"I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Over the course of 35 years, 17 James Bond films thrill and entertain movie audiences worldwide." "Each Bond adventure seems to break more box office records." "Each new generation of filmgoers produces legions of new Bond fans." "It is a legacy unparalleled in the history of movie-making and each film from "Dr No" to "Goldeneye"" "bears the mark of one man:" "Albert R Broccoli." "The Bond films alone would stand as a monumental life's work for any film producer, but they are only one chapter of the remarkable story of a remarkable man." "Filmgoers know him as Albert R Broccoli." "To anyone who met him, he was simply known as Cubby." "The world of James Bond, of exclusive clubs and elegant surroundings, could not be further removed from the world Cubby Broccoli is born into." "Cubby Broccoli's story is the story of the Italian-American experience." "It is the story of challenge, hard work, sacrifice and ultimate success." "But most of all, it is the story of the importance of family." "His family were Italian immigrants and one of the great things about him was that he was proud of where he came from." "Cubby's roots go right back to Calabria in Italy which is one of the poorest parts of Italy." "A great deal of poverty at the time." "The Calabria region of Italy is known for two things:" "Poverty, and a delicate vegetable - broccoli." "Cubby Broccoli's family begins emigrating to the United States in the 1870s." "They all had great stories about emigrating to the US and coming on the boat and seeing the Statue of Liberty and being processed at Ellis Island and coming across into what was Harlem." "The first of Cubby's relatives to emigrate is his uncle, Pasquale De Cicco, who became wealthy by successfully importing broccoli seeds." "Soon, Cubby Broccoli's grandmother and his mother, Cristina, arrive." "Cristina marries Giovanni Broccoli, another immigrant from Calabria." "He was a nice man." "A very gentle, quiet man." "On April 5, 1905," "Cristina gives birth to her second son, Albert." "He was always really proud of showing us where he was born." "It's just a row of brick apartment houses with exterior fire escapes, and I think he felt that he'd really benefited so much from the American dream." "While Cubby's father works as a civil engineer on the Croton Dam and the Catskill Aqueduct," "Cubby and his mother Cristina live on the De Cicco farm where Cubby becomes lifelong friends with his cousin Pat." "There are only nine months' difference between Cubby and Pat De Cicco's ages and they were brought up on the farm together." "They were friends since they were little tiny kids." "He was really close to Pat." "They were like brothers." "Soon, Pat De Cicco finds a nickname for his cousin Albert." "There was a cartoon character called Abe Kabibble, who he looked like." "So he said that Uncle Pat gave him that nickname." "Actually, he started by calling him Kabibble and Kabibble turned into Cubby." "He loved people calling him Cubby." "During Cubby's youth, his mother Cristina, takes a job as a cook for famed inventor Harry Norton Marvin." "Marvin had helped invent early crank-handled movie cameras and is one of the founders of the Biograph movie company." "Harry Marvin takes an interest in Albert Broccoli." "And he said to Cubby's mother, "This boy has a lot of talent."" ""He's very artistic and you ought to see that he goes that way."" "Soon, Giovanni Broccoli saves enough to buy his own farm." "Every time I talked to Cubby about it there would be tears in Cubby's eyes." "All this hard work had gone into cultivating beautiful crops." "Like everything else, the competition was fierce." "The speculators would come around, and they'd be picking it up, looking at it." "They would be offered derisory sums of money for the work that Cubby reckoned they actually drew blood, virtually, in order to produce." "If it was a bad season and nobody wanted your produce, you dumped it instead of taking it home." "The thing that kept returning in his narrative would be his memory of his mother on her knees in appalling heat, pulling out the weeds between the furrows of the crops." "He would talk about her with enormous affection and love." "She was a great example for him." "Cubby's mother was a great lady, and she could tell wonderful stories." "As kids growing up, we'd be in bed at night and she'd tell these very dramatic stories." "All in Italian, of course." "Fabulous, fabulous storyteller." "I always thought that Cubby inherited his storytelling ability from Chris." "Because of his mother he never had any, sort of, concerns about women's abilities to do anything." "He understood how strong they were." "It's obvious from the very beginning that Cubby was determined to give his mother a better life." "He was up in the morning, in the fields, then had to walk to school and worked in the fields when he came home." "He would always say, "If, you know, if you're prepared to work hard and follow a dream, you'll get there."" "I think that's why the Lindbergh moment was such a seminal moment in his life." "My father was working in the fields." "When he was cranking the Fordson tractor, just after dawn, he heard this "put-put-put" noise and he looked up." "And in the sky he saw the Spirit of St Louis." "It flew over and he waved." "And Lindbergh waved to him." "And, for Cubby, it had this psychological effect." "In America, anything was possible." "If he can do it, I can do it." "His strength came from that moment when he said, "I know I can do it."" "Soon tragedy strikes." "Cubby's father had a massive heart attack after just having this farm for a short time." "After his father's death, the family embarks on a new farming venture in Florida." "That was in the very, you know, rural part, so to speak, near Lake Okeechobee." "This place in Florida was a horrid piece of soil." "The swamps were snake-infested and full of problems." "And they worked for two years getting this soil to a condition where they could plant." "After all the hard work," "Cubby and his partners watch as their first crop is destroyed by blight and their second is destroyed by a hurricane." "He lost his shirt down in Florida." "Cubby Broccoli returns from Florida certain of only one thing:" "He does not want to continue to farm." "Cubby's family notices he has two skills." "He is good with numbers and he is a great negotiator." "Soon, Cubby is asked to work with his cousin." "When my grandfather came to the US he was a carpenter and he started a casket company." "Jimmy's grandfather started the casket business but he didn't speak very much English." "My grandfather didn't understand banking." "So Cubby said, "I'll come and I'll help you."" "Cubby helped my grandfather build a successful business in New York." "Meanwhile, Cubby's cousin Pat is making a name for himself in the society column." "Well, Pat was probably the most handsome man who walked the earth." "Pat was a bon vivant, a man about town." "Uncle Pat was a legend." "He was larger than life." "Pat De Cicco was, like, the left hand to Cubby being the right hand." "And they were a very funny pair." "The two of them got together and it was just kind of like, you know, music." "Soon, though, Cubby's cousin Pat decides to leave New York for Hollywood." "Pat De Cicco went to Hollywood and he became an agent." "Pat had taken the town by storm." "Pat said to Cubby, "Why don't you leave that creepy business and come to Hollywood?"" "He arrived there, and when Pat invited him into his home, and there's a ring at the door..." "The first person who knocked on the door was Cary Grant." "And then Randolph Scott dropped by." "Cubby just couldn't believe that he had these people as neighbours." "The next night, his cousin Pat takes Cubby out on the town." "Cubby was waiting for Pat at the bar at the Colony Club." "And while he was there he was twirling a silver dollar." "And there was a man nearby who was also twirling a silver dollar." "And he turned to Cubby and he said, "Heads or tails?"" "And Cubby, who had all the instincts of a gambler, said "Heads"." "There was no question he wasn't going to play." "Cubby lost." "They played it again and Cubby lost again." "So the man spun a third dollar and Cubby said, "No, thanks." "I've had enough."" "Three dollars at that time was very big money for Cubby." "Pat arrived and he said to the man at the counter," ""Oh, I see that you've met my cousin, Cubby Broccoli."" "And the man at the bar turned to Cubby and he said," ""Hi, Cubby, my name is Howard Hughes."" "And that began a friendship between Cubby and Howard Hughes which lasted their entire lifetime." "Despite his new-found connections, Cubby has to find a job." "And the job he got was selling beauty supplies in San Francisco." "He amused me." "He described in detail the seedy hotel he had to check into." "It was a real low point in his life." "A rat would appear on the windowsill of the room." "He said, "All I had in the world, the only person I had to talk to, was this rat."" "He met an old chum who said, "We're going to the races..."" "and would he like to go?" "Cubby said yes." "He put money on a horse." "It was a long shot." "And the horse came in." "And Cubby won enough money that day to pay his hotel bill, and to take him to Los Angeles." "And everything changed for him again." "He got a job with a very respected jeweller in Beverly Hills." "One day he ended up at MGM with a tray of jewellery for a man called Irving Thalberg." "And Thalberg made a selection, so he got a chance to meet him." "A very elegant, quiet, polite man." "He spoke of Thalberg as being one of the most sensitive people he knew." "You know, that was a high point in, sort of, in his life." "Cubby soon becomes determined to enter the film industry." "He speaks to one of Pat De Cicco's friends, Joseph Skank, head of 20th Century-Fox." "Before long, Cubby is working as a third assistant director." "Cubby becomes a fixture at the Trocadero café, where he is often seen escorting such beauties as Joan Marsh and Rochelle Hudson." "But Cubby marries actress Gloria Blondell." "He was always very complimentary about Gloria Blondell." "Joe Skank offers Cubby a position as assistant director on a Howard Hughes production, "The Outlaw", directed by Howard Hawks." "But when Howard Hughes heard about this, he was very upset." "He said, "I can't do that." "I can't hire Cubby."" ""He's a very good friend of mine." "I can't give a good friend a job."" ""My studio would be very upset with me."" "When Howard Hawks heard about that, who was the director for the film, he said, "I want Cubby."" "Cubby Broccoli becomes one of the top assistant directors at 20th Century-Fox." "But soon Cubby must change gears." "World War Two breaks out and Cubby joins the navy." "The navy does not waste Cubby Broccoli's talents." "He and future producer Ray Stark work together." "They really got to be great friends." "Because they were both in the movie business and they had a lot of contacts they would get people to do shows for them." "Broccoli and Stark book stars like Bing Crosby," "Bob Hope," "Dorothy Lamour," "Milton Berle," "Dinah Shore and Danny Kaye for navy shows." "Cubby and Gloria Blondell, though fond of each other, find that their partnership does not last." "They end their marriage on good terms and remain friends." "After the war, Cubby Broccoli wants to get back into movie-making." "Pat suddenly wanted to produce a film." "He got some money together and they did a low-budget picture." "Producer/director Irving Allen joins the project." "Allen is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker but Cubby and Pat have less experience." "Cubby becomes the film's production manager." "It was an adventure movie." "It was kind of big spectacle and high adventure." "It didn't go anywhere and it didn't make any money." "With the lacklustre success of "Avalanche"" "Cubby returns to sales, if just for one season." "He got a job selling Christmas trees on Wilshire Boulevard." "The Christmas tree lot was beautiful." "It was really magical." "I was with Michael, my son, who was then five years old." "And this very dear man came up to us and we went through every single tree, trying to decide which one Michael wanted." "This dear man was so patient." "Then we finally picked out the right one." "And then this man said, "Can you put a stand on this?"" "I said, "No, I don't think so."" "He said, "That's all right." "I'll put it on for you."" "And that man was Cubby." "And we were not to meet again until 15 years later." "But as Cubby Broccoli approaches the age of 40, he decides to try a career that capitalises on his greatest strength:" "His way with people." "Cubby Broccoli becomes a talent agent and goes to work for Charlie Feldman, head of Famous Artists." "Cubby brings famed star Lana Turner to the agency and soon is representing Ava Gardner." "He had a couple of clients." "One of them was Robert Wagner." "I went to MGM with Cubby and we got