History Film / DiamondsAreForever

* YouLookFamiliar: Charles Gray (Blofeld) earlier played a British agent in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Blofeld, assuming that you count his final demise as happening in this film. In fairness, they were apparently planning to bring him back for one last outing in the next film, but the ever-annoying Kevin [=McClory=] reared his head again and demanded that the producers stop using Blofeld. He is finally KilledOffForReal in the BondColdOpen of [[spoiler:''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'']], though for legal reasons the studio couldn't confirm that until decades later and he is credited as "man in wheelchair".

Bond infiltrates the group by managing to kill smuggler Peter Franks and poses as him in an effort to find out what is going on. He discovers that the head of the smuggling ring is none other than Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Apparently actor Shane Rimmer loves playing an aerospace type. [[YouOnlyLiveTwice He starts out at NASA as a flight controller,]] goes to work for Willard Whyte, then [[SupermanII later goes right back to his old job.]]
** Another {{Supermarionation}} veteran, [[{{UFO}} Ed Bishop]], is Klaus Hergesheimer.
** Sid Haig is a thug working for Slumber, Inc.
** Hey, the Criminologist from [[{{Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow}} The Rocky Horror Picture Show]] is Blofeld!

* [[HoYay/{{Film}} Ho Yay]]: Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.
** There is a hint of LesYay with [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Those Two Bad Girls]] Bambi and Thumper.
* IncrediblyLamePun: The explosive "''Bombe [[strike:Surprise]] Supreese'' (as pronounced in French)."
-->"Can you tell me what's in it?"\\
"Ah, but then there would be no ''[[strike:Surprise]] Supreese''."

* WiperStart: Bond does this twice. First, when he jumps into the moon rover, he doesn't know how to start it. Second, when he hops into the crane lowering Bloefeld's escape sub, he doesn't know how to operate it and drops the sub into the water.

* StylisticSuck: This is the kindest possible interpretation of the SpecialEffectsFailure of the laser and its effects.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics[=/=]ConvectionSchmonvection: Shady Tree opens Bond's coffin without any problem, even though it would be hot as hell since it had just come out of a crematorium...

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* DidNotDoTheResearch: The first laser was generated using a '''ruby''', not a diamond.
** Also, in the movie someone mentions "Nairobi, ''in South Africa''". For the record, it's in Kenya.
** When Bond has Peter Franks' body cremated, the remains are brought out to him within minutes. The cremation process actually takes roughly 1 hour for every 100 pounds of body weight.
** Averted for the diamonds Bond finds in the remains. Real diamonds will ignite at the temperatures used in a cremation furnace, but the ones Bond recovers turn out to be glass fakes; some types of glass have melting points above 1000 degrees Celsius.

** AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Or, he killed the ''real'' Blofeld and the other just took over the operation, deciding he likes being the boss. Hell, he might even have been the second guy Bond killed, and the ''other'' other Blofeld took over from ''him''. There's even a fan theory that ''all'' of them were doubles, and the one from ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' was the real one from ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', since the injuries are identical.

Parts of the first ''AustinPowers'' movie are a direct spoof of ''Diamonds Are Forever'', including the Las Vegas setting and the casino sequence, the miniature models displaying the reach of the villain's businesses, and the RoomDisservice sneak-attack against the hero at the end of the film.

** SidHaig is a thug working for Slumber, Inc.

** Mr. Kidd's death doubles as a StealthPun: since he's burned to death by shish kebab flambés, he qualifies as a...(wait for it!)..."flaming homosexual."

-->''I didn't know there was a pool down there.''

** Another {{Supermarionation}} veteran, [[UFO Ed Bishop]], is Klaus Hergesheimer.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Apparently actor Shane Rimmer loves playing an aerospace engineer. [[YouOnlyLiveTwice He starts out at NASA,]] goes to work for Willard Whyte, then [[SupermanII returns working for NASA.]]

After traveling the world in his quest to kill Blofeld in revenge for the murder of his wife, Tracy, superspy James Bond returns to England only to discover he has another job waiting for him. A huge amount of diamonds have been stolen from the South African mines and two CampGay assassins are killing everyone in the smuggling ring ladder, rung by rung.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Bond goes on this at the start of the film presumably to [[ContinuityNod avenge the girl from the previous film]].

-->-- '''JamesBond'''

* ContinuityNod: Bond's RoaringRampageOfRevenge at the start of the film seemed to have been motivated by Blofeld killing Tracy from the [[OnHerMajestysSecretService last movie]].

* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Between [[OnHerMajestysSecretService the last movie]] and this one, Blofeld somehow usurped Willard Whyte's vast empire, and suddenly...

The seventh ''JamesBond'' film, starring SeanConnery in his last (and least regarded) Eon series appearance. After Bond kills Blofeld in the opening sequence, he is assigned to an international diamond-smuggling case, which is later revealed to be part of a plan by the not-dead-after-all Blofeld to build a KillSat and hold the world hostage. Of note, Sean Connery, who was done with the series after YouOnlyLiveTwice, was lured back to playing Bond [[MoneyDearBoy to get a massive paycheck.]] He used half of it to establish a charity to support deprived children in Edinburgh.

** AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Or, he killed the ''real'' Blofeld and the other just took over the operation, deciding he likes being the boss. Hell, he might even have been the second guy Bond killed, and the ''other'' other Blofeld took over from ''him''. There's even a fan theory that ''all'' of them were doubles, and the one from ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' was the real one from ''OnHerMajestysSecretService'', since the injuries are identical.

* TheFilmOfTheBook: The second film where they started taking serious liberties with the source material (the first being ''YouOnlyLiveTwice''); not necessarily worse, but still noticed. For instance, Blofeld and SPECTRE are not in the novel - the villains are the smuggling ring The Spangled Mob.

* SexFaceTurn: Tiffany Case, with JamesBond

* VoiceChangeling: Both Blofeld and JamesBond use voice duplicating machines to fool other people.

* YouLookFamiliar: Charles Gray (Blofeld) earlier played a British agent in ''YouOnlyLiveTwice''.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics / ConvectionSchmonvenction: Shady Tree opens Bond's coffin without any problem, even though it would be hot as hell since it had just come out of a crematorium...