Fun fact about the actor Connery fights in the elevator, he was former wrestler Joe Robinson. Back in March of 1998 the 70-year-old Robinson made newspaper headlines after fighting off a gang of at least eight muggers single-handed when he was attacked after stepping off a bus in Cape Town; the gang came at him with baseball bats and knives, but the 6 ft 2 inch-tall Robinson overpowered two with flying kicks, karate-chopped another, and broke the arm of a fourth with a punch- the rest fled. Robinson suffered "only minor cuts and grazes" and continued to enjoy his holiday.
Willard Whyte was played by Jimmy Dean, who was a hugely popular country singer, TV personality, and later the founder of Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausages. He was one of the singers who helped bring country music into the mainstream. Dean was born in Plainview, TX, and that was his real accent. TV titbit: _The Jimmy Dean Show_ introduced the first Muppet, Rowlf the Dog, who was a regular cast member.
6:28 The Channel Hovercraft was a legit passenger and vehicle-carrying class of large hovercraft linking Dover to Calais from the late 1960s until 2000.
Live and Let Die is about as bad as Diamonds are Forever. In any franchise some are going to be better than others. What starts off with a good idea winds up pretty far from the original idea.
He was in the best Bond movie of all no matter how much stings all the Lazenby haters. Connery's movies are trash compared to OHMSS and Diamonds are Forever is the prime example.
@@haissem8 You can say what you want but the issue with OHMSS will always be Lazenby. He simply could not act and he had a go away vibe about him. The dubbing was also trash. On it's own, the movie is solid but it's like saying you have a beautiful floor when there's a shit in the middle of it. Also yea Diamonds are Forever is shit but Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball are better than OHMSS
Now that Mr. Connery's run is over(at least for now), let's get banging with Roger Moore and "Live and Let Die", my personal favorite in regards to the Bond actors. I think you will like him, as he has the perfect amount of comedy, and can be dead serious when it is called for. Live and Let Die is one of the more grounded Bond films, as the villain doesn't have some insane plan to take over the world(and the Bond girl is one of the best). His films also have some of the best theme songs to boot, I'll for sure be looking forward to next Friday.
Roger Moore was my Bond. I saw all his movies in the theatre. If you were a kid in the 70s it wasn't just James Bond but He was Simon Templar from the classic tv show The Saint. The 3 best Bond songs for me are "Live and Let Die", "Nobody Does It Better", "For Your Eyes Only".
@@ListerDavid Still got smaller ones on a scheduled service between Portsmouth and Ryde Esplaanade (Isle of Wight) - as well as passengers it also carries cargo and sometimes does medevac when there's someone who needs to be urgently taken to a mainland hospital (but presumably not urgently enough for Air Ambulance, or if the weather's too bad).
Alas for glamour, it's not actually that fun to travel on - the view through the portholes is pretty poor, it's noisy as heck, and the seats are cramped if you're taller than about 170cm/5'8". It gets you across the Solent in 10 minutes, though, and it's a freakin' HOVERCRAFT!
@@seanstinchfield-mp2xmOne of my favorites. It’s so much fun, even if it does have some pretty problematic aspects. I can’t wait to see her get annoyed by the slide whistle in Man with the Golden Gun.
Bravo, Ashleigh! Not everyone notices that Bond's car switches sides in the alley. I read the initial stunt driver kept messing up the exit, so they hired a new guy. He nailed the exit from the alley, but no one noticed he was on the wrong side until they were putting the movie together. They went back and added one scene in the middle where the camera rotates from one side to the other. It kinda-sorta "covers up" the switch . . .
I believe the story is that the stunt was done in 2 locations...the entry was shot in a studio and the exit was shot in Vegas 6 months apart. The American team do it on the left and British on the right, thus an extra shooting day was needed to shoot an insert of the car changing sides.
During Bond's briefing with M and Sir Donald Munger at the beginning, Munger refers to Bond having just been on holiday, and M later quips how the Service had managed well during Bond's absence. These were inside jokes referring to Sir Sean Connery's absence in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
@@tntkff9901 That idea/theory has no ground whatsoever, between OHMSS and Diamonds are Forever it's already debunked. If Lazenby was another guy why would he have all the gadgets from the previous movies and remember them? Why would he have the very same relationship with Moneypenny, Q and so on if it was another guy. The idea doesn't work nor was it meant to, it's the same guy despite actors changing (apart from the Daniel Craig reboot).
