Intro of the Movie

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER James Bond 007

The sixth James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever, was produced in 1971 and is a spy thriller.

It was made by Eon Productions. The movie narrates where Bond pretends to be a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling network. He soon learns that his old foe Ernst Stavro Blofeld is planning to use the diamonds to construct a space-based laser weapon.

To stop the smuggling and thwart Blofeld's plan to destroy Washington, D.C. and blackmail the globe with nuclear dominance, Bond must engage his foe one more time.

A Goldfinger-inspired production, Guy Hamilton was chosen to direct, and Shirley Bassey sang the lead vocals on the title song. Las Vegas, California, and Amsterdam were among the locations. Although retrospective reviews criticised Diamonds Are Forever for having a campy tone, the movie was a commercial success and earned favourable reviews. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound.

Fig 1. Poster of the movie from Rotten Tomatoes

Figure 3 on page 4 displays the Official Poster of the Movie. Eon (Everything Or Nothing) Productions Ltd. is a British film production company that primarily produces the James Bond film series. The company is based in London's Piccadilly and also operates from Pinewood Studios in the UK.

Besides the production company, the Director of the movie is known as Guy Hamilton. He's an English film director Mervyn Ian Guy Hamilton, , lived from 16 September 1922 to 20 April 2016. From the 1950s until the 1980s, he directed 22 movies, four of them were James Bond movies.

Fig 3. Guy Hamilton behind the scenes of Diamonds are Forever Movie

The movie was filmed in various locations including the Los

Angeles International Airport, Universal City Studios and eight

hotels of Las Vegas. Besides

Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, other places in England were Dover and

Southampton. The climactic oil rig sequence was shot off the shore of Oceanside, California. Other filming locations included Cap D'Antibes in France for the opening scenes, Amsterdam and

Frankfurt Airport.

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