History Film / DiamondsAreForever

* PrecisionFStrike: "You dirty double-crossing limey fink, those ''Goddamn diamonds are phonies!''"

'''James Bond:''' You wouldn't burn up 50,000 real dollars, now, would you?\\

* KillSat: Willard Whyte supposedly put a satellite into orbit as part of his Aerospace operations, only to discover it was actually Blofeld impersonating Whyte, who went on to use the satellite's ability to focus the sun's light into a coherent beam and thus fire a laser anywhere on earth to attack important locations such as nuclear missile launch facilities or nuclear submarines.

* GrandFinale: Can be seen as this to the Sean Connery era as a whole. In addition to being Connery's last appearance in a main series Bond film, it also saw the last appearances of Blofeld and SPECTRE as primary antagonists, with future films mostly having Bond facing off against rich megalomaniacs and/or political renegades rather than a large criminal organization.

* GamblerGroupies: A man is gambling at a Las Vegas casino with a beautiful woman named Plenty O'Toole at his side. Unfortunately he loses all his money, so she dumps him and latches on to James Bond when he sees how he's throwing money around.

* FlyoverCountry: Seeing his KillSat is currently orbiting over Kansas, Blofeld quips that if they destroy Kansas the world may not hear about it for years.

* FamedInStory: After Bond disposes of Peter Franks he switches wallets with the body. When Tiffany Case inspects the corpse and finds the wallet her first reaction is a disbelieving "You just killed James Bond!" Given how often Bond drops his name in the films, it makes sense that he'd develop something of a reputation.

** Due to endless litigation between the producers and Kevin [=McClory=], this would be the last Eon Bond film where Blofeld and SPECTRE would appear as BigBad and NebulousEvilOrganisation respectively until the 2015 movie ''Film/{{Spectre}}''.

* DressHitsFloor: When Bond decides to strip Plenty O'Toole down to her bare essentials the camera pans down her shapely body as Bond unzips her purple satin dress and we watch the dress fall, first showing us her bare ankles before pulling back to reveal Plenty in all her glory, clad in nothing but her pink sheer panties, purple high heels and gold and diamond necklace.

* DoctorsOrders: M declines Sir Donald's offer of a sherry for this reason. This is possibly a nod to the fact that Creator/BernardLee was infamous for his heavy drinking which made him unreliable.

* DepravedHomosexual: Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, are heavily implied to be in a homosexual relationship.

* ClutchingHandTrap: PlayedWith. A {{mook}}, frisking James Bond, reaches inside his jacket to go for the gun...and receives a nasty surprise, courtesy Q-Branch.

* CarSkiing: While being pursued by Las Vegas police Bond uses a loading ramp to put his car up on two wheels to fit through an alley that would normally be too narrow. The police car following him also tries it but flips over on its roof instead.

* AdaptationalContextChange: One of the few details the film retained from the book was a character being drowned in a mudbath. In the book, it was a jockey who beat a horse owned by the mafia. In the film, it's one of Blofeld's doubles killed by Bond.

** Bond must have told Tiffany about Blofeld's RightHandCat, because it's what tips off Tiffany that Blofeld is walking out of the Whyte House DisguisedInDrag, yet [[MisterMuffykins holding his Persian cat]]. If only she'd told Q who was standing right next to her...

* BluffTheImpostor: Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd pretend to be room service and serve Bond and Tiffany diner. After they serve the drinks, Bond remarks he would have liked to drink a claret. Mr. Wint apologizes and says they ran out, then Bond points out the drink they served was a claret. Given that Wint is wearing the tastevine of a sommelier, [[CoverIdentityAnomaly this is something he should know]].

* BavarianFireDrill: Seeing that a keycard is needed to enter Dr. Metz's lab, he waits till Klaus Hergesheimer walks up to the door and inserts his card, then pretends to do the same before tailgating through the door with Klaus. He then borrows a radiation shield off Klaus, grabs a ClipboardOfAuthority and LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine and pretends to be "Klaus Hergesheimer, G Section, checking radiation shields" to explore the laboratory where the satellite is being constructed. It works until the real Hergesheimer walks into the lab that Bond has just exited.

* RightHandCat: Belonging to Blofeld.

[[caption-width-right:300: ''[[Music/ShirleyBassey They are all I need to please me, they can stimulate and tease me...]]'']]

* CapturedOnPurpose: Bond arrives at Blofeld's oil rig base and allows himself to be captured. He plans to switch a standard cassette tape for the tape Blofeld uses to control the laser satellite. Due to Tiffany Case's interference his plan fails so he has to destroy the computer centre by hitting with a minisub.

* TimeBomb: Used [[BookEnds twice]] by Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. They have one in the courier case given to the diamond-smuggling helicopter at the start of the movie, then activate one hidden in the [[PunnyName "Bombe Surprise"]]--a bombe glacée ice cream dessert in the BigFancyDinner they serve to Bond and Tiffany in the final scene.

* CementShoes:
** Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint kill Plenty O'Toole in a swimming pool; FridgeHorror suggests this is a particularly sadistic method, as the concrete block would inch down the slope of the pool as she struggled, slowly pulling her underwater.
** Ironically enough, this is almost exactly what happened to Lana Wood when it came time to film the scene, but attentive crew members jumped in and were able to help.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: A fake Blofeld drowns in a pool of superheated mud.

* DestinationDefenestration: Plenty O'Toole ends up getting tossed out of a window by mooks before she had a chance to make love with Bond. She lands into a pool.