By the time we get to the Daniel Craig Bond, the storylines suggest that Q, M, Moneypenny and even Bond are more titles or positions than actual people. It has some basis in cannon from Her Majesty and Diamonds where Lazenby refers to "This never happened to the other fellow" and then there's the reference you cited about Bond having been on vacation. Q, of course, stands for Quartermaster. M is head of Missions.
@@EdwardGregoryNYC except the code name idea literally only works for Craig. We know the rest are the same guy with the same life events. Lazenby's wife is murdered, Connery goes for revenge, Moore gets revenge and the whole thing is mentioned as why Dalton hates weddings. The World is Not Enough is still Brosnan's family motto, like Lazenby's - it's not meant to be a different character. . That said, James Bond being an alias for multiple agents IS the plot to the 60's Casino Royale spoof...
Oh, by the way, I've always had a thing for redheads. My wife was a redhead. We were married for 49yrs until she died in 2017. Guaranteed, never a dull moment. Fine if you can take it.
Having seen all the Bond actors so far, I will state that my overall favorite is still Sir Roger Moore. He had fun with the role. They were escapist fantasy adventure stories and Roger did not take himself or the ludicrous situations he found himself in seriously, but was suave and sophisticated when necessary... just the right tone for James Bond. He also starred in two of the best and more iconic Bond films... "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "For Your Eyes Only."
Have you ever had Jimmie Dean sausages? Willard White was Jimmie Dean. He was an actor, Country singer, tv show host and entrepreneur that started the sausage company.
yeah, Bill Engval said he was terrified one night watching a commercial! the commercial said. "The eggs are from real chickens. The milk is from real cows. The sausage is Jimmy Dean."
The fire extinguisher didn't shoot out the bottom. The hose was clipped to the side (as when they hang on the wall). He simply left it in that position when he sprayed it. So the nozzle was held close to the side and near the bottom. That's all.
yeah, Felix Leiter is always James Bond's contact, and he is always changing! one James Bond movie he is a 'bad guy' with a different name, and the next movie he is Felix Leiter.
The two henchmen/diamond thieves are as close to representation of a gay couple in that era of time you'll see. They couldn't say it but there was ways it was represented back then. The hand holding was a pretty bold move for the sixties.
5:45 That man is Bruce Glover, the father of Crispin Glover, who played George McFly in BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985). Bruce has been in numerous movies and television shows over the years and he’s still alive. In fact he just turned 92 back on May 2. He’s a pretty peculiar guy, too. I’m friends with him on Facebook and his posts and comments are WEIRD!
Everyone is pointing out that the one henchman is Crispin Glover's dad, but nobody is mentioning that his partner seems to be the noted folk/rock musician David Crosby. 😛
@@Johnny_Socko That’s because it isn’t David Crosby, and you know that. He does kind of resemble David Crosby, though. And he IS a musician, although he’s a jazz bassist, music teacher, and author, as well as an actor. His name is Putter Smith, and he’s now 83 years old.
That's a family friendly casino in Vegas called "Circus, Circus." While the kids enjoy the games and circus acts, the parents gamble down below. Real place.
I went to Circus, Circus as a kid around 1970, just before this film came out. It was just like in the film. The Midway circled the gambling floor where an elephant really did come out and play slots. There were aerialists performing above a net above the gamblers, and the girl who turns into a gorilla was a real show. Great fun. Lots of the kids to do and spend any money the parents may have had the good fortune to win.
I love watching these older movies shot in Vegas, shows you what the town looked like back then. The chase scene was filmed on Fremont street in downtown Vegas, today that whole street is closed to cars and there's a huge roof above it that does light shows
Bond just showing off his version of the Fremont Street Experience! 😂 It really is neat seeing old Vegas in its prime, with the blatant mob connection portrayed in the film. Wondering how the real mob thought of the movie. 🤔
It also features Circus Circus which was one of the first mega casinos on what is now called the strip (and Freemont Street is usually called the "old strip").
