Fun fact about the actor Connery fights in the elevator, he was former wrestler Joe Robinson. Back in March of 1998 the 70-year-old Robinson made newspaper headlines after fighting off a gang of at least eight muggers single-handed when he was attacked after stepping off a bus in Cape Town; the gang came at him with baseball bats and knives, but the 6 ft 2 inch-tall Robinson overpowered two with flying kicks, karate-chopped another, and broke the arm of a fourth with a punch- the rest fled. Robinson suffered "only minor cuts and grazes" and continued to enjoy his holiday.

@bjchit

Ай бұрын

Based.

Getting angry about Bond saying “red heads have a terrible temper” and proving the point 🤣🤣🤣 you are AWESOME Ashleigh ❤

Willard Whyte was played by Jimmy Dean, who was a hugely popular country singer, TV personality, and later the founder of Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausages. He was one of the singers who helped bring country music into the mainstream. Dean was born in Plainview, TX, and that was his real accent. TV titbit: _The Jimmy Dean Show_ introduced the first Muppet, Rowlf the Dog, who was a regular cast member.

@richardb6260

Ай бұрын

His biggest hit was "Big Bad John".

@ajivins1

Ай бұрын

'Big Bad John'!

@Quartermaster323

Ай бұрын

🤯I always thought the sausage company was named after “Rebel Without a Cause” James Dean. 🌈 ⭐️ The more you know…☺️

@RussellCHall

Ай бұрын

His music is great but his big hit is the sausage at my house growing up😋

@vapoet

Ай бұрын

@@Quartermaster323 Jimmy even did his own commercials.

Shirley Basse belting out Diamonds are Forever gives me shivers

@RoSaWa386-33

Ай бұрын

This and GOLDFINGER are the signature Bond songs. Others are my favorites but Shirley Bassey and these brass-heavy blasters are The Signature Songs.

@unkindestcut

Ай бұрын

Best part of the movie.

@Citizenesse8

Ай бұрын

Me too. Love her.

@neilmcdonald9164

Ай бұрын

Bassey🎩

@neilmcdonald9164

Ай бұрын

Connery came back for a then-high fee as a 1 off🎩

"Redheads have terrible tempers" Ashleigh proceeds to get furious LOL

Tiffany Case was blonde in the novel. In this movie, she's a redhead. This is addressed when Bond meets her ("Weren't you a blonde when I came in?")

Sir Paul McCartney was the first choice to write the title song for this Bond movie, but this did not happen until Live and Let Die (1973).

@adamwilkinson6783

Ай бұрын

Which is my favourite bond movie

@labratamber

Ай бұрын

Yes Jane Seymore is gorgeous !!°°

@christopherconard2831

Ай бұрын

The first Bond movie I saw. So Roger Moore is what I picture as 007.

@WhatsWrongWithTheStreet

Ай бұрын

Live and Let Die is about as bad as Diamonds are Forever. In any franchise some are going to be better than others. What starts off with a good idea winds up pretty far from the original idea.

George Lazenby: "That Random One Guy."😅

@christianpoint0888

Ай бұрын

Maybe do some homework if you’re gonna do Bond & know the basics ? Shocked she has so many subs ? Weird !

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Ай бұрын

Well she's right. lol

@HermanVonPetri

Ай бұрын

@@christianpoint0888 Doing research on the films risks getting spoilers, though.

@haissem8

Ай бұрын

He was in the best Bond movie of all no matter how much stings all the Lazenby haters. Connery's movies are trash compared to OHMSS and Diamonds are Forever is the prime example.

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Ай бұрын

@@haissem8 You can say what you want but the issue with OHMSS will always be Lazenby. He simply could not act and he had a go away vibe about him. The dubbing was also trash. On it's own, the movie is solid but it's like saying you have a beautiful floor when there's a shit in the middle of it. Also yea Diamonds are Forever is shit but Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball are better than OHMSS

And thus concludes all of the (canonical) Sean Connery James Bond movies! Looking forward to your take on Roger Moore!

@seanstinchfield-mp2xm

Ай бұрын

Next is Live And Let Die! My Dad’s favorite!! Also one of mine.

@michaelway7936

Ай бұрын

Killer title song by Paul Mc Cartney/Wings​@@seanstinchfield-mp2xm

@StephenSE9

Ай бұрын

I can't wait for the RM years 🌞

@zacharylewis2802

Ай бұрын

@@seanstinchfield-mp2xmOne of my favorites. It’s so much fun, even if it does have some pretty problematic aspects. I can’t wait to see her get annoyed by the slide whistle in Man with the Golden Gun.

@Deathbird_Mitch

Ай бұрын

I'd like to see what she thinks of Never Say Never Again.

Before Eurostar, those hovercraft were the fastest way to cross the English Channel.

@scooby1992

Ай бұрын

Took about 30 minutes . Noisy and so much spray you couldnt see much , but quicker than a ferry .

Yes, the hovercraft was a real thing. It crossed from the UK to France as a regular service - I went on it myself (I'm old).

@ListerDavid

Ай бұрын

I used to watch them coming and going as a kid, they seemed so futuristic.

@countertony

Ай бұрын

@@ListerDavid Still got smaller ones on a scheduled service between Portsmouth and Ryde Esplaanade (Isle of Wight) - as well as passengers it also carries cargo and sometimes does medevac when there's someone who needs to be urgently taken to a mainland hospital (but presumably not urgently enough for Air Ambulance, or if the weather's too bad).