thrown out." "We went up to the Thalberg building and went in and the guy on the desk said, "You've been barred from the lot."" "He said, "What?" "Barred from the lot?"" "He was shocked, you know." "And Cubby had a little bit of a scene with that guy and they threw us out on the steps of the Thalberg building." "Charlie Feldman was dating a girl that Louis B Mayer was interested in." "So one of the things that he did was he prevented anyone from Charlie Feldman's agency entering the studio." "I thought, "Well, my career is finished." "I've tied up with Cubby Broccoli."" ""And I'm now, in a matter of moments, finished in the industry."" "All of this stuff would go on." "All about girls." "Everything was about getting girls." "It's unbelievable." "While developing careers for actors," "Cubby's friendship with Irving Allen grows." "When Irving Allen needs help financing his next film," "Cubby raises the money from his friend Howard Hughes." "Cubby is also creating another close relationship in his life." "He meets Nedra Sanders Clark in Palm Springs." "Nedra and Cubby marry in 1951." "Both are beginning new lives." "Everything was on track and their lives were great and they were very happy." "Cubby soon leaves Famous Artists and with Irving Allen he options a book, "The Red Beret"." "They saw an opportunity for American filmmakers to go to England." "We had over in this country at the time, some of the finest technicians, some of the finest writers." "A great reservoir of talent." "Cubby and Irving Allen work hard to get the film off the ground." "Howard Hughes had given Cubby and Irving preproduction money." "With the money, Cubby and Irving Allen hire British writer/director Terence Young to shepherd the development." "Now they had to get a top star and Alan Ladd was number one box office in America." "And they really wanted Alan and they tried everything until they really gave him a tremendous amount of money and then suddenly he said, yes, he would do it." "And they made a three-picture deal." "Once signed," "Alan Ladd asked for writer Richard Maibaum to work on the screenplay." "But when Hughes backs out at the last minute," "Cubby and Irving Allen make a hasty deal with Columbia Pictures." "When the deal is finally completed" "Irving Allen and Cubby Broccoli meet at Cubby's apartment in New York's Warwick hotel." "They form a company which will change the face of British movies in the 1950s:" "Warwick." "When "The Red Beret" is released in 1952 it breaks box office records in England, and under the title "Paratrooper" it is a huge success in the United States." "The movie was a smash in England and America and they went on to make two more films with Alan which were very successful." "When you look at those films most of them are big, exciting action adventure films with all the elements that later on worked so incredibly well within the whole James Bond franchise." "Cubby had exotic locations in all of his films." "Beautiful girls, interesting stories." "And he brought all of this into the making of the Bond films." "Cubby Broccoli and Irving Allen suddenly find they are players." "I think of them in terms of being one of the first independents who really, sort of, put the name "independent" on the map." "Movies took you places that you would never, ever go to." "You met people you would never meet in a million years." "He loved adventure." "I think that's why you look at most all of his films, or all big, adventure films." "Soon Warwick is producing three to four films a year giving Cubby and Irving unqualified success." "For Cubby, it has been a long journey." "He would say, "It took me a long time to know what I wanted to do."" ""It took me a long time to become successful."" "Cubby and Nedra have a new life in London, but want to add to their happiness." "They decide to start a family." "She actually couldn't have children." "She was told by the doctor." "So they adopted my brother Tony." "And they adopted him before he was born." "Truly a gift and a new baby in their lives." "And they were very happy." "And then she got pregnant." "And here I am." "She had me." "She was an easy lady to get along with." "She was a good mother." "Everything was fine until this dreadful thing happened." "She found out she had cancer." "We all knew it was terminal." "She would never admit it, though." "I think she knew but she would never use the word "cancer"." "She didn't live very long after that." "Just months." "And she died in New York." "And that must have been a very, you know, traumatic thing for Dad." "He was devastated, of course." "And he had the two children." "So he was in his late 40s, a widower with two little children." "While consoling his two children," "Cubby receives bad news from his business partner Irving Allen." "He was very interested in the James Bond books." "He wanted to get the film rights." "And he had apparently talked to Irving and Irving was supposed to negotiate or see whether they could get the option to the books." "At a meeting with Fleming, Fleming's agent and Ned McClean," "Allen is clearly uninterested." "He later tells Cubby that Fleming's books are not even good enough for television." "So, it didn't work out." "He was clearly very disappointed." "Poor Cubby went through absolute hell." "And I was a little girl, you know, seeing him suffer through this pain." "It was just awful." "He didn't collapse." "He brought his life back together again." "Soon Cubby meets a woman who heals his emotional wounds." "She was just stunning." "I mean, stunningly gorgeous." "She modelled in New York City." "Dana had been an actress." "She acted on the Boston stage and the New York stage and did a lot of summer stock, and that was where she met her first husband, Louis Wilson." "Louis Wilson was the original Batman for Columbia Pictures." "They married and they had Michael Wilson, who's my half-brother." "They got involved in TV and movies." "I did a few films and I did a series called "Craig Kennedy, Detective"." "And then, when my husband went off to war, I decided that I would try writing and I was fortunate enough to get my very first book published." "Being separated with the war for five years just changed everything." "And when my husband returned, we were two entirely different people." "It was inevitable that we would divorce." "On New Year's Eve, 1958, Dana Wilson is reintroduced to Cubby Broccoli." "A friend of mine invited me to a New Year's Eve party in Las Vegas." "And I went." "And while I was waiting in the hotel lobby, there was a friend of mine who was with Cubby." "They were going to a different party so we only met for a few minutes." "But then two days later, we met again in a restaurant in Beverly Hills." "Then I had to go off to New York." "And the next thing I know is that Cubby arrived in New York and was calling hotels to find out where I was." "So we met, and after two dates, we really knew that there was something very special between us." "They liked each other from the very beginning." "They had a whirlwind romance." "After dinner one night, when Cubby was dropping me off at the house, he said, suddenly, out of nowhere," ""Dana, would you marry me?"" "It just took my breath away." "We'd only known each other for five weeks." "And I said, "Well, Cubby..." I just didn't know how to answer him." "And I said, "Don't you think it would be better if I came to Europe and I met your children and we would take it from there?"" "He said, "That's not what I asked you." "I asked you if you would marry me."" "And I said, "Yes, Cubby." "Yes, I will marry you."" "Cubby has one more person to convince before the wedding." "He said, "I only have one hurdle now."" ""I've got to see how your son Michael feels about this."" "Cubby said, you know, "I'm planning to marry Dana and want to make sure you're comfortable with that."" "I said, "Well, that's great, but are you sure you know what you're getting into?"" ""She's a very independent-minded woman."" "And they got along famously right from the start." "On June 20, Cubby, Dana, Michael Wilson and Cary Grant prepare for the wedding the next day." "Cubby and I kind of stayed up and we got to the crap tables cos Cubby loved to play craps." "The next morning, Cary Grant visits Dana before the ceremony." "Cary came in to see me just before the wedding." "And he said, "Your groom has a hangover."" ""Your son has a hangover."" ""And I'm the only one to talk any sense."" "And he turned to my mother just before the ceremony and said, "I did a film once where the best man ran off with the bride."" ""How about it?"" "And I laughed and I said," ""Well, tempting as it may sound" "I don't think it's going to happen this time."" "For Cubby Broccoli, the wedding is the start of his second chance at happiness, love and a family." "He knows from the start that Dana is the woman he wants to share his life with and now she is his wife." "He was very, very grateful to my mother for coming into his life at that time." "After a short stay in California, Cubby and Dana fly to London where she enters a new world." "I married Cubby and my life changed completely." "I left my home in California." "I left my country." "I left my friends." "I left everything that was familiar to me." "And most of all I left my mother and my young son, who was just entering college." "And I followed Cubby to London where I was to meet a whole new group of people, two young children, and his whole way of life." "But I followed Cubby and I trusted him and I knew he was going to make everything all right." "Soon, Cubby and Irving Allen launch another film:" ""The Trials Of Oscar Wilde."" ""The Trials Of Oscar Wilde" is an absolutely wonderful film." "It stands up today as well as the day it was made." "Peter Finch was never better." "Cubby and Irving Allen take a big risk." "They decide to finance and distribute the film themselves." "That film was an artistic triumph." "It was well reviewed and got a lot of foreign awards." "Don't you weep for your son?" " The only real male son you ever bore!" " Really, Father!" "The only real man among the three of you!" "What should have been a major success turned out to be a disaster." "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, being a male person, unlawfully did commit acts of gross indecency with another male person." "The subject matter proves too controversial for some." "Because it dealt with Oscar Wilde's homosexuality." "Did you ever kiss him, Mr Wilde?" "It was given a Condemned Rating by the Legion of Decency." "Oh, dear, no." "He was extremely ugly." "Which meant that it couldn't be advertised." "It was on the restrictive list." "And what, Mr Wilde, is the love that dare not speak its name?" "It couldn't get a general release in America." "So very few theatres would play the picture." "Mr Wilde?" "I am most dreadfully sorry about this, sir, but we must ask you to leave." "It had been opened in New York during Yom Kippur week." "The place was virtually empty." "And he sat up on the balcony and cried." "And it never got his money back." "He and Irving Allen put their own money into it and so it was a tremendous financial setback." "Cubby and Irving were very close to bankruptcy." "It was the first year we were married." "It was a terrible time for Cubby." "He lost his money." "He didn't know which way to go or what to do." "His partnership with Irving had broken up." "And he just walked the floor every night." "He was in terrible trouble." "And I discovered that I was pregnant with Barbara." "In June 1960, Cubby and Dana's daughter Barbara is born." "But for Cubby the future is uncertain." "He spends months trying to get various film projects off the ground." "Nothing seems to be coming together." "I asked Cubby if there was anything he really wanted to do and he said, "Yes."" ""I've always wanted to do the Ian Fleming books."" "When Cubby tells writer Wolf Mankowitz he wants to produce films of the James Bond novels," "Wolf informs Cubby that he knows the man who holds the option," "Harry Saltzman." "Harry said, "I haven't been able to sell this anywhere."" "And Cubby said, "Well, I would like to pick up your option."" "And Harry said, "Well, I don't want to sell the option."" ""I really want to go into business with you."" ""I know you've been very successful."" "So together they started a partnership." "He'd been through tragedy and a very hard time." "And he was bankrupt and James Bond suddenly came into his life." "With the film rights to his dream project in hand," "Cubby and his new partner must now find financing." "Cubby said, "We've got to go to New York."" "So we went to New York to meet with Arthur Creme, the head of United Artists." "An hour later they have a deal to make the first James Bond film, "Dr No"." "Cubby was so excited and he was out with my mother celebrating." "And he said, "Let's drink a toast to James Bond." "It's terrific."" "She said, "Would you have another toast you want to make?"" "He said, "Yeah, let's drink a toast to the