The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 11

THE FRESNO BEE Friday Dec 24 1971 Page All On The Aisle James Bond Comes Alive Again In Sean Connery's 'Diamonds' 11)11 IMS tOIIPOM KBBAK PRESENTS A NEW EVE SPECTACULAR WITH Dave Dudley David Houston Jody Miller Jack Reno At The Hacienda Freeway 99 8 Clinton Ave 9 PM-4 AM Breakfast 2 AM-4 AM Phene KMAK 269-9441 Artists Geodesy ef Jimani Inc Nashville Tennessee $12 SINGLE $22 COUPLE $30 INCLUDING ROOM (deuble occupancy) Breakfast included DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER It the Tint IhMlrr end Snnnyshlr Drive-In Sryevnotev by Rlcheid Malbaum end Tam Menkwwiu train book bv Inn Fleming produced by Albert Broccoli end Harry Heltrmen directed by Guv Hamilton desianed bv Km Adam test: Smn Connery Jill SI John Cherlm Grey Lana Wood jimmy Doan end Bruce Cdbol Rated OP By David Hale DIAMONDS IT IS SAID are the surest investment If there is a motion picture equivalent it must be the secret agent adventures inspired by the late Ian James Bond scries Are Forever" is the seventh in the film series and whatever is said about it being a throwback to the formula of Ihe less sophisticated 1960s it is as exciting and preposterous to behold as or Russia With ever were Anyone who is constantly awed by the accomplishments of real-life space age hardware will be par ticularly fascinated by Bond's frolic in a space laboratory The trip culminates in chase scenes in volving moon buggies and automobiles perhaps not so exciting as those in (because they are less deadly) but just as pell mcll and very very funny What is mure to the point in discussing the James Bond success formula the real Bond Sean Connery is back in "Diamonds Are Connery is older and less trim but he has the patent on the secret agent as superman image for Playboy-oriented adolescent dreamer expert and unflappibly suave whether with enemy agents or beautiful women ONLY ONCE does Bond lose his cool in the face of enemy deviltry when he recovers consciousness from one encounter to find himself lucked in a coffin in a flaming cremation vault Again he awakens entombed in an under- ground oil pipeline facing the inexorable charge of a rcmolc-contrnl welding machine The plot is at once simple-minded and impossibly complicated it has to do with a fortune in diamonds smuggled from South Africa to Las Vegas by way of Amsterdam Essentially that's what it's all about Bond freeing himself from one hot spot after another and bounding from one bed to another One of them the beds that is is a wat-erbed which doubles as an aquarium it is in a hotel suite which for decor may be described as idea of a contemporary playboy's version of the master bedroom in the Palace of Versailles KACII PIECE of gimmickry each uew way of killing (and none is so inventive as Fleming by way of screenwriters Richard Maibaum and Tom Man-kicwicz) each Houdini-like escape by Bond is more incredible than the next meant to be ridiculous of course and we know it even while cheering and laughing over each Bond exploit Bond's manner sardonic right? occasionally revealed in a trace of a smile or the inflection of his voice tells us he knows it and that he knows wc know it too all a big impeccably produced joke and more fun because we share it with him Charles Gray is a formidable foe for Bond as the suave super-efficient genius of Spectre or whatever the organization is His plan for world domination is a gem use the diamonds to devise a weapon so far out and so powerful even the super nations may be held for ransom also introduces two new villains Bruce Glover and Smith as a pair of homosexual killers whose tastes are so elegant they would never ever sloop to using a gun JILL ST JOHN AS Tiffany Case and Lana Wood baby sister) as Plenty are the girls with whom Bond dallies They are in the fulsome mold of the Bond chicks though neither has the acting ability or the voltage of Honor Blackman or even Claudine Auger or Lueiuna Paluzzi of Iasi As usual Are miss a timely hook to hang a laugh upon Besides the waterbeds and the space age machinery there is a multibillionaire industrial genius Willard Whyte whose empire has somehow come under control ENTERTAINING PROPAGANDA KUALA LUMPUR (UPI) The Malaysian government is using a unique method for home propaganda It is putting on stage shows billed as evening of information through song dance and Called the shows revolve around Malaysia's national ideology new economic policy They also preach racial harmony between the Malay majority and the Chinese minority One recent show had an audience of 10000 stf mrnmmmrmmmmommmm MAIL COUPON WITH YOUR CHECK TO COUNTRY MUSIC SHOWS' 2020 mckinley fresno calif (Tickets olio available at The Hacienda) Nome Address The Bee Want Ads Way a thrifty habit MATINEE TODAY ALL SEATS I I 2:00 PM 49c I ADULTS 99c CHILDREN (nftrlD 49c NOWSHOWING GEORGE HAMILTON SUE LYON Euel Knseuel last of the daredevils! 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