@countertony

Ай бұрын

Alas for glamour, it's not actually that fun to travel on - the view through the portholes is pretty poor, it's noisy as heck, and the seats are cramped if you're taller than about 170cm/5'8". It gets you across the Solent in 10 minutes, though, and it's a freakin' HOVERCRAFT!

@larrybremer4930

Ай бұрын

Wasn't it the Chunnel that doomed the economic viability of those hovercraft ferries?

@shawnmiller4781

Ай бұрын

@@larrybremer4930correct

During Bond's briefing with M and Sir Donald Munger at the beginning, Munger refers to Bond having just been on holiday, and M later quips how the Service had managed well during Bond's absence. These were inside jokes referring to Sir Sean Connery's absence in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

@tntkff9901

Ай бұрын

I still like the idea that the name "James Bond" is actually a title/rank passed from agent to agent.

@xabunga5520

Ай бұрын

@@tntkff9901 That idea/theory has no ground whatsoever, between OHMSS and Diamonds are Forever it's already debunked. If Lazenby was another guy why would he have all the gadgets from the previous movies and remember them? Why would he have the very same relationship with Moneypenny, Q and so on if it was another guy. The idea doesn't work nor was it meant to, it's the same guy despite actors changing (apart from the Daniel Craig reboot).

@EdwardGregoryNYC

Ай бұрын

By the time we get to the Daniel Craig Bond, the storylines suggest that Q, M, Moneypenny and even Bond are more titles or positions than actual people. It has some basis in cannon from Her Majesty and Diamonds where Lazenby refers to "This never happened to the other fellow" and then there's the reference you cited about Bond having been on vacation. Q, of course, stands for Quartermaster. M is head of Missions.

@StephenPhillips-te8yv

26 күн бұрын

​@@EdwardGregoryNYC except the code name idea literally only works for Craig. We know the rest are the same guy with the same life events. Lazenby's wife is murdered, Connery goes for revenge, Moore gets revenge and the whole thing is mentioned as why Dalton hates weddings. The World is Not Enough is still Brosnan's family motto, like Lazenby's - it's not meant to be a different character. . That said, James Bond being an alias for multiple agents IS the plot to the 60's Casino Royale spoof...

Now that Mr. Connery's run is over(at least for now), let's get banging with Roger Moore and "Live and Let Die", my personal favorite in regards to the Bond actors. I think you will like him, as he has the perfect amount of comedy, and can be dead serious when it is called for. Live and Let Die is one of the more grounded Bond films, as the villain doesn't have some insane plan to take over the world(and the Bond girl is one of the best). His films also have some of the best theme songs to boot, I'll for sure be looking forward to next Friday.

@reesebn38

Ай бұрын

Roger Moore was my Bond. I saw all his movies in the theatre. If you were a kid in the 70s it wasn't just James Bond but He was Simon Templar from the classic tv show The Saint. The 3 best Bond songs for me are "Live and Let Die", "Nobody Does It Better", "For Your Eyes Only".

@adamwilkinson6783

Ай бұрын

Yes it's still my favourite bond movie

@misterwhyte

Ай бұрын

I'm with you. I love Roger Moore as Bond and Live and Let Die is one of his best, if not his best.

@adp5926

Ай бұрын

I want so bad to see Ashleigh watch Moonraker. And Richard Kiel.

@MrJerks93

Ай бұрын

Live and Let Die, Octopussy, The Spy Who Loved Me, and For Your Eyes Only are some of my faves.

@Ashleigh Burton The Actor playing Blofeld in this movie is Charles Gray who was the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

@Stile4aly

Ай бұрын

He was also in You Only Live Twice as Mr. Henderson which caused me considerable confusion when I watched these as a kid.

@ajivins1

Ай бұрын

And Satan's devotee in 'The Devil Rides Out'.

Bravo, Ashleigh! Not everyone notices that Bond's car switches sides in the alley. I read the initial stunt driver kept messing up the exit, so they hired a new guy. He nailed the exit from the alley, but no one noticed he was on the wrong side until they were putting the movie together. They went back and added one scene in the middle where the camera rotates from one side to the other. It kinda-sorta "covers up" the switch . . .

@Stenbrotsgatan

Ай бұрын

I believe the story is that the stunt was done in 2 locations...the entry was shot in a studio and the exit was shot in Vegas 6 months apart. The American team do it on the left and British on the right, thus an extra shooting day was needed to shoot an insert of the car changing sides.

@ajivins1

Ай бұрын

When I as a kid the bit that annoyed me was the Moon Buggy's wheel rolling through one scene on its own while the desert chase was happening.

@TheMoviePlanet

Ай бұрын

And yet this person has watched 3 films with Felix Leiter and doesn't know who he is.

@Tyrconnell

Ай бұрын

@@TheMoviePlanet Maybe she's better with faces than names, in which case she definately wouldn't recognise him!

@izzonj

Ай бұрын

​@Stenbrotsgatan they should have reversed the film. This mistake was so obvious to everyone, very lazy.

Have you ever had Jimmie Dean sausages? Willard White was Jimmie Dean. He was an actor, Country singer, tv show host and entrepreneur that started the sausage company.

