Wednesday, February 23, 2011

James Bond Collections - Diamonds Are Forever (1971-Sean Connery)

In the pre-title sequence, James Bond is pursuing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, determined to avenge the murder of his wife Tracy di Vicenzo, which happened in the close of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. After interrogating several of Blofeld's associates worldwide, Bond traces him to an Egyptian facility where he is surgically creating look-alikes. Bond kills a test subject, but is captured by the 'real' Blofeld. After a brief fight, Bond overpowers and believes that he has finally killed Blofeld by drowning him in the pool of superheated mud.
Suspecting that South African diamonds may be being stockpiled to depress prices by dumping, and convinced that Blofeld is now dead, M orders Bond to go undercover as smuggler Peter Franks and uncover the smuggling ring. Meanwhile, Blofeld's henchmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd systematically kill several diamond smugglers involved in the ring. Posing as Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet Frank's contact, Tiffany Case. The real Franks shows up to contact Case, but Bond intercepts and kills him and switches IDs to make it seem like Franks is James Bond. Case and Bond then smuggle the diamonds to Los Angeles, hiding them inside Franks' corpse.
At the airport Bond meets his CIA ally Felix Leiter and transports the body to Slumber Inc., a funeral home, where the body is cremated and the diamonds passed onto the next smuggler, Shady Tree. Bond (still posing as Franks) collects his $50,000 fee for smuggling the diamonds but concludes that the money is counterfeit after Wint and Kidd try to assassinate him and destroy the fake money in a cremation furnace. When Tree and Slumber find that the diamonds in Franks' body were fakes (planted by Bond and the CIA), they save Bond from incineration and demand that Bond delivers the real diamonds in return for the real $50,000.
Bond tells Leiter to ship the real diamonds while he relaxes in Las Vegas at the Whyte House, a casino-hotel owned by the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte, where Tree works as a stand-up comedian. There, Bond discovers Tree has been killed by Wint and Kidd, who do not know that the diamonds were fake.
Bond goes to the craps table in the Whyte House casino, where meets an opportunistic woman named Plenty O' Toole, and deliberately shows Whyte's assistant Bert Saxby the Slumber envelope containing the fake $50,000 to use as collateral for gambling. At the table, Bond "wins" $50,000 at the craps table - the perfect way for the real payout for the diamond smuggling to be laundered - and brings O'Toole to his room, but she is thrown out the window by Slumber Inc. smugglers already waiting in his room. After they leave, Bond spends the rest of the night with Tiffany Case. 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 casino, Tiffany picks up the diamonds, unaware that she is under the surveillance of Leiter and his men, but she reneges her deal with Bond and flees, passing off the diamonds to the next smuggler. When Tiffany returns to her operation residence, Bond is waiting for her, and O'Toole's body is on her swimming pool - she was killed after being mistaken for Tiffany. The initially reticent Tiffany tells Bond where the diamonds are. Bond and Tiffany go to the airport, where the diamonds are given to Saxby, who drives off in a van. At a local filling station, Saxby switches cars with another man who takes the van with the diamonds. Tiffany causes a distraction which allows Bond to sneak on the van which drives to a remote facility outside the city.
Posing as a lab worker, Bond enters the apparent destination of the diamonds – a research laboratory owned by Willard Whyte, where he finds the other man, who is laser refraction specialist Professor Dr. Metz constructing a satellite. When his cover is blown by the real lab worker he impersonated, Bond escapes by stealing first a moon buggy and then an ATV, and reunites with Tiffany in a car chase through the streets of Las Vegas with security and the local police.
They return to the Whyte House - Bond by this time has revealed his true identity to Tiffany, and later scales the walls to the top floor to confront Willard Whyte. Inside, 007 is instead confronted by two identical Blofelds who used an adapted telephone to mask their voice to pose as Whyte. Bond kills one of the Blofelds, but it turns out to be a look-alike. Bond is then knocked out and left in a pipeline to die.
After Bond escapes, he calls Blofeld posing as Saxby. He finds out Whyte's location and rescues him, but in the meantime Blofeld abducts Case. With the help of Whyte, Bond raids the lab and uncovers Blofeld's plot to create a laser satellite using the diamonds, which by now is already in orbit. Blofeld destroys nuclear weapons in the United States, Soviet Union, and China, then proposes an international auction for global nuclear supremacy.
Whyte identifies an oil rig off the coast of Baja California as Blofeld's base of operations. Arriving at the rig, Bond 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. Trying to be helpful, she re-switches the tapes, gets caught trying to fix her mistake and is sent to join Bond in the brig. At this point, Leiter and the CIA have already begun a helicopter 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 the P&O ship Canberra. Wint and Kidd, disguised as waiters, attempt to kill them again, but Bond sees through their ploy, and disposes of them overboard. The film ends with Tiffany asking Bond how they can get the diamonds from the laser satellite down to Earth again as they see a bright speck in the night sky as the satellite continues to drift in orbit.

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