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To avenge his wife’s murder, James Bond – agent 007 – pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld. At a facility where Blofeld lookalikes are being created through plastic surgery, Bond kills a test subject and later the “real” Blofeld.
While assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd kill people in a diamond-smuggling delivery chain, M suspects that South African diamonds are being stockpiled to depress prices by dumping and assigns Bond to uncover the smuggling ring. Impersonating smuggler Peter Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet contact Tiffany Case. The real Franks shows up on the way, but Bond kills him, then switches IDs to fake his death and assume Franks. Tiffany and Bond deploy to Los Angeles, smuggling the diamonds inside Franks’ corpse.
At the airport, Bond meets his CIA contact Felix Leiter and travels to Las Vegas. At a funeral home operating in the smuggling ring, Franks’ body is cremated, and the diamonds are passed on to smuggler Shady Tree. The funeral home operator double-crosses Bond, whom Wint and Kidd try to cremate alive. However, Tree stops the process after discovering the diamonds in Franks’ body were fake, planted by Bond and the CIA. Bond tells Leiter to ship the real diamonds. At the Whyte House, a casino-hotel owned by billionaire Willard Whyte, Tree works as a stand-up comedian. There, Tree is killed by Wint and Kidd, who do not know the diamonds were fake.
At the craps table, Bond meets Plenty O’Toole, and later brings her to his room. Slumber’s henchmen ambush them, throwing O’Toole out the window and into the pool far below. Bond instructs Tiffany to retrieve the diamonds at the Circus Circus casino. Tiffany reneges on her deal and flees, passing off the diamonds to the next smuggler. However, seeing that O’Toole was killed after being mistaken for her, Tiffany changes her mind. She drives Bond to the airport, where they see the diamonds given to Whyte’s casino manager, Bert Saxby. Saxby later rendezvous with a scientist who takes the diamonds. The scientist goes to a remote research laboratory owned by Whyte, where a satellite is being built by a laser refraction specialist. Bond sneaks into the laboratory. However, after being caught, Bond escapes by stealing a moon buggy, fights his way out of the facility and reunites with Tiffany. Later in the evening, Bond and Tiffany evade the cops in Vegas.
Bond scales the walls to the Whyte House’s top floor to confront Whyte. He is instead met by two identical Blofelds, who use an electronic simulator to sound like Whyte when communicating with the outside world. Bond kills one of the Blofelds, who turns out to be a look-alike. He is then knocked out by gas, picked up by Wint and Kidd, taken out to Las Vegas Valley, placed in a pipeline and left to die. Bond escapes, then calls Blofeld, using another voice simulator to pose as Saxby. He locates Whyte’s desert home, defeats bodyguards Bambi and Thumper, and rescues Whyte. Meanwhile, Blofeld abducts Tiffany. With Whyte’s help, Bond raids the lab and uncovers Blofeld’s plot to use the diamonds to create a laser satellite, which has already been sent into orbit. With the satellite, Blofeld destroys nuclear weapons installations in China, the Soviet Union and the United States, then proposes an international auction for global nuclear supremacy.
Whyte identifies an oil rig off the coast of Baja California as Blofeld’s base of operations. After Bond’s attempt to change the cassette containing the satellite control codes fails due to a mistake by Tiffany, a helicopter attack on the rig is launched by Leiter and the CIA. Blofeld tries to escape in a midget submarine. Bond gains control of its launch crane and uses the submarine as a wrecking ball, destroying the satellite control and the base. Bond and Tiffany then head for Britain on an ocean liner, where Wint and Kidd pose as room-service stewards and attempt to kill them with a bomb hidden in a cake. When the killers are exposed, they attack. Bond kills Kidd and throws Wint overboard with the bomb, which explodes as Wint lands in the water. As Blofeld’s satellite is still in orbit, Tiffany asks Bond if they can get the diamonds back to Earth.
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- Why is everyone so obsessed with diamonds.
- George did so bad that they had to drag Sean Connery out of retirement.