@samuelmoulds1016

Ай бұрын

yeah, Bill Engval said he was terrified one night watching a commercial! the commercial said. "The eggs are from real chickens. The milk is from real cows. The sausage is Jimmy Dean."

The fire extinguisher didn't shoot out the bottom. The hose was clipped to the side (as when they hang on the wall). He simply left it in that position when he sprayed it. So the nozzle was held close to the side and near the bottom. That's all.

“This car chase is a little long for my goldfish brain”- well keep watching, maybe you’d prefer an epic boat chase, or ski chase or…

@Tconlon251_2

Ай бұрын

Perhaps a car chase with a Dukes of Hazzard corkscrew jump

Felix Leiter is always James Bond's US CIA contact.

@markcornish2519

Ай бұрын

And the only one to play him twice was David hedison in live and let die and the living daylights

@edgarsandoval6990

Ай бұрын

​@@markcornish2519 Jeffrey Wright also plays Felix in three movies in the Craig era.

@samuelmoulds1016

Ай бұрын

yeah, Felix Leiter is always James Bond's contact, and he is always changing! one James Bond movie he is a 'bad guy' with a different name, and the next movie he is Felix Leiter.

@simongvs

Ай бұрын

​@@markcornish2519 You meant to say Licence to Kill as the second film, not Daylights!

@simongvs

Ай бұрын

...and he was previously played by Jack Lord in Dr. No, Cec Linder in Goldfinger & Rik Van Nutter in Thunderball.

5:45 That man is Bruce Glover, the father of Crispin Glover, who played George McFly in BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985). Bruce has been in numerous movies and television shows over the years and he’s still alive. In fact he just turned 92 back on May 2. He’s a pretty peculiar guy, too. I’m friends with him on Facebook and his posts and comments are WEIRD!

@Johnny_Socko

Ай бұрын

Everyone is pointing out that the one henchman is Crispin Glover's dad, but nobody is mentioning that his partner seems to be the noted folk/rock musician David Crosby. 😛

@Tyrconnell

Ай бұрын

@@Johnny_Socko Actually noted jazz bassist Putter Smith

@RetroClassic66

Ай бұрын

@@Johnny_Socko That’s because it isn’t David Crosby, and you know that. He does kind of resemble David Crosby, though. And he IS a musician, although he’s a jazz bassist, music teacher, and author, as well as an actor. His name is Putter Smith, and he’s now 83 years old.

@jasonfarrar4737

Ай бұрын

Came her to reiterate that. Thanks.

@bobjohnston1239

Ай бұрын

I thought they must be related somehow. They looked so similar.

2:27 His transition from Bond Connery to SCHHHEAN Connery was almost instantaneous.

@kevinramsey417

Ай бұрын

Don't you mean inshtantaneoush?

The two henchmen/diamond thieves are as close to representation of a gay couple in that era of time you'll see. They couldn't say it but there was ways it was represented back then. The hand holding was a pretty bold move for the sixties.

@markcornish2519

Ай бұрын

Well it was the seventies

That's a family friendly casino in Vegas called "Circus, Circus." While the kids enjoy the games and circus acts, the parents gamble down below. Real place.

@kevinmoore2929

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure Circus Circus has been out of business for a few years now.

@SamCarter-stp

Ай бұрын

@@kevinmoore2929 - apparently not. I thought it got shutdown in the 90's, but it's still up and running. MGM owns it now,

@EdwardGregoryNYC

Ай бұрын

I went to Circus, Circus as a kid around 1970, just before this film came out. It was just like in the film. The Midway circled the gambling floor where an elephant really did come out and play slots. There were aerialists performing above a net above the gamblers, and the girl who turns into a gorilla was a real show. Great fun. Lots of the kids to do and spend any money the parents may have had the good fortune to win.

@notthemusewere

Ай бұрын

memorable description of it in book Fear and Loathing.

@Lunch_Meat

Ай бұрын

​@@notthemusewere it's right on the main nerve

Oh, by the way, I've always had a thing for redheads. My wife was a redhead. We were married for 49yrs until she died in 2017. Guaranteed, never a dull moment. Fine if you can take it.

The "tart's handkerchief" reference is to the broken perfume bottle in the elevator he was laying on. (a tart being a cheap woman)

The guy playing Blofeld in this movie is the same actor who played the British agent in Japan in "You Only Live Twice;" the guy who got stabbed in the back as he was talking to James through the paper wall...right before Bond met Tiger Tanaka.

Sherry is a kind of fortified wine originating in Spain ('sherry' is the anglicized version of 'Jerez', which is a town in Spain as well as the name of the drink). The wine is matured a second time to make sherry, in oak casks that are re-used to give each brand of sherry its unique flavour. Pedro Ximenez is a really good one, in case you fancy trying it. The famous single malt Scotch whiskey 'Lagavulin' is also 'finished' in oak casks previously used to make sherry, which is why it has a mix of sweet sherry-like flavour, and strong smokey flavour from the local Peat-rich water.

@Amanda-gg6kz

Ай бұрын

The smokey flavor is from the malted barley being smoked by burning peat, which is a characteristic of several Islay whiskys.