baby, to Barbara."" "Because I had just had my first birthday." "She said, "Anything else?" He said, "Oh, no."" "She said, "How about drinking to our anniversary?"" "He called the maître d'over and he said, "My wife has gone to the ladies' room and I want to have a cake that says" "'Happy Anniversary, Dana' on it by the time she gets back."" ""Do you understand?"" "And sure enough, he managed it." "He never forgot his anniversary again, that's for sure." "James Bond is far from a certain success." "When in the initial script, Dr No turns out to be the villain's pet monkey" "Cubby insists the writers return to Fleming's novel." "Cubby and Harry also insist on casting a little-known actor named Sean Connery in the role of secret agent 007." "Despite budget limitations," "Broccoli and Saltzman take the film on location to Jamaica and cast an unknown Swiss beauty without so much as an audition." "For Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman it is a venture filled with risks." "Should the film fail, it could mean the end of their careers as producers." "Cubby Broccoli employs many of the top talents from his successes with Warwick films." "Director of photography Ted Moore." "Production designer Ken Adam." "Screenwriter Richard Maibaum." "Director Terence Young." "Despite innovative work, some claim the movie is too British and it has no chance of success in the United States." "The film is put to the final test when it premieres in London on October 5, 1962." "The verdict?" ""Dr No" is a massive hit." "The film goes on to play to rave reviews and sellout crowds." "In the States, after an initial run in the drive-in theatres in the West," ""Dr No" is a surprise smash all over the country." "The first James Bond movie becomes the launching point of the most successful film series ever." "The mere fact that we were lucky to stumble upon Ian Fleming and Bond was a bit of good fortune." "The rest was all hard work." "They turned this character into the world's most popular cinematic creation." "Bond." "James Bond." "You must have the huge sense, the huge quality, the bizarre." "With James Bond comes financial security, creative power, and for Cubby Broccoli a limitless capacity to enjoy it all." "My father loved what he did." "He loved making movies." "And I think Harry did as well." "And I think they just went for it." "Cubby's partnership with Dana is a keystone to his success." "There was always a great chemistry you could see between them." "I think all the major decisions that he made he discussed with her." "It was a real partnership." "Cubby did talk to me about everything." "But everything we talked about was after hours, at home." "And that worked out very well." "For Cubby Broccoli, it is also important to always recognise James Bond's creator." "Dad felt very strongly that the films should always say lan Fleming's James Bond, 007." "He never wanted to make a film without having Ian Fleming's name on it." "The James Bond films give Cubby Broccoli the clout to make any films he desires, but he sticks with 007, with one exception." "In 1968, Cubby produces his last non-Bond film." "Cubby loved children." "And we were very excited about doing a film for children." "So when it came to making "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"," "I think he was just thrilled." "It's a wonderful story, again written by Ian Fleming." "To bring Fleming's story to life as a musical," "Cubby wants the songwriters from "Mary Poppins", Richard and Robert Sherman, who happen to be under contract to Walt Disney." "We wrote exclusively for Walt Disney except for doing "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" for Cubby Broccoli." "We went outside the studio for that." " We got "released" permission." " We got permission from Walt to do that." " Really, he liked the idea." " He liked Cubby too." "He had a great love for his work." "He really did." "He had enormous largesse in how he produced things and how he took care of you." "And he did believe in luxury." "It was fun for him to do a children's picture with those wonderful people:" "Gert Fröbe, Desmond Llewelyn and Ken Adam." "You know, all his trusted, treasured friends." "After 14 years, Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli end their partnership, leaving Cubby as the sole producer of the James Bond films." "The reason we have confidence in Bond is that we have a ready-made audience out there waiting to see a Bond film." "Through the decades, the audience for the James Bond films continues to grow and each film continues the tradition of record-breaking success." "When success came, big time, he enjoyed it." "And he wanted to take everybody along." "It didn't make any difference where you came from, what walk of life." "He wanted everyone to enjoy his success." "He'd always give a great tip." "And I'd say, "Wow!" "That's an outrageous tip."" "And he'd say, "Remember this."" ""For every dollar you give away, you'll get 100 back."" ""And for every buck you steal, you'll lose 1,000."" "Cubby finds himself building another partnership closer to home." "Cubby was the greatest influence on my life of anyone." "Cubby took me right under his wing and let me be involved in all the elements of the production." "Soon, Cubby's youngest daughter works her way up the ladder." "I enjoyed spending the time I had with my father and watching the way he and Michael did things." "In 1982, Cubby is honoured by his peers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the Irving Thalberg Award." "When he found out he was going to get the Irving Thalberg Award, he was very moved by that." "I thank the Academy for allowing a farm boy from Long Island to realise this dream." "For Hollywood to honour Cubby like that meant a great deal to him." "To all of us." "It was, like, one of the great nights of his entire career." "This is an important moment in my life." "I feel a great sense of accomplishment." "Not only for myself, but for all my colleagues with whom I've worked over the years." "It was a tremendous honour for Dad." "I never dreamed when I came to Hollywood in 1934 that I'd be standing here to receive an award from a man who was the idol of all of us." "As the Bond films continue their success throughout the 1980s," "Cubby is honoured by Queen Elizabeth with the Order of the British Empire." "It was a recognition of Cubby's contribution to England and to the economy and the film industry." "In 1990, Cubby Broccoli receives his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame." "For Cubby, though, the greatest reward remains watching his films with an audience." "He would love to go in the back of the theatre." "It was packed." "And just hear the audience enjoying themselves." "That was the reason why he made the films." "He loved making them and he loved watching people enjoy them." "He made making films an enjoyable experience." "And he made going to films an enjoyable experience." "He knew everyone's name." "They all knew him." "He made people believe in themselves." "Cubby really loved filmmaking and he especially loved all the people he worked with." "He was very caring to each and every one of them." "If people had problems, he'd try to help them solve it." "He was forever giving people that wanted to come up in the business a break." "He had so much to give and he gave it." "He gave it all." "Throughout the years, despite awards and box office records," "Cubby's focus remains on the most important aspect of his life, his family." "Cubby was basically a family man." "And his happiness came from watching his children and his grandchildren." "That to him was his happiness." "And then of course when we met a man called Ian Fleming and we stepped into the incredible world of James Bond, that was just something extra and special and wonderful, and it's been an incredible journey." "And that journey is still going on." "At the age of 86, Cubby Broccoli undergoes major heart surgery." ""Goldeneye" becomes the first James Bond film without Cubby on the set." "Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli continue the legacy." "I remember one time he said to me, "The most important thing is:" "Don't let 'em screw it up."" "You know." "And it sounds like it's a really simple thing." "But it was the thing he had done his whole life with Bond." "Just not let outside forces screw it up." "On June 27, 1996, Cubby Broccoli, one of the most successful motion picture producers in history, passes away." "Just as Cubby decided no Bond film would be made without Ian Fleming's name" "Cubby's family decides no Bond film will be made without the name Albert R Broccoli." "I didn't think you could really do that." "I bet they charge you for it." "I was under the impression you were paying." "Well, it was still a very classy thing to do." "You're not a knight or anything like that, are you?" "No, I'm afraid not." "A mere commoner." "Well, it doesn't make any difference to me." "I'm a Democrat." " Hi, Myrna." " Hi, Plenty." "Hey, Peter, have you had enough of this?" "Why?" "Aren't you enjoying yourself?" "Oh, sure, but..." "What I mean is..." "You've been so great and everything." "I just wanted to thank you properly, you know." "Maybe I could walk you to your door, at least?" "If you insist." "and obviously you're the hearty breakfast." "Right?" "$1,000 on the black." "All right." "Come on." "Let's go." "Put it down, baby." "There you go." "Over here." "And give me 1,000 on the black." " Hiya, sweetheart." " Hey, Burt." "How are you, baby?" "I had a call from Mr Whyte." "Said you hadn't signed your contracts yet." "What's the matter?" "You got a problem?" "No, not too big a problem." "Just some money, that's all." "You know what amazes me?" "That a man that's a multi-billionaire, living up in that fortress, can't come to terms." "Look, you're the man that I work for, really." " Talk to him for me, will you?" " You've gotta be kidding." "I run this place for him, and even I haven't seen him for three years." " Will you take a look at that?" " What?" "Wow!" "They ain't never gonna get a cake big enough to put him on top of!" "Hey, wait a minute!" "What happened to the chips?" "I lost!" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Where is he?" "I shan't ask you politely next time." "Where is Blofeld?" "Cai..." "Cai..." "Cairo!" "Cards." "Hit me." "One chance." "Where can I find him?" "Marie..." "Ask Marie." "Who are you?" "My name is Bond." "James Bond." "Is there something I can do for you?" "Yes, as a matter of fact, there is." "There is something I'd like you to get off your chest." "Where is Ernst Stavro Blofeld?" "Speak up, darling." "I can't hear you." "We now come to phase four:" "The nose." "In my opinion, the most difficult part of a plastic transformation." "I want the operation done tonight." " But, seòor..." " There's no time left." "But, Seòor Blofeld, this is a most delicate procedure." "Tonight!" "Keep the temperature at precisely 80 degrees." "Making mud pies, 007?" "He "would" have been me in a matter of days if you'd given the poor fellow a chance." "Such a pity." "I was dying to see how the operation turned out." "Get his gun." "Hold it!" "Get your hands up." "Kill him!" "Welcome to hell, Blofeld." "Star of South Africa." "83.5 carats rough." "47.5 carats cut." "The Akbar Shah. 116 carats rough." "Are you paying attention, 007?" "The Akbar Shah, 116 carats rough." "But surely, sir, there's no need to bring in our section on a relatively simple smuggling matter." "Sir Donald has convinced the PM otherwise." "May I remind you, 007, that Blofeld's dead." "Finished!" "The least we can expect from you now is a little plain, solid work." "Good morning, gentlemen." " Sir Donald will see you now." " Thank you." "Good morning, Sir Donald." " This is Commander Bond." " How do you do?" "Please sit down." " Sherry?" " Not for me, thanks." "Doctor's orders." " Commander Bond?" " Yes, thank you." "You've been on holiday, I understand." "Relaxing, I hope." "Hardly relaxing but... most satisfying." "Cheers." "Pity about your liver, sir." "It's an unusually fine Solera." " '51, I believe." " There is no year for sherry, 007." "I was referring to the original vintage on which the sherry is based, sir." "1851." "Unmistakable." "Precisely." "Tell me, Commander." "How far does your expertise extend into the field of diamonds?" "Hardest substance found in nature." "They cut glass." "Suggest marriage." "They've replaced a dog as a girl's best friend." "That's about it." "Refreshing to hear there's "one" subject you're not an expert on." "Perhaps I'd better give you a brief background into our problem." "Eighty per cent of the world's diamonds come from mines in South Africa." "Most are dug out of shafts of diamond-bearing clay at depths of up to 3,000 feet." "The whole process, from start to finish, is subject to an airtight security system." "It's an essential precaution, though the industry prides itself on the loyalty and devotion of its workers." "Naturally the security measures tend to ensure that loyalty, as do the extensive amenities and social services we provide." "There's a permanent staff of doctors, nurses, even dentists." "The whole process, from start to finish, is subject to an airtight security system." "It's a necessary precaution, though the industry prides itself on the loyalty and devotion of its workers." "Next!" "The scorpion." "Mother nature's finest killer, Mr Wint." "One is never too old to learn from a master, Mr Kidd." "Dr Tynan?" "Good evening." "Who are you?" "And where is Joe?" "Joe couldn't make it tonight." "I'm Mr Wint." "This is Mr Kidd." "I see." "What's the matter with him?" "It's my wisdom teeth." "I haven't had 'em out yet." "Would you mind having a look, Doctor?" "Of course." "I'm not going to hurt you." "Just open." "No, no." "Open wide." "Curious how everyone who touches those diamonds seems to... die." " Stop right there!" "Who are you?" " Dr Tynan sent us." " Why didn't he come himself?" " He was taken sick." "Bitten by the bug." "He sent this for you." "If God had wanted man to fly..." "He would have given him wings, Mr Kidd." "No security system is perfect." "We've always accepted a percentage of smuggling." "But over the past two years, despite all our precautions, it's gone up alarmingly." "And none of the stones have reached the market." "Sir Donald thinks someone's stockpiling." "Our concern is that someone might dump them on the market to depress prices or..." "Make you agree to perpetual blackmail." "Exactly." "What we need to know is who the stockpilers are." "The letter U is for umbrella." "We take it lest it rain." "We hope we shan't want it till we're home again." "Two men to see you, missy." "Gentlemen, Joshua." "I shan't be long, children." "Joshua is going to read you a story." "How nice to see you again!" " Where to this time?" " Amsterdam." "Amsterdam!" "Oh, how lovely!" "I shall have to bring back some pictures of the canals for the children." "Ask, and ye shall receive, Mrs Whistler." "Thus endeth the lesson for today, gentlemen." "Several recent murders in South Africa have complicated matters." "If they shut down operations before we discover them..." "It would be catastrophic for us and for the government." " I've always fancied a trip to South Africa." " You're going to Holland." "For some time we've had our eyes on a smuggler" " Peter Franks." "He's due to leave for Amsterdam." "Do we know who his contacts are?" "We do function in your absence, Commander." "Passport, sir?" "Mr Franks." "There's a message for you at Passport Control." "That door over there." "You can park outside." "Thank you." "Mr Franks..." "Your passport is quite in order." "Anyone seeing you in that outfit, Moneypenny, would certainly be discouraged from leaving the country." "What can I bring you back from Holland?" "A diamond?" "In a ring?" "Would you settle for a tulip?" "Yes." "Ahead is one of the oldest bridges in Amsterdam." "The Skinny Bridge." "It was built over 300 years ago by two sisters who wanted to visit each other every day." "Unfortunately they ran out of money." "So that is why it is called the Skinny Bridge." "On your right, those beautiful old houses can be seen in the paintings of our famous painter, Rembrandt." "And now, ladies and gentlemen, if you will look to your left as we go down the Amstel, you can see..." "Mrs Whistler did want some pictures of the canals for the children." "How kind of you, Mr Kidd." "The children will be so thrilled." "Yes?" "Franks." "Peter Franks." "Come up." "Third floor." "Make yourself at home!" "I'll be out in a minute!" "Help yourself to a drink!" "Is Mr Case not at home?" "There is no Mr Case." "The T is for Tiffany." "Tiffany Case?" "Definitely distinctive." "I was born there, on the first floor, while my mother was looking for a wedding ring." "I'm glad for your sake it wasn't Van Cleef and Arpels." "Weren't you a blonde when I came in?" "Could be." "I tend to notice little things like that." "Whether a girl is a blonde or a brunette." "And which do you prefer?" "Providing the collars and cuffs match..." "We'll talk about that later." "Let me have your glass." "I'll get you some ice." "That's quite a nice little nothing you're almost wearing." "I approve." "I don't dress for the hired help." "Let's see your passport, Franks." "Occupation:" "Transport consultant?" "That's a little cute, isn't it?" " I'll finish dressing." " Please don't." "Not on my account." "I don't care much for redheads." "Terrible tempers." "But somehow it seems to suit you." "It's my own." "But it is in need of some soft lighting." " I know a little restaurant..." " I never mix business with pleasure." " Neither do I." " Good!" "Then save the cute remarks until after you get the diamonds into Los Angeles." " Where are they now?" " That's not your problem." "Your problem is getting them in." " How much is there?" " 50,000 carats." "At 142 carats an ounce, that's an awful lot of ice." "That won't be easy." "That's why you're being paid 50 grand." "What did you think it was going to be?" "A pair of earrings?" "And, Franks, for God's sakes, come up with something original." "I've got to hand it to you, Q. Quite ingenious." "An obvious little notion." "Thought it might come in handy." "M's been trying to get in touch with you." "That Peter Franks fellow's escaped." "Killed one of the guards on the way up to London." "Hello?" "Hello!" "Are you there?" " Yes?" " Peter Franks." "Third floor." " Guten Abend." " Good evening." "Bitte." " You are English?" " Yes, I'm English." "I speak English." " Who is... your floor?" " Three, please." "Is he dead?" "I sincerely hope so." " Who is he?" " No idea." "This chap's been following me all day today." "My God!" "You've just killed James Bond!" "Is that who it was?" "It just proves no one's indestructible." "You don't kill James Bond and wait around for the cops to arrive!" "We've got to get those diamonds out of here fast!" "Where are they?" "A little old lady dropped them by yesterday morning." "Priceless." "I think we ought to let Mr Bond carry the load from here on out." "It's funny." "All the things one wanted to say to one's brother... when it's all too late." "Let me assure you of our deepest condolences." "Would you please board the aircraft?" " We were inseparable, you know." " Please, Mr Franks." "Lufthansa announce the departure of flight LH450 to Los Angeles." "Please fasten your seat belts, and no smoking until airborne." "Thank you." "They're both aboard." "I must say, Miss Case seems quite attractive." "For a lady." "Lufthansa announce the arrival of flight LH450 from Amsterdam..." " Mr Franks?" " Yes." "Follow me to Customs, please." "Peter Franks, Jerry." "Get some lunch, Jerry." "I'll take over." "Death certificate, please, Mr Franks." "Well, well, well!" "Felix Leiter, you old fraud." "On behalf of the CIA, welcome to America." "Someone sent their brain trust down to meet you." "I give up." "I know the diamonds are in the body, but where?" "Alimentary, Dr Leiter." "So long, James." "Keep in touch." "The rest of your luggage has been cleared, Mr Franks." "OK, fellas!" "You wanna sit in the front, Mr Franks?" "It's a lot smoother ride in the front, Mr Franks." "Yes, I believe I'll sit in front." "The stiff - "deceased" back there." "Your brother, Mr Franks?" "Yes, it was." "I got a brudder." "Small world." "Mr Franks, I'm Morton Slumber." "Please accept my heartfelt condolences at this most difficult hour." "He is heading for a better world, Mr Slumber." "There is some consolation in that." "Now then, if we're ready to begin the final journey..." "May his soul rest in peace." "Oh, yes." "Amen." "If you'd come into my comfortable office, we will bring you the urn." "I'm so happy you chose our half-couch, hinged-panel, slumber-on casket." "I'm sure your brother would have appreciated it." "I'm sure he did." "Please, be seated." "Ashes to ashes..." " Dust to dust." " Exactly." "At a moment like this, I'm sure you'd rather be left alone, for reflection." "Most thoughtful." "We've selected a private niche for your brother in our Garden of Remembrance." "The one with the restful chartreuse curtains and Angel's Breath gold trim." "I hope you'll find everything in order." "The arrangements have been impeccable so far." "Very... moving." "Heart-warming, Mr Wint." "A glowing tribute, Mr Kidd." "You dirty, double-crossin' limey fink!" "Those goddamn diamonds are phonies!" "No, don't tell me." "You're St Peter?" "Paste!" "Glass!" "Where's the real stuff, Franks?" "Where's the real money?" "You wouldn't burn 50,000 "real" dollars, would you?" "One last break." "Where are the real diamonds?" "You get me the real money and I'll bring you the real diamonds." "Where do you think you're goin'?" "I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable." "My condolences, gentlemen." "Hello, Felix." "Very comfortable." "But there's one problem." "I want the real merchandise - rather quickly." "Q has just arrived with it." "We'll be up with them in the morning." "So I'd sit tight if I were you." "There's no sense in looking for trouble." "Just enjoy yourself, James." "I'm sure you know how." "Quite." "I'll probably take in a show." "How do you like me so far?" "People say I have the body of Rock Hudson." "If he ever finds out what I'm doin' to it, he'll be madder than hell." "I call these girls my Acorns." "Actually, they're a gift from Willard Whyte, who is upstairs right now playing Monopoly with real buildings." "Tryin' to find Willard Whyte is like tryin' to find a virgin in a maternity ward." "On behalf of the Whyte House, I wanna let you folks know you've been a lousy audience." "So get lost." "See ya later." "Shady Tree!" " Shady, we just adored your act!" " What taste, style!" "And we have a few suggestions." "Critics and material I don't need!" "I haven't changed my act in 40 years." "Hold it!" "Don't go in there." "We didn't get the real diamonds, so we need Tree - alive." "That's most annoying." " Get down there!" " Crap." "Boxcar, the loser." "That's it, pussycat." "I shot the whole wad." "What do you say?" "Back to my place?" "You're a nice person, Maxie." "Really, you are." "Why don't you go and take a nap?" "And I'll see you next year." "May I have $5,000?" "No, make it $10,000." "$2,000 limit." "Is there some problem?" "Mr Saxby." "Gentleman wants $10,000 credit with a $2,000 limit." "My name is Franks." "Peter Franks." "Mr Franks' credit's good." " Good luck to you, Mr Franks." " Thank you." "I'll have two stacks now." "Give the gentleman 4,000." "Thank you." "Hi!" "I'm Plenty." " But of course you are." " Plenty O'Toole." "Named after your father, perhaps?" "Would you like some help?" "On the craps, I mean." "That's very kind of you." "Coming out." "Coming out." "Next shooter is a lady." "Ladies are lucky." "For the lady." "Nine." "Mark nine." "Seven, loser." "The lucky lady craps out." "New shooter." "Your shot, Mr F." " Willard Whyte speaking'." " Tree is dead." "Turn on number two." "It's Peter Franks." "Hard ten." "Ten's the number." "I'll take the full odds on the ten." "200 on the hard way." "The limit on all the numbers, 250 on the eleven." "Thank you very much." "Say!" "You've played this game before!" "Just once." " Now what do we do?" " Don't bother me with details, Bert!" "Just get me the diamonds!" "You handle those cubes like a monkey handles coconuts." "Thank you, gentlemen, for such a sterling service." "That's 50,000 dollars!" "Minus $5,000 for you..." "leaves me $45,000, and thank you very much." "It was nothing, really!" "You know something, Peter Franks?" "You're a terrific guy!" "A little weird, but a terrific guy!" "Why don't we go someplace and have a drink?" "A drink?" "If you'd like to come in, Plenty." "How pretty!" "What a super place you have!" "Just give me one second, lover." "Good evening." "I'm afraid you've caught me with more than my hands up." "What the hell is this?" "!" "A perverts' convention or something?" "!" "You can't do this to me!" "Stop that!" "I've got friends in this town!" "Exceptionally fine shot." "I didn't know there was a pool down there." "Let's get down to business." "I presume you've come for the real..." "The real diamonds." "Good evening, Miss Case." "Sorry about your fulsome friend." "I'll bet you really missed something." "The evening may not be a total loss after all." "Why don't we talk a bit first?" "First?" "What would you like to talk about?" "You pick a subject." " Diamonds?" " Good boy!" "And you want to know where they are, and whether I'm working alone or not." "So far, so good." "Keep going." "And if not, then with whom." "So you can inform your superiors and... acquire the diamonds." "Peter!" "I'm very impressed." "There's a lot more to you than I had expected." "Presumably I'm the condemned man, and obviously you're the hearty breakfast." "Right?" "You're not going to tell me where the diamonds are, are you?" "What diamonds?" "Sooner or later you'll have to talk." "They'll make you." "At the very least, you'll