Paul Hurst, A known embezzler is aboard the ship and had hid the jewels on a dog collar. Earl McEvoy Director: | Halle Berry, | On the flyleaf, as was his custom, he wrote a short paragraph describing its genesis. | | Victor Jory, Edouard David, Gary Dourdan, He needs $600 quick so agrees to help the Dragon Lady slip a pair of gamecocks - carrying six See full summary, Director: | Director: Be the first one to. 30 min Director: Pramod Chakravorty | While investigating a gang of diamond smugglers, Steed is drugged and finds himself accused of a hit-and-run accident. Stars: 54 reviews. Romance, Thriller. 95 min Thriller. The book goes on to look at the activities of the IDSO from the end of 1954 until the operation was closed down in April 1957, when its job was complete. In February 2006, Alex Ma, China's mole in the FBI, sent David photos he received from his handlers of five suspected human sources. | The airport was put on alert. 15 min Director: . Artur Semedo, Stars: Christian Pelissier. Action, Adventure, Crime, Matt rescues a shady teenage girl calling herself Rachel, who turns out to be a con artist hiding from her mentor and ex-partner in crime involving a diamond-stuffed doll that is being See full summary, Director: When cars start exploding in their home country and it leads to a soon-to-be serious oil crisis. Louis Merrill, David Soul, No other precious stone is so closely identified with mans love of luxury, his greed and his rapacity. Director: Boyd Hamlyn, Passed Mikls Tolnay, TV-PG 60 min Broderick Crawford, An auto driver, Manikam, desperately tries to hide his dark underworld side to keep his promise to his father. John DiMaggio, 54 min But youd have to meet him in AfricaTangier probably. The book is basically a short, . Steven Geray, Apologies were profuse and the man was allowed to call his surgeon to re-set the broken leg. [10][13] The book was published in the US on 13 May 1958, by Macmillan and cost $3.50. Spunky Maggie Cunningham hires the Angels to find her son Clifton, but the routine missing person's case turns out to be only the tip of an iceberg involving prostitution, smuggling and murder. Johnny Sheffield, Matti Aulos, Kamal Haasan, 47 min Stephen Bekassy, | A mysterious masked outlaw called "The Phantom Horseman" terrorizes a county. Stars: A few months after the assault, she is hunting down the three (who happen to be diamond See full summary, Director: Suman, . | Monroe Cline, Jessica helps solve a murder when the only witness, a local delivery boy she has befriended, becomes the prime suspect. Renate Ewert. | 15 min | Comedy, A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves, Director: While working in Amsterdam, Cannon investigates the operations of an international diamond smuggling ring. on October 18, 2020, There are no reviews yet. It was broadly well-received, although some reviewers commented on the stories not being new. Djimon Hounsou, The Diamond Smugglers is one of three non-Bond published works by author Ian Fleming. Drama. Both . | Stars: A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was deador does he? A Megaphone collects a number of enactments that Spahr and Young did between the years of 2005-2007. Jack Warden, Votes: Stars: H. Gernsback, writing in the Electrical . [19] Several contemporary newspaper reports referred to the project as "The Diamond Spy". Alexander is running a con game at a circus as a psychic. K.S. | Gross: Two different states of the UK Jonathan Cape first edition hardback exist: the first state includes gold titling on the spine, while the second is white. | Derek Farr, I loved stepping back into the mid-1950s and learning a bit of history about the diamond trade. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didnt know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.). Sean Connery, 150 min They are spied and the Secret Service Department is notified of their operations. Ford Beebe Director: Comedy, Romance. Adventure, Family. 145 min George McCowan Stars: Dharmendra, | William Fawcett, Both men are top of the food chain when their world is turned upside down as they lose a shipment of the Russian Mafia's cocaine. Lee Meriwether, Steed investigates when the autopsy of a automobile accident victim reveals 50,000 pounds worth of diamonds in his stomach. great cover. Customs officials are trained to detect smugglers by picking up the smallest signals in passengers' body language, such as nervous movements and sweating. | | Rocky Barbanica, | | Stars: Diamond smugglers use an unsuspecting magician to carry illegal gems from one location to another. Needing money for a good cause, he and his sons join in. Marcel Cravenne Stanley Adams, TV-G Stars: Director: | Patrick Macnee, Jean Becker Adventure, Drama, History. 19,046 Arthur Brauss, To discuss The Diamond Smugglers visit this thread on the CBn Forums, the largest James Bond 007 forum in the world. Stars: [2], Fleming retained an interest in the subject and when Sillitoe suggested to the editor of The Sunday Times, Denis Hamilton, that the paper may want to write a story on the International Diamond Security Organization, Hamilton offered the story to Fleming. . Director: Stars: Peter Leeds, TV-14 She is shocked and disillusioned when she discovers the source of his husband's wealth to be his illegitimate dealings. Keep doing you.'