Right! Time for yet another post on this blog and this un will be on a James Bond film and no, its not one of the new ones its an oldie from the early 1970s, or 1971 to be exact, Diamonds are forever, which was Sean Connery's penultimate film in the role. So how does it after 45 years stack up??? Well let's find out...
And yep the usual applies....
SPOILERS ARE AHEAD!!
STORY
Right so the film's pre-credits sequence begins with James Bond (Connery) trying to locate the supervillain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray) who he eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld is creating clones of himself through surgery. Bond kills a test subject and then is confronted by the "real" Blofeld but Bond then kills him by drowning him in superheated mud.
After this the story then moves on to two assassins, Mr Wint (Bruce Glover) and Mr Kidd (Putter Smith) who are targeting and killing several diamond smugglers. At a MI6 briefing, Bond meets with his superior, M (Beranrd Lee) who suspects that South African diamonds are being stockpiled to depress prices and M orders Bond uncover the smuggling ring. Bond soon after disguises himself as a professional smuggler and assassin, Peter Franks and he meets up with Frank's contact, Tiffany Case (Jill St. John). The real Franks however soon turns up at Tiffany's apartment building and Bond manages to intercept him and the two men get into a fistfight which ends with Bond killing Franks. Bond then switches his ID with the dead Franks to keep up the charade that Bond is Franks instead and together with Tiffany they smuggle the diamonds out using Franks corpse into America as they arrive in LA.
Bond soon meets up with his CIA associate, Felix Leiter (Norman Burton) at the airport and he travels to Las Vegas to a funeral home where Franks's body is cremated and the diamonds are passed onto another smuggler, Shady Tree (Leonard Barr) who is also a stand-up comedian. Bond himself however is nearly killed by Wint and Kidd as they place his unconscious body into a coffin and activate a cremation oven but Bond is saved when Shady finds out the diamonds in the casket were fakes planted by Bond and the CIA.
Not long after, Bond travels to a Vegas casino hotel named the Whyte house, named after its owner the reclusive billionaire, Willard White (Jimmy Dean). While there, Bond catches the tail end of Shady's act however Shady himself is later murdered by Wint and Kidd who are after the diamonds but they didn't realise they were fake until after they killed him. After this Bond goes to the craps tables were he meets a sexy casino hustler, Plenty O'Toole (Lana Wood) whom after gambling, takes her back to his room. However Bond is then ambushed by gang members, who throw Plenty out a window who manages to land in a pool. Bond then discovers that Tiffany is waiting for him in the bedroom and the two of the spend the night together and Bond instructs to retrieve the real diamonds from a circus casino.
At the casino however, Tiffany flees from the scene and passes the diamonds onto another smuggler but she later changes her mind when Bond meets her again at the hotel pool where O'Toole is found dead. Tiffany then drives Bond to the airport where the diamonds are given to Whyte's casino manager, Bert Saxby (Bruce Cabot) and Bond follows their destination to a remote facility by sneaking into the van of Professor Metz (Joseph Furst). At the facility it is revealed to be a laboratory where Metz, who is a lazer refraction specialist is building satelitte. Bond sneaks into the lab area but his cover is soon blown and he is forced to escape the facility using a moon buggy (yep that's right!) and he regroups with Tiffany and they head back to the Whyte house.
Back at the Whyte House, Bond then scales the top of the building and opens a rooftop window and jumps into what appears to be Willard Whyte's office. However Bond instead finds two identical Blofelds, who have been using an electronic device to make their voice sound like Whyte's. Bond kills one of the Blofelds, who is revealed to be just a look-a-like and Blofeld at gunpoint orders Bond to leave where Bond is then gassed and taken out by Wint and Kidd and placed in a pipeline in Las Vegas valley and left to die. Bond however manages to come around and escapes the pipeline and heads back to the Whyte house where he makes a call using a similar device to make his voice sound like Saxby's, which enables Bond to learn Whyte's real location.
Bond then goes and saves Whyte who is double crossed by Saxby, who attempts to kill Whyte but he is killed himself by Leiter's men in a gunfight. And with Whyte's help, Bond raids the lab and uncovers Blofeld's plan to create a laser satelitte using diamonds, which has been sent into orbit and with the satelitte Blofeld plans to destroy nuclear weapons in China, the Soviet Union and the United States and he then plans an auction for global nuclear supremacy (althought I don't quite get it myself!).
