A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total
Joseph Fürst
- Dr Metz
- (as Joseph Furst)
David de Keyser
- Doctor
- (as David De Keyser)
- Director
- Writers
- Richard Maibaum
- Tom Mankiewicz
- Ian Fleming(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring a late 1990s airing of the movie on TBS' "Dinner and A Movie", Bruce Glover recalled that while filming their scenes together, he and Putter Smith had Sir Sean Connery convinced that the two were actually openly homosexual. Glover added that a few years later, while on an airline flight, he was flirting with a stewardess when he suddenly heard a male Scottish-accented voice saying, "You son of a bitch". Glover turned around and saw that the man was Connery.
- GoofsDuring the lunar rover chase scene at 1:01:45, the camera follows the rover going down a ravine while a pursuing car flips and rolls down the slope. When the car stops at the bottom of the hill, one of the moon buggy's wheels, not the car's, rolls into the foreground. In the next shot, Bond is still driving the rover with all of its wheels attached.
- Quotes
Slumber Inc. Attendant: The stiff, ehm, the deceased back there... Your brother, Mr. Franks?
James Bond: Yes, it was.
Slumber Inc. Attendant: I got a brudder.
James Bond: Small world.
- Crazy creditsTHE END of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER James Bond will return in LIVE AND LET DIE
- Alternate versionsThe 1982 RCA Videodisc release in the U.S. omits the film's closing title screen that indicates that James Bond will return in "Live and Let Die", instead fading out at the end of the closing credit scroll.
- ConnectionsEdited into Stealth Fighter (1999)
Featured review
First of the goofy Bond movies
This is a tongue in cheek Bond movie and the first that drifts well into comedy at times. Previous Bond movies had some jokes in it but not quite like this. Diamonds Are Forever starts the trend with comedy that Moore's movies would carry on with. The humor peaked with Octopussy which is alot of fun for a Bond movie. It hasn't quite been as fun as that or this movie since. Given the direction of the franchise, they might as well go back to comedy.
Diamonds Are Forever has an interesting plot which strangely mirrors reality. Blofeld's plan to destroy nuclear weapons with a laser mounted on a satellite sounds alot like the Strategic Defense Initiative or Star Wars as the media coined it during the Reagan era. Only difference is the motive behind the use of the satellite. They also parodied Howard Hughes and the moon landing hoaxers. Who ever said conspiracy theories couldn't be good comedy?
This is a decent Bond movie that doesn't take itself so seriously which is probably why movies like this are beginning to age so well. Bond movies now go overboard (overbored is more like) with the drama which is making them heavy handed.
Every character is a little jokey. Even Charles Gray's Blofeld has a comedy line or two.
Diamonds Are Forever has an interesting plot which strangely mirrors reality. Blofeld's plan to destroy nuclear weapons with a laser mounted on a satellite sounds alot like the Strategic Defense Initiative or Star Wars as the media coined it during the Reagan era. Only difference is the motive behind the use of the satellite. They also parodied Howard Hughes and the moon landing hoaxers. Who ever said conspiracy theories couldn't be good comedy?
This is a decent Bond movie that doesn't take itself so seriously which is probably why movies like this are beginning to age so well. Bond movies now go overboard (overbored is more like) with the drama which is making them heavy handed.
Every character is a little jokey. Even Charles Gray's Blofeld has a comedy line or two.
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- vonnoosh
- Mar 23, 2023
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- Release date
- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Ian Fleming's Diamonds Are Forever
- Filming locations
- 3rd Floor, Reguliersgracht 36, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands(Tiffany Case's Dutch Apartment)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $7,200,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $43,819,547
- Gross worldwide
- $43,830,091
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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