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Diamonds Are Forever
1971 · Film · 120 min
Part of James Bond Collection
Directed by Guy Hamilton
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.
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Perhaps I just feel old.. but I really, really wish they'd go back to making Bond films like Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, and the Man with the Golden Gun. No big explosions, just nice cars, suave hero, good stories, and all the spy gadgets and things many of us love.
Albert Broccoli had the formula right and IMHO we should go back.
The crowd here might find it preposterous but Kissinger dated models and movie stars. One that I remember was the actress Jill St. John who was a Bond girl in the movie Diamonds are forever. The two dated for a couple of years. Miss St. John also dated Michael Caine, Sean Connery, David Frost and Tom Selleck.
"Goldfinger", worse than the movie.
"Diamonds Are Forever" much better than the movie.
"The Spy Who Loved Me" was the shortest of Fleming's works that I read. But given that, I agree with the author of the article that many of the Bond books had serious failings.
I read "Live and Let Die" and was embarrassed for Fleming for his attempt to channel Joel Chandler Harris. A case where the film bettered the book.
"Goldfinger" has the villain actually trying to steal the gold from Fort Knox. Another case where it was better in the film.
"Diamonds Are Forever" and "Casino Royale" are the books I can say I liked the most.
To nitpick, that list has at least three British films pop up in the latter half of the 20th century (Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever and Moonraker). Relaxing to "non-Anglosphere" is still very notable though.
Aha, is this why there was a weird period in the 90s where scifi movies used satellites to reflect sun off to the ground to use as weapons (GoldenEye and the 1970s precursor, Diamonds are Forever), Batman and Robin (using satellites to heat up Mr Freeze)
You recall correctly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging
I think my introduction to these devices was one of the three Bond films they mention in the article, probably Diamonds are Forever.