Reacting to Diamonds Are Forever Deleted Scenes
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- Definitely one of the more satisfying and interesting set of deleted scenes in the series!
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Jill St. John was definitely on something in that last scene...
I enjoyed your video, more please!
I completely agree on keeping the scene with Plenty sneaking back into the room, with one caveat: an insert shot of Tiffany's driver's license and a zoom in on her address. That's all you need to fill that annoying plot hole.
As for the car chase, the original version of Bond's car exiting the alley could have been kept with a simple cut or fade out of the vehicle going down the street, either before you see the crowd or so that it fades to the next scene before it's really noticeable. The insert of the shot of Bond and Tiffany as the car tilts makes the whole sequence very jarring and awkward.
Great point James Kennedy. It now appears that the scene was intentionally meant to be absurd or something. They could easily have had the car come out on its right side the shot was fine.
@@johnellizz Totally agree.
"No, I'm afraid not. A mere commoner."
"Don't feel bad, it doesn't make any difference to me - I'm a Democrat."
Calvin gives a giggle...
*Americans like me rolling on the floor in laughter.* Diamonds Are Forever really is the quintessential Yankee Bond film, which is why we love it over here across the pond.
*A FEW BROWNIES LATER:*
“Darling, why are we suddenly staying in the bridal suite of the Whyte House?”
“Who said that?”
“I did.”
“Oh, I thought that fish was coming on to me.”
“Maybe it was.”
“Do you reckon, if those fish are stuck in this bed, are we also stuck in an even bigger bed?”
“Woah dude, you’re blowing my mind.”
Literally me when stoned 😂
I imagine a rich stoner couple having that conversation
“It is really nice seeing more of Lana Wood”
My reaction after I came across a certain magazine shoot she did in the 1970’s.
Always worth a tug!
Apparently the producers saw the playboy photo shoot and that's why she was hired...ah the 70's!
Loved the Wint & Kidd scene. They are always watchable. When i went to the Casino Royale Secret Cinema, I came across two guys dressed in the worst / best cosplay I'd ever seen. They dressed as Wint & Kidd with a ludicrous skull cap / comb-over which was hilariously on point. Lovely to see their legacy preserved.
1: The Davis cameo is relatively harmless, but would’ve seemed a bit out of place in a series which mostly avoids such cameos. Perhaps would’ve worked better with an actor playing a Sammy Davis Jr. type (Danny David Sr. perhaps?). It’s good for setting up more exposition about Willard White/Blofeld, but you easily get the picture without it so it’s just a tad redundant.
2: As you said, I think the scene works better with the mystery. Though I agree that the “tree’s a crowd” line is pretty funny.
3: I would’ve kept it - it’s a fun scene and nice to see more of Plenty O’Toole.
4: Yes, should’ve been kept. Why they felt it unnecessary to show what happened to Plenty, I don’t know.
5: Should’ve been kept. As you said, the crowds are obvious, but they’re obvious throughout that entire sequence.
6: Worked better in the final film - definitely needs to be a lot punchier.
With the Plenty O'Toole finding out where Tiffany lives scene should have been kept, it still doesn't answer WHY Plenty wanted to or even went to Tiffany's place
I think the deleted scene of the Mermaid sets up that Plenty is jealous of other women, or very competitive. After nearly losing James to Myrna, she loses him to Tiffany. She will get her revenge, on her terms. I admit it is a very clumsy side-story.
The thing with Plenty is that no one is sure if she's in on the plot. Was she working for somebody who got Plenty to seduce Bond so he'd tell her where the diamonds were? Or just an innocent girl who stumbled into the middle of the plot?
@@edwardwilson7858 The implication is that she hangs around the Casino all the time trying to bag a rich guy [she's hanging around someone else before she moves onto Bond]. She isn't involved in the Diamond plot-or really that necessary to the story- which is probably why her screen time was cut down [TV tropes groups the characters in the film under Allies, Villains, Diamond Smugglers and, for Plenty, 'other'!].
The funniest thing was Calvin's expression of disgust throughout the love scene at the bridal suite hahaha
You mean 'Reacting to Diamonds are Forever Deleted Scenes that mean the movie makes sense'
How about DAD next? There’s some really interesting stuff that got cut. There’s even a whole mini documentary about the scenes filmed at Heathrow that I had no idea existed until recently!
Is there a link to this documentary online anywhere? Was aware of an airport sequence but not seen anything filmed for it
Is there a video of those scenes? The like would be wonderful...
