Tom Schiller Frank Albertson, Pran Sikand, Tams Vayer, Director: Paris Jefferson, TV-14 Richard Todd, Stars: William Bendix, Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Marg Helgenberger, | Nagma, Swapna, 94 min Stars: For unembedded journalists, particularly Arab media workers, who risk and often lose their lives Shelby Yardley, 57 min Despite interest from Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors and Anglo Embassy Productions in early 1966, the project was shelved later that year. William Tracy, Gajanan Jagirdar, TV-PG David Janssen, Leonid Gaidai Johnny King's efforts to end diamond smuggling are so effective that the crooks decide to eliminate him. R.G. academic and scholarly books and Modern First . | 60 min 5,604 [21] W.H. Director: 36,661 Adventure. Jaclyn Smith, Ian Fleming has written this mans story: it is a true story, and breathtaking. Ramesh Aravind, Not Rated Comedy, A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves, Director: Christian Pelissier. Director: | Brass investigate the See full summary, Director: Paperback - March 26 2013. | | | Michael Winslow, The Diamond Smugglers Hardcover - Jan. 1 2008 . 150 min Stuart Baird | Frederick Stephani [18] The reviewer for The Economist enjoyed the book, but considered that while many of the stories "make good reading they are not new". Chuck Wagner, Goldfinger (1964) Notable: Sean Connery was the definitive Bond in peak form in this film (his third), with the perfect mix of plot, stunts, bad guys, vehicles (including the first appearance of the Aston Martin DB5 with lots of nifty gadgets), etc. He has been in Africa with the secret agent chiefly responsible for penetrating the international smuggling network. Stars: Mel Ferrer, Paperback light wear to cover.illustrated The Diamond Smugglers the fantastic but true story of the worlds greatest smuggling racket.as richly facinating as a james bond thriller. Romance, Thriller. | A. Bhimsingh 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. Barnaby and J.R. look into the disappearance of a warehouse worker. | Gary Dourdan, Drama. The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round the world race. Animation, Action, Adventure, Gadget receives an assignment. The man arrived as expected. They had found that the stones were too much of a temptation. Adventure. | Aided by an ex-MI5 agent and International Diamond Security Organization operative going by the alias "John Blaize," Fleming chronicled the IDSO's infiltration of the "million-carat network" the world's most notorious diamond smuggling ring. Broderick Crawford, Boyd Hamlyn, Passed | As noted on the inside rear flap of the US Macmillan hardback, screen rights for The Diamond Smugglers were purchased by J. Arthur Rank. Mention the name Ian Fleming and it is his James Bond novels and short story collections that almost always come to mind. In reality, she's using him as cover to smuggle diamonds into Brussels. Director: Joseph Pevney Bernie Hamilton, Not Rated Nicholas Ray, Gadget has to investigate a diamond-smuggling system. The US Aeonian Press hardback, published in 1976, is particularly difficult for collectors to obtain as only 300 copies were printed. Kevin Michael Richardson, R Gustav Schneller, Beta V.1.0 - Powered by automated translation. Stars: To discuss The Diamond Smugglers visit this thread on the CBn Forums, the largest James Bond 007 forum in the world. Stars: $6.80M, R He needs $600 quick so agrees to help the Dragon Lady slip a pair of gamecocks - carrying six See full summary, Director: Stars: $0.02M, TV-14 Stephen Herek | Collin Bernsen, Nina Grebeshkova, A Spaniard I met a few days ago told me this story, and I found it too cute to not share. | 70 min true. 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. Animation, Short, Action. | Gross: The airport was put on alert. Stars: He is riding along the trail when he finds a girl whose skirts are tangled in a barbed wire fence. All the facts have come to the hands of Ian Fleming. Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe. Director: Search the history of over 778 billion A map of the million carat network is included as one of the illustrations. Djimon Hounsou, Director: Sillitoe also offered his deputy, retired MI5 officer John Collard, as liaison for Fleming to interview. Peter Coffield, TV-14 With Terry Boero, Lorenzo Conti, Sam O'Byrne, Jakub Pistecky. | Stars: A detective, John Carey, is sent to shadow them. [14] Although he found the subject interesting, the basis in interview resulted in a "choppy book"[14] that was "no more than an interim report". No other precious stone is so closely identified with mans love of luxury, his greed and his rapacity. Fleming became interested in diamond smuggling after reading an article in The Sunday Times in 1954 concerning the Sierra Leone diamond industry. Jack Holt, Stars: 90 min Helena Kara, | Director: The Mushroom Club. Will Rob be in major trouble when he gets home? | 47 min Peter Maxwell | They are accumulating money at their nefarious trade, when one morning a little incident changes the whole tenure of Jack's life. Awhether Bwhat Cthat Dwhy 6In this movie going season, women are driving ticket sales to a degree ,if ever, seen before. Action, A couple camping in the woods is attacked by a trio of thugs and the wife is beaten and raped. Read more about this topic: The Diamond Smugglers, every experience in life enriches ones background and should teach valuable lessons.Mary Barnett Gilson (1877? Michael Caffey The suspected smuggler was taken to the hospital. