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.

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

Shirley Basse belting out Diamonds are Forever gives me shivers

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.

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

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

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).

George Lazenby: "That Random One Guy."😅

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).

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.

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).

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

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 . . .

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

“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…

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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"

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

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.

*** 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 ...***

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

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 😂

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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'...

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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!”

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 ✌️❤️

"And no smoking until airborne." Imagine!

❤ Hey, Ms. Ashleigh.Glad to see the Bond train still on the rails. George was asked to be back and said no, thank you. My favorite cringe worthy of all the B movies. The creepy henchmen. The effed up car chases. Mr Henderson is back as white cat guy. Natalie Woods sister chucked off a balcony. Killer title song. Some nice cameos and Jimmy Dean. I still love this movie, and those things I don't like make me smile. Again, thanks for keeping on track.

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.

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.

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.

She says “where are the diamonds?” Bond says “a little lower” … such a missed opportunity😂

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

I love this arc that you're enjoying the films I grew up with.

You are the only one I know that reacted too this most action packed bond flick on KZfaq fulfilling my fantasy of the bond franchise thus far. This beats them all touch it and stroke it forever 😅

Random trivia: Jill St John ("Tiffany Case") was frequently typecast in sexpot-type roles, she has an IQ of 162, which places her comfortably in the "Genius" range of intelligence.

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

I enjoyed seeing Bambi and Thumper, again...

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.

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

I like it for the filming location, sunshine! Living in Scotland it’s a pleasure just to watch nice sunlit scenery.. love those Nevada houses with the pools ❤

Roger Moore is my favorite Bond. Can't wait for those.

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