@@jacobkilby search “The British Touch “ here on TH-cam and you’ll find it. No footage of Brosnan on the tarmac, but it shows the extent they went to filming the scenes. There’s also an extra scene featuring Deborah Moore
In the last scene, I like the line about how the real Peter Franks would have been throwing up on the bathtub by now. Not the delivery, but I find the line amusing.
I've always wished Plenty had a bigger role in the film. She's undeniably gorgeous and has some personality to her, and I was never a huge fan of Tiffany Case - so I always lament her scenes being cut. Sean Connery doesn't seem to be giving very much to the performance in any of these deleted scenes though, he seems so bored of everything he's doing and is clearly ready to just take the paycheck and go home!
They definitely should've kept the Lana Wood scene with her coming back to the hotel room.
"We're showing a bit more cheek than usual aren't we, Mr Bond?"
"ARE THEY BAKED!?"
I think theres some comedy in Connery actually being kind of impartial to Plenty’s advances and her gripes, and I think her performance is rlly lively and fun and def underrated, she plays the part rlly well
'Bond doesn't have celebrity cameos.'
*glares angrily at Die Another Day and Madonna*
Thanks for reminding me of that! I must have suppressed all memory of it...
Don’t forget Richard Branson in ‘Casino Royale’, though to be fair they didn’t give him any lines.
As cringe as that was, at least Madonna was portraying a character.
Ana de Armas has a cameo in NTTD.... (pretty sure thats all it is).
The early 2000s were a bad time for Madonna.
Plenty of Tooles was the first woman to make me feel sensations I was too young to understand.
I'd also like to see more of Plenty O'Toole, that character wasn't developed to well.
I beg to differ sir ;)
Anybody who's an open pro Democrat is never fully developed.
Your reaction to that painfully long pillow talk scene was hilarious!
Calvin! I lost it when you reacted to Sean's behind! Great video and glad many of these scenes were left out of the finished film.
HA! Thanks! :D I feel bad for inflicting the same sight on everyone else...
Bruce Cabot (the actor who played Bert Saxby, aka Albert R. Saxby) was in the original King Kong.
Yeah, he also played a lot of villain parts in Westerns, like Dodge City (with Errol Flynn) and The War Wagon (with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas), and the male romantic lead opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Flame of New Orleans. DAF was his final film.
He was also a pal of John Wayne's. He shows up in a number of Wayne films in the 1960s and very early '70s such as In Harm's Way, The Green Berets and Big Jake. Plus, of course, The War Wagon.
It's my guilty pleasure Bond film, I must confess, though it would have made more sense if some of these scenes were kept.
I guess Sammy Davis JR was cut as it blurs the line between 'real life' and 'the world of the film' which other than the Thatcher bit in 'For your eyes only' hasn't occurred otherwise.
There were plans at one point to have Charles and Di impersonators in The Living Daylights. Also does Madonna's cameo in DAD count? She's playing a 'character' but it's just there for people to go "oh! Madonna!" Plus you've got Richard Branson's odd jokey pop-up in Casino Royale. I can only guess he lent the film a plane or something.
@@davidjames579 Fair point-Madonna of course was an established actress as well as a singer but that scene really is just an excuse to get her in the film and even though she's giving some exposition on Miranda Frost it feels very shoehorned in.
@@jamesatkinsonja I think putting her in was because as you say they have her singing the theme song and she has er....acted before. I remember a tabloid rumour during the film's shooting was that Madonna had insisted only Guy Ritchie could write her lines. Given what she says in the released film, that's not much of a Get.
David Niven was scathing about Bruce Cabot (Burt Saxby) and his cruelty towards Errol Flynn in “Bring on the Empty Horses”
I think Jill was trying to act as though she was hypnotised by the fish, in the final deleted scene.
Your face watching the scene on the weird fish tank thing....😆😆
I'm not sure if they were on drugs filming it but I felt like I was on drugs watching it
I think I made a similar face when we had the "big reveal" in Spectre about Blofeld being Bond's adoptive brother.
In the Mankiewicz script I have, the flower squirted acid.
Ah, that would've been cool.
For such a light hearted film, there are some rather brutal deaths during the first act.
Leonard Barr, who played Shady Tree, was Dean Martin's uncle. Barr was born in 1903, while Dino was born in 1917.
Well done you really explain the excitement of deleted scenes for film Fanatics like myself. And if you're doing a video on deleted scenes and you not getting excited you're not in the right business LOL
During the last scene, I looked over to see Calvin's reaction halfway through only to realize our facial expressions were, I believe, exactly the same. As was the reaction to the...um...end.