@PiraticalBob

Ай бұрын

Sherry isn't aged, *per se.* The casks from which the bottling occurs are often the oldest in the winery, and the wine drawn from them is replaced by wine from the next oldest casks, which themselves are refreshed from the next oldest again, with up to a dozen levels of casks being used in all this wine transferring. The system (called "Solera") makes for a remarkably consistent product at the bottling stage. Sherry isn't overly sweet naturally - - If it needs sweetening, the Pedro Ximenez (which is a grape variety - - sherry itself is made from the Palomino grape) is used for sweetening. The sweetest dessert sherries are referred to as "cream" sherries, with Harvey's Bristol Cream being the most famous. Sherry can range from extremely sweet to extremely dry, and each level of sweetness usually has a different name to describe it - - cream being sweet, Oloroso and Amontillado being in the middle, and Fino being the driest.

That's Crispin Glovers dad, Bruce, who played Mr. Wint. He's still alive at 92.

@scooby1992

Ай бұрын

I know Crispin is his son , but it is obvious as they look so similar .

As for where the diamonds were hidden in the body, Bond says "alimentary, my dear Felix." The alimentary canal includes the esophagus, stomach, and intestines, so your guess of "booty hole" was about right.

6:28 The Channel Hovercraft was a legit passenger and vehicle-carrying class of large hovercraft linking Dover to Calais from the late 1960s until 2000.

So Plenty O'Toole is played by actress Lana Wood. Not sure if you're familar with what happened to Lana's sister Natalie back back in 1981. but it's very sad and tragic, and to this day no one knows for sure exactly what happened or why. There are lots of articles and videos out there if you wish to know more.

@cpmf2112

Ай бұрын

Well, at least one person knows but they aren't talking.

@johnhawk1089

Ай бұрын

Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken were there too

@EShelby2127

Ай бұрын

@@johnhawk1089 - And Robert Wagner is now married to Jill St. John (Tiffany Case).... in the same scene as Lana Wood...

@johncampbell756

Ай бұрын

My sister's late father-in-law was a pilot, and Christopher Walken was on his plane the next day.

@reesebn38

Ай бұрын

Lana Wood says Robert Wagner murdered Natalie. I think She is right.

I love watching these older movies shot in Vegas, shows you what the town looked like back then. The chase scene was filmed on Fremont street in downtown Vegas, today that whole street is closed to cars and there's a huge roof above it that does light shows

@Doctor1297

Ай бұрын

Bond just showing off his version of the Fremont Street Experience! 😂 It really is neat seeing old Vegas in its prime, with the blatant mob connection portrayed in the film. Wondering how the real mob thought of the movie. 🤔

@larrybremer4930

Ай бұрын

It also features Circus Circus which was one of the first mega casinos on what is now called the strip (and Freemont Street is usually called the "old strip").

@blizzy6392

Ай бұрын

I like this movie for viewing “old” Vegas. The mafia is still in town. Fremont Street is still where all the lights and action is. Notice at the south end of the street a construction site where the Plaza Hotel is under construction (opened 1971).

@shawnmiller4781

Ай бұрын

Before Vegas got “Civilized”

@shawnmiller4781

Ай бұрын

@@blizzy6392The original “Oceans 11” with the rat pack is also great for showing the old Vegas

Willard Whyte was played by country music singer Jimmy Dean, who became more famous for his brand of breakfast sausage. The Whyte character was based on Howard Hughes, who in the late sixties lived on the 8th and 9th floors of the Desert Inn Hotel in Las Vegas and was a recluse, communicating only by telephone and intercom.

Having seen all the Bond actors so far, I will state that my overall favorite is still Sir Roger Moore. He had fun with the role. They were escapist fantasy adventure stories and Roger did not take himself or the ludicrous situations he found himself in seriously, but was suave and sophisticated when necessary... just the right tone for James Bond. He also starred in two of the best and more iconic Bond films... "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "For Your Eyes Only."

LOL! You calling Ernst Stavro Blofeld "Catman" in the intro got me singing. "Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na, Cat Man!"

The character Willard Whyte was based on Howard Hughes, a reclusive billionaire industrialist. Hughes was an aerospace engineer, but expanded his investments to include aircraft, defense contracting, real estate and RKO, a major movie studio. Hughes owned several hotels and businesses in Las Vegas.

@scottboswell6406

Ай бұрын

The Aviator (based on Hughes life) is a great film Ashleigh should see!

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Ай бұрын

What a terrible way to portray Howard Hughes. lol

@timmooney7528

Ай бұрын

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 The character Tony Stark (and Howard Stark) were also based on Hughes. In Iron Man 1&2 Tony has a personality quirk about having items handed to him. My guess this is inspired by Hughes being a germophobe and didn't like to touch items other people handled.

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Ай бұрын

@@timmooney7528 Yea and the Tony Stark character in the comics comes off even more like Howard Hughes. In the movies he is more fun-loving and comical while in the comics he is more of a serious businessman like Hughes was. I hope we see more of a version of that on the big screen at some point.

3:32 "I have no idea what is happening" Bond is on a *roaring rampage of revenge" - after Blofeld for killing his wife. The violent stuff earlier is Bond interrogating people to get Blofeld's location. 6:46 They didn't have to money to make it a normal width.

Mr Wint and Mr Kit had been one of the first openly gay couple on screen and Bruce Glover was all in for it. He was the one who suggested to make it "more obvious" and it showed, the scene on the plane, he went full in, he once said "We did this scene, we are a couple and he is all mine!" Such brilliant acting Also fun fact, when they pushed Plenty out of the window, the scene describtion was like that "You are naked and been thrown into a pool from the 20th floor" Actress Lana Wood was like "Naked? from a hotel window? Absolutly not." But the producer said "Dont worry, we will do it in the night." She later said "Have you ever been to Vegas, at night? There had been more spectators thn we would have all day"

What I find hilarious about the scene where they discover Biofeld's oil rig hide out is that the model of the rig on the table map could only have been put there by Blofeld, given that Whyte didn't have an asset there.

