying in a mud bath. Bond manages to drown the man, but is captured by Blofeld. After a fight, Bond kills Blofeld by throwing him into a pool of superheated mud.In a South African desert, two men, Mr. Wint (Bruce Glover) and Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith), are observing a scorpion and talking about how deadly they are. Wint dons gloves and picks up the scorpion. A man arrives on a scooter; he is a dentist who smuggles diamonds from South African mines, retrieving them from his patients who hide them in their mouths. He has come to give Wint and Kidd a small load of them. When Kidd begins moaning in pain, he claims he has a toothache. The doctor begins to examine him when Wint drops the live scorpion into his shirt, killing him. A helicopter arrives, the pilot demanding to know where the doctor is. Kidd and Wint tell the man that the doctor is sick and couldn't make it. They give the man a case, presumably containing the diamonds. As the chopper flies off, it explodes. Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd then walk off, hand-in-hand, with the diamonds.Suspecting that South African diamonds are being stockpiled to depress prices by dumping, and convinced that Blofeld is dead, M (Bernard Lee) orders Bond to go undercover as smuggler Peter Franks and unveil the smuggling ring. Meanwhile, Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd arrive in Amsterdam and systematically kill more diamond smugglers involved in the ring. Posing as Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet his contact, a shrewd American woman named Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), at her apartment where he is to pick up the diamonds. However, the real Franks shows up later that evening and tries to contact Case. Bond intercepts and kills him and sabotages the attack to make it seem like Franks is actually James Bond. Case and Bond smuggle the diamonds to Los Angeles hiding them inside Franks' corpse. They are unaware that Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are also on the same airplane traveling to Los Angeles.At the LA airport, Bond meets his CIA ally Felix Leiter (Norman Burton) and transports the body to Slumber Inc., a funeral home which is a smuggling front where Bond meets the lead undertaker Rodney (Marc Lawrence) and his assistant (Sid Haig) where the dead body of Franks is cremated and the diamonds passed onto the next smuggler, an elderly man named Shady Tree. While Bond retrieves the cash for the diamonds, he's knocked unconscious by Wint and Kidd, who put him in a coffin and trundle it into the cremation oven. Bond nearly burns alive when the coffin is opened by Tree and Mr. Slumber. Tree accuses Bond of giving them fake diamonds and Bond counters saying that they wouldn't have tried to burn him alive with the real money. Bond tells Leiter to ship the real diamonds while he relaxes at a Las Vegas hotel and casino called The Whyte House, where Tree works as a stand-up comedian. Then Bond discovers Tree has been killed by Wint and Kidd in his dressing room, who did not know that the diamonds were fake. When the casino pit boss, Mr. Saxby, and the underboss to Wint and Kidd, realizes that Tree did not have the real diamonds, he contacts his superior for further instructions.Later in the casino, Bond meets an opportunistic woman named Plenty O' Toole (Lana Wood). She cheers him on as he gambles, and, (in a deleted scene), they have dinner together. She invites herself up to his room, but after Bond undresses Plenty she is quickly thrown out to the hotel pool by the Slumber Inc. smugglers already waiting in his room, who have now come for the real diamonds. They throw the semi-nude Plenty off the balcony of Bond's 10th floor hotel room, who lands safely in the hotel's swimming pool. The Slumber Inc. smugglers then leave Bond to spend the rest of the night with Tiffany Case whom is in the bedroom waiting for him. (In another deleted scene, Plenty returns to Bond's room to retrieve her clothes. She sees Bond and Tiffany in bed together, and takes an address card from Tiffany's purse, later to show up at Tiffany's house.)Tiffany tries to get Bond to reveal the location of the real diamonds by offering to help him steal the diamonds for themselves. Bond pretends to give in and arranges for her to retrieve the diamonds at the Circus Circus Las Vegas casino. At the circus, Tiffany picks up the diamonds in a stuffed toy bear doll, unaware that she is under the surveillance of Felix Leiter and his men, but she reneges her deal with Bond and flees, shipping off the diamonds to the next smuggler. When Tiffany returns to her operation residence she finds Bond waiting for her and finds the body of Plenty, who was killed (presumibly by Wint and Kidd) when she was mistaken for Tiffany. Having survived the attempt on her life, the initially reticent Tiffany tells Bond where the diamonds are.Bond and Tiffany go to the Las Vegas airport to watch the small locker where Tiffany was instructed to leave the doll containing the diamonds. The doll is picked up by a porter who takes it to the casino pit boss, Saxby, who then drives it in a van to a local filling station where he switches drivers with another who gets in the van. Tiffany distracts the other driver of the van long enough for Bond to sneak in to follow the location of the diamonds. The van is driven outside of the city to a goverment laboratory in the desert.Posing as a lab worker, Bond enters the apparent destination of the diamonds a reseach laboratory owned by reclusive Las Vegas