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James Bond Special Edition 07 - Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Pierce Brosnan
Norman Burton Felix Leiter
Normann Burton
Bruce Cabot Albert R. Saxby
Sean Connery James Bond
Jimmy Dean Willard Whyte
Joseph Fürst Prof. Dr. Metz (as Joseph Furst)
Bruce Glover Mr. Wint
Charles Gray Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Bernard Lee M
Desmond Llewellyn
Lois Maxwell Miss Moneypenny
Roger Moore
Putter Smith Mr. Kidd
Jill St. John Tiffany Case
Lana Wood Plenty O'Toole
Movie Details
Genre Action; Adventure
Director Guy Hamilton
Producer Albert R. Broccoli; Harry Saltzman
Writer Richard Maibaum; Tom Mankiewicz; Ian Fleming
Cinematography Ted Moore
Composer John Barry
Studio MGM/UA
Language English
Audience Rating PG (Parental Guidance)
Running Time 2 hr 5 mins
Country UK
Color Color
IMDb Rating 6.7
Plot
Sean Connery casts a long shadow over the James Bond legacy. He created the movie persona and starred in six of the first seven features, all but establishing the cool cold warrior as the world's most suave secret agent. The second Bond collection celebrates the Connery Bond with three of his classics, including From Russia with Love, 007's second and perhaps finest outing. A blond, buff Robert Shaw plays Bond's most ruthless nemesis, and Lotte Lenya and the great Pedro Armindáriz costar in this sleek, high-energy trip through the Iron Curtain. Connery travels to the Far East in You Only Live Twice, which introduces the international criminal conspiracy SPECTRE and its cat-loving mastermind, Blofeld (Donald Pleasence). After a brief retirement, Connery returned for Diamonds Are Forever, his final "official" appearance in the Bond series (15 years later he played Bond for a rival studio's Never Say Never Again). This more tongue-in-cheek adventure takes 007 to Las Vegas, where he battles Blofeld (this time played by Charles Gray) and his minions--namely, a pair of fey, sardonic henchmen and a team of bikini-clad karate killers.

Roger Moore took over the role and his fourth effort was Moonraker, a misguided sci-fi entry that takes Bond to space for a physically impressive but dramatically lackluster adventure with Richard Kiel's steel-dentured Jaws. After that brief digression, For Your Eyes Only returned Bond to globetrotting high adventure and teamed him with his most endearing ally (Topol as a gregarious smuggler). The torch was passed to Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights, an attempt to clear away the camp elements of Moore's portrayal and return to a lean, hard-edged spy thriller for the post-cold war era. It lacks the larger-than-life characters and spectacle of previous Bond pictures, but Dalton was a tough, ruthless 007 and a worthy inheritor of the legacy, which was then passed on to Pierce Brosnan. In The World Is Not Enough, Bond takes on post-Soviet geopolitics, with Robert Carlyle as the villainous Renard and Sophie Marceau and Denise Richards as love objects.

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Collection Status In Collection
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Product Details
Edition Special Edition
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1)
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
UPC (Barcode) 027616853929
Chapters 32
Release Date 10/17/2000
Subtitles English (Closed Captioned); French; Spanish
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Mono [English]
Nr of Disks/Tapes 7
Extra Features
Cast Interviews Deleted Scenes Director's Commentary Scene Selection Theatrical Trailers TV Spots