Keep Wint and Kidd and Plenty. The car scene, it can go either way. It looks goofy as fuck when they switch sides, but this is the movie that has them stealing a moon buggy and Tiffany being tossed off the oil platform but the recoil of a gun, so silly is the name of the game.
15:51 Spat out my drink seeing your face at that line
I think out of all of the scenes, the Plenty scene with her going to the room should've been left in, I agree. As for the rest no. I don't think we need to see how Shady was killed either.
11:53 and as he 'crosses the finish line' he shouts "Scotland forever!"😉
Thanks for posting Cal . Wouldn’t have minded the Sammy Davis Jr cameo in the film and only just realized Bruce Cabot was dubbed but he also seemed more natural in that scene. Would have also loved to have seen the killing of Tree in the film as well and obviously the Plenty Returns scene since we had a major plot hole as a result. Your face during the waterbed scene was hilarious 🤣 🤣🤣
On the one hand, I agree with you that it seems kind of pointless to have scrapped the original shot of the car exiting the alley because of the obvious crowd of onlookers when THE ENTIRE CHASE SCENE is chock full of shots where the crowds are every bit as obvious (not to mention they could have even cut the shot before the corner with the crowds came into view), But on the other hand, the re-done shot with the weird camera tilt has always been one of my favorite moments of the film purely because it just makes no damm sense. "Eagle-eyed observers" my ass, that tilt shot does nothing but draw attention to the continuity problem and makes it impossible for you *not* to notice it. They're lampshading it, turning an accidental mistake into a deliberate bit of absurdist comedy and I am here for it!
I really hope that book reviews will continue, it was really interesting to get an insight into what's a relatively unexplored territory of Bond canon. If not with Gardner, then maybe Raymond Benson?
When I first saw the movie, I really thought Shady Tree was garroted to death, but I was totally wrong.
After Wint shot Tree, there was no blood.
I'd have kept all those scenes in - including the one of Connerys hairy arse. 16:23 Priceless reaction from Calvin there. I'd have put that in the film in the place of a double taking pigeon. LOL Hilarious. The Plenty scenes would have made the film better IMO.
That was the greatest deleted scenes video of all time! YES!!!! I thought the Bond/Tiffany goldfish bed scene was odd. Looked like Jill St John had JUST memorized her lines and was trying to get the dialogue out fast before she forgot. The Wint/Kidd scene was great, Connery's bare ass was hilarious, and of course the bit with Plenty returning should have stayed.
Thanks, Dennis! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D Agreed with your comments too!
You get the feeling that some actors phone in their lines and the director has to make some tough choices to keep a film flowing.
@@bindgagger Connery's not trying, and Jill seems way off, it's like Am Dram. At least we know she can act, but it's telling that she couldn't necessarily switch on a performance. "What is this? Amateur Hour?"
Great stuff, as always. Thanks Calvin!
A like from me for getting Charles "its just a jump to the left" Grey in there 😂😂
Keep up the amazing work Calvin, can't wait for the For Your Eyes Only review 😁. That last scene cracks me up 😅😅. Would love to know what they were on when they did that scene 😅
Although the scene of Plenty returning was filmed as you and us just saw, her getting killed by Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint wasn't filmed allegedly because in the script Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint mistook Plenty for Tiffany, and they realised this would've created a continuity error since they do see Tiffany on the plane.
Yeah, I always suspected the death scene was never actually filmed, hence why they worked around it [such as losing the hotel scene] and that reason feels plausible given plotting isn't this films strong point.
Okay, I was just contemplating seeing Connery’s behind, and then you decide to send me into a laughing fit because of the Charles “It’s just a jump to the left” Gray running gag?
Unexpected, daring and fitting; but I’m not complaining.
I feel like this movie is a parody of itself. With the moon buggy chase, the car on two wheels, and the plot itself, it feels like it was originally a more serious film, with Mr Witt and Mr Kidd being genuinely creepy at times, but these cheesy moments were shot at the last moment out of fear of going too dark.
16:23 "AHHH!" I yelled, as the life long scars set in
I too would of loved to see a bit more of Charles "It's just a jump to the left" Gray.
Some great unseen scenes. Great and funny commentary.
I agree, the POT scene* would have helped with character development. The flippant murder of Mr. Tree would have added cruelty, maybe they thought it would make the audience uncomfortable? You can't think of Vegas without the "Rat Pack" of which Sammy Davis was a member, although not sure how popular they were in 1970 (before my time). I wonder if they were just trying to cut back on the number of "pop culture" references, since this Bond seems overloaded with them (Willard Whyte/Howard Hughes, moon landing conspiracy, the mob in Las Vegas, Circus Circus, etc.). Anyway, thanks for the video, I had no idea these scenes even existed!