And its from here Bond must try and find a way to locate and stop Blofeld from carrying out his evil plan....
THOUGHTS
As a Bond entry, Diamonds are forever is an enjoyable one in the series which while its not one of the best Bond films its still has enough enjoyable moments in to keep an audience entertained. The tone is however fairly camp and it introduced some new characters, particularly Mr Wint and Mr Kidd who were essentially almost two homosexual stereotypes. Blofeld's return to the series however is welcoming given that Blofeld remains one of Bond's most memorable villains although I will say a bit more about him later in the review.
The return of Sean Connery to the role was also a welcome given that George Lazenby had already turned down the offer to make six more Bond films and Connery himself was paid over a 1 million dollar fee for his role in the film. Connery would then later return to the role one last time for Never say never again, which was essentially a remake of Thunderball. But Diamonds here was a pretty solid effort overall for Connery's return.
PERFORMANCES AND NOTABLE SCENES (Warning: this section will contain spoilers!)
As for the performances well they are a bit of a mixed bag here but its certainly not all bad.
And to start off with its star, Sean Connery does a fine job again as James Bond, although he is starting to show his age a little in the role despite being only 40 or 41 at the time of filming, Connery is already showing a few grey hairs and wrinkles! ;-) But regardless of that Connery still plays the part with a sly charisma and he looks back at home in the role after his previous departure.
Connery has plenty of good moments in the film that include the scene at the start where (SPOILER!!) Bond kills one of the Blofeld clones, thinking to be the real one and he drowns Blofeld in heated mud. And Bond turns up the temperature control level on a panel and grins and says to the deceased Blofeld "Welcome to hell, Blofeld!".
Another scene worth mentioning is when Bond meets with M for a briefing with Sir Donald Mungen over the smuggling rings. And in the scene Sir Mungen asks Bond what does he know about gold and Bond replies "Well, hardest substance found in nature, they cut glass, suggests marriage, I suppose it replaced the dog as the girl's best friend. That's about it!".
Then there is the scene when Bond first meets Tiffany Case and he walks into her apartment where she is wearing scant clothing. And Bond says to her "That's quite a nice little nothing you're almost wearing. I approve" and Tiffany pours Bond a drink warning him "I don't dress for the hired help. Let's see your passport, Franks". And Bond gives her his passport (or rather Franks passport) and she looks at it and says "Occupation: Transport Consultant? It's a little cute isn't it? I'll finish dressing" and Bond sarcastically says "Oh, please don't, not on my account!".
Then there is the moment where Bond meets with Plenty O'Toole at the casino and she says to him "Hi, I'm Plenty" and Bond looks at her alluring and revealing dress and says "But of course you are!". And Plenty says "Plenty O'Toole" and Bond says to her "Named after your father perhaps?!".
Another good scene is when Bond is gassed unconscious and taken out to the Las Vegas valley and placed in a large open pipe, which is fed into the pipeline. And when Bond comes around inside the pipeline he sees a small rat close to him and he smells something in the air and says to the rat "Well, one of us smells like a tart's handkerchief!" and Bond sniffs himself as it was the aftershave that Wint was wearing and he apologies to the rat "I'm afraid its me. Sorry, old boy!". And this is followed up by the moment where Bond emerges from the pipe when a couple of oil workers open a hatch and Bond says to them "Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way!".
Then we have the scene where Bond goes up to find Whyte and encounters Whyte's two female friends, Bambi and Thumper who give Bond more than he bargained for as they kick his ass between them. And in the scene the two girls throw Bond into a swimming pool below and they try to drown him but he instead manages to dunk their heads down below the water instead! Its a pretty daft scene but fun all the same.
And lastly there is the scene near the end (SPOILER!) when Bond and Tiffany are having a special dinner onboard a cruise ship but the dinner is served up to them by Wint and Kidd, who have stashed a bomb inside a large cake. And in the scene Wint opens a bottle of wine for Bond and pours a glass, giving the cork to Bond to sniff, which he does and he says to Wint "That is quite potent, not the cork, your aftershave" and he tastes the wine "The wine is quite excellent. Although for such a grand meal I would have expected a claret". And Wint says to Bond "But of course. Unfortunately our cellar is poorly stocked with clarets" and Bond having rumbled Wint says to him "Mouton Rothschild IS a claret. And, I've smelled that aftershave before, and both times - I've smelled a rat!".