"Impeccable aim." "I didn't know there was water down there."

@deepermind4884

Ай бұрын

A pool.

Jimmy Dean was best remembered with his 1961 hit Big Bad John

@bjchit

Ай бұрын

I thought it was his sausages.

@jculver1674

Ай бұрын

@@bjchit No, you're thinking of John Holmes.

@DavidDrouant

Ай бұрын

@@jculver1674 noice

@glennwisniewski9536

Ай бұрын

Let's not forget The Jimmy Dean (Variety) Show (1963 to 1966) co-starring Rowlf the Dog (operated by Jim Henson).

@stevekile1919

Ай бұрын

@@jculver1674 🤣🤣🤣

I don't think Beans was in the opening credits originally. It was solely United Artists, which was bought by Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1981, and then they changed the studio cards of the movies they had acquired. The car switching sides is probably one of the best known continuity mistakes in the James Bond series.

In the novels "You Only Live Twice" is the revenge novel for "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"

*** As a child ,we wacthed this Bond movie with my mother and stepfather at least 10 times and everytime the fake Lunar Simulation scene came up ,my stepfather would say " Stanley ,must be rolling in the floor with laughter " ...he grew up with Stanley Kubrick in the Bronx .N.Y.C....this line always flew over my head ,untill about 20 years later .I finally understood the meaning when Kubrick was accused of filming the historic Moon Landing ,probably in an undisclosed location in England .!!...Long story ...***

@nicholascross3557

Ай бұрын

Of course they got Kubric for faking the moon landing, he's the best! Unfortunately, Kubrik being Kubric, he insisted that they film on location....

@jrneal1220

Ай бұрын

Even more so since Ken Adam did the set design for this movie (and several other Bonds), as well as two of Kubrick's movies...

@PatrickCooperPhotography-nw1pp

16 күн бұрын

@@nicholascross3557 And probably filmed about 100 takes (another Kubrick habit.)

The Whyte House hotel was actually the International hotel in Vegas, later it became the Hilton hotel and nowadays it's called the Westgate hotel

Even without plastic surgery, Blofeld's face keeps changing. Now he looks like the guy in Japan with the wooden leg in You Only Live Twice.

@ronald-xs7sp

Ай бұрын

Blofeld played by Charles Gray, the criminologist in Rocky Horror Picture Show!

@johnsensebe3153

Ай бұрын

Apparently, in the books, Blofeld has plastic surgery all the time to change his appearance.

@bobbrinkerhoff3592

Ай бұрын

@@ronald-xs7sp thank you , I knew he looked familiar .

@GottunddieWelten

Ай бұрын

Maybe the cat is the real Blofeld ;)

@mattbriddell9246

Ай бұрын

@@GottunddieWelten The real treasure was the Blofelds we made along the way :D

I love this one for the comedy. Fun fact, James Bond never fires a bullet in this film.

Bruce Glover as Mr. Wint is mentioned a bit in the comments, but the actor playing Mr. Kidd is interesting too. Putter Smith (Mr. Kidd) was a professional jazz bassist in real life who had played with Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and others. He was spotted by co-producer Harry Saltzman at a Monk jazz concert and given his first acting role in DAF.

When Felix asks where the diamonds are and Bond replies "Alimentary, Dr. Leiter", he was referring to the alementary canal, which IS, yes, the rectum.

The bad guy explaining things to the hero is a well known trope in these kinds of movies. If you have seen "The Incredibles" it is referred to as "monologuing."

I'm not normally a fan of the James Bond movies but rewatching them all with you has been so much fun, Thank You!!

If you love Sean Connery as James Bond, there's an "unofficial" one with him called Never Say Never Again which was not sanctioned by the people who owned the property (and Mr. Connery is kind of old). Also, there's a film called The Rock where Connery plays an old spy who _isn't_ James Bond, but I think you'll enjoy all the same because it's a very modern action movie. So you might want to check those out, especially The Rock, that one is great.

@brentfugett2700

Ай бұрын

Second both these suggestions!

@richardvinsen2385

Ай бұрын

Sean Connery was 53 in Never Say Never Again but he looked better than he did at 41 in Diamonds Are Forever.

@roddmatsui3554

Ай бұрын

I worked on violence makeup effects for “The Rock”, and it was great fun.

@gerstelb

Ай бұрын

Never Say Never Again is basically a remake of “Thunderball.”

@jeanpaulmedellin

Ай бұрын

The Rock still hold up now, great casting in a great action movie

I was 8 years old when I was in the Crowd for the Car Scene on Fremont St..

The dead body fished out of the Amsterdam canal was the old lady the two killers gave the bag of diamonds to in the previous scene.

I visited England in '84 for a couple of months. Even back then there were Brit-rail passes we used to take the hovercaft from Dover south across the English Channel to Calais, France. They're huge and very loud but the trip was quick and a lot of fun.

This is quickly becoming my new favorite thing to look forward to on Fridays!