never get out of town alive." "I can solve that little problem." "It's lucky for me that I ran into you." "Fifty-fifty split." "You get the diamonds, I get us out." "Us?" "I can't very well help you and then stick around." "We could be on a plane and out of the country by tomorrow night." "Rio..." "Hong Kong..." "I know a good tailor in Hong Kong." "Hong Kong." "All right." "I'll get the diamonds, you get the plane tickets." "No." "The airport's too obvious." "A rented car should do us fine for openers." "That's good thinking." "And since you're the one being watched, I'll get the diamonds, you get the car." "That's very good thinking." "Oh, Peter!" "I have a feeling this is the beginning of a wonderful relationship." "Darling..." "Where do I pick up the diamonds?" "When was the last time you visited a circus?" "Circus Circus proudly presents the Flying Palacios!" " She's in the building." " Right." "Stand by." "James, next time, pick a contact point when you're standing up." " Felix, if she gives your men the slip..." " Relax." "I have 30 agents down there." "A mouse with sneakers on couldn't get through." "Give Maxwell his cue." "This is Quarterback." "Operation Passover, commence." "Quarterback to Tight End." "Operation Passover, commence." "Roger." "She's on her way." "So far, so good." " Good luck, Felix." "I'll see you later." " Where are you going?" "The car rental agency." "Our little rendezvous?" "You don't actually think she'll show up?" "That's a thousand-to-one shot." "No, more like even money." "Her devotion to larceny versus my... incomparable charm." "All right, kiddies!" "Ready?" "Aim!" "Fire!" "What did I tell you?" "Didn't I promise you a winner every time?" "There you are, young man." "Boys and girls, here we go again." "All you have to do is just take your gun..." "Here we have a little lady, here we have a little man, and here we have a big lady." "You're a little out of your league, aren't ya, sister?" "Point the gun." "You know what to do." "All ready?" "Get set." "Now hold it till I say go." "Go!" "Come on!" "That's it!" "Everybody point right at the clown." "A winner every time!" "There we are!" "All right!" "That's the way to do it!" "Look at that!" "And we have another winner!" "Annie Oakley on the end!" "Here we are." "What an eye!" "What an eye!" "Wait a second!" "I saw the whole thing!" "The machine's fixed!" "Who's she - your mother?" "Blow up your pants!" "One win!" "She only had one win!" "You're supposed to have 24 to win that dog!" "Will you give it a rest, kid?" "All right, boys and girls!" "Here we go!" "Here for the first time, see Zambora, strangest girl ever born to live." "She was captured near Nairobi, south Africa, and is believed to be part of a cruel, inhuman experiment." "This beautiful girl will be locked into a steel cage, will change very slowly into a ferocious 450-pound gorilla." "Please be very still, ladies and gentlemen." "We must have absolute silence so we wouldn't disturb Zambora from her transcendental state." "We must warn you that in every scientific experiment there's always a danger." "So keep in mind those curtains is an exit." "God forbid something should go wrong over here, get outta here!" "Now we start the transformation." "Very dangerous." "Very quiet, please." "Wake, my beauty, wake!" "Hey, lady, not through there." "The other way." "Come on!" " No show?" " Felix, don't tell me you lost her?" "We lost her." "Nice place you have here." "Take something off." "Enjoy the sun." "You've got a lot of guts showing up here!" "Letting me freeze my behind off at a blackjack table for two hours waiting for some nonexistent diamonds!" "And what the hell is my black wig doing in the pool?" "!" " She's..." " Dead." "Supposed to be you." "The next link in the pipeline." "What are you talking about?" "Poor Plenty must have stumbled in here looking for you." "I don't believe you." "A dentist is dead in South Africa." "That little old lady in Amsterdam." "Shady got his last night." "They've missed me once." "And you're next." " Now, who's your connection?" " You sound like a cop..." " Who's your connection?" " All I know is voices on a phone." "They got me this place and told me to wait for further instructions." "You'd find it difficult to hear under water." " Now, where's the stuff?" " Who are you?" "You're not a cop and you're not Peter Franks." "You're not the type to turn the other cheek." "Where is it?" "Eastern Airlines announce the arrival of flight 112 from Los Angeles, gate 7." "Thank you." "Fill it up, please." "It's Bert Saxby." "Willard Whyte's right-hand man." "Do you see the top?" "The penthouse?" "They say Willard Whyte hasn't set foot out of there in three years." "And no one has seen him - no one." " How much is that?" " Did you pay for this?" "Cut him off." "Hey, Curly!" "What about my stamps?" "Where are you going?" "Are you mad?" "Let me by!" "Stamps?" "You ain't got no gas yet!" " OK, so shove a coupla gallons in!" " Well, back it up." "Keep leaning on that tooter, Charlie, and you'll get a shot in the mouth!" "Come on, lady, move it!" "OK, lady, you win, you win." " Will someone move that car?" "!" " Do what he says!" "Hey!" "I wanted high-test!" "Forget it, Curly!" "You had your chance and you blew it!" "OK, Professor." " Hello." " Hi." " I haven't seen you here before." " I'm Klaus Hergersheimer." " New here?" " I've been here three years." "G Section." "How are things in G Section?" "Still the same old grind." "You know." "Checking radiation shields for replacement." "By the way, where's yours?" "I've been waiting a couple of days for you guys to deliver them." "Gee, I'm sorry." "You should have given us a phone call." "Look, I've got one here." "Lucky for you, I carry spares." "You keep that on." "You can't be too careful about radiation." "Absolutely." "I feel much safer with this on." "See you around." "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "Klaus Hergersheimer." "G Section." "Just... checking on radiation shields." "Now let me see." "You are...?" "Professor Dr Metz." "Our shields are fine!" "Now get out!" "I'm sorry." "It won't take a moment but" "I must verify." "Metz." "How do you spell it?" "M-E..." "Will you please leave, you irritating man?" "Doctor, there's no reason to run down the little people." "G Section may not be as important to the operation as you are, but we do have our orders." "Dr Metz..." "Willard Whyte for you." "Right." "Out, out." "Hello, WW." "Yes, it's finally here." "Quite enough for completion." "We'll be through shortly." "No." "No problems at all." "Right." " Now will you get out of here?" "!" " Certainly, Doctor." "I've seen everything I need to see." "Thank you very much." "Hi." "Sorry to bother you." "I'm Klaus Hergersheimer." "G Section." "Checking radiation shields?" "There he is!" "Behind the rock!" "Come on!" "What is this?" "Amateur night?" "Stop him, Harry!" "Get him off that machine." "That isn't a toy." "Get out of that moon buggy!" "It's gone berserk!" "Hey, what do you think you're doin'?" "!" "That way!" " What happened?" "The diamonds..." " Get in the car!" "If you see a mad professor in a minibus, just smile!" "Fred, get the sheriff's office." "Drop me off at the next corner." "This is getting out of hand." "When you start stealing moon machines from Willard Whyte, goodbye and good luck!" "Just relax." "I have a friend named Felix who can fix anything." "Is he married?" "There goes that son-of-a-bitchin' saboteur!" "Relax!" "You've got a friend named Felix who can fix anything." "Unfortunately, so can Willard Whyte." "Why, you dirty..." "Come in, Larry." "Larry?" "Larry?" "Did you get him, Larry?" "I think Larry got him." " Sheriff..." " Attaboy, Larry." "Come in." "Larry?" "Sheriff..." "I got you now." "Lean over." "Darling..." "Why are we suddenly staying in the bridal suite of the Whyte House?" "In order to form a more perfect union, sweetheart." "James..." "May I finally call you James?" "What's going to happen to me?" "You did talk to your friend Felix about me?" "What did he say?" "Something about 20 years to life." "Nothing important." " 20 years to life?" "!" " Relax, darling." "I'm on top of the situation." "Mr and Mrs Jones?" "Yes, that's the name on the register, Mr Leiter." " What's the score with WW?" " Washington says no go." " We sit still for now." " Sit still?" "And Miss Tiffany Case "Jones" has a lifetime reservation at another hotel." "The kind the government... runs." "I'm cooperating, Mr Leiter." "Really I am." "I can vouch for that." "Felix, this is not the real White House, and he's not the president." " Why don't we go and see him?" " The president I can get you in to see." "But until Washington believes Whyte's a thief, that's the way it is." "In the meantime, I'm sure you and "Mrs Jones"" "can find some way to amuse yourselves." "And just to make sure you're not disturbed, I have a man upstairs." "And Hamilton... is right out here." "So long, James." " Well, that's a switch!" " What's that?" "The wolf being guarded by the three little pigs." "I won't be long, darling." "Where are you going?" "I'm just popping upstairs for a moment." " Sixteenth floor?" " No, lady." "Starlight Lounge only." "OK, folks." "Stand clear of the doors." "Here we go." "Starlight Lounge to the left." "Express to street level only, folks." "OK." "Stand clear of the doors." "Here we go." "Howdy, son." "We've been expectin' you." "You got any personal business to take care of in there, you go right ahead." "First, I suspect you're wearin' a hog leg." "Would you mind standing' up and takin' it off?" "Isn't that nice?" "You are a pleasant fella." "Why don't you just come on in, son?" "Relax." "Make yourself comfortable." "That's good." "Right on over there." "Good evening, Mr Bond." "Blofeld." "Good evening, 007." "Double jeopardy, Mr Bond." "You killed my only other double, I'm afraid." "After his death, volunteers were - understandably - rather scarce." "Such a pity." "All that time and expense simply to provide you with one mock-heroic moment." "Willard Whyte speaking'." "Yes, Governor." "I got your message." "No, I'm afraid a personal appearance is quite out of the question." "I'll send a deposition to the committee." "Thank you, Governor." "Well, that's a neat trick." "A voice box, Mr Bond." "Science was never my strong suit, but the principle is easy enough." "Someone's voice patterns and resonance stored in a small oral-signature tape." "And a miniature, transistorised version is installed in his neck." "Or is it "his" neck?" "I never can remember." "Anyway, no matter." "We both sound alike." "My congratulations to you both." "Nice little company." "Explosives, oil, electronics, houses, aviation." "I've done rather well with it, too." "Tried to cut some of the fat off, but Mr Whyte's a splendid administrator." "Damn thing runs itself." "I suppose you killed "him"." "Nothing so melodramatic." "I'm simply holding him in cold storage, so to speak." "An insurance policy against any outside interference with my plans." "The ideal kidnap victim." "No one's seen the man for five years." "Who'd miss someone who's already missing?" "How clever you are, Mr Bond." "Nice to see you haven't lost that fine mental edge, 007." "Please don't get any foolish notions." "That missile is not a practical weapon." "Well, it's hardly worth the effort." "After all, I wouldn't know which one of you to kill." "We appreciate your predicament, Mr Bond." "We deeply sympathise." "Right idea, Mr Bond." "But wrong pussy." "I do so enjoy our little visits, Mr Bond." "However potentially painful they may be." "But I'm afraid this one has come to an end." "What do you intend to do with those diamonds?" "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." "You know that." "But it's late, I'm tired, and there's so much left to do." "Good night, Mr Bond." "Well, go on, go on." "It's merely a lift." "Or perhaps I should say "elevator"." "In any event, I'm sure you'll find it much more convenient than mountaineering about outside the Whyte House." "You press L, Mr Bond." "The word "lobby" begins with L." "If at first you don't succeed, Mr Kidd..." "Try, try again, Mr Wint." "One of us smells like a tart's handkerchief." "I'm afraid it's me." "Sorry about that, old boy." "I don't mind the cockamamie machine breaking down twice a day." "But why the hell does it always have to be 500 yards away from the nearest hatch?" "All right, Charlie." "It's your turn to play hunchback." "Thank you very much." "I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way." "Willard Whyte speaking'." "This is Bert." "We got a problem." "What's wrong with your voice?" "Got a cold?" "Never mind about that." "I just saw James Bond in the casino." " That's impossible." " Come and see for yourself." "Hey, listen." "If he's half the genius they say he is, we're in for real trouble." " Calm down, Bert." " It's a cinch he's not working alone." "This place must be crawling with agents by now." " I think we should move Willard Whyte." " Nonsense." "Mr Whyte is