Jill St. John next up however is a weak link in the chain of the cast here as her performance as the sexy and sassy diamond smuggler, Tiffany Case is pretty lame to say the least as she appears to deliver her lines almost half heartedly and certainly doesn't do so great with her more dramatic moments. In short Tiffany Case remains one of the flimsiest of Bond girls and Jill's performance certainly doesn't help back the character up.
Regardless of that Jill has one or two good moments though that include the scene when Tiffany attends the circus casino and she plays a water gun game to win a prize (the prize actually is a bear which has the real diamonds stashed in it). And as Jill wins the game, a young kid playing next to her insists she was cheating, so Jill fed up says to the kid "Go blow up your pants!".
And lastly there is the scene where Tiffany stops Metz from leaving the gas station to allow Bond to sneak into his van so Tiffany drives her car infront of Metz's vehicle. And in the scene Tiffany says to Metz "Keep leaning on that tooter, Charlie, and you're gonna get a shot in the mouth!" and she says to the gas station attendant "Hey Curly, how about my stamps?!" and the station attendant relents and get's the petrol pump ready to fill up her car. However at this point, Tiffany notices Bond has gotten into the back of Metz's van and she says to the attendant "Hey, I wanted high-test! (i.e. petrol) Forget it, Curly, you had your chance and you blew it!" and she get's in her car and drives off.
Although of course they can't resist later on making Tiffany's character into a real bimbo onboard Blofeld's oil rig where she is caught by Blofeld trying to switch the tapes and one of them is stuck in the rear of her bikini. Not to mention the scene when Bond tells Tiffany to pick up a machine gun and shoot some of Blofeld's henchmen and Tiffany fires the gun without looking but the force of the machine gun sends her running backward off the oil rig into the water!
Charles Gray does fair better as Blofeld however his performance doesn't have the creepy stillness of Donald Pleasance in You Only Live Twice or the credibility of Telly Savalas in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (although I still think Telly was the best Blofeld). Gray had also appeared in one of the previous Bond films, You only live twice as Dikko Henderson, one of Bond's British contacts (albeit rather briefly).
Gray has some good moments all the same that include the scene Blofeld meets with Bond at the Whyte house. And Bond asks Blofeld what he intends to do with the diamonds and Blofeld says to Bond "An excellent question. And one which will be hanging on the lips of the world quite soon. If I were to break the news to anyone it would be to you first, Mr Bond, you know that". But Blofeld soon then asks Bond to leave and says to him "But its late, I'm tired and there is much to be done, Mr Bond" and he press a button opening a lift door. And Bond walks cautiously towards the lift, prompting a response from Blofeld "Well go on, go on, it's merely a lift. Or should I say elevator? In any event I'm sure you'll find it far more convenient than mountaineering about outside the Whyte House!".
Then there is the admittedly stupid scene where Blofeld wanders through a casino in drag and this catches the attention of Tiffany who only sees him from behind so she chases after him out onto the sidewalk where she is soon pushed into a limo and is sat right next to Blofeld who sits with a wig and make-up on, stroking his cat. And Blofeld says to her Tiffany "Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in! I'm delighted to meet you, Miss Case. I'd so dreaded the prospect of making this tedious journey alone!".
And lastly there is the scene when onboard Blofeld's oilrig near the end, Blofeld catches Tiffany trying to switch the cassette tapes used to launch the codes for the satelitte and she has the other tape in her underwear. And Blofeld says to her "Tiffany, my dear! We're showing a bit more CHEEK than usual, aren't we?!" and Tiffany hands the tape to Blofeld and he says " Take her below and lock her up with Mr. Bond". And as Tiffany is lead off, Blofeld looks at the tape and says to himself "What a pity, such nice cheeks too. If only they were brains!".
Bruce Glover and Putter Smith are also pretty good in their roles as the creepy henchmen, Mr Wint and Mr Kidd as you can almost imagine they are like a gay couple version of Anton Chigurh as they relentlessly murder anyone that stands in their way. And it also has to be said that they also can't resist making a series of cheesy puns when they make their kills aswell, which does get a bit annoying after a while.