I like this movie for viewing “old” Vegas. The mafia is still in town. Fremont Street is still where all the lights and action is. Notice at the south end of the street a construction site where the Plaza Hotel is under construction (opened 1971).
Mr Wint and Mr Kit had been one of the first openly gay couple on screen and Bruce Glover was all in for it. He was the one who suggested to make it "more obvious" and it showed, the scene on the plane, he went full in, he once said "We did this scene, we are a couple and he is all mine!" Such brilliant acting Also fun fact, when they pushed Plenty out of the window, the scene describtion was like that "You are naked and been thrown into a pool from the 20th floor" Actress Lana Wood was like "Naked? from a hotel window? Absolutly not." But the producer said "Dont worry, we will do it in the night." She later said "Have you ever been to Vegas, at night? There had been more spectators thn we would have all day"
After the mixed reaction to OHMSS, producers Broccoli and Saltzman knew they had to get Connery back. He got the biggest payday for an actor at the time for this film. He received a percentage of the profits (the real money), a million dollars (which he donated to charity) and the studio agreed to finance any 2 movies he wanted. They also brought back Guy Hamilton (Goldfinger) to direct and Shirley Bassey to sing the theme. The film was a huge hit, and apparently, Connery did actually enjoy making this one. But, as you pointed out, he looks older and tired at this point. Again, even though it was a hit, they knew no amount would bring Connery back again. So, they chose to recast the role. Bring on the Roger Moore era!
Sherry is a kind of fortified wine originating in Spain ('sherry' is the anglicized version of 'Jerez', which is a town in Spain as well as the name of the drink). The wine is matured a second time to make sherry, in oak casks that are re-used to give each brand of sherry its unique flavour. Pedro Ximenez is a really good one, in case you fancy trying it. The famous single malt Scotch whiskey 'Lagavulin' is also 'finished' in oak casks previously used to make sherry, which is why it has a mix of sweet sherry-like flavour, and strong smokey flavour from the local Peat-rich water.
Sherry isn't aged, *per se.* The casks from which the bottling occurs are often the oldest in the winery, and the wine drawn from them is replaced by wine from the next oldest casks, which themselves are refreshed from the next oldest again, with up to a dozen levels of casks being used in all this wine transferring. The system (called "Solera") makes for a remarkably consistent product at the bottling stage. Sherry isn't overly sweet naturally - - If it needs sweetening, the Pedro Ximenez (which is a grape variety - - sherry itself is made from the Palomino grape) is used for sweetening. The sweetest dessert sherries are referred to as "cream" sherries, with Harvey's Bristol Cream being the most famous. Sherry can range from extremely sweet to extremely dry, and each level of sweetness usually has a different name to describe it - - cream being sweet, Oloroso and Amontillado being in the middle, and Fino being the driest.
The character Willard Whyte was based on Howard Hughes, a reclusive billionaire industrialist. Hughes was an aerospace engineer, but expanded his investments to include aircraft, defense contracting, real estate and RKO, a major movie studio. Hughes owned several hotels and businesses in Las Vegas.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 The character Tony Stark (and Howard Stark) were also based on Hughes. In Iron Man 1&2 Tony has a personality quirk about having items handed to him. My guess this is inspired by Hughes being a germophobe and didn't like to touch items other people handled.
@@timmooney7528 Yea and the Tony Stark character in the comics comes off even more like Howard Hughes. In the movies he is more fun-loving and comical while in the comics he is more of a serious businessman like Hughes was. I hope we see more of a version of that on the big screen at some point.
So Plenty O'Toole is played by actress Lana Wood. Not sure if you're familar with what happened to Lana's sister Natalie back back in 1981. but it's very sad and tragic, and to this day no one knows for sure exactly what happened or why. There are lots of articles and videos out there if you wish to know more.