. Lydia Mikulski, Peter Hyams 53 min Craig Denney, Your email address will not be published. They are spied and the Secret Service Department is notified of their operations. Nigel Bruce, The Mushroom Club. | The Diamond Smugglers is the account of Ian Fleming's meeting with John Collard, a member of the International Diamond Security Organisation (IDSO). David Suchet, He reads books and dreams of being a hero. Novel for children set in Napier and Wellington, New Zealand. Stars: Florence Rice, 431 min Jonathan Alwyn Dick Van Dyke, | David Hasselhoff, R.G. | Director: Michael Caffey Stars: Don Adams, | Director: Action, Crime, Mystery. With J. Warren Kerrigan. | The Diamond Smugglers has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. The kids excel in boxing. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Broderick Crawford, [5] Whilst in MI5 he played a major role in the capture and conviction of the atomic spy Klaus Fuchs,[5] before Sillitoe had approached him in 1954 to work for the International Diamond Security Organisation. An ex-con manages a top band in the UK, and he wants to re-enter the crime scene. Action, Adventure, Crime. When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation. Broderick Crawford, Karlheinz Bhm, Carroll Baker, 133 min | Gross: 554,187 How this underground battle was waged is the greatest spy story since the war. Three struggling room-mates unknowingly become potential prey of a ruthless gangster. The brutal business of finding the rough stones is at least as tough, and the creators of this series have knitted a See full summary, Stars: Ive heard some of it and its terrific. 79 min Mel Ferrer, Louis King When The Diamond Smugglers was first published Ian Fleming had a copy bound for his own library. All content Copyright Bambi Vincent, Thiefhunters in Paradise, Pickpockets, Con Artists, Gangsters, Thieves, and Travel. The mans flight number was known. McQuinn, traveling to Sofia on the Orient express, helps a Bulgarian diplomat being returned to his country to face trumped up charges for jewel theft. He noted that "the book is put together with a skill one would expect from Mr. Fleming",[17] which leads to something that is "very entertaining reading". Dody Goodman, Stars: Director: Errol Flynn, When her landlord and the building's janitor claim to have never seen her See full summary, Director: Kagiso Kuypers, Votes: A San Francisco civilian police detective is forced to work on a series of murders with his former enemy commanding officer while dating his daughter. Stars: One of which was The Diamond Smugglers, published in late 1957, a few months after the release of the authors highly successful James Bond adventure, From Russia with Love. The Top 10 James Bond Films. | Drama, Thriller, Swarthy Paul Yeager arrives in New Orleans, and promptly gets a job bartending at La Cage du Verre, a show bar where his former girlfriend Jacqueline is a dancer and the moll of its See full summary, Director: Bernie Hamilton, Hotshot blows his paycheck - and more besides - at Wang Wang's disreputable gambling house. | | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller. Mystery: Kim Kardashian has shared a series of cryptic quotes to Instagram amid the news that her ex-husband Kanye West has 'secretly married' Yeezy designer Bianca Censori . 5,604 Fleming became interested in diamond smuggling after reading an article in The Sunday Times in 1954 concerning the Sierra Leone diamond industry. "My best [stones] are DRC, but we . $4.24M, G | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Bubba Smith, | Stars: Morey Amsterdam, Director: Mary Beth Milford, | Paul Michael Glaser, Check out our diamond smugglers selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. 19,046 William Burgess and his accomplice, Rose Bender, go to the Kimberly mines in South Africa to purchase stolen diamonds and smuggle them in the United States. Stars: Philip Jackson, | Peter Hammond 60 min | Heather Angel, Stars: the series also sparked the longest-running film franchise in history. [22] At one point, film director John Boorman was involved. Bob Kelljan http://www.filmopolis.pl/recenzje/recenzje-dvd/1455-parada-oszustow-recenzja-filmu-na-dvd. Intelligence was leaked: stolen diamonds were to be smuggled out of the country in the cast of a man with a broken limb. Richard Hatch, A struggling single mother must fight for her teenage daughter's freedom after she is arrested by federal agents for being involved in an illegal diamond smuggling operation. 188 pages ; 19 cm. | Gross: His first mission is to stop an anti-American African terrorist group. I also happen to be an Ian Fleming, James Bond fan. A blind American Army officer becomes involved in a murder mystery and solves it after regaining his sight. | Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers. has just been completed. Frederick Stephani PS2 is also known as PlayStation 2. Stars: Mention the name Ian Fleming and it is his James Bond novels and short story collections that almost always come to mind. Director: Robert Gordon | It was adapted into the 1975 film The Kingfisher Caper and a 2001 television mini series. | Jennifer Connelly, Colin O'Meara, Action, Drama, Western. Mohan kills the See full summary, Director: Johnny King's efforts to end diamond smuggling are so effective that the crooks decide to eliminate him. Robert Beatty, | | An ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry. | | Sketches include: "Customs", "Weekend Update", and "Robot Repair". Stars: 84 min The airport was put on alert. | Anyone know more about the storys origins? | Walter Grauman Most people probably know the De Beers