film information
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli & Harry Saltzman
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum & Tom Mankiewicz
UK Release Date 30th December 1971
US Release Date 17th December 1971
Worldwide Box Office $116,000,000 US
Budget $7,200,000 US
Running Time 119 Minutes
james bond
bond girls
q-branch
posters
vehicles
bond villains
Charles Gray (Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
Joseph Furst (Professor Dr Metz)
bond allies
Laurence Naismith (Sir Donald Munger)
locations
Japan; Cairo; Spain; London; South Africa; Dover, England; Amsterdam; Los Angeles; Las Vegas; Baja, California.
actual locations
Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, United States of America
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During the pre-title sequence James Bond uses his standard introduction when Marie asks him his name.
behind the scenes
One of Morton Slumber's men is the gunslinger seen at the start of The Man With The Golden Gun. He is the one who asks Bond if the deceased is his brother.
Captain Carter, who would appear in The Spy Who Loved Me, appears once again. He is one of the technicians when Willard Whyte asks where the diamond carrying satellite has disappeared.
Three scenes where cut out of the final film. These included a scene where after being thrown in the pool, Plenty O’Toole returns to Bonds room and finds him in bed with Tiffany Case. Although not in the actual scene, the story is believed to be that she finds Tiffany's address and heads round there to confront her. However Kidd and Wint mistake her for Tiffany and kill her. The second scene involves Plenty having dinner with Bond in the casino restaurant and the third scene features Sammy Davis Jr who is seen gambling.
Las Vegas' Fremont Street was actually closed for three nights to film the car chase.
The building used for exterior shots of The Whyte House hotel is The Las Vegas Hilton. §
