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| - Diamonds Are Forever, published in 1956, is the fourth James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. The novel was adapted as the seventh official Bond film in 1971.
- After traveling the world in his quest to kill Blofeld in revenge for the murder of his wife, Tracy, superspy James Bond returns to England only to discover he has another job waiting for him. A huge amount of diamonds have been stolen from the South African mines and two Camp Gay assassins are killing everyone in the smuggling ring ladder, rung by rung. Bond infiltrates the group by managing to kill smuggler Peter Franks and poses as him in an effort to find out what is going on. He discovers that the head of the smuggling ring is none other than Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
- After the previous film, On His Majesty's Secret Service, was panned by critics, United Artists went back on its deal with George Lazenby and dropped him from his contract, giving his promised sequel to the established Bond, Sean Connery. After a worldwide search for the former 007, the producers found Connery on the streets of Edinburgh, drunk and homeless. The final addition to the cast was up-and-coming actor Jack Nicholson, whom producer Broccoli gave $10,000 to portray gay assassin Burt Saxby.
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| - After traveling the world in his quest to kill Blofeld in revenge for the murder of his wife, Tracy, superspy James Bond returns to England only to discover he has another job waiting for him. A huge amount of diamonds have been stolen from the South African mines and two Camp Gay assassins are killing everyone in the smuggling ring ladder, rung by rung. Bond infiltrates the group by managing to kill smuggler Peter Franks and poses as him in an effort to find out what is going on. He discovers that the head of the smuggling ring is none other than Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Now, Bond must survive the machinations of Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, so that he can defeat Blofeld's sinister plot. The seventh James Bond film, starring Sean Connery in his last (and least regarded) Eon series appearance. After Bond kills Blofeld in the opening sequence, he is assigned to an international diamond-smuggling case, which is later revealed to be part of a plan by the not-dead-after-all Blofeld to build a Kill Sat and hold the world hostage. Of note, Sean Connery, who was done with the series after You Only Live Twice, was lured back to playing Bond to get a massive paycheck. He used half of it to establish a charity to support deprived children in Edinburgh. Parts of the first Austin Powers movie are a direct spoof of Diamonds Are Forever, including the Las Vegas setting and the casino sequence, the miniature models displaying the reach of the villain's businesses, and the Room Disservice sneak-attack against the hero at the end of the film.
- After the previous film, On His Majesty's Secret Service, was panned by critics, United Artists went back on its deal with George Lazenby and dropped him from his contract, giving his promised sequel to the established Bond, Sean Connery. After a worldwide search for the former 007, the producers found Connery on the streets of Edinburgh, drunk and homeless. Once Connery was given his promised payment for cooperating on the film ($1,000,000 and a house in Beverly Hills), United Artists set about sorting together the rest of the cast and crew. Sacking the previous film's director, Jimmy Page, the producers turned to an old favourite: Billy Wilder, the director of Goldfinger. Now old and senile, Wilder was easily malleable to producer Albert R. Broccoli's wishes. Because Broccoli did not want to work with Donald Pleasence, the portrayer of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, again, he decided to reuse some scrapped footage from You Only Live Twice to explain away Pleasence's absence. For this film's Blofeld, however, the producers nonsensically turned to former television actor Barry Nelson, who had played Bond ally Dikko Henderson in YOLT. For this, Nelson forced United Artists to cast his dimwitted wife, Jill St. John, in the pivotal role of Tiffany Case. The final addition to the cast was up-and-coming actor Jack Nicholson, whom producer Broccoli gave $10,000 to portray gay assassin Burt Saxby. After all this was done, however, the producers suddenly realized that they had no script to film. Hurriedly turning to the Actor's Guild, they were given drunken Irishman Richard Burton. Sticking him in a dark room with Ian Fleming's novel and a stack of papers, Burton turned out a script to United Artists within three weeks.
- Diamonds Are Forever, published in 1956, is the fourth James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. The novel was adapted as the seventh official Bond film in 1971.
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