James Bond, Diamonds Are Forever. Declassification of the 7th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• tracks down Blofeld, foils his plan to make a clone of himself through plastic surgery and dumps him into a hot bubbling pool of mud, seemingly killing him

Title Song/Credits

• "Diamonds Are Forever" by Shirley Bassey
• naked women wearing diamonds and naked silhouetted women dancing in front of diamonds

Villains

• Ernst Stavro Blofeld, SPECTRE agent #1 set on building a deadly laser satellite using his stockpile of stolen diamonds to hold the world at ransom (Charles Gray)
• Mr. Kidd, Blofeld's diamond thief assassin (Putter Smith)
• Mr. Wint, Blofeld's diamond thief assassin (Bruce Glover)
• Burt Saxby, right-hand man (Bruce Cabot)
• Bambi & Thumper, gymnastic guards of house where Willard Whyte is held captive (Lola Larson & Trina Parks)

Girls

• Tiffany Case, diamond smuggler (Jill St. John)
• Plenty O'Toole, casino hostess (Lana Wood)
• Marie, seaside sunbather (Denise Perrier)

Gadgets

• deadly laser satellite that uses diamonds to create a high-powered laser beam that destroys targets on Earth from space
• miniature battle submarine
• piton gun for lodging rope-climbing anchors
• miniature transistorized voice box neck implant
• voice box for impersonating another's voice over the phone
• inflatable orb for walking on water
• Bombe Surprise, false dessert with bomb hidden inside of it
• coat-pocket finger trap
• membrane imitation fingerprint
• electromagnetic RPM controller for beating slot machines

Chases

• moon buggy chased by cars and ATVs over rough terrain just outside W.W. Tectronics compound
• Ford Mustang Mach 1 chased by police car through streets of Las Vegas, ending with jump off trailer ramp over parked cars and tipping up on two wheels to squeeze through narrow alley

Binds

• at gunpoint of man in mud bath, tumbles forward and pulls mud-release cord to bury man in more mud
• about to be stabbed with a shard of glass by Peter Franks, slams elevator door on his wrist and throws him over a railing
• knocked unconscious, put in a coffin and trapped in an incinerator, saved by the funeral home director at the last second after he discovered that the diamonds were fake
• high atop the outside of the Whyte House Las Vegas casino, uses piton gun to anchor two cables for climbing to the roof
• not knowing which Blofeld clone is the real Blofeld, kicks white cat into one Blofeld's lap and shoots him in the head with piton gun, only to discover that it was not the real Blofeld
• gassed, put in a trunk, left in a pipe on a construction site, buried alive in pipeline and chased by conveyer machine, jumps on machine and short-circuits it
• with the world at ransom and nuclear targets being destroyed by Blofeld's laser satellite, boards Blofeld's oil-drilling-platform headquarters and switches the satellite controller tape with Tiffany's help
• locked up on oil rig with it under attack and Blofeld trying to escape in his battle submarine, finds a hatch to climb down under and back atop rig, then intercepts crane operator to prevent Blofeld's submarine from being submerged and swings submarine into control center to begin its destruction just before Washington DC is struck by laser
• being attacked by Mr. Kidd with flaming shish kabobs, breaks a bottle of wine and throws it at him, igniting his arms and upper body until he jumps overboard
• being choked by Mr. Wint with a chain, Tiffany throws the dessert at him, revealing a bomb hidden inside of it, which Bond takes, attaches to Mr. Wint and flips him overboard just before the bomb detonates

One-liners

• "There's something I'd like you to get off your chest," to Marie's "Is there something I can do for you?" before pulling her bikini top up around her neck
• "Welcome to hell, Blofeld," after dumping him into a hot bubbling pool of mud
• "Would you settle for a tulip?" when Miss Moneypenny asks him to bring her back a diamond in a ring from Holland
• "Well, providing the collars and cuffs match..." when ask by Tiffany whether he prefers blonds or brunettes
• "But of course you are," to Plenty's "Hi, I'm Plenty"
• "Named after your father perhaps," after Plenty adds her surname, "Plenty O'Toole"
• "Relax, darling, I'm on top of the situation," to Tiffany in bed as she asks about what's going to happen to her
• "I was just out walking my rat, and I seem to have lost my way," to workmen as he exits pipeline through hatch
• "Your problems are all behind you now," to Tiffany as he slides the satellite controller tape into her bikini bottoms
• "Well, he certainly left with his tails between his legs," after grabbing Mr. Wint's arms and coattails through his legs and flipping him and the bomb overboard

Locations

• Las Vegas, United States
• Germany
• Holland
• France

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