perfectly safe at his own summerhouse." "It's on the ridge, about ten miles out of town." "I'm a little surprised, Bert." "It's not like you to panic." "I just don't enjoy messing around with a guy as tough as James Bond." "Never mind James Bond." "You get down to that house." "I'm afraid Mr Whyte has suddenly outgrown his usefulness." " Do it cleanly, Bert." " Don't worry." "Just leave everything to me." "That ridiculous contraption actually seems to work, Q." "You've surpassed yourself this time." "Not a bit of it." "Made one of these for the kids last Christmas." "Maxwell, James and I will head for the house." "Get set to hit the penthouse as soon as we find Whyte." "Let me speak to Metz." "There's been a change." "Push all plans forward by 24 hours." "I'm joining you immediately." "Give me five minutes to get up there and five minutes to find Whyte." "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" "Ask me again in ten minutes' time." "Tell Maxwell to stand by to hit the penthouse." "Well, hi there!" "I'm Bambi." "Good morning..." "Bambi." "And I'm Thumper." "Is there something we can do for you?" "I can think of several things offhand but at the moment I'm looking for Willard Whyte." "Oh, Willie." "Why, he's right out there." "And that's all there is to it?" "Not quite." "First... we're gonna have a ball." "All yours, Bambi!" "You're on again, Bambi!" "Thumper..." "Hello, Felix." "Willard Whyte is about to be executed, and guess who's giving breaststroke lessons." " Where the hell is Whyte?" " I haven't found out yet." "Still haven't found out." "Right!" "FBI?" " CIA?" " No." "British Intelligence, Mr Whyte." "James Bond." "I see you've met my friends, Bambi and Thumper." "Yes, we did have a bit of a chat." "What the hell's happened to me and what can I do about it?" "Let's get out of here first and I'll explain it to you en route." "Tell Maxwell to hit the penthouse..." "Saxby." " Bert Saxby?" "!" " Yeah." "Tell him he's fired." "Hi there, Mr Q. Are you having any luck?" "I'm being somewhat successful, thank you." "Listen, Mr Q. I..." "I was wondering." "Have you heard any talk about me from Felix or James?" "No, I'm afraid not." "I guess I'm working for the good guys now, but I'm two steps away from the slammer if they want me there." "I thought... you might be able to put in a good word." "That's unbelievable!" "An electromagnetic RPM controller." "Been aching to give it a try." "You see, pressure on the case when the desired symbols appear causes the rotation of the cylinders to stutter at the precise moment needed to..." "Cab, lady?" "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." "This way, Mr Whyte." "It was right here." "About six feet high, with a solar panel." " It had these aerofoils that seemed to..." " Draw it for me." "Was Dr Metz on your payroll, Mr Whyte?" "No." "But I heard of him." "Everybody in our business has." "The world's leading expert on laser refraction." "A committed idealist to peace." "And how in the hell Blofeld got his hooks in him, I will never know!" "How did he get security clearance to work here in the first place?" "From you, sir." "I talked to you personally about it." "I even recognised your voice just now." "I'm sure I must've told you not to keep the usual duplicate microfilm records of the project." "Exactly, sir." "Tom, what did "I" tell you to do with this?" "Send it to Vandenberg, sir." "Well, get 'em on the phone - now!" "Yeah?" "You won't believe this." " Willard Whyte for you!" " Wow." " This is a real honour, sir." " Shove your honour!" " Where's that satellite I sent down there?" " Blasted off 24 minutes ago, sir." "Perfect trajectory." "All systems go." "We expect to enter orbit right on the nose." " Wait." "Something's happened." " Just a moment." "The scanners have gone crazy." " Premature first-stage separation!" " It doesn't make sense!" "Stand by to abort!" "We can't control it, sir." "Abort it!" "It's negative." "We can't." "Something's taken over the guidance system!" "It's as if it had a will of its own." "And there's not a damn thing we can do about it." "We're working on it." "I'll call you back, Mr Whyte." "Whatever it is, your friend Blofeld's controlling' it now." "A vast supply of diamonds manipulated by an expert in light refraction." "The first laser beam was generated through a diamond." "And if old Metz deserves his reputation, the power of that thing could be incredible." "And Blofeld's got it." " Where is it now?" " Approaching North Dakota." "Alert Strategic Air Command." "Gimme an open line to SAC." "Attention all personnel." "Attention all personnel." "We have a red alert." "Stand by for emergency procedure." "Willard Whyte." "Yes, General." "One of our missiles just "accidentally" blew up in North Dakota." "Whatever's happenin', Mr Bond, has started." " Is this your herd?" " Mr Whyte, phone call from Washington." " Urgent." " I'll catch it in the john." " What about Blofeld?" " Not a trace." "We found a tunnel." "We'll check it out." " Where's Tiffany?" " Do you "mind" if we find Blofeld first?" "Come on!" "Let's hit that tunnel!" "Washington just got word from your friend with the cat." "Would you believe that this whole damn country is bein' held for ransom and we've got till noon tomorrow to pay up?" "So that's it." "Well, I'm sure you won't be alone." "An international auction, with nuclear supremacy goin' to the highest bidder." "Tell me, what does he need to control that satellite?" "A simple set of tapes fed into a computer bank." "All he really needs is a building." "And these tapes?" "Large or small?" "Conceivably any size." "From six inches to a cassette." "Assuming he's still using your empire as a cover," "Blofeld could be anywhere on this map." "From Alaska to Florida." "From Maine to Oregon." "From Texas to..." "Baja California." "Baja?" "!" "I haven't got anything in Baja!" "There is still no official explanation of the apparent nuclear accidents in North Dakota and Russia." "Presidential news secretary John Fenner refused comment on a report that an emergency meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is in session." "It is believed the United States and the Soviet Union have assured each other that no offensive action has been taken by either nation." "Reports of another nuclear accident in Red China are as yet unconfirmed." "Two more submarines have taken up position not ten miles away." "Are those military aircraft going to stand off forever?" "What if they won't accept our ultimatum?" "What if they attack?" "Calm yourself, Metz." "This farcical show of force was only to be expected." "The Great Powers flexing their military muscles like so many impotent beach boys." "I deeply regret my threat to destroy a major city unless they give in, but the nuclear powers, like all bullies, can only be intimidated by force." " But how can you..." " They still have an hour left to reply." "One hour for both of us to achieve our common dream:" "Total disarmament and peace for the world." " Sir, there's a single plane approaching." " Range?" "Two miles, and closing." "Stage One alert, please." "Command Centre." "All crew to Stage One." "Up the top!" "Second platform!" "There he is!" " Aim!" " Hold your fire!" "All recovery crew personnel, proceed to docking level and stand by." "Good morning, gentlemen!" "The Acme Pollution Inspection." "We're cleaning up the world." "We thought this was a suitable starting point." "How disappointing!" "I expected one head of state, at the very least." "Surely you haven't come to negotiate, Mr Bond?" "Your pitiful little island hasn't even been threatened." "Search him from his toenails to the last follicle on his head." "Then bring him to me." "I do so hate martial music." "As usual, Mr Bond, you were absolutely right." "You guessed correctly that that box contained the satellite control tape and you came aboard presumably hoping to substitute this for the real thing." "So sorry to have ruined the line of your suit for nothing." "Talking about lines, which one did you use on Miss Case?" "She has taken a reasonable attitude." "Like any sensible animal, she's only threatening when threatened." "Well, it appears that you're holding all the aces." " Right down to the dragon lady here." " Jealousy?" "From you, Mr Bond?" "I'm flattered." "As La Rochefoucauld observed:" ""Humility is the worst form of conceit."" "I do hold the winning hand." "Why don't you let me take you on a little tour of our facilities?" "Your chance to see the real tape once again." "Can I tag along, Ernst?" "I'd put something on over that bikini first, my dear." "I've come too far to have the aim of my crew affected by the sight of a pretty body." "No word yet from anyone!" "Only 12 minutes left." "I suppose a little gentle prodding is called for." "As you see, Mr Bond, the satellite is at present over" "Kansas." "If we destroy Kansas, the world may not hear about it for years." "Perhaps New York." "All that smut and traffic." "It would give them a chance for a fresh start." "Washington, DC." "Perfect." "Since we have not heard from "them", "they" will hear from "us"." " See to it, Metz." " Washington." "Right." "And this, presumably, is the control bank with the coded tape." "Right again, Mr Bond." "All satellites are controlled by a coded tape." "The trick is, of course, to have the code." "Obviously." "It all seems so perfectly simple." "I suppose one just presses that and out it pops." "Put it back, Mr Bond." "Immediately." "Hi, Ernst." "Is Superman giving you any trouble?" "Put it back... very carefully." "You've suddenly become tiresome, Mr Bond." "Target fixed!" "Commence countdown!" "Ten minutes and counting!" "Take him away and throw him in the brig." "And search him again, just to make sure." "Bitch!" "Come on!" "Your problems are all behind you now." "Stop him!" "Nine minutes and counting." "I did it." "I switched the tape in the machine." "You stupid twit." "You put the real one back in." "Come on, let's go!" "A weather balloon!" " What do you think, Mr Leiter?" " That must be the signal." "There isn't a low-pressure area within 200 miles of here." "Let's go!" "This is Charlie One to Squadron." "Charlie One to Squadron." "Ready all guns and proceed to target." "I repeat:" "Proceed to target." "Roger, Charlie One." "Out." "Come on, Bond." "Get the hell off that rig." "Eight minutes and counting." "Unidentified aircraft approaching rapidly." "Range... five miles." "But I..." "I don't understand!" " You said they wouldn't attack!" " The balloon was a signal." "The stupid fools must think Mr Bond has accomplished his mission." " Activate defences!" " Activate defences." "Seven minutes and counting." "This is Charlie One." "Commence attack!" "Commence attack!" "Six minutes and counting." "Get them on the radio, Blofeld!" " Tell them we give up!" " Give up?" "I've waited too long for this moment." "They'll pay dearly for making a fool out of me." "I see it all now." "You don't give a damn about peace!" " All you care about..." " Shut up, Metz." "Tiffany, my dear." "We're showing a bit more "cheek" than usual, aren't we?" "Take her below and lock her up with Mr Bond." "What a pity." "Such nice cheeks, too." "If only they were brains." "Destroy this, Metz." "Five minutes and counting." "Four minutes and counting." "Tell them we surrender!" "This is utter madness!" "One more word, Metz, and I'll have you shot!" "Get back to your post!" "Prepare my bathosub immediately." "Three minutes and counting." "All systems interlock." "Bathosub to crane." "Commence lift." "Two minutes and counting." "Power and breathing systems on." "Release catch is open." "Lower away." "Bathosub to crane!" "Lower away!" "Wake up, man!" "Lower away!" "You stupid idiot!" "You could've killed me!" "Disengage!" "Disengage!" "Disengage!" "Lower!" "Not up!" "One minute and counting." "Blofeld to Command Centre!" "Come in!" "Blofeld to Command Centre!" "Come in!" "Damn you!" "Command Centre, come in!" "40 seconds and counting." "Get the gun." " Here!" " Shoot 'em!" "Jump!" "Ten... nine..." "So long, James!" "I'll wire M you're on your way home!" "Don't tell him which direction we've taken!" "If you're havin' a good time, let the captain know and I'll have him steam around in circles!" "James, there's something very important I've been meaning to ask you about us." "I know in a relationship like ours, the girl's not supposed to be the one to ask." "But I can't help it." "And please think before answering." "That I promise." "James..." "There must be some mistake." "I didn't order anything." "No mistake, sir." "On the specific instructions and with the compliments of Mr Willard Whyte." "Oysters Andaluz." "Shashlik." "Tidbits." "Prime rib "en jus"." "Salade Utopia." "And for dessert, the "piéce de résistance"... la bombe surprise." "That looks fantastic!" "What's in it?" "But then there would be no "surprise", would there, madame?" " If madam would care to be seated." " Thank you." "This will just take a moment, and then we will leave you in peace." "Wine, sir?" "Mouton