I will mention them together as they really are a double act so their scenes worth mentioning include their first when they are out in the desert and they meet with a diamond smuggler who is also a dentist to do an exchange for money and diamonds. And before the smuggler arrives, Wint notices a scorpion on the ground and says to Kidd "The scorpion" and Kidd says "One of nature's finest killers, Mr Wint" and Wint says to him "One is never too old to learn from a master, Mr. Kidd!".
And later in the same scene after they have killed the dentist smuggler, Wint and Kidd kill off another smuggler who arrives in a helicopter by giving him a case with a bomb inside, which detonates as the smuggler flies off. And this prompts the glib one-liners from the duo as Kidd says to Wint "If God wanted man to fly...." and Wint finishes the line "...he would have given him wings, Mr Kint!" and the two then holds hands and walk off together through the desert.
Another good scene comes between the two of them when they are onboard a plane, following Tiffany Case. And Kidd spots Tiffany through the curtains of the section of his cabin and Kidd says to Wint "Well, they're both aboard, and I must say Miss Case seems quite attractive..." and this prompts a jealous glare from Wint and Kidd says "....for a lady!" and Wint continues to glare and Kidd laughs nervously.
Then there is the scene when Bond is knocked out by Wint and Kidd at the funeral home and he is placed in a coffin and they activate the creamtion oven. And as the coffins starts to move into the oven, Wint glibly says to Kidd "Very moving" and Kidd says "Heartwarming, Mr Wint" and Wint says "A glowing tribute, Mr Kidd!" and they leave hurriedly. God these guys are on fire! (Sorry!).
And last of all there is the moment when Bond after having met with Blofeld is gassed in the lift and then taken out by Wint and Kidd and placed in their car where they drive Bond into the valley. And as they look at the unconscious Bond and Wint says to Kidd "If at first you don't succeed Mr. Kidd...?" and Kidd finishes off the line "Try, try again, Mr Wint!".
Jimmy Dean also does well in his role as the reclusive billionaire, Willard Whyte who is being used by Blofeld in order to carry out his own plan.
Dean's most memorable moment in the film comes when Bond along with Leiter finally track down Whyte and they lead him out of his secluded hideout only for a gunshot to fire off and we see Bert Saxby taking shots at his boss. And as Saxby is killed by the CIA agents, Bond says "Saxby" and Whyte who didn't see Saxby die asks "Bert Saxby???!" and Bond says "yes" which prompts the classic line "Tell him he's fired!!".
Norman Burton does OK in his role as Felix Leiter although I have to say he isn't one of the more memorable Leiter's but he does what he can.
And Burton still does provide one of the film's best lines when Felix runs up after Bond who has gone up to find Willard Whyte in his secluded penthouse. And Felix runs in to find Bond in the swimming pool with the two girls, Bambi and Thumper while he dunks them under the water (a scene that Connery appears to be enjoying I might add!). And Felix says to Bond "Oh, great! Willard Whyte is about to be executed and guess who's giving breaststroke lessons???!".
Lana Wood on the other hand is pretty naff in her part as the other Bond girl in the film, Plenty O'Toole who appears only briefly which is maybe just aswell given her acting leaves much to be desired (although her figure is a different story! ;-).
And Wood get's some of the film's worst lines although she does get one good one where Bond has finished playing at the crap tables in the casino and Plenty follows him, impressed. And Plenty says to Bond after he gives her $5,000 in chips "Hey, Mr Franks, you are a terrific guy! A little weird but a terrific guy!".
But this is followed by one of the worst lines in the whole film when Bond takes Plenty back to his luxurious hotel room and she says to him "Wow! What a super place you have!". Although to be fair it is followed up by the better line when the Slumber inc funeral home goons come back for the real diamonds and one of them grabs Plenty and throws her out the window into a swimming pool below. And Plenty protests as she is lifted out the bedroom, naked except for her underwear, yelling "Hey, what the hell is this? A pervert's convention or something? Now listen, you can't do this to me! Stop that! I've got friends in this town!".
And last of all Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewellyn all do their own little bit in the film and do it well although in their respective roles as M, Moneypenny and Q.
Lee himself delivers one of the film's best lines when Bond shows off his knowledge of wine to Sir Donald Mungen but Mungen asks him what he knows about gold. And Bond glibly says "Well, hardest substance found in nature, they cut glass, suggests marriage, I suppose it replaced the dog as the girl's best friend. That's about it!". And M replies "Refreshing to hear that there is one subject you're not an expert on!".
