Diamonds Are Forever 1956

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Diamonds Are Forever 1956

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"Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with - if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself...."
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Re: Diamonds Are Forever 1956

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I always thought this was Fleming's worst novel. It was very boring in places and those Spang brothers were very lame, uninspiring villains. Diamond smuggling was an interest was of Fleming's and it shows, he even wrote a non-Bond book on the subject. The film was the one film that diverged from the book where I think the movie was better, maybe you could chuck TSWLM in there too.
"Dalton makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary" - Roger Ebert
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