Diamonds Are Forever 1971 123movies

Watch: Diamonds Are Forever 1971 123movies, Full Movie Online – James Bond’s mission is to find out who has been smuggling diamonds, which are not re-appearing. He adopts another identity in the form of Peter Franks. He joins up with Tiffany Case, and acts as if he is smuggling the diamonds, but everyone is hungry for these diamonds. He also has to avoid Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, the dangerous couple who do not leave anyone in their way. Ernst Stavro Blofeld isn’t out of the question. He may have changed his looks, but is he linked with the heist? And if he is, can Bond finally defeat his ultimate enemy..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 107,612
	63% | RottenTomatoes
	59/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1699 Popularity: 25.826 | TMDB

Reviews:

Not one of my favourite Bond films by a country mile but still so much fun. The recent complete-James-Bond-on-blu boxed set that was released has been my ONLY time seeing Sean Connery’s last ‘official’ outing as 007 not edited for television and full screen, so it’s basically my first-time REALLY seeing it. Decent. Even at his worst, horribly toupeed, and albatrossed with a script that’s simply OUCH, it still oozes and smashes from the fact Connery’s still the best Bond ever.

_**The series gets silly as James Bond goes to Las Vegas**_

Agent 007 (Sean Connery) is sent to Las Vegas to uncover a smuggling ring and suspects Blofeld (Charles Gray) is masterminding the nefarious operation; meanwhile a gay duo of assassins threatens the investigation. Jill St. John plays a smuggling contact while Lana Wood is on hand as a casino opportunist.

“Diamonds are Forever” (1971) marks Connery’s return to the series after four years absence and missing out on the previous movie featuring George Lazenby. This one’s entertaining throughout, but it introduced a silly, cartoonish element more glaring than anything up to this point. Then there’s the fact that the storyline is almost impossible to follow unlike the previous installments which were easy to grasp, like “Dr. No,” “Goldfinger,” “Thunderball” and “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” You just have to kick back and enjoy the madness of it all.

Beautiful Lana Wood stands out on the female front, but her role is too brief (her apparel too, lol). Meanwhile Jill St. John is lots of fun, not to mention alluring.

Needless to say, Vegas makes for a great setting for a James Bond flick. There are neon lights, highrise hotels, casinos, swimming pools, deserts, circuses, showgirls, tourists and thrills galore.

The film runs 2 hours and was shot in Las Vegas & the Nevada desert; Netherlands; Pinewood Studios near London; Palm Springs, Ca (Willard Whyte’s Desert House); French Riviera, France (pre-credits sequence); and the Pacific Ocean.

GRADE: B-

“Oh, providing the collars and cuffs match…”
Diamonds Are Forever is often described as a Roger Moore film starring Sean Connery, but it goes even farther than that. Whereas Moore ushered in ironic/silly codings, Diamonds contains the most overtly camp humour the series ever indulged in. The film also contains the most amount of nudity, and arguably the rudest jokes of the franchise. The title quote is Connery’s quip to a girl with ever-changing wigs, while later we get the immortal “I’m afraid you’ve caught me with more than my hands up.”

There’s the sense of the odd, or uneasy, about this one all the way through. From the theme title (and what a great song!) precipitated by a cat’s cry to the homosexual henchmen Mr.Wynt and Mr. Kidd. Their unnerving air is not the result of their gay, slightly homophobic, portrayal, but in Putter Smith’s performance as Kidd. Not a trained actor, but an accomplished jazz bassist, this off-kilter playing creates an unconscious, unsettling atmosphere.

It’s this juxtaposition which compels throughout. Like seeing Britain’s top espionage agent doing the childhood “snogging with yourself” routine then smashing a man’s head through a window just seconds later. It’s a superficially lightweight film, but with a nasty, almost bitter undercurrent. Connery’s obvious resistance to the role actually serves it well here, given that this is the first post-wife Bond movie. Bernard Lee plays an unusually terse M to complement this abrasive 007. Such a starch display cuts through the smug underpinnings of the character and makes the cheesy one-liners more palatable. He looks older than in any of his other Bond films – Never Say Never Again included – but this also fits his anguished, bereaved state. In line with this most misogynistic of Bond pictures, Jill St. John’s character development passes from intelligent, through to devious and down into simpering bimbo.

Incidental music is a bit disattached, and often feels like it belongs to another film. It works against, rather than with, the picture it’s there to support. Yet although not quite the best of the series, this and the following Live and Let Die are the most distinctive in look, feel and style. They’re light, pacy, poppish takes on the format, full of comicbook verve and wit. Guy Hamilton’s direction is also very good; making the most of the LA location with use of expansive aerial shots.

The plot seems fairly complex, though maybe that’s because it’s underdeveloped and submerged beneath slightly irrelevant setpieces. I had to smile at the line “Get him off that machine, that isn’t a toy” as Sean boards the moonbuggy. I remember after the film it became one, a primary-coloured Dinky version with a spinning radar. Brings back memories, that.

Blofeld, who has now taken up cloning and cross-dressing, is played here by Charles Gray. Although at the time it was four years before he would become the criminologist in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the two are now inseparable, in my mind at least. As if this wasn’t enough high camp to go round, there’s also Connery being demolished by Bambi and Thumper, a couple of sadistic female gymnasts.

If something about this quirky, offbeat Bond (and some sources list it as the seventh least successful in terms of gross) doesn’t quite gel, then it greatly improves on repeat viewings.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr (120 min), 1 hr 41 min (101 min) (France)
Budget 7200000
Revenue 116019547
Status Released
Rated GP
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director Guy Hamilton
Writer Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz, Ian Fleming
Actors Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray
Country United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Surround 7.1, Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35-IIA, Panavision C-Series Lenses, Panavision PSR R-200, Panavision C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK (colour)
Film Length 3,290 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Technicolor Dye Transfer prints), 35 mm