Lois Maxwell literally however only has one scene in the film and that's when Moneypenny gives Bond his fake passport. And as Bond is about to drive off he asks Moneypenny "What can I bring you back from Holland?" and Moneypenny says "A diamond? In a ring?" and Bond smiles and says "Would you settle for a tulip?!" and he drives off, leaving Moneypenny smiling longingly and saying "Yes".
And last of all Des has one or two good little moments although the two that come to mind are when he sets up the electronic voice to change Bond's voice to sound like Saxby's. And Bond says to Q after making the call using it says "This time you've surpassed yourself, Q" and Q says to him "Oh not at all, made this for the kids last Christmas!". And also the moment where he uses a magnetised ring to activate the slot machines in the Vegas casino much to the amazement of Tiffany.
DIRECTOR AND MUSIC
Finally moving onto the director, Guy Hamilton, who did a fine job here with the film in what was the second of four Bond films that he directed. Hamilton here also paces the film out very well as it rarely lags and he shows he is more than capable on handling the action scenes although the film is guilty of having one or two boring car chases in it but that can be forgiven as its mostly all good fun here. Hamilton would then go on to direct Roger Moore's debut and follow up, Live and Let Die and The man with the golden gun. This might not be Hamilton's best directorial effort as that would belong to Goldfinger but its still a good one and it showed Hamilton was one of the series best directors.
As for the music John Barry provides an excellent score and it is filled his usual signature tracks and themes and there are plenty of good tracks throughout the film. A couple in particular that are worth mentioning is the one where Blofeld activates the satelitte in orbit and destroys the nuclear arms in the US, China and the Soviet Union as its a good example of Barry's dramatic musical styling (that's the best I can put it!). And another is the music used during the film's climax on Blofeld's oil rig when Bond sabotages Blofeld's minisub by operating the crane to hoist and lower it and he slams the minisub into the side of the satelite control room.
And I can't forget to mention that the film contains its excellent theme song sung by Shirley Bassey, which is very memorable in itself and it stands out as one of the most notable Bond theme songs.
FLAWS (Warning this section may also contain spoilers!)
As for the Diamonds are forever....flaws....does it have any???? Yeah it does have some.
And to kick off one of the problems I had with the film was to do with its campy tone and its overuse of glib one-liners and puns not only from the hitman duo of Mr Wint and Mr Kidd but even from Bond himself. I mean lines such as the one where Bond slips the cassette tape into the behind of Tiffany's Bikini knickers and he says to her "You bitch. Your troubles are all behind you now!".
Or another example is when just after Mr Wint and Kidd kill off the dentist with a scorpion, they give a case to another smuggler who arrives in a helicopter and Wint says to the smuggler of the dentist "He couldn't make it! Bitten by the bug!". I mean its pretty naff and they soon become a bit tiresome and you can just imagine the screenwriters just hanging around the office trying to come up with as many cheesy puns as they possibly could to squeeze into the script!
Also further to the point of the scorpion stinging the dentist and killing him in actual reality not alot of scorpion stings are actually fatal although some of them can and they can be particularly fatal to children (or so I read). So again this film sets up a bit of a myth about scorpions suddenly being able to kill a man with one sting as its just thrown in for the sake of convenience to bump off an expendable character.
Another problem I have with the film to a lesser extent is Connery's depiction of Bond has him as something of a bit of a misogynist (well I guess Bond kind of is really!). And here Bond is seen almost strangling a woman (he nearly chokes a woman to death with her bikini top for information at the start on Blofeld's whereabouts) and slapping one (where he slaps Jill in one scene when he asks her about her diamond connection). And Bond's rougshod approach to treating women like this was I guess something that Connery did do but its something I don't think sits too well or appears that comfortable to watch in the film.
As for the plot there were one or two daft moments worth mentioning too such as the scene where Bond sneaks into the back of Metz's van while Tiffany distracts Metz by parking her car infront of him and brashly asking the gas station attendant to fill her car up. And in this scene we can see Bond get into the back of the van, but so can the guy who's car is directly BEHIND Metz's yet the guy in the car behind says NOTHING of it to Metz or Tiffany! And it would make you wonder, shouldn't the guy have said something as it was as clear as day to him and it looked a bit weird seeing a random guy sneak into the back of Metz's van!
