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Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Director: Guy Hamilton
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Apart from a clumsy climax, a wry and exhilarating bit of entertainment. The film's virtues stem mainly from a sense of self-parody, an intelligent script, the deft handling of the Las Vegas locations, and the presence of Jill St John instead of the usual array of pneumatic androids that super-bureaucrat Bond preys upon. Although the Bond films have succeeded in referring only to themselves, Diamonds achieves somewhat of a breakthrough by being set in a kind of socio-political reality: the Howard Hughes-type recluse in his Vegas empire; the implications of the nuclear blackmail game; the peculiarly Californian obsession with mortuaries; right down to the fey but villainous homosexuals and the pair of beautiful killer-karate female bodyguards who initiate 007 into contemporary femininity. On the debit side, the plot is about as watertight as a sieve, and the unwillingness of Bond's enemies to fill him with lead - instead opting for elaborate and ludicrous devices from which he escapes far too easily - has become tiresome.Author: PG
Cast & crew
Director: Guy Hamilton
Producer: Harry Saltzman, Albert R Broccoli
Cast: Sean Connery, Jill St John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Joseph Furst full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 120 mins
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