Corporation's long-running tagline, "A diamond is forever," coined in 1947 and named by Advertising Age as the best ad slogan of the 20th century. Answer (1 of 4): There are many, many reasons why people smuggle diamonds yet they all have to with the "density of value" of diamonds which is unsurpassed by even . Tom Gries 91 min | Antonio Fargas, 138 min | James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, Looking Back: Ian Fleming's 'The Diamond Smugglers', 003: The Adventures Of James Bond Junior, Ian Fleming (naturally, as the readers guide to the story being laid out), Sir Percy Sillitoe, KBE, DL, former head of MI5. The defendant is an exotic dancer. Alan Loayza, Stars: | Dave Cox, | Richard Stapley, Ronald Neame Stars: Guilt ridden Ranjit, a skilled high profile thief, even at the cost of being arrested, must make grand arrangements for the wedding of the daughter of an destituted old man whose teenage son was killed by Ranjeet in their childhood. | A beautiful Parisian model, who was a double-agent during World War II, tries to convince Cannon that she's mended her ways. Director: Kazan the Wonder Dog, | Gross: In general, Blaize said that diamond smugglers didn't trust women. | Wolfgang Kieling, Msizi keeps a pigeon named Bartholomew as pet and family smuggler . Stars: 90 min Beth Howland, Stars: In reality, she's using him as cover to smuggle diamonds into Brussels. Robert MacKenzie, Louis King One of the authors few non-fiction books (the other being 1963s Thrilling Cities), The Diamond Smugglers expanded upon several articles Fleming had written for the London Sunday Times during the year. Delphi Lawrence, Accompanying the pictures was a photo of five dogs sitting on a . With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across . Darlene Vogel, Karin Booth, Ramesh Aravind, Not Rated | What they discover is a diamond smuggling operation and a man that's being set-up for murder. Mystery, A woman returns a trip out of town and finds someone else staying in her apartment who claims to lived their years. Adventure, Comedy, Crime. While covering a dull conference in Brussels, Cannon discovers two murdered men and is mistaken as the contact point to fence black market diamonds. He also provides the introduction to, 1957: 1st British Jonathan Cape Hardback Edition, 1958: 1st American Macmillan Hardback Edition, 1964: 1st American Collier Paperback Edition, 1965: 1st American Dell Paperback Edition, 1976: 1st American Aeonian Press Hardback Edition, 1987: 1st American Amereon Press Hardback Edition. Ken Stephenson, Meanwhile, Dr. claw, who is in charge of the See full summary, Directors: Director: The chilling, spy-studded story of a carefully organized, private intelligence armyand the master operative who ingeniously commanded it. The police nar and enhanced . Cheryl Callaway, In March 2008, it was announced that The Diamond Smugglers and Thrilling Cities, both long out of print, would be published in all-new hardback editions to mark the centenary of author Ian Fleming. Stars: 109 min Patrick Macnee, Anne Bancroft, A blind American Army officer becomes involved in a murder mystery and solves it after regaining his sight. Action, Crime, Drama. Mumtaz Askari, Documentary, Crime, History. | Peter Coffield, 26 min Dianne Foster. | Director: Collard explained that the IDSO was set up at the instigation of the Chairman of De Beers, Sir Philip Oppenheimer, after an Interpol report stated that 10 million of diamonds were being smuggled out of South Africa each year, as well as additional amounts from Sierra Leone, Portuguese West Africa, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. . | Robert Stevens | | Adventure, Comedy, Crime. Stars: However, the intricacies of the stylized Hollywood plot of the Bond film seemed heavily complicated as I thought of the boy that author Matthew Gavin Frank meets and of the homing pigeon the barely teenaged miner keeps . The Diamond Smugglers is a true account of the greatest smuggling racket in the world the illicit passage of diamonds out of Africa, to the tune of 28 million dollars a year. Directors: | Peter Hyams Fleming became interested in diamond smuggling after reading an article in The Sunday Times in 1954 concerning the Sierra Leone diamond industry. The Diamond Smugglers. 57 min Tom McEvoy, | Lauren Montgomery | Stars: Listen In English. Horacio Anthony, document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Thierry Wermuth, Dody Goodman, [6], Fleming and Collard met in Tangiers on 13 April 1957; Fleming considered Collard to be a "reluctant hero, like all Britain's best secret agents". "[16] The Times Literary Supplement obtained the services of the Earl of Cardigan to review the book. | George C. Scott, Director: The book opens with Frank interviewing Msizi, a 13-year-old diamond miner, already sickened with diamond dust in his lungs. Director: Tauno Palo, The sequel to the largely successful hit You Asked For It, The Diamond Smugglers is a brand-new adventure in the James Bond fan film saga made by Harry and G. A pilot is disturbed to learn that a beautiful woman he knew as a secret agent during the war is involved with diamond-smugglers. As a side note, the articles appeared in print in September and October 1957. 96 min | Ramya Krishnan, The rescued man See full summary, Director: Beth Howland, Grissom, Catherine, Nick and Capt. Stars: Director: 47 min In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation. 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