*** As a child ,we wacthed this Bond movie with my mother and stepfather at least 10 times and everytime the fake Lunar Simulation scene came up ,my stepfather would say " Stanley ,must be rolling in the floor with laughter " ...he grew up with Stanley Kubrick in the Bronx .N.Y.C....this line always flew over my head ,untill about 20 years later .I finally understood the meaning when Kubrick was accused of filming the historic Moon Landing ,probably in an undisclosed location in England .!!...Long story ...***
If you love Sean Connery as James Bond, there's an "unofficial" one with him called Never Say Never Again which was not sanctioned by the people who owned the property (and Mr. Connery is kind of old). Also, there's a film called The Rock where Connery plays an old spy who _isn't_ James Bond, but I think you'll enjoy all the same because it's a very modern action movie. So you might want to check those out, especially The Rock, that one is great.
As for where the diamonds were hidden in the body, Bond says "alimentary, my dear Felix." The alimentary canal includes the esophagus, stomach, and intestines, so your guess of "booty hole" was about right.
The guy playing Blofeld in this movie is the same actor who played the British agent in Japan in "You Only Live Twice;" the guy who got stabbed in the back as he was talking to James through the paper wall...right before Bond met Tiger Tanaka.
My favorite Bond! And Jimmy Dean is the country singer who founded a sausage company, you've probably heard his voice on their commercials. And Shirley Basse singing this theme song along with Goldfiner, what a singer!
What I find hilarious about the scene where they discover Biofeld's oil rig hide out is that the model of the rig on the table map could only have been put there by Blofeld, given that Whyte didn't have an asset there.
Willard Whyte was played by country music singer Jimmy Dean, who became more famous for his brand of breakfast sausage. The Whyte character was based on Howard Hughes, who in the late sixties lived on the 8th and 9th floors of the Desert Inn Hotel in Las Vegas and was a recluse, communicating only by telephone and intercom.
I visited England in '84 for a couple of months. Even back then there were Brit-rail passes we used to take the hovercaft from Dover south across the English Channel to Calais, France. They're huge and very loud but the trip was quick and a lot of fun.
During the casino scene where the old comedian is on stage with the two showgirls, the showgirl to the right with the red outfit is Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira. You're welcome 😂
I don't think Beans was in the opening credits originally. It was solely United Artists, which was bought by Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1981, and then they changed the studio cards of the movies they had acquired. The car switching sides is probably one of the best known continuity mistakes in the James Bond series.
The bad guy explaining things to the hero is a well known trope in these kinds of movies. If you have seen "The Incredibles" it is referred to as "monologuing."
3:32 "I have no idea what is happening" Bond is on a *roaring rampage of revenge" - after Blofeld for killing his wife. The violent stuff earlier is Bond interrogating people to get Blofeld's location. 6:46 They didn't have to money to make it a normal width.
Bruce Glover as Mr. Wint is mentioned a bit in the comments, but the actor playing Mr. Kidd is interesting too. Putter Smith (Mr. Kidd) was a professional jazz bassist in real life who had played with Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and others. He was spotted by co-producer Harry Saltzman at a Monk jazz concert and given his first acting role in DAF.
Mr Whyte's house, where Bambi and Thumper were, is a real place. It's a quite famous house in Palm Springs, just a few doors down from Bob Hope's house.
Interesting Fact: Bond Girl, Lana Wood, who played Plenty O'Toole, nearly drowned when chained in the pool. The block of concrete kept moving deeper until she could no longer come up for air, and had to be rescued. Her sister, Natalie Wood, who had a fear of water, did drown when she fell off her yacht after an argument with her husband, Robert Wagner, who played Number Two in Austin Powers. Some say Wagner murdered her, though that would seem unlikely, as Christopher Walken, and the captain were on board at the time.
Born in November 1962, I was 9 when this film debuted in December 1971. The TV ads and the film listings in the newspaper emphasized the "silly" moon buggy as through it served a major part. Now, I was a kid of the 1960s "space race" and had a collection of Major Matt Mason astronaut action figures and playsets, so that rover caught my attention big time! I didn't see it in the theaters (my first theater Bond exposure was "Live and Let Die"), but I was so disappointed when it reached TV a few years later and i discovered the moon buggy was pretty much a throwaway bit.
There were toys of that moonbuggy, just as there were toys of the submarine 'chariots' from Thunderball. Marketed to kids, remember, who would not have been allowed to see films with graphic stabbings and drowning, and 'eaten by sharkings'...
The CIA agent who meets Bond when he gets to America is Felix Leiter. He's supposed to be the same guy who helped Bond out in Dr. No and Goldfinger, but they always change the actor so it's not obvious unless you're paying close attention.