* DisposableSexWorker: Unlucky hooker Plenty O'Toole gets thrown out of Bond's Las Vegas hotel room window into the swimming pool several storeys below (Bond: "Good aim!" Mafia hood: "I didn't know there was a pool down there!"). Later she is found dead, tied to a concrete block, in the pool behind Tiffany Case's bungalow.

* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt: A Mafia {{mook}} throws Plenty O'Toole, one of the Bond girls, off of a high floor, and she lands unharmed in a swimming pool below. When Bond compliments him on his aim, the mook replies, "I didn't know there was a pool down there."

* {{Hypocrite}}: When Dr. Metz begs Blofeld to surrender, Blofeld threatens to have him shot if he doesn't get back to his post. Right after this, he quietly orders his personal submarine be readied [[[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere so he can escape]].

* ImprobableAimingSkills: The thug who throws the basically naked Plenty O'Toole out a hotel window.
-->''"I didn't know there was a pool down there."''

** During the elevator brawl, Peter Franks tries to kill Bond with a broken glass shard. After losing it, Franks picks up a crowbar, which is then countered by Bond with a fire extinguisher.
** After using a piton-shooting device to mantle himself up into Whyte's penthouse, then being required to remove his firearm before proceeding, Bond is faced with Blofeld and an imposter. Blofeld mocks him for eyeing a model rocket, saying it's not a practical weapon, but Bond still has his piton-firing device to [[BoomHeadshot kill his target]]. Unfortunately it's only single shot, and Bond shoots the wrong Blofeld.

* SoftWater: An almost naked Plenty O'Toole gets thrown out of Bond's very high up hotel room but survives by landing in the pool.

* TimeBomb: Used twice by Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd - first to destroy the diamond-smuggling helicopter, and at the end in an attempt to kill Bond and Tiffany Case.

* TrapDoor: Subverted when Bond [[WrongGenreSavvy suspects one of these in an elevator]], only to be gassed instead.
* TreasureChestCavity: Bond uses the dead body of diamond smuggler Peter Franks to smuggle diamonds through customs.

* UnconventionalVehicleChase: In order to escape Willard Whyte's facility near Las Vegas, Bond steals a prototype moon buggy and zooms off across the desert. He's followed by guards in cars and on motorized trikes.
* UnwantedAssistance: Case accidentally puts the real tape in the machine (after Bond had switched it out for the fake), and is caught trying to switch it back.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Blofeld claims that his purpose is complete nuclear disarmament (and thus the end of the Cold War). He does this through threatening to use a KillSat. What he plans to do AFTER disarmament is a question he never addresses, however...

* RevealingCoverUp: Bond figures out that diamond smugglers are being bumped off following a failed attempt to burn him alive and the fatal shooting of Shady Tree. After Plenty O'Toole is defenestrated into a swimming pool and soon found dead by Bond and Tiffany Case, he figures out that the operator of the smuggling ring is trying to cover up a terrorist plot.

* DistractedByTheSexy: {{Lampshaded}} when Blofeld asks Tiffany to put something on over her revealing bikini, saying "I've come too far to have the aim of my crew affected by the sight of a pretty body.".

* ReadyForLovemaking:
** Bond knocks down the gangster who threw Plenty O'Toole out the window, but to his surprise the other two just grab their colleague and leave the room. Bond then enters the bedroom to find Tiffany lying on the bed in lingerie. Bond doesn't make a fuss about casually undressing to join her.
** Later Felix is fuming about Bond sharing the bridal suite with a known criminal, but [[DistractedByTheSexy runs out of steam]] at the sight of Tiffany reclining in a bed with [[PrettyInMink only a white fox throw hiding her nakedness]].
--->'''Tiffany:''' I'm ''[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow cooperating]]'', Mr. Leiter. ''Really'', I am.

* BrickJoke: Bond climbs into the window of Willard Whyte's penthouse and finds himself in the bathroom, which the billionaire has set up so he can conduct business even while doing his 'business', including banks of phones. Later he gets a phone call from the White House and says he'll take it "on the john".

* BringHimToMe: Bond arranges to be captured by Blofeld on his oil rig headquarters. Blofeld has him brought into his office and later the command centre.
* BroadStrokes: The opening sequence. Was Bond hunting down Blofeld for escaping in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', or for [[spoiler:murdering Tracy]] in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''? It's ambiguous enough for the audience to pick.

* CallBack: Bond exposes Wint and Kidd as assassins by catching them out about their knowledge of fine wines. This is similar to him deducing that Grant in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' was a fraud when he ordered red wine with fish.

--->'''Felix Leiter:''' I give up. I know the diamonds are in the body, but where?\\

* DistractedByTheSexy:
** {{Lampshaded}}, as Blofeld asks Tiffany to put something on over her revealing bikini, saying "I've come too far to have the aim of my crew affected by the sight of a pretty body.".
** Tiffany herself falls victim to this when Bond - still posing as Peter Franks - decides to undress for her and she watches with obvious delight before breaking out into a dirty smile and saying "Peter, I'm ''very'' impressed. There's a ''lot'' more to you than I had expected."

* DoubleEntendre: Used by a Bond Girl for once; Bond is casually undressing while summing up the situation to Tiffany Case, whose comments ("[[EatingTheEyeCandy So far, so good]]--[[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn keep going]]" and "I'm ''[[MrFanservice very]]'' impressed! There's [[BiggerIsBetterInBed a lot more to you]] than I had expected.") can be taken either way.