Rothschild '55." " May we begin?" " Please do." "A happy selection, if I may say." "I'll be the judge of that." "That's rather potent." "Not the cork - your aftershave." "Strong enough to bury anything." "But the wine is quite excellent." "Although, for such a grand meal, I had rather expected a claret." "Of course." "Unfortunately, our cellar is rather poorly stocked with clarets." "Mouton Rothschild "is" a claret." "And I've smelt that aftershave before." "And both times I've smelt a rat." "He certainly left with his tails between his legs." "Oh, James!" "Oh, yes." "What were you about to ask me?" "James..." "How the hell do we get those diamonds down again?" "Subtitles by Visiontext" "My name is Bond." "James Bond." "And he's bigger than ever, in the newest, greatest Bond adventure of them all." "I didn't know there was a pool down there." " Who are you?" " My name is Bond." "James Bond." "Kill him!" "Welcome to hell, Blofeld." "Sean Connery is back." "Good evening." "And he's brought his own special brand of excitement with him." "Hey, what the hell is this?" "You can't do this to me." "I've got friends in this town." "The women are still falling for him." "I didn't know there was a pool down there." "And so are a couple of men." "Sean Connery as James Bond, 007, in "Diamonds Are Forever"." "Sean Connery as James Bond, 007, and, as usual, he is not alone." "That's quite a nice little nothing you're almost wearing." "I approve." "I don't dress for the hired help." "Jill St John as Tiffany Case." "Charles Gray is three people." "And all of them are named Blofeld." "Good evening, 007." "From the diamond fields of South Africa..." "Curious how everyone who touches those diamonds seems to... die." "...to the canals of Amsterdam." "From the casinos of Las Vegas..." "Hi!" "I'm Plenty." " But of course you are." " Plenty O'Toole." "Named after your father, perhaps?" "...to a rocket site in the Nevada desert." "In the newest, greatest Bond adventure of them all." "Jump!" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "The year - 1970." "The subject - the fate of James Bond." "Producers Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman must decide on a new direction for 007." "Who are you?" "My name is Bond." "James Bond." "When actor George Lazenby departs from the role as Bond, the filmmakers are faced with a clean slate." "Nobody wanted to take a chance that we were hurting the franchise." "And the mutual decision was to make a change." "The question is... what type of change?" "Popular opinion suggests the next film needs to return to the tone and structure of "Goldfinger", the first Bond movie to achieve blockbuster status." "The filmmakers enlist veteran Bond writer Richard Maibaum to write the new script, and Goldfinger's director, Guy Hamilton, to direct." "I was asked to do "Diamonds", and it was a real kick, because I'd felt that I'd been away from it long enough to have varying viewpoints, and I think I'd like to push it a little bit more this way and that." "Like Fleming's novel, much of the action takes place in and around Las Vegas, but the script features a new villain," "Goldfinger's twin brother." "It is decided Maibaum's script needs a major overhaul." "It is a time of social upheaval." "Many suggest Bond's British clubland values are passé." "I'd say it was a 30-year-old "fine", indifferently blended, sir." "With an overdose of "Bon Bois"." "They believe 007 should become more American." "Adam West was on a publicity tour, in London." "And he did come to the house, and he was under contract, playing Batman." "I guess you might say that they had the conversation." "He was considered." "The Americanisation of Bond continues." "We went to the States " "Guy, Cubby and I and Harry - to test for new Bonds." "Cubby found this very good American actor by the name of John Gavin." "And he was actually signed to play Bond." "John Gavin is best known for his role in Hitchcock's "Psycho"." "So it was decided to do the whole film in Hollywood." "We actually took stage space at Universal Studios, set up shop there." "Having dropped the idea of Goldfinger's twin brother as the villain, the filmmakers now search for a new angle." "The solution comes to coproducer Cubby Broccoli in a dream." "One morning, he woke and he said, "I've had the most fabulous dream."" ""It was about Howard Hughes."" "He said, "I thought I was outside the penthouse window, and he had his back to me."" ""And I was knocking on the window, and I was saying, 'Sam'!"" "That was the nickname that his close friends called him." ""Sam!"" "And when he turned around, it wasn't Howard Hughes at all." "It was a total stranger." "He said," ""And that's what I've been looking for - this fellow who's kept captive in this penthouse, and everything below is still going on as though he exists."" "A new writer is brought in to develop the idea." "I got a call from my agent, saying," ""How would you like to write a James Bond movie?"" "I thought he was joking, that it was a monstrous joke." "Cubby Broccoli was saying," ""I need a writer to rewrite this script." "I want him to be young," "I'd like him to be American - but with a command of the British idiom."" "He's perfect for this, cos he writes larger than life and with attitude." "I was like a kid in a candy store - I couldn't believe I was there as the writer of a Bond movie." "And he and I got on like a house on fire immediately." "Before Mankiewicz finishes his draft, another big event happens." "On February 9th, 1971," "Los Angeles is rocked by the magnitude 6.5 San Fernando earthquake." "Suddenly the whole building leaned eight feet at that height." "That train went like that... frightened the hell out of them." "So they came running up to my house." "I lived in Beaumont Drive in Beverly Hills." "And they had to stay there because they were so shaken up." "Another shake-up follows when United Artists suggests a change of course." "United Artists were gung ho to get Sean back." "But Harry and Cubby felt they really didn't want to beg a reluctant actor to act." "I had a brilliant sketch artist who was working for me, Tom Wright, and, if you look at his storyboards..." "it's always Sean in them." "And so there was a big conference in Cubby's house in Bev Hills, and David Pecker, president of United Artists, flew in from New York." "He said," ""Sean is going to cost you two million dollars."" ""That money you can recoup from Eady money."" "There was a levy here called the Eady levy." "For every penny taken at the box office, something like a quarter of it, a farthing, was returned directly to the producers." ""And so, of course, Sean isn't going to cost you anything."" "And so then it was decided to use Sean." "Broccoli and Saltzman asked me to come and talk to Sean, to give him the offer." "I had to take a week to make the decision whether I would do it again." "And, lo and behold, Sean said yes, he would come back." "Of course, the producers already have an actor signed to play James Bond." "If Sean had not come back, John Gavin was going to play him." "And they called and said, "Look, we've got Sean."" "Gavin graciously departs from the picture, with Cubby Broccoli insisting that his contract be paid in full." "He continues acting and, from 1981 to 1986, serves as US ambassador to Mexico." "Sean Connery, meanwhile, negotiates a record sum for his return." "They had given him, I guess, a deal he couldn't refuse." "Desperate times, desperate measures." "He got the unheard-of sum of, I think, $1,200,000 for the film, which in 1970 was just extraordinary." "Sean gave all that money away, and it was $1.25M." "He contributed his fee to a Scottish educational trust fund." "I started, 3 years ago, a trust in Scotland." "Scottish International Education Trust." "Young Scottish artists, writers, painters... who could get the money if they stayed in Scotland." "With this I could launch the trust with so much money that there could never be an excuse for it not succeeding." "United Artists offers additional inducements beyond the record-breaking salary." "He also got the right to make two films." "We made a two-picture deal." "With also development money to prepare them during this period, which I'm doing now." "Ultimately only one film is made under the arrangement:" "What's important is he did one more movie." "Once back, I must say, he was a real pro." "Everything went wonderfully well." "With Connery back in the picture, the production shifts gears." "It is no longer going to be an American Bond." "Connery, meanwhile, turns his attention to the script." "I never met Sean until we were in Las Vegas about two weeks before." "And I had the most wonderful meeting with him." "He loved the script." "I think it's probably the best one we've had, certainly constructionwise for a beginning, a middle and an end of a story." "It's a very good script." "Most of the notes he had were about other characters' dialogue, or other characters' bits of business." "It was the least self-centred script meeting I'd ever had with an actor, much less a star." "The other roles are soon filled." "Jill St John takes the part of jewel smuggler Tiffany Case." "The script was sent to me by Cubby Broccoli - and I loved it." "And who would not want to be in a Bond film?" "Charles Gray, who plays Henderson in "You Only Live Twice"..." " Thank you." " I'm glad you got it right." "...takes on the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the third actor to play the part in as many films." "I liked him a lot, and I was trying to trade chess lessons for bridge lessons, and neither one of us ended up learning to do the other's game very well." "Lana Wood joins the cast on a recommendation from the film's writer." "Tom Mankiewicz, who is a dear friend of mine, said that he was doing this film, and he was speaking with Cubby Broccoli and he said, "I've got the perfect girl to play Plenty O'Toole."" " Hi!" "I'm Plenty." " But of course you are." "As a teenager I used to read all the Ian Fleming books." "I loved that." "That was my fantasy." "Another pivotal role is filled with an offbeat choice:" "Jimmy Dean." "I was working at the Desert Inn, and Cubby Broccoli came in and saw me doing my regular act out there and said, "That's the guy I want to play Willard Whyte."" "Jimmy Dean, the Grand Ole Opry star." "I had the number one record in England in 1961, a thing I wrote and recorded called "Big Bad John"." "Jimmy Dean, the sausage king!" "Whatever melts your butter suits me." "Thank God for the sausage business!" "Every day in my life is Groundhog Day, did you know that?" "For Jimmy Dean, playing Willard Whyte proves to be a risky venture." "Willard Whyte was really, basically, Howard Hughes." "And I'm working for Howard Hughes at the Desert Inn." "It was definitely Howard Hughes." "He had taken over the Desert Inn in Las Vegas and was living up there but nobody had seen him." "They sent Howard Hughes the first 16mm print of every James Bond movie." "And I'm thinking, wouldn't it have been cute if Howard Hughes had seen that movie and said, "That sapsucker's playing me."" ""And I don't like how he's doing it!"" "Tell him he's fired." "That would have cost me a potful of money." "Another musician joins the cast as one of Blofeld's homicidal henchmen." "Well, I worked with Burt Bacharach and I've recorded with Sonny  Cher," "I did the Phil Spector records and the Righteous Brothers." ""Lost That Lovin' Feeling"" " I'm on that." "But that wasn't my main thing..." "the main thing was jazz." "He was a jazz musician." "And I think it was his first acting job." "He was a bass-fiddle player." "I worked with Thelonious Monk." "One night Guy Hamilton came into Shelley's Manne-Hole, in LA." "Guy, who was a jazz fan, was seeing Thelonious Monk." "There was Putter playing." "He went, "That's one of the guys!"" "So I did a screen test with Paul Williams, playing the part of Mr Wint." "He wrote a lot of songs, like "We've Only Just Begun"." "He wrote a ton of songs." "When Paul Williams is unable to come to terms with the producers," "Bruce Glover lands the role of Mr Wint." "First they thought I was too normal-looking." "They wanted Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre." "I don't look like Peter Lorre." "They wanted weird physical types." "I didn't act like anything, I just acted like myself." "So when I got on the set, I looked at Putter and I thought, "So we're gay!"" "The audience has the inside information, so you don't need to act like you're gay." "If they know you are, then that's all that's necessary." "A lot of my character was just looking at Putter and enjoying him." "Just looking was an enjoyable experience and I thought, "But he's mine, he's mine."" ""He's my toy." And now I've got, like, this possessive kind of thing." "They're both aboard." "I must say, Miss Case seems quite attractive." "For a lady." "That jealousy came up because I had, in fact, the sense of Putter being my toy." "As the start date nears, the crew finds the