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| Action/Suspense movie, British,1971, United Artists Made by Eon production Ltd. Featuring 'James Bond' Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman Directed by Guy Hamilton Music by John Barry Title song sung by Shirley Bassey James Bond theme by Monty Norman Original story from the novel by Ian Fleming (written in 1954) |
CAST Sean Connery as James Bond, 007 Jill St. John as Tiffany Case Charles Gray as Ernst Blofeld Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole Jimmy Dean as Willard Whyte Norman Burton as Felix Leiter Bernard Lee as M Desmond Llewelyn as Q Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny Joe Robinson as Peter Franks Ed Bishop as Klaus Hergersheimer |
Large shipments of uncut diamonds are disappearing and fail
to show up on any black (or even legitimate) market anywhere. The British Government
suspect one man and his organisation is responsible, and that this person is hanging
on to the diamonds to drive up their price.
They send James Bond 007 to the Netherlands posing as a diamond smuggler in order
to find out where the gems disappear to. From there James Bond travels to the States
with the diamonds, passing them on to the next link in the smuggling chain.
Bond follows the diamonds to the HQ of the diamond smugglers in an underground desert
hide-out. He succeeds in entering this installation by following Klaus Hergersheimer
(played by Ed Bishop) in, whose function it is to check the 'radiation shields' -
Klaus even gives a badge to Bond, assuming Bond is a part of the organisation. This
badge allows Klaus - and now Bond too - to walk around the installation.
Any James Bond movie is always a pleasure to watch. Ed Bishop plays a minor part in this movie, he only has a few lines. Still, without him Bond might never have gotten in this secret installation undetected, and the plan of Ernst Stavro Blofield, Bond's old adversary, might have succeeded.
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When James Bond leaves the area, Klaus enters to check
the radiation shields, but every body looks at him curiously and he doesn't understand
why. What he doesn't know is that James Bond just past himself as Klaus minutes ago!!
Very good acting from our dear Ed.
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Images section by Nathalie Audet, Canada (naudet@francomedia.qc.ca)
Summary by Lieve Peten, Belgium (shado@gmx.net), both members of the Fab-Ufo List