@@donsample1002 David Hedison in Live and Let die and License to Kill! And more recently Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace, and No Time To Die
@@donsample1002 David Hedison is in Live and Let Die, and then he came back fifteen years later for License to Kill, which is the biggest role the character ever gets. And in the Craig era, the character's played by Jeffrey Wright every time he appears.
Here's a piece of trivia for you... Plenty O'Toole was played by Lana Woods. Her sister Natalie Wood was married to Robert Wagner. Natalie died in a 'boating accident' in Two Harbors Catalina Island. Robert Wagner's next wife is Jill St. John, the redhead who survived everything to the end.
This is my favorite Bond movie. I think it has the best storyline of all the ones I've seen. Perhaps the best Bond girl too (although Jane Seymour is pretty awesome.) And once again, you have to watch out for those little old ladies. Best line: "Bert Saxby? Tell 'im he's fahrd!"
Before Lazenby quit, the plan was for the final scene of OHMSS to be the pre title scene to this film... Which would have been a very different and darker film to how it turned out.
Bond got a new Hair Piece (not 'Herpes'). Blofeld is played by numerous notable actors over the course of the franchise, and in the novels he's always getting plastic surgery to alter his appearance - so it is consistent. Fire Extinguishers don't 'shoot out the bottom', but the hose was attached to the side of the cylinder - he left it attached and the nozzle just remained pointing 'down' when he shot it. Jack Lord played CIA agent Felix Leiter in DR. NO, if you recall. Willard Whyte was a parody of Howard Hughes, who was at the time the wealthiest man in the world (and a leading Defense Contractor with Hughes Aircraft), residing on the top two floors of his Las Vegas Hotel/Casino, the Desert Inn (at the time of this movie). This one didn't do much for most people. I always liked Jill St. John for what she was - a modern (then) Mob Moll (mobster girlfriend), like with Frank Sinatra in TONY ROME (1967), a private eye film set in Miami as Frank pays homage to Humphrey Bogart, the leader of the original Rat Pack.
Major Flaw in the Funeral Home scene. Diamonds actually burn. So burning the body would also burn the diamonds. The "Tart's handkerchief" line was because of the perfume bottle that broke. A "Tart" is a loose woman, who might perfume her handkerchief.
And if it were even possible the real diamonds wouldn’t burn like very expensive coal, the paste ones in Mr Franks body would not. Two strikes! If even one more thing goes wrong in this movie….
Love Bond movies! Diamonds always seemed like a parody. Love the part where he hit a button to eject the cassette that runs the weapon. “Put that back!”
My favorite!! My dad took my mom to see this after they got engaged. Fun fact, the henchman that says "I got a brudda" is Sid Haig from the Rob Zombie movies. We had dinner once and he told me Sean hated wearing the toupee and when the director yelled cut he'd take it off and throw it at the makeup people. Another fun fact, Mr. Wint (butt chin henchman) is Crispin Glover's father (George McFly from Back to the Future). ALSO Elvira is one of the Vegas showgirls.
One of the girls standing next to Shady Tree when he was doing his comedy monologue was Valerie Perrine, who would go on to star in films like “Lenny,” (1974) with Dustin Hoffman, but is probably best remembered for playing the part of Miss Teschmacher, Lex Luthor’s girlfriend in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1981).
Sid Haig was in loads of Blaxploitation movies in the 70s . I remember in one particular film with Pam Grier he played a pilot who was charmed by her womanly charms and in another , also with Pam he played a rival gangster's henchman who drives a car attached to a rope secured around a rival's neck and he drove at speed through the streets with the guy bouncing off kerbs and trees . It was quite brutal .
I like it for the filming location, sunshine! Living in Scotland it’s a pleasure just to watch nice sunlit scenery.. love those Nevada houses with the pools ❤
This was one of the first ones that started having a "theme" song. With it switching up to Roger Moore, they continue with Live and Let Die. For Your Eyes Only was great, as were some of the later ones by Garbage and Adele. My guilty favorite is A View to a Kill, especially how they manage to use the song all through the movie with different types of music.