millionaire Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean), where he finds the driver of the van is laser refraction specialist Professor Dr. Metz (Joseph Fürst) constructing a satellite. When his cover is blown, Bond escapes from the lab by stealing a moon buggy and reunites with Tiffany. They return to the Vegas that evening where they get into another wild car chase with the local police on Vegas' famous Freemont Street and evade all the police cars.Bond and Case check into a suite in the Whyte House where Felix and his men place Tiffany under house arrest after Bond finally reveals his real idenity to her. Bond later scales the walls to the top floor of the Whyte House to confront Willard Whyte. Inside, 007 is confronted by two identical Blofelds who are posing as Whyte using an adapted telephone to mask their voice. Bond had previously killed a look-alike. Not knowing which to kill, Bond kicks Blofeld's white Persian cat into the arms of one of the pair and shoots him. However, Bond chose the wrong man, killing another look-alike.Bond is rendered unconscious and then left to die inside a pipeline by Wint and Kidd. He escapes and contacts Blofeld, posing as one of Whyte's employees and Blofeld's right-hand man, Bert Saxby. He finds out Whyte's location and rescues him, but in the meantime Blofeld escapes from the Whyte House and abducts Tiffany. With the help of Whyte and Felix, Bond returns to the goverment lab and uncovers Blofeld's plot to create a laser satellite using the diamonds, which is now already in orbit. Blofeld destroys nuclear installations in the United States, Russia, and China, then proposes an international auction for global nuclear supremacy.Bond identifies an oil rig off the coast of Baja California as Blofeld's base of operations. Arriving at the rig, he switches the cassette containing the codes which control the satellite with a music tape, giving the coded one to Tiffany who is living there as a hostage. However, trying to be helpful, she re-switches the tapes, then gets caught trying to fix her mistake and is sent down to the brig. At this point, Felix Leiter and the CIA have already begun a heavy attack on the oil-rig. Tiffany manages to escape amidst the chaos and regroup with Bond. Blofeld tries to escape on a mini-sub, but Bond gains control of it, and crashes the sub into the control room, defeating Blofeld and destroying the satellite control along with the rest of the base.Bond and Tiffany then head for home on a P&O ship Canberra, but they are unaware that Wint and Kidd also aboard. That evening, disgused as waiters, Wint and Kidd enter Bond and Tiffany's stateroom to serve them dinner and to kill them with a bomb hidden in a cake timed to go off in three minutes. Despite having never seen them face to face, Bond sees through their ploy when he recognizes the perfume-like smell of Wint's aftershave cologne after smelling it earlier in the desert pipeline where he was thrown into earlier. When Bond blows Wint's cover by tricking him into revealing his poor knowledge of wines, a fight breaks out, and Bond disposes of both of them overboard; Kidd is set on fire and Wint has the bomb tied to him after Bond discovers it. The film ends with Tiffany asking Bond how can they get all the diamonds in the orbiting laser satellite back down to Earth again which now appears as a bright spot in the night sky.
Guy Hamilton
Director(s)
Richard Maibaum
Tom Mankiewicz
Ian Fleming
Writer(s)
Albert R. Broccoli
producer
Harry Saltzman
producer
Alan Silvers
producer: Lowry Digital Images a DTS company (Pristine Digital Restoration)
Stanley Sopel
associate producer
Producer(s)
John Barry
Composer(s)
James Bond
Sean Connery
Tiffany Case
Jill St. John
Blofeld
Charles Gray
Plenty O'Toole
Lana Wood
Willard Whyte
Jimmy Dean
Saxby
Bruce Cabot
Mr. Kidd
Putter Smith
Mr. Wint
Bruce Glover
Leiter
Norman Burton
Dr. Metz (as Joseph Furst)
Joseph Fürst
'M'
Bernard Lee
'Q'
Desmond Llewelyn
Shady Tree
Leonard Barr
Moneypenny
Lois Maxwell
Mrs. Whistler
Margaret Lacey
Peter Franks
Joe Robinson
Doctor (as David De Keyser)
David de Keyser
Sir Donald Munger
Laurence Naismith
Mr. Slumber
David Bauer
Casino Player (scenes deleted)
Sammy Davis Jr.
Slumber Inc. Attendant (uncredited: in closing credits)
Sid Haig
Slumber Inc. Attendant (uncredited: in closing credits)
Marc Lawrence
Airline Representative (uncredited)
John Abineri
Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
Ray Baker
Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
Ed Bishop
Doorman (uncredited)
Nicky Blair
Water Balloon Game Barker-Operator (uncredited)
Larry J. Blake
Maxie (uncredited)
Ed Call
SPECTRE Agent (uncredited)
George Lane Cooper
Crane Operator (uncredited)
Dick Crockett
Welfare Worker (uncredited)
Catherine Deeney
Boy (uncredited)
Gary Dubin
Immigration Officer (uncredited)
Clifford Earl
Sir Donald's Secretary (uncredited)
Mark Elwes
Houseboy (uncredited)
Brinsley Forde
Aide to Metz (uncredited)
Constantine Gregory
Vandenburg Launch Director (uncredited)
David Healy
Agent (uncredited)
Karl Held
Las Vegas Sheriff (uncredited)
Roy Hollis
Moon Crater Controller (uncredited)
Bill Hutchinson
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an extortion plot headed by his nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Director(s)
Tom Mankiewicz
Ian Fleming
Writer(s)
producer
Harry Saltzman
producer
Alan Silvers
producer: Lowry Digital Images a DTS company (Pristine Digital Restoration)
Stanley Sopel
associate producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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