Las Vegas location not so much a challenge as a temptation." "We were living in Las Vegas for about six weeks." "The whole art department were living round the pool, and they were all gamblers, and nobody went to bed." "But back then, it was just the hard-nosed gambling town." "I mean, that was it." "We all lost our money." "They gambled all the way through the night." "You can go into a casino and not know whether it's night or day." "There are no clocks and no windows." "Producer Cubby Broccoli and his wife Dana are involved in a real-life mystery." "His room was broken into while they were asleep, and his wife's jewellery stolen." "Which was really frightening." "I'd heard about these robberies where they spray chloroform and the people sleep and they take the jewellery." "Amazing" " I was in the suite next door!" "Filming begins April 5th, 1971, with the desert outside Las Vegas substituting for South Africa." "The first day of shooting we're going to shoot that scene with the scorpion where Putter pretends to have toothache and I say, "Would you look in his...?"" "And he opens up his mouth, and I reach around and I jam the scorpion into his mouth." "They thought that too shocking." "The following week, Sean Connery shoots his first scene - the car chase down the Vegas Strip." "They said, "Whatever you want, Guy." And I said, "I've heard that before."" "Let's try him for size. "Could you close downtown Vegas for five nights?"" "Closing down the Strip is no trouble for Cubby Broccoli, who has friends in high places." "Howard used to occupy that whole top floor of the Desert Inn." "They called him "the penthouse"." "Word has come down from "the penthouse"" "that Cubby Broccoli can use anything in any of his hotels, or anything else that he might need." "Filming the car chase continues through mid-April, except for one stunt which takes months to complete." "Originally, we did that sequence in the studio - and I was actually there - in Los Angeles." "The initial shoot at Universal goes well, but Hamilton still needs shots of the car exiting the alley in Las Vegas." "Cubby said "Cool it." "I'll have a second unit and they will get the shot for you."" "A second unit films the stunt in June." "Footage unfortunately includes Las Vegas street crowds, police and other problems." "A reshoot is scheduled." "I said, "Terrific, Cubby." "Do it again."" "They redid it..." "later." "The American stuntmen unfortunately cannot perform the stunt." "A French team is called in." "But they do the stunt on the opposite set of wheels!" "It was the wrong way round." "The driving seat is down, the French guy does it the other way down..." "I said, "So long as you're on two wheels, it's all the same to me, wheelie up or wheelie down."" "That attitude doesn't last." "To this day, every time I see it my heart goes in my mouth." "If you look, it's down on one side." "No way could it have turned on the other side." "Eventually, an innovative solution is found." "Only one answer." "When we did the close-ups we were on a sound stage, but the car still went... like this." "And in the middle there we slipped this shot of the car." "At the end of April Connery begins filming inside the Riviera Hotel and casino." "He was just an incredible presence, which he still is." "I did the entire scene on an apple box, because I was not tall enough." "So that was always a lot of fun!" "Cos Sean was so gigantic, and here I was even with heels not quite matching up." "May 1st finds the crew at the Johns Manville gypsum plant, which becomes Whyte Tectronics in the film." "The moon buggy was not a hundred per cent based on the actual lunar vehicle." "Guy wanted it to look grotesque, with these flailing arms and so on." "Mechanical arms." "And I decided to use the actual moon buggy wheels, which were conical." "What happened was that the ground was so rough and the weight of the actual moon buggy was so much that they kept breaking." "The following week, Lana Wood takes a dip in the pool." "Though stuntwoman Patty Elder does part of the fall," "Lana Wood finishes it off for the close shot." "I started thinking about the fact that I was going to be jumping into a pool... basically nude." "And then everybody was saying, "You don't have to be worried."" ""We're going to be shooting this in the middle of the night." "Who will be up then?"" "And I thought, yeah, that's right, who's gonna be up?" "It's Las Vegas!" "The whole world is up in the middle of the night!" "And they're all gathered around the windows looking at the pool area!" "Exceptionally fine shot." "I didn't know there was a pool down there." "In mid-May, the Bond company arrives at an unusual home in Palm Springs." "The house was built out of the rock itself, and the rock that I start out on when you first see me is actually a real rock, there in the house that the house was built around." "And it was absolutely right for the film." "It was a reinforced concrete structure, very modern." "Fabulous!" "And I said, "This is as though I designed it."" "I get a lot of ideas from television - I saw some of these girls for the Olympics doing their mat work, where they do these somersaults." "It's beautiful." "If one of those girls were ever to do some flips and come and kick you in the teeth with her feet, you wouldn't stand a chance." "I showed him different things that I felt would be appropriate for fighting, and a kick and a turn on the floor - that is mine." "I must say, "That's mine!" I like that one." "Stuntwoman Donna Garratt is originally signed to play Bambi, but does not end up in the role." "Well, hi there!" "I'm Bambi." "Lola Larson replaces Garratt." "I'm Bambi." "She was an Olympic gymnast star, very young, very quiet." "I think this was her first, too, but she did a good job." "Jimmy Dean arrives on the set to film his first scenes, but misses out on the action." "Bambi and Thumper." "More people ask me about them..." "I never saw them." "When we arrived on the set they had already done their thing and they had left, so I never saw them." "Dean enjoys working with Sean Connery." "He was always fun to be around." "I had a good time with him - he called me "the noisy American"." "At the end of May the unit travels further afield, to an oil rig off the coast of ocean-side California." "We had problems to find the right oil rig." "It had to be disused and had to be safe, because we had fire effects and explosions and all that." "For the cast, getting to the rig is an adventure in itself." "Every day we'd go in a helicopter and fly 15 minutes out to this oil rig." "One of the helicopter pilots - cos I wasn't in the scene - said, "Jimmy, when we go up and go for a ride..."" "He scared the hell out of me." "I mean, they went so close to that tower..." "it was unbelievable!" "Filming the pyrotechnics on the oil rig almost goes awry." "Guy had been a very famous assistant director, and had been for John Huston and other people..." "Guy decided to have one last dry run-through, just to make sure everything was fine before we shot." "And the assistant director misunderstood." "And when Guy yelled, "Action!" For the run-through, explosions started happening all over the place." "And thank God the head helicopter pilot, a wonderful man named Jim Gavin, he went, "What's happening?" "!" And he started rolling the cameras, and a lot of the explosions from the air were off that take." "And Guy stood on that oil rig and he was apoplectic, but he was so calm - and that was Guy." "Guy never raised his voice." "And the assistant director said, "I'm so sorry, Guy."" "And Guy said, "I'll handle it."" "And he said, "Guy, I'll get the people..." He said, "I'll handle it."" "He said, "Guy, I don't think you understand the pressure..."" "He said, "I was the assistant director on 'The African Queen' and on..." whatever," ""And I'll handle it."" "In June, the crew returns to Pinewood to film on Ken Adam's elegant sets." "First up are scenes in Blofeld's penthouse." "I wanted to give the feeling of a penthouse belonging to one of the wealthiest men in the world, as well as a man who had been a brilliant designer and brilliant engineer." "A sequence in the elevator." "There were some stainless steel tiles, which we'd seen the pattern of." "I remember it was a schlep trying to get them back into the country, but we did." "To me that elevator will always live as one of the masterpieces of Ken's designs." "Another set makes an impression of a different sort on the crew." "Leslie Hillman had come up with the idea of using mashed potatoes in tons to create this mud." "What he didn't realise was that after 24 hours these mashed potatoes started smelling!" "I can't tell you, there was this awful stink!" "Get him out!" "In you go!" "Straight away!" "Quick!" "It was unbearable!" "London-based American actor Shane Rimmer, a veteran of "You Only Live Twice", reports for work at Pinewood on June 30th." "It was kinda funny." "It was Connery, and I'd never met him." "I didn't realise quite how awesome the man is." "My first look of him is coming rather briskly down this hallway, and I just went rigid." "This... phenomenon coming towards me!" "Because he is - he sends out an awful lot of voltage." "To get away from the grind of filming," "Connery indulges his passion - golf." "Sean Connery gave me some instructions on how to play golf - very good instructions, by the way." "Sean plays a lot more golf than James Bond does." "It was more or less in the contract that we could play golf once a week." "He did more for my golf game than any pro that I ever went to." "When I finished "Diamonds Are Forever"," "I was hitting my irons the best I had ever hit 'em." "At the end of July, a fight is filmed in an unusual location - an elevator." "We gotta have a fight in a Bond movie." "And basically there's nothing more boring than two blokes swinging at each other." "I began to think about having a fight in this elevator, because it would be fun." "They'd break the glass, so you could shatter the thing, and as it came up to the floor your head would be chopped off." "And put the two largest guys I can think of in a "small" elevator." "They would love to swing at each other, but every time they move back," ""Oh, my elbow's gone through this!"" "Bob Simmons, who was our stunt gaffer - he loved the idea." "Sean and me, we both worked the fight out ourselves." "Cos some of Bob's ideas were good, but we thought we could improve on them." "And you approved, so that was the main thing." "I worked with Sean before - I taught Sean judo." "This small lift, with Sean and I six foot two and two hundred and twenty pounds - it was quite something, and I thought, that's a brilliant idea." "I remember Sean saying, "What's next, a fight in a telephone box?"" "And most stuntmen have a healthy respect for Sean because he believes, and this is what makes Sean a wonderful Bond..." "When he hits, he means it." "He goes in there..."I'm going to hit you!"" "I remember it well!" "But he's big, because occasionally he gets one back." "Because he forgot the routine because he never learnt it." "And Sean gets thumped, and he never complains." "In early August, the final fight is filmed - not at sea, but on a stage at Pinewood Studios." "Actors Bruce Glover and Putter Smith work closely with the stunt team, led by Bob Simmons." "Each move is choreographed so that the actors can do as much of the stunt work as possible." "Putter Smith even has his hands lit on fire." "But it is stuntman George Leech who goes up in flames." "For the final flip, Connery is assisted by a mini-trampoline to launch stuntman Gerry Crampton in the air." "From uncertain beginnings and shaky starts," ""Diamonds Are Forever" re-establishes 007 as the classic "British" secret agent." "On Friday 13th August, 1971, Sean Connery closes the lid on his career as the star of EON Productions' James Bond series." "We finished at 4.00 on the last day of his contract." "Everybody was very happy." "I think everybody kind of knew that he wasn't coming back." "That this was his swan song." "I came back for the one." "That was the understanding." "He was adorable to me." "It was a pleasure to kiss him." "He's a fabulous person." "And a marvellous actor." "Handsome, kind, charming, with these big, magnetic eyes that had a bit of irony to them." "The first, and the best, I think." "He's:" "A) The sexiest thing on two legs." "B) He looks terrific." "C) He's got such a wicked twinkle." "D) He's a very good actor." "And he's very virile." "He was a gentleman." "He was very rough." "Like a diamond." "Rough edges, but down-to-earth." "Very giving, as an actor." "Mr Osato believes in a healthy chest." "He was fantastic." "And I must say he was a very, very good colleague." "He was very, very friendly, very helpful." "He's a very good pal to have as your leading man." "To be his co-star is to feel almost protected, and Sean was just wonderful." "He "was" James Bond, to me." "Deep breath." "All right, here we go." "Visiontext Subtitles by Rachel Thompson"