Line #14 Trivia/DiamondsAreForever


1	!!The film
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3	* BasedOnADream: The plot came about when Creator/AlbertRBroccoli had a dream, where his close friend Creator/HowardHughes was replaced by an imposter.
4	* CaliforniaDoubling:
5	** The scenes in Japan and Cairo in the ActionPrologue were filmed at Creator/PinewoodStudios in the UK.
6	** The scene in South Africa was filmed in Nevada.
7	* CastTheExpert: Shady Tree was played by a real life stand up comic, Leonard Barr.
8	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JillStJohn was originally considered for Plenty O'Toole, while Creator/LanaWood initially thought she'd be playing Tiffany Case.
9	* CreatorBacklash:
10	** Like he did for ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', co-producer Harry Saltzman hated the Music/ShirleyBassey theme song.
11	** Screenwriter Richard Maibaum hated Creator/TomMankiewicz's changes to the script, more specifically the change of Goldfinger's twin brother for Blofeld and the whole climax, which would be an exciting pursuit through Lake Mead in Las Vegas, for an endless action scene on an oil rig.[[note]]In fairness to Mankiewicz, Maibaum's aquatic pursuit idea involved things like Roman galleys and Chinese junks under the assumption they were common in Las Vegas, when in reality they weren't, which is part of the reason the setpiece got scrapped.[[/note]]
12	* DeletedRole:
13	** Creator/SammyDavisJr filmed a cameo that ended up on the cutting room floor.
14	** When Bond arrives in Amsterdam we can see a riverboat. A scene was cut in the editing where we were to see the son of Harry Saltzman as a passenger of this boat who called his mother to show him Mrs. Whistler's corpse. He was seated next to Creator/JillStJohn during the scene and, according to the James Bond Club France, he did not enjoy her company at all.
15	* DeletedScene:
16	** [[https://youtu.be/cTZCtdoBtQU?si=YFUhY8oWkhZZ10LZ A cameo]] by Creator/SammyDavisJr.
17	** Wint and Kidd killing Shady Tree with a BangFlagGun that fires real bullets.
18	** Plenty O'Toole having dinner with Bond, ending with Plenty inviting herself to Bond's hotel room. Then, after the "pervert's convention" throws her out the window, Plenty returns to Bond's apartment soaking wet and wearing nothing but a white ModestyTowel to hide her shame in the hopes of retrieving her clothes and to see what has become of Bond. After seeing him having sex with Tiffany an angry Plenty almost leaves... but not before going through Tiffany's purse and finding her address, explaining how Wint and Kidd confused her with Tiffany.
19	* ExecutiveMeddling: When the film aired on ABC the network had the scene where Creator/LanaWood, as Plenty O'Toole, walked around wearing nothing but a flimsy pair of see through pink panties artificially altered to make it appear as though she were wearing a black bra with black panties - despite the fact that her backless purple satin dress clearly showed that she had no bra.
20	* HostilityOnTheSet: Relationships between Sean Connery and the Eon producers ([[Creator/AlbertRBroccoli Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli]] and Harry Saltzman) were acrimonious at best since at least ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' (he felt underpaid among other things, which is why he left the series after that film). Connery was brought back with a ''huge'' paycheck after the exit of Creator/GeorgeLazenby, and proved difficult to work with on the set of ''Diamonds are Forever''. He outright ''refused'' to act whenever Saltzman showed up on the set. He might have reprised the role in a rival production to the series in 1983, ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', partly out of spite.
21	* InMemoriam: For the broadcasting of the film on Creator/{{ITV}} on 20th December 2020, they ran a dedication card to Creator/SeanConnery before the film begins.
22	* LoopingLines:
23	** Creator/LanaWood's lines were looped in post-production for some reason.
24	** Nikki van der Zyl dubbed Marie, the woman in the opening sequence.
25	** In the first scene, the man that is being attacked by Bond speaks without moving his mouth in any way, suggesting that the voice over was dubbed on top after recording, or the man in question wasn't intended to have any lines.
26	* MissingTrailerScene:
27	** The trailer contains a brief shot of Bond's feet wearing sandals right before he confronts Marie on the beach. This was the original plan to re-introduce Connery as Bond in the flesh.
28	** One of the trailers shows Professor Metz trapped in the control room as it explodes explosions, implying that he dies. The final film leaves his fate unexplained.