During the casino scene where the old comedian is on stage with the two showgirls, the showgirl to the right with the red outfit is Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira. You're welcome 😂

My favorite Bond! And Jimmy Dean is the country singer who founded a sausage company, you've probably heard his voice on their commercials. And Shirley Basse singing this theme song along with Goldfiner, what a singer!

@katenunyabizness9221

Ай бұрын

And she sang the theme for Moonraker!

@glennwisniewski9536

Ай бұрын

@@katenunyabizness9221 Bassey.

@Myrdden71

Ай бұрын

@@katenunyabizness9221 I did not know that!

@scooby1992

Ай бұрын

@@Myrdden71 Yes , the only artists to sing not just two , but three Bond themes .

The fire extinguisher has a hose clipped to the side. The foam was out of that hose

Before Lazenby quit, the plan was for the final scene of OHMSS to be the pre title scene to this film... Which would have been a very different and darker film to how it turned out.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

Instead, we got the campiest Bond film ever!

If you want to dive into the African diamond trade deeper, I recommend the movie Blood Diamond(2003).

@jrneal1220

Ай бұрын

And also how the family of a current real-life Bond villain made its fortune...

You do know who played Willard White don't you...... That's Jimmy Dean, the sausage King .... Millions have his sausage for breakfast every morning

@danmonges1539

Ай бұрын

I thought Abe Froman was the sausage king! Oh wait, that was Chicago.

Bond is famous for the trope of the villain revealing their plans to the hero. Before the hero thwarts them.

Major Flaw in the Funeral Home scene. Diamonds actually burn. So burning the body would also burn the diamonds. The "Tart's handkerchief" line was because of the perfume bottle that broke. A "Tart" is a loose woman, who might perfume her handkerchief.

@marshalllindsay315

Ай бұрын

And if it were even possible the real diamonds wouldn’t burn like very expensive coal, the paste ones in Mr Franks body would not. Two strikes! If even one more thing goes wrong in this movie….

Bambi and Thumper are the fem equivalent of Wint and Kidd, and also a reference to beliefs that a certain cartoon-maker and theme park operator was in league with the US Government at the highest level. But it seems the ladies survive their encounter with Bond and the CIA. Although there was a nasty joke from back then about 'drowning unwanted kittens'...

fun fact bruce glover who played mr wint in real ife is crispen glovers (george mcfly bttf) dad

Bond got a new Hair Piece (not 'Herpes'). Blofeld is played by numerous notable actors over the course of the franchise, and in the novels he's always getting plastic surgery to alter his appearance - so it is consistent. Fire Extinguishers don't 'shoot out the bottom', but the hose was attached to the side of the cylinder - he left it attached and the nozzle just remained pointing 'down' when he shot it. Jack Lord played CIA agent Felix Leiter in DR. NO, if you recall. Willard Whyte was a parody of Howard Hughes, who was at the time the wealthiest man in the world (and a leading Defense Contractor with Hughes Aircraft), residing on the top two floors of his Las Vegas Hotel/Casino, the Desert Inn (at the time of this movie). This one didn't do much for most people. I always liked Jill St. John for what she was - a modern (then) Mob Moll (mobster girlfriend), like with Frank Sinatra in TONY ROME (1967), a private eye film set in Miami as Frank pays homage to Humphrey Bogart, the leader of the original Rat Pack.

"I don't care much for redheads, terrible temper!" LOL :'D :'D :'D

It was nice seeing Jimmy Dean Texas accent and all. He's the founder owner of the Jimmy Dean sausage products. R.I.P. Jimmy Dean ✌️❤️

Yes, hovercraft are a real thing. And as John Cleese once said, "My hovercraft is full of eels"

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

"I am no longer infected.'

Love Bond movies! Diamonds always seemed like a parody. Love the part where he hit a button to eject the cassette that runs the weapon. “Put that back!”

After the mixed reaction to OHMSS, producers Broccoli and Saltzman knew they had to get Connery back. He got the biggest payday for an actor at the time for this film. He received a percentage of the profits (the real money), a million dollars (which he donated to charity) and the studio agreed to finance any 2 movies he wanted. They also brought back Guy Hamilton (Goldfinger) to direct and Shirley Bassey to sing the theme. The film was a huge hit, and apparently, Connery did actually enjoy making this one. But, as you pointed out, he looks older and tired at this point. Again, even though it was a hit, they knew no amount would bring Connery back again. So, they chose to recast the role. Bring on the Roger Moore era!

Instant mashed potatoes were used to replicate the consistency of the brown substance mud bath featured in the opening teaser. What the producers failed to take into account was that after twenty-four hours, and under all the hot lights, mashed potatoes emit an almost unbearable smell.

@toriamansfield2999

Ай бұрын

XD

@ThreadBomb

Ай бұрын

It would've just made me hungry.

@matsv201

Ай бұрын

Instant mash potatos have a unbearable smell from the first second

I hope you will continue on to Roger Moore run Live and let Die is next and it's really good.

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Ай бұрын

it's Okish to me? Too over-the-top and comedic. But Moore is great as Bond.

This is my favorite Bond movie. I think it has the best storyline of all the ones I've seen. Perhaps the best Bond girl too (although Jane Seymour is pretty awesome.) And once again, you have to watch out for those little old ladies. Best line: "Bert Saxby? Tell 'im he's fahrd!"

@ronsavage6491

Ай бұрын

Oh, and 40 years earlier, Bert Saxby rescued some blond lady from a giant ape.

