Diamnonds are Forever

1971/Genre, MPAA Rating, 2Discs/3:40:36
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Crew: Directors and cast members (includes IMDB links)
Details: (Netflix summary)
Content:
Disc 1 - Theatrical Version 2:00:05
- Commentary Featuring Director Guy Hamilton & Members of the Cast & Crew
Disc 2 - Extras 1:40:31
- Sean Connery 1971 BBC Interview 5:12
- Lesson #007 Close Quarter Combat 4:36
- Oil Rig Attack Deleted Footage 2:21
- Satellite Test Reel 1:55
- Explosions Test 1:53
- 5 Alternate & Expanded Angles
- Deleted Scenes (7:37): 1. Sammy Davis Jr 1:06, 2. Killing Shady Tree :50, 3. Dinner with Plenty 1:17, 4. Plenty Returns :50, 5. Through the Alley Again :57, 6. Mr & Mrs Jones 2:33
- Inside Diamonds Are Forever 30:40
- Cubby Broccoli The Man Behind Bond 41:22
- Theatrical Archives (4:55): 1. Christmas Teaser 1:07, 2. Theatrical Trailer 3:47
- TV Broadcasts (): 1. Newest Greatest 1:01, 2. From the Diamond Fields :31, 3. Sean Connery is Back :31, 4. As James Bond :31, 5. Women are Still Falling 1:02
- Radio Communications (): 1. Only One Man :59, 2. Sean Connery as James Bond :30, 3. Only One Man Would Drive :31
- 87 Image Database (Slideshow) Includes: 1. Introduction (0), 2. Sean Connery (6), 3. Jill St John (4), 4. Charles Gray (3), 5. Lana Wood (2), 6. Supporting Players (10), 7. Diamond Settings (15), 8. Diamond Glamor (16), 9. Behind the Scenes (10), 10. Where is Blofeld ?! (5), 11. 007 on the Moon (4), 12. On Location (10), 13. Titles (2)
Eggs: (Eeggs, Eggs, DVD Town)
Musical Highlights: Shirley Bassey-Diamonds Are Forever
Factoids: (IMDB, Mistakes, BondMovies, Wiki) Mi6
1. The original plot had Gert Fröbe returning as Auric Goldfinger's twin from Goldfinger (1964) seeking revenge for the death of his brother.
2. The death of Bond's wife Tracy was originally planned for the opening sequence of this film, but was later added to the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) to "tidy up loose ends".
3. Bond's escape through a moon landing "movie set" refers to the popular conspiracy theory of the time that the real moon landings were faked.
4. First Bond film to feature adult language (words like "bastard" and "Goddamn"), and the last to use it in any major sense until Licence to Kill (1989). The expletives "God damn" and "bitch" are heard in dialogue, marking the first use of adult language in a Bond film (previous films never used words stronger than "damn" or "hell"). The film still retained its PG rating in the USA, though.
5. Albert R. Broccoli hated the line "Alimentary, Dr. Leiter," which Bond says when asked the location of the diamonds in Peter Franks's body. He thought no one would understand it referred to digestion. At the film's premiere, two people in the front row burst out laughing at the line, and Broccoli quipped, "Big deal, they're doctors."
6. Richard Maibaum's original idea for the ending was a giant boat chase across Lake Mead with Blofeld being pursued by Bond and all the Las Vegas casino owners who would be sailing in their private yachts, which, apparently, would include mock-ups of a Roman galley, a Chinese junk, etc. Bond would rouse the allies into action with a spoof of Lord Nelson's famous cry, "Las Vegas expects every man to do his duty." Alas, Maibaum was misinformed; there were no Roman galleys or Chinese junks in Las Vegas, and the idea was too expensive to replicate, so it was dropped. Maibaum may have thought the eventual oil rig finale a poor substitute, but it was originally intended to be much more spectacular. Armed frogmen would jump from the helicopters into the sea and attach limpet mines to the rig's legs (this explains why frogmen appear on the movie's poster). Blofeld would have escaped in his BathoSub and Bond would have pursued him hanging from a weather balloon. The chase would have then continued across a salt mine with the two mortal enemies scrambling over the pure white hills of salt before Blofeld would fall to his death in a salt granulator. Permission was not granted by the owners of the salt mine, and it also made the sequence too long. The sequence resurfaced in the next film, Live and Let Die. Further problems followed when the explosives set up for the finale were set off too early; fortunately, a handful of cameras were ready and able to capture the footage.
7. Blofeld points out for Bond a moving dot of light on a globe: his laser satellite's position over the U.S. But the dot moves over the map at a scale speed of 20 or 30 miles per second or faster - far quicker than the practical orbital speed of about 5 mi. per second. In a later scene, as the satellite nears Washington D.C., the dot moves at a normal rate.
8. At the circus the announcer says that the transforming woman was captured near Nairobi, South Africa: but Nairobi is in Kenya.
9. You cannot make a laser out of diamonds. Even if you could, you could not make a laser out of multiple gem-quality stones; ruby lasers, for instance, are made from a single flawless rod of artificially-grown ruby. The first functional laser device, which was constructed by Theodore Maiman, used a ruby rod.
10. During one sequence, the namplate on the desk of Burt Saxby says "Albert R. Saxby" - a "joke" from the crew of the movie.
11. In the scene were Bond is taking a bath in his casino suite, Sammy Davis Jr. is on the cover of the magazine 007 is reading.
12. In the previous film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Blofeld is clearly described as a scientist. Here, however, he claims that "science was never my strong point!"
Comments: B. The Ultimate Collectors Edition adds 23:34 new material to approximately 1:16:57 of older material.