29	* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/SeanConnery agreed to do his last James Bond film for Creator/EonProductions for a fee of £1.2 million, which he used to found the Scottish International Education Trust, which provides scholarships and funding for Scottish students and artists.
30	* OnSetInjury: During production, the cement block Lana Wood was tied to in the swimming pool slipped down the sloping floor of the pool and dragged her underneath. Fortunately crew members spotted and rescued her.
31	* TheOriginalDarrin: Creator/SeanConnery would make his return playing Bond for the final time in the franchise.
32	* TheOtherDarrin: Blofeld (which makes him get ''hair'' this time) and Leiter (the fourth actor to portray him).
33	* PopCultureUrbanLegends: A common piece of trivia circulated about the film claims that Shady Tree's "acorns", the showgirls that accompany him on his act, were played by Creator/ValeriePerrine and [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Cassandra Peterson]]. In reality, they were portrayed by Pat Gill and Jennifer Castle; Perrine [[https://twitter.com/TheValPerrine/status/1413252945718611970 actually went out of her way to deny being in the film on Twitter]].[[note]]In fairness to the rumor, Gill bears an uncanny resemblance to Perrine.[[/note]]
34	* RealitySubtext:
35	** M telling Bond that [=MI6=] functions in his absence was in-joke regarding Creator/SeanConnery's four year hiatus from the series.
36	** M declines a drink due to his liver. Creator/BernardLee was a heavy drinker in real life that made him infamously unreliable.
37	* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle: Creator/LoisMaxwell had dyed her hair red for another role, hence why Moneypenny wears a hat in the film.
38	* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/SeanConnery had flings with ''both'' Creator/JillStJohn and Creator/LanaWood during filming.
39	* ScullyBox: Lana Wood needed one when on screen with Creator/SeanConnery. Except of course, in the scenes where she was lacking her clothes, for which she was given extra high heels to wear in order to compensate for the height difference, as a body double would not have worked for obvious reasons.
40	* StarDerailingRole: The humongous £1.2 million salary Creator/SeanConnery received for this film proved to be a double-edged sword. While it helped him set up the Scottish International Education Trust, it also priced him out of the market as other productions thought he'd become unaffordable. He had to spend a couple of years working in smaller projects for low pay[[note]]Most notoriously in ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'', where the budget was so low he and the director had to stay in the same house and drive each other to and from the set.[[/note]] to show that he wasn't being driven by big paydays.
41	* TechnologyMarchesOn:
42	** The codes that control the satellite are stored on a tape cassette that protrudes prominently in Tiffany's bikini bottom. Today, a flash drive would've been more discreet, though there'd still be the communication SNAFU between Bond and Tiffany.
43	** The moon rover in the film bears no resemblance to the ultimate lunar rover used by NASA in Apollo missions, or any prototype thereof.
44	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/JamesBond Enough for its own page]].
45	* YouLookFamiliar:
46	** Creator/CharlesGray (Blofeld) earlier played a British agent in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. Ironically, said agent is murdered by SPECTRE, so he is basically playing the man ultimately responsible for his own death.
47	** George Lane Cooper plays the tall henchman with sideburns that gets his fingers caught in one of Bond's devices when he searches the spy's pockets at the start of the film. Previously in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', he played a henchman that welcomes Bond to Piz Gloria and later pursues him through a village.
48	** David Bauer (Morton Slumber) had previously played an American diplomat in ''You Only Live Twice'', while Ed Bishop (Klaus Hergersheimer) and Shane Rimmer (Tom) played played a NASA Hawaii Technician and a Hawaii Radar Operator in the same film (Rimmer would go on to play a bigger role as the American sub captain in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'').
49	** In the French dub, Felix sounds familiar. The dub actor, Creator/WilliamSabatier, voiced Marc-Ange Draco in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''.
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51	!!The novel
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53	* InMemoriam: The book is dedicated to "the memory of W. W. Jr., at Saratoga, 1954 and 55". This is a tribute to William Woodward Jr., a socialite Creator/IanFleming met in Saratoga Springs, whose car - Studillac - appears in the story. He was killed by his wife, who mistook him for a prowler.
54	* RecycledScript: In a lot of ways, the book is a remake of ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' - Bond goes to America, battles a gang that specializes in smuggling some precious mineral, and entices a HighHeelFaceTurn from its sole female member, a woman who had previously sworn off men.
55	* WriteWhatYouKnow: Creator/IanFleming's voyage on the ''Queen Elizabeth'' provided background information for the final four chapters.

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