* (POT = Plenty O Toole, not the other one...)
I like more of Lana Wood as well but the scene at the table just sits there. I like the commoner line but the whole scene lacks energy.
A highly entertaining video, Calvin.
I just watched your in depth review of For Your Eyes Only and i was checking the news and we already said goodbye to Roger now the legend has also past on.
R.I.P. Sean Connery
Just binged all your deleted scenes videos and was wondering when you would put out more 😄
I like the way they have Plenty in the film. From the craps table, to the bedroom, to the window. Such a brief character, but that makes her more memorable for some reason.
The Wint and Kidd scene in Shadys dressing room should’ve stayed
I disagree with fans who say Sean Connery wasn't trying in this movie. He clearly cares and is in invested in most of his scenes. I listened to Matt Gourley's podcast "I was there too" when he had Putter Smith on and Smith without hesitation stated that Connery was totally professional on set and cared about what he was doing.
At the end of the day, the script is to blame for any shortcomings. I like most of the film and take it for what it is but the climax and the finale is unforgivably lax.
@@ricardocantoral7672 For sure. It's the worst of the Connery movies but he seems like he cares. At least he didn't get as unlucky as Pierce Brosnan did. 3/4 of the Brosnan movies suffered from bad scripts.
@@ricardocantoral7672 It' suffers from a below par script and shoddy production values [that laser effect towards the end]. Connery's contract meant that he would be paid extra if the movie over ran-which the producers made sure it didn't hence the rushed feeling. Connery is certainly better here than in 'Only live twice' and I think he enjoyed making the film as a [then] one off return.
Wondering if you were ever going to talk about the Radio 4 James Bond audio plays starring none other than Gustav Graves himself?
Sammy Davis could have worked in a brief cameo. Just on screen long enough to drop a quip and that's it. That wouldn't be too out of place in the 60's Batman Tv show and that's precisely what Diamonds Are Forever reminded me of.
Funny you should say that as the credited writer of Never Say Never again wrote the 60's Batman movie and worked on the show!
@@jamesatkinsonja I know. He also wrote my favorite Steve McQueen film, Papillon.
@Netflix - You did Nurse Ratched, now how about a Mr Kidd and Mr Wint backstory?
Calvin. You my sir, are constantly outdoing your own wonderful standard. This is great. And you will have my support for evermore. Great job my friend.
7:30 - I saw your reaction when she mentions him being a Knight. Premonitions of the future maybe? It wouldnt take long before it really was Shur Shaun.
I would have kept in the good take of the car stunt, and cut it before we see the crowd on the opposite corner - with a close up of Bond saying "Shimpey Shocking the Poleesh in Lash Vagash."
Calvin Dyson is the greatest to ever do it
This was Las Vegas in 1971. Of course this was going to be one of the ‘sleezier’ Bond films. So they may as well have kept in the Sammy Davis cameo and the shot of Connery’s ass. Would they have made the movie better? No. Would they have made it more fun to watch? Absolutely.
The actors are Sammy Davis Jr. and BRUCE CABOT. Bruce Cabot played the character Bert Saxby. They definitely aren't wooden actors especially compared with today's! Maybe in that one scene, but definitely not overall.
Seems almost ominous that this review came out just nine days before Connery died.
Great video, love your content.
16.24;- my reaction also when i saw this scene for the first time!
Originally Raquel Welch was close to be cast (for a second time, the first time she was close to be cast in Thunderball).
I think the first scene with Plenty is better out of the film, mainly because Connery seems half-asleep and I really don’t like the wine moment - makes bond seem petty and pompous - I know he’s supposed to be a connoisseur but I feel he’d act with more grace than that
Sammy in the 70s was huge in Vegas and buddies with one of the casino heads who was friends with cubby
OHMSS is my favorite Bond film, but I love Diamonds Are Forever also. I like mixing serious films with campy ones. I liked going from campy Moonraker to quite serious For Your Eyes Only. I had hoped Daniel Craig's final film would have jettisoned the story line of Spectre and been a fast paced romp, but that appears not to be the case.
Underrated channel
Willard Whyte (Howard Hughes) being a germaphobe that wouldn't leave his penthouse for a couple of years doesn't seem so extreme now...
I think Bond was a bit crap in that deleted scene with Plenty. He seemed utterly bored by her presence and didn't have any good lines.