The Mafia guys in the hearse are seen in later Bond films, and the actor playing Blofeld this time was in You Only Live Twice as well. The mortician's place called 'Slumber, Inc' is a play upon a nickname for the Mafia in the US: 'Murder, Inc.'

The CIA agent who meets Bond when he gets to America is Felix Leiter. He's supposed to be the same guy who helped Bond out in Dr. No and Goldfinger, but they always change the actor so it's not obvious unless you're paying close attention.

@donsample1002

Ай бұрын

Felix will continue to show up in more Bond movies, and I don’t think he’s ever been played twice by the same actor.

@danmonges1539

Ай бұрын

@@donsample1002 David Hedison in Live and Let die and License to Kill! And more recently Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace, and No Time To Die

@MrSnitchley

Ай бұрын

@@donsample1002 David Hedison is in Live and Let Die, and then he came back fifteen years later for License to Kill, which is the biggest role the character ever gets. And in the Craig era, the character's played by Jeffrey Wright every time he appears.

The short, dark headed one of the two henchmen is the father of Crispin Glover who played Marty McFly's father in Back to the Future

Hovercrafts are often used as ferries in some parts of the world. We travelled across the English Channel on one back in the '80s.

This was one of the first ones that started having a "theme" song. With it switching up to Roger Moore, they continue with Live and Let Die. For Your Eyes Only was great, as were some of the later ones by Garbage and Adele. My guilty favorite is A View to a Kill, especially how they manage to use the song all through the movie with different types of music.

@johnw8578

Ай бұрын

And Duran Duran recorded that song!

People really aged differently back then. Even Old Sean Connery here is only 40.

@milanbujna2957

Ай бұрын

Sean gained some weight from his last outing in 1967, got some gray hair and his eyebrows weren´t trimmed (as were in his previous Bond movies). Plus he was very bored and uninspired.

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Ай бұрын

Damn he looks 60

"And no smoking until airborne." Imagine!

Movie: *goes more that 1 hour 45 minutes*. Ashleigh: "This movie is not for me." ©

Filming in Las Vegas took place mostly in hotels owned by Howard Hughes, for he was a friend of Cubby Broccoli's, the owner of the Circus Circus was a Bond fan, he allowed the Circus to be used on film and even made a cameo, The home of Kirk Douglas was used for the scene in Tiffany's house, while the Elrod House in Palm Springs, designed by John Lautner, became Willard Whyte's house.

My favorite!! My dad took my mom to see this after they got engaged. Fun fact, the henchman that says "I got a brudda" is Sid Haig from the Rob Zombie movies. We had dinner once and he told me Sean hated wearing the toupee and when the director yelled cut he'd take it off and throw it at the makeup people. Another fun fact, Mr. Wint (butt chin henchman) is Crispin Glover's father (George McFly from Back to the Future). ALSO Elvira is one of the Vegas showgirls.

@scottboswell6406

Ай бұрын

I would never recognize him with that hair (wig?), hahaha!!

@andrewroberts299

Ай бұрын

One of the girls standing next to Shady Tree when he was doing his comedy monologue was Valerie Perrine, who would go on to star in films like “Lenny,” (1974) with Dustin Hoffman, but is probably best remembered for playing the part of Miss Teschmacher, Lex Luthor’s girlfriend in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1981).

@scooby1992

Ай бұрын

Sid Haig was in loads of Blaxploitation movies in the 70s . I remember in one particular film with Pam Grier he played a pilot who was charmed by her womanly charms and in another , also with Pam he played a rival gangster's henchman who drives a car attached to a rope secured around a rival's neck and he drove at speed through the streets with the guy bouncing off kerbs and trees . It was quite brutal .

@HollieGoFrightly

Ай бұрын

@@andrewroberts299 she looks similar but Valerie confirmed on twitter a few years ago that it is not her but a showgirl named Pat Gill

@HollieGoFrightly

Ай бұрын

@@scooby1992 Coffee and Foxy Brown were so good. Sid came out of retirement for a small role as the judge in Tarantino’s Jackie Brown with Pam.

Plenty O'Toole was played by Lana Wood, younger sister to Natalie. Her and Sean had quite a torrid affair after this movie was finished.

@scooby1992

Ай бұрын

Dont blame him .

Mr Whyte's house, where Bambi and Thumper were, is a real place. It's a quite famous house in Palm Springs, just a few doors down from Bob Hope's house.

Here's a piece of trivia for you... Plenty O'Toole was played by Lana Woods. Her sister Natalie Wood was married to Robert Wagner. Natalie died in a 'boating accident' in Two Harbors Catalina Island. Robert Wagner's next wife is Jill St. John, the redhead who survived everything to the end.

You're ok not loving this, it's not many peoples' favorite. But it is interesting to see Las Vegas back in 1971. I'm interested to see how you like the first Roger Moore film next.

Apparently Shirley Bassey asked how to sing the theme, how to emphasise "Diamonds" and was basically told "Look, where it says "Diamond", it basically says "P***s"". And now you can't unhear that in the song.

@creech54

Ай бұрын

I don't know what that word is supposed to be. Sounds like she's saying "diamonds", to me.

@ThreadBomb

Ай бұрын

This story makes no sense. Shirley Bassey didn't know how to say the word "diamonds"?

@stevemccullagh36

Ай бұрын

Why censor the word penis?