Then there is a bit of a continuity error in the plot which happens in the scene where Tiffany comes back to her home and finds Bond sitting outside in a deck chair waiting for her only for Tiffany to find Plenty's dead body drowned in her swimming pool. Now this really makes no sense because presumably Wint and Kidd killed Plenty but they already have seen Tiffany so why would they mistake Plenty for her in the first place?! Maybe the only excuse for this is that they did it at night in poor light and thought Plenty looked enough like Tiffany and that was enough for them to make the mistake.
However there is also a deleted scene for the film which happens to explain just why Plenty was at Tiffany's home in the first place as she actually sneaked her way back up into Bond's hotel room and noticed that Bond was getting it on with Tiffany. So Plenty angrily and sneakily rifles through Tiffany's handbag and notes her address and she goes there, which obviously leads into the case of mistaken identity of her murder. Now this kind of makes more sense but its still a bit daft but without this scene the fact we see Plenty turn up dead in Tiffany's swimming pool in the film makes none whatsoever!
I also found the scene where Wint and Kidd take Bond when he is unconscious out to a pipeline a bit silly too as they just leave him in a large pipe thinking he might eventually die there, which is stupid in itself as he didn't! And it makes you wonder given all the opportunities they had to kill him why didn't they just shoot Bond and get it over with or perhaps Blofeld instructed them not to kill Bond. Who knows???
Another issue was to do with Blofeld and his clones as it kind of gets pretty silly and confusing as to just who was the original Blofeld???! I mean was the guy that Bond killed at the start Blofeld??? Or was he just a clone? Or was he the original Blofeld and the one we see later was a replacement clone??? Its like the writers seemed to delight in confusing the audience with all the Blofelds on display here! In fact they would be just better with focusing on just the one Blofeld rather than confusing an audience with the whole idea of Blofeld's clones, which is a pretty stupid one anyway.
And its also worth mentioning that Blofeld really is reduced to a rather campy character himself here even to the point where in one scene he is dressed up in drag with a wig and lipstick on! Charles Gray does have the perfect face for a villain but he just doesn't cut it here as the menacing SPECTRE supervillain that is supposed to Blofeld, not when we see him in a skirt and high heels!
Another issue with the plot is also to do with Blofeld's plan which is pretty effing stupid to stay the least! I mean he destroys the superpowers of the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons so he can put up an auction of some kind for world supremacy! So is this some sort of nuclear arms pre-eBay deal he is trying to work out here with the nations of the world???? It just doesn't make much sense at all!! Not to mention it just isn't very well explained in the film as to why Blofeld was really doing it! Is it so he can control the supply of nuclear weapons or is it so he can announce himself as the great nuclear superpower that can fire a missile anywhere at will??? Hmmm it doesn't add up at all.
And lastly just what happened to Blofeld at the end of the film?! Yes Bond does sabotage Blofeld's mini submarine by hoisting it with the crane and bashing it into the sides of the oil rig's control room but its not clear whether or not Blofled actually survives. So we are just left guessing as to whether Blofeld actually made it or if he was killed in the explosions of the rig itself. We don't know so its just left open ended and no one says anymore about it although Wint and Kidd do go after Bond and Tiffany at the end so that might have been on the orders of Blofeld himself after the fact, which is enough to suggest he survived.
Oh and on a final addition to this subplot with Wint and Kidd attempting to kill Bond and Jill for the last time, it is beyond stupid that Mr Wint would derive such pleasure from Bond having pulling Wint's arms up behind his legs just after his partner in crime (literally and metaphorically!) Mr Kidd has been killed by Bond! Its almost like Bond is unintentionally giving Wint a last cheap perverted thrill before he kills him off which almost erases the fact his boyfriend has just been offed by Bond aswell! Ah well, it is just a Bond film I guess.
Anyway that's it for the flaws.
SUM UP
So to sum up, Diamonds are forever is still an entertaining Bond film which has plenty of fairly fast paced action and has some creepy villains in Mr Wint and Kidd and it sees Sean Connery make a welcome return to the role after George Lazenby's very brief stint in the role (although he is starting to look a bit old here!).
Its not perfect of course and the overly camp tone, its bland Bond girl in Tiffany Case and some daft plot holes do somewhat do it quite a bit of injustice. But if you are willing to overlook all that then its still a film that's worth checking it out, even if it isn't one of the very best Bond films.
So that's it for now and I will be back soon with another post!
Till then its bye for now!
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