Weather there's a few accidental cameos in other words they're in never say never again there's a segment we're rolling Atkinson greets Bond when he comes to his first area of interest and Atkins
You should do a review for your eye only that's my favorite Moore movie
The only scene I would have kept is the Wint and Kidd scene. Every scene with them is gold.
RIP Mr BOND
The dinner scene between bond and Plenty O’Toole was rather boring. Sean Connery always look bored and disinterested in this film but none more so than in that scene. Sadly I thought one of the biggest flaws (of which there are many) in this movie is that Connery truly phoned his performance in. You could tell every frame he desired to be anywhere else but here. To have plenty O’Toole in this film just to have more of her on screen is not a good enough reason, there needs to be the purpose for her. I agree that the scene where she sneaks into Bond’s apartment all wet should have been left in. There’s a reason for that scene and it has a specific context.
Often times when films were released back then in the '60s chunks of film were taken out as whether you know they would get comment cards from people in the audience and you know the first week or two of a run you could see a film like a perfect example of that would have been 2001 and earthquake towering inferno those had the scenes taken out of them out of them and lines sticking out them as the film progressed in playback in the film houses it was really weird to see those cuts but you know they got comments from people and I don't know if Nielsen had anything to do with it but it was just weird
Please make a best of Sean Connery in honour of him! ❤️ RIP Sean
I was amazed to see the Sammy Davis cameo.
Any Wint/Kidd scene that was cut damaged the movie as they are what make this movie tolerable.
But I could never get enough of O'Toole either!
I would see more of Plenty including the finding of address and Henry Gupta.
The first DVD I ever bought was Diamonds Are Forever in 2001. The inclusion of the bonus scenes influenced my decision to buy.
@Calvin: I've got a question concerning "The World Is Not Enough": IMDB states the rough cut that was shown in press screenings ran around 160 minutes. That would make for 30 minutes of deleted material. Do you happen to know where this information originates from? Or is it maybe already debunked as incorrect?! Cheers!
There is a lot of disinformation on IMDB as it's a wiki [so anyone can edit things].
While not a deleted scene encapsulated in a special collection of such, there is Also a scene deleted from the trailer.
When Bond goes to unveil Denise Perrier in the pre credits, before Connery walks down the steps, he is seen standing at the top looking at her in the distance.
As for what Should have been deleted: the silly slow walking in 'moon walk' scene, the rolling car with the random space buggy wheel rolling about in the foreground. And yes, as to why they got upset about the crowds and police car for the two wheel section is anybody's guess, one could have cut to a close up of Bond and Case before the crowd and car were in shot...!
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I appreciated channeling more of Charles Gray with "Good evening, Mr. Bond" a bit more in this one.
It's just a jump to the left.
Should have kept all the Plenty scenes in. Although Lana Wood isn't the greatest actress, I enjoy watching her on screen and find her really charming. Plus it would avoid the plot hole later on and give her character a bit more of a purpose. I would be interested in seeing the footage of Wint and Kidd confronting her at Tiffany's villa to see how that plays out.
I wish they could somehow incorporate this car through the alley scene as it avoids the weird car flip we see in the final version.
All the other scenes were rightfully cut. Especially the Sammy Davis Jr one.
There's a highly specific reason why Lana Wood was cast for the part. But if I explained it to you you would think I'm crazy.
@@johnellizz I can think of two big reasons.
@@davidjames579 Haha, yes.
Penultimate means right the British often use the word incorrectly it means the final thing just before the final thing. The thing just before the final thing. So the second to last.
Jiggly Lana's scenes should, most certainly, have been retained in the film, in place of the abysmal Bambi and Thumper scene.
The crowd in the car chase might have been one reason for the original version of the car tilt to be cut, but personally I think it would've been left in had it not been for the police car. As Bond was being chased by the police in that scene people might've wondered why the car didn't go after Bond.
Deleted scenes still blow my mind 💯
I think EON should bring out extended final/cuts of all the Bond films for a 60th anniversary boxset
Regarding the Plenty issue, I wonder if they shot the bit featured here, but then decided it wasn't worth filming anything else [due to time or money], hence why there is no scene available where she meets Wint+ Kidd, but meaning they couldn't use this bit in the movie and hoped people wound't notice the plot hole created by the decision.
The scene that Plenty returns, definitely had to stay (explain her death). There is another scene with frogmen, I don't know if was completed th-cam.com/video/qdH-z-FMpIY/w-d-xo.html
Can you please do a reaction to your old James Bond Jr reviews some day?
'are they baked?' hahaha, "look at all theesh lovely fish....."