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| Diamonds Are Forever | |
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| British cinema poster for Diamonds Are Forever, designed by Robert McGinnis | |
| Directed by | Guy Hamilton |
| Produced by | Harry Saltzman Albert R. Broccoli |
| Screenplay by | Richard Maibaum Tom Mankiewicz |
| Based on | Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming |
| Starring | Sean Connery Jill St. John Charles Gray Lana Wood Jimmy Dean Bruce Cabot |
| Music by | John Barry |
| Cinematography | Ted Moore |
| Edited by | Bert Bates John Holmes |
| Production company | Eon Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date | 14 December 1971(West Germany)17 December 1971 (USA premiere)30 December 1971 (UK, premiere) |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7.2 million |
| Box office | $116 million |
Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 James Bond spy film and the seventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery, who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agentJames Bond, for the first time since You Only Live Twice (1967), having declined to reprise the role in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969).
The producers originally intended to have Diamonds Are Forever re-create commercially successful aspects of Goldfinger, including hiring its director, Guy Hamilton. Peter R. Hunt, who had directed On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and worked in all previous Bond films as editor, was invited before Hamilton, but due to involvement with another project could only work on the film if the production date was postponed, which the producers declined to do.
Sean Connery during the filming in Amsterdam, 31 July 1971.
“Diamonds Are Forever”, the title song, was the second James Bond theme to be performed by Shirley Bassey, after “Goldfinger” in 1964. In an interview for the television programme James Bond’s Greatest Hits, composer John Barry revealed that he told Bassey to imagine she was singing about a penis. Bassey would later return for a third performance for 1979’s Moonraker.
The original soundtrack was once again composed by John Barry, his sixth time composing for a Bond film.
With Connery back in the lead role, the “James Bond Theme” was played by an electric guitar in the somewhat unusual, blued gun barrel sequence accompanied with prismatic ripples of light, in the pre-credits sequence, and in a full orchestral version during a hovercraft sequence in Amsterdam.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound for Gordon McCallum, John W. Mitchell and Al Overton. It lost to Fiddler on the Roof.
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