Instant mashed potatoes were used to replicate the consistency of the brown substance mud bath featured in the opening teaser. What the producers failed to take into account was that after twenty-four hours, and under all the hot lights, mashed potatoes emit an almost unbearable smell.
Bambi and Thumper are the fem equivalent of Wint and Kidd, and also a reference to beliefs that a certain cartoon-maker and theme park operator was in league with the US Government at the highest level. But it seems the ladies survive their encounter with Bond and the CIA. Although there was a nasty joke from back then about 'drowning unwanted kittens'...
Filming in Las Vegas took place mostly in hotels owned by Howard Hughes, for he was a friend of Cubby Broccoli's, the owner of the Circus Circus was a Bond fan, he allowed the Circus to be used on film and even made a cameo, The home of Kirk Douglas was used for the scene in Tiffany's house, while the Elrod House in Palm Springs, designed by John Lautner, became Willard Whyte's house.
Sean gained some weight from his last outing in 1967, got some gray hair and his eyebrows weren´t trimmed (as were in his previous Bond movies). Plus he was very bored and uninspired.
Fire extinguishers do not shoot out the bottom. The bottom was clearly visible in the scene. But the hoses for fire extinguishers are usually strapped in with a little hook along the side of the tank. 50 years ago, and today. Since the opening of the hose is therefore going to point downward when it's latched, if you don't unlatch it, it will shoot facing that direction.
The Mafia guys in the hearse are seen in later Bond films, and the actor playing Blofeld this time was in You Only Live Twice as well. The mortician's place called 'Slumber, Inc' is a play upon a nickname for the Mafia in the US: 'Murder, Inc.'
Sherry is a type of wine made in a region of southern Spain. It's fortified, meaning that after the wine is made via fermentation, they add alcohol to it until it reaches 31%, then it's aged in barrels. This makes it a very dry beverage, so sometimes they later add sweeteners to it.
Old time fire extinguishers worked like that. Turn it upside down chemicals mix and react and spray out when you open the valve. He told Felix the diamonds in alimentary canal. From the mouth to the intestines.
Tiffany is played Jill St John, who is currently married to Robert Wagner of NCIS. The villain without the glasses is Julien Glover, father of Chrispen Glover who played Michael J. Fox's father in the Back to the Future movies.
And Jill St John is in the scene where Plenty O'Toole, drowns, played by Lana Wood, whose sister Natalie Wood drowned out on Robert Wagner's boat. Robert Wagner is now married to Jill St John. ("Between marriages, St. John dated entertainment, sports, and political personalities including Ben Barnes, Gianni Bulgari, Sammy Cahn, Michael Caine, Oleg Cassini, Barry Coe, Sean Connery, Ahmet Ertegun, Robert Evans, Glenn Ford, David Frost, Jack Haley Jr., Bill Hudson, Henry Kissinger, Sidney Korshak, Sandy Koufax, Peter Lawford, George Lazenby, Jim Lonborg, Trini López, Tom Mankiewicz, George Montgomery, Joe Namath, Jack Nicholson, Hugh O'Brian, Ogden Mills Phipps, Roman Polanski, Alejandro Rey, Tom Selleck, Frank Sinatra, U Thant, Robert Vaughn, Giovanni Volpi, Adam West and David L. Wolper."
And the villain with the glasses was played by Putter Smith who was not an actor but a jazz musician. I guess it does kind of make sense to do the movie with Mr. Wynt and Mr. Kidd as henchmen during pride month. Actually two of my favorite Bond henchmen just because of the deadpan humor and overall weirdness of the duo.
Random trivia: Jill St John ("Tiffany Case") was frequently typecast in sexpot-type roles, she has an IQ of 162, which places her comfortably in the "Genius" range of intelligence.
''Diamonds Are Forever'' is a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''. In the first scene after gunbarrel, Bond is still in Japan looking for Blofeld, only as the head of a global criminal organization. There is no reference to Tracy, to his marriage and there is no Draco and Irma Bunt. Connery here is aged and heavier, but if was a revenge film he's perfect, as Bond after Tracy's death.
You're ok not loving this, it's not many peoples' favorite. But it is interesting to see Las Vegas back in 1971. I'm interested to see how you like the first Roger Moore film next.