Sherry is a type of wine made in a region of southern Spain. It's fortified, meaning that after the wine is made via fermentation, they add alcohol to it until it reaches 31%, then it's aged in barrels. This makes it a very dry beverage, so sometimes they later add sweeteners to it.

15:33 started to sing with you lol one of my favorites. Keep the bomb reactions coming. You’re almost getting to my favorites.

Tiffany is played Jill St John, who is currently married to Robert Wagner of NCIS. The villain without the glasses is Julien Glover, father of Chrispen Glover who played Michael J. Fox's father in the Back to the Future movies.

@user-qj6fk9px8l

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I have seen Mr. Glover in both great drama & comedy roles..... never knew he was Chrispen Glover's dad.

@fivebearrugs

Ай бұрын

*Bruce Glover is the one without the glasses. Julian Glover would play Aris Kriststos in FYEO.

@EShelby2127

Ай бұрын

And Jill St John is in the scene where Plenty O'Toole, drowns, played by Lana Wood, whose sister Natalie Wood drowned out on Robert Wagner's boat. Robert Wagner is now married to Jill St John. ("Between marriages, St. John dated entertainment, sports, and political personalities including Ben Barnes, Gianni Bulgari, Sammy Cahn, Michael Caine, Oleg Cassini, Barry Coe, Sean Connery, Ahmet Ertegun, Robert Evans, Glenn Ford, David Frost, Jack Haley Jr., Bill Hudson, Henry Kissinger, Sidney Korshak, Sandy Koufax, Peter Lawford, George Lazenby, Jim Lonborg, Trini López, Tom Mankiewicz, George Montgomery, Joe Namath, Jack Nicholson, Hugh O'Brian, Ogden Mills Phipps, Roman Polanski, Alejandro Rey, Tom Selleck, Frank Sinatra, U Thant, Robert Vaughn, Giovanni Volpi, Adam West and David L. Wolper."

@chefskiss6179

Ай бұрын

And Robert Wagner would go on to play No.2 in the Bond spoof, Austen Powers 😂

@88wildcat

Ай бұрын

And the villain with the glasses was played by Putter Smith who was not an actor but a jazz musician. I guess it does kind of make sense to do the movie with Mr. Wynt and Mr. Kidd as henchmen during pride month. Actually two of my favorite Bond henchmen just because of the deadpan humor and overall weirdness of the duo.

This one and Never Say Never Again are my least watched Bond Connery., love all your Bond reactions.

''Diamonds Are Forever'' is a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''. In the first scene after gunbarrel, Bond is still in Japan looking for Blofeld, only as the head of a global criminal organization. There is no reference to Tracy, to his marriage and there is no Draco and Irma Bunt. Connery here is aged and heavier, but if was a revenge film he's perfect, as Bond after Tracy's death.

I enjoyed seeing Bambi and Thumper, again...

The first three Bond movies with Connery are awesome, the rest imho are toss away films. Live and Let Die next with Moore :)

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Ай бұрын

Thunderball is Great IMO

@redsabreanakin

Ай бұрын

I say 4....the first 4 are fantastic. Last 2? Ugh awful

Not me snorting when Ashleigh said, "It's Beans! It's Beans! BEANS!" 😂🤣🐾

this is my favorite sean connery bond movie

Yeah, so as you can see, Diamonds Are Forever was just a pretty randomly chosen title from the novels to do after OHMSS. OHMSS was originally planned to be Connery's 5th movie in order of the three novels which were the "SPECTRE trilogy" - Thunderball, OHMSS, YOLT. For whatever reasons, they decided to just do an extremely unfaithful adaptation of You Only Live Twice instead. This is why Bond meets Blofeld in YOLT but then Blofeld doesn't recognize him in the following movie, OHMSS... They kind of tried to tack on a little "revenge" thing for the pre-title sequence of Diamonds Are Forever, but it just didn't work at all. Connery just seems like a buffoon, there is no mention of Tracey or of Bond and Blofeld's previous encounters and the plot in general was just some weird Americana and random junkfest full of bad acting, bad writing, bad characters and ridiculous self-spoofery. That pre-title sequence in Diamonds Are Forever is like...James Bond has spent years trying to track down Blofeld and investigate SPECTRE, now suddenly he is just blundering around the world grabbing peope and demanding they tell him where Blofeld is...as if that would even work. Then when he finally comes face to face with Blofeld, he's just acting like a dopeyclown and doesn't seem to care much at all. Not even going to try and get into what on earth they're supposed to be doing with the mud/clay...are the Blofeld clones supposed to be...made of clay? No idea, it's a complete pile and one of the worst Bond movies ever made. The crowning title of the very worst of them all has since been taken by Spectre and No Time to Die, since there are a good number of awful Bond movies yet at the very least most are mildly entertaining/funny, whereas the bad Craig movies are utterly miserable depression-fests and even pretentious to boot, which is far worse than just bad. Contrary to popular myth, George Lazenby chose to quit the role after one movie, since his agent advised him to, saying Bond movies were going out of fashion with the times and hippie movement etc. Connery then demanded much more money to come back (which to be fair, he donated to his education trust in Edinburgh), and he didn't care at all about the role or doing any kind of quality work, especially since the screenplay they provided was even worse than You Only Live Twice. Connery had a serious beef with Harry Saltzman who he felt was greatly underpaying him by the 4th and 5th movies