Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11685 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-17
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, English, Danish, Swedish, Hindi
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 120 minutes

Special Features
THE ULTIMATE EDITION CONTAINS: NEVER BEFORE RELEASED ON DVD:

NEVER BEFORE RELEASED ON DVD: DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Deleted Scenes • Sean Connery 1971: The BBC Interview Lesson # 007: Close Quarter Combat Deleted Footage - Oil Rig Attack • Satellite & Explosions Test Reel Alternate & Expanded Angles 007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of Diamonds Are Forever THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER Audio Commentary Featuring Director Guy Hamilton and Members of the Cast and Crew • Inside Diamonds Are Forever Cubby Broccoli - The Man Behind Bond MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery & Radio Communications

Synopsis
Superspy James Bond (Sean Connery) gets tangled up in the wild world of international diamond smuggling. However, the mission is not quite as simple as it seems. In DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, Bond's chase of the jewel thieves leads him to conspirators with plans for unleashing a nuclear armageddon on an unsuspecting planet. The majority of the action takes place on the gaudy, glittering streets of Las Vegas, as Bond negotiates the grotesque terrain with his customary aplomb and fancy mechanical gadgets. As always, he manages to dally with several sexy bombshells along the way, including the wonderful Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole. Connery is as suave and entertaining as ever, taking on the menacing Charles Gray, who is trying his hand at playing Bond's archenemy, Blofeld. Digitally restored.

Customer Reviews

Bond and Vegas are a perfect match
Diamonds Are Forever saw the welcome return of Sean Connery as 007. This was his 6th and final (official) outing in the role. Based on some elements of the original Ian Fleming novel, Bond follows a diamond smuggling 'pipeline' and goes from Amsterdam to Las Vegas, and then on to the finale on an oil rig off the coast of Southern California.

The film is rather offbeat in nature compared to more 'serious' spy stories such as 'From Russia With Love'. Still, Diamonds Are Forever, as well as having a great title song, has its classic moments, such as: the fight in the Amsterdam lift with Peter Franks, the crematorium scene, Bambi and Thumper, moutaineering up a Vegas hotel, the moon buggy chase and, of course, the leftfield (but sinisterly effective) bad guys in Mr. Kydd and Mr. Wint.

Some of the Bond purists may not appreciate this film, but for me, it's still a solid Bond movie with the usual features (glamour girl, quips, car chases, grand locations etc).

more S.T.E.N.C.H. than S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
THIS film lost out [in the 1971 UK box-office returns] to the big-screen version of LWT's ' ON THE BUSES'.....and if that doesn't tell you all you need to know about the pulling-power of this lamest of BOND entries....well, I don't know what does.

I saw this when it was released on the big screen, and the media 'blitz' that surrounded it's arrival was phenomenal........this is, in all probability, THE biggest let-down [certainly in the BOND franchize]of any mass-marketed film.

The 'plot' is a haphazard, muddled shambles [i.e. a scene of BOND trapped in a coffin about to be incinerated ends abruptly, and without proper explanation of how he is saved]; this, coupled with uneven, mis-matched 'set-pieces',[ a 'movie set' moon base; about as 'real' as anything else within the stilted, lifeless script]-----diluted even further by a fey, listlessly effeminate CHARLES GRAY hopelessly squandered in a laughably non-menacing role,-----all sum up the cretinous, banal non-entertainment that encapsulates this sorry mess.

GOOD POINTS: CONNERY reportedly donated his [then-high] 1 M dollar fee to a Scottish trust, so some good did come out of it.

look out for an aged BRUCE CABOT [FAY WRAY'S love interest--other than the giant ape---in the 1933 'KING KONG'].

If you DO insist on collecting the entire BOND canon on a film-by-film basis, I suggest that you leave this trite, irritating morrass of half-digested non-ideas til last to be collected: it is almost ENTIRELY [at least JILL St JOHN looks nice] a total waste of yours--or anyone else's--time.

only SHIRLEY BASSEY'S evocative, era-defining theme standard is of any true merit.

Connery and Hamilton return with one of the better Bond movies
When George Lazenby turned down the offer to continue as James Bond, Sean Connery was brought back for one last movie before Roger Moore took over. They also brought back "Goldfinger" director Guy Hamilton. "Diamonds Are Forever" is set mostly in Las Vegas and Bond once again fights Blofeld (this time played by Charles Gray). The running time is back at an even two hours, and it doesn't suffer from an uneven pace as "Thunderball" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" did. The story is good and the movie has two of the Bond series' best henchmen, Mr Kidd and Mr Wint. In my opinion, this is one of the best Bond movies after "Goldfinger" and before "The Spy who Loved Me".