Production Team |
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Produced by:
Albert
R. Broccoli
& Harry Saltzman |
Directed by: Guy Hamilton |
Screenplay by: Richard Maibaum & Tom Mankiewicz |
Edited by: Bert Bates & John W. Holmes |
Musical Score by: John Barry |
Theme Song Performed by: Shirley Bassey |
Premiere Info |
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Order in Series: 7 of 20 |
World Premiere: December 14th, 1971 |
U.S. Release Date: December 17th, 1971 |
First Television Broadcast: September 12th, 1975 (on ABC) |
First Basic Cable TV Telecast: March 6th, 1991 (on TBS) |
Box Office Receipts |
World-wide Box Office: $116 million |
U.S. Box Office: $43.8 million |
Character
Name |
Portrayed By | Character Description |
James
Bond |
Sean Connery | British secret agent 007 |
"M" | Bernard Lee | Head of MI6, the British Secret Service, "M" gives all double-o agents their assignments. |
Miss
Moneypenny |
Lois Maxwell | "M"'s secretary, Moneypenny enjoys a playful, flirtation relationship with 007. |
"Q" | Desmond Llewelyn | The head of "Q-Branch", the special ordinance & equipment division of MI-6. |
Character Name | Portrayed By | Character Description |
Felix Leiter | Norman Burton | CIA operative who assists 007. |
Willard Whyte | Jimmy Dean | A reclusive billionaire who owns holdings in a Las Vegas casino and an aerospace contracting company, amongst others. |
Character Name | Portrayed By | Character Description |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Charles Gray | The
head of SPECTRE (AKA "Number One"). At the opening of the film,
Blofeld is seen with a new appearance, courtesy of a series of plastic
surgeries. |
Mr. Wint & Mr. Kidd | Bruce Glover Putter Smith |
Homosexual partners and SPECTRE assassins. |
Bert Saxby | Bruce Cabot | Willard Whyte's supposed second-in-command who is actually a SPECTRE operative. |
Peter Franks | Joe Robinson | SPECTRE agent who is a link in Blofeld's diamond smuggling operation. |
Mrs. Whistler | Margaret Lacey | A South Aftrican school teacher who is also a part of SPECTRE's diamond smuggling ring. |
Morton Slumber | David Bauer | Owner of Pleasant Slumber Funeral Home and Mortuary. A link in the SPECTRE diamond smuggling operation. |
Shady Tree | Leonard Barr | A Las Vegas stand-up comic who is also a link in the SPECTRE diamond smuggling operation. |
Professor Dr. Metz | Joseph Furst | A leading expert on laser refraction. Metz is a peace-loving idealist who has been duped by Blofeld into building the diamond-based laser satelite weapon, under the impression that Blofeld will demand world peace as his ransom. |
Bambi & Thumper | Lola Larson Trina Parks |
SPECTRE agents who guard an imprisoned Willard Whyte. |
Character Name | Portrayed By | Character Description |
Tiffany Case | Jill St. John | Amsterdam-based woman being used as a part of SPECTRE's diamond smuggling ring. |
Plenty O'Toole | Lana Wood | Well
endowed casino leach who is impressed with Bond's cavalier attitude
toward his winnings. Plenty returns to Bond's hotel suite but is
thrown off the balcony into the casino pool by SPECTRE henchmen.
In a deleted scene, Plenty returns to Bond's room and discover's
Tiffany Case's purse and address. While at Tiffany's house (awaiting
Case's return, so she can exact some revenge for her treatment the
night before) O'Toole is killed by SPECTRE agents in a case of mistaken
identity. |
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