Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

"Bond is back...with the excitement"

Directed by Guy Hamilton
Produced by Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz
Based on "Diamonds Are Forever" by Ian Fleming
Starring: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot
Music by John Barry
Cinematography: Ted Moore
Edited by Bert Bates, John Holmes
Production company: Eon Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date: 14 December 1971 (West Germany)
Running time: 120 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: $7.2 million
Box office: $116 million

"Diamonds Are Forever" is an action adventure thriller film directed by Guy Hamilton and written by Richard Maibaum, based on "Diamonds Are Forever" by Ian Fleming. It's the seventh installment of the "James Bond" film series which follows Secret Agent James Bond who is led by a diamond smuggling investigation to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an extortion plot headed by his nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Martin Freeman

Martin John Christopher Freeman

8 September 1971

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

"Being the adventures of a young man ... who couldn't resist pretty girls ... or a bit of the old ultra-violence ... went to jail, was re-conditioned ... and came out a different young man ... or was he?"

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Produced by Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick
Based on "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin
Music by Walter Carlos
Cinematography: John Alcott
Edited by Bill Butler
Production companies: Polaris Productions, Hawk Films

Distributed by Warner Bros., Columbia-Warner Distributors (United Kingdom)
Release date: 13 January 1972 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 136 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: $2.2 million
Box office: $26.6 million (North America)

"A Clockwork Orange" is a sci-fi crime drama film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella "A Clockwork Orange". It tells the story of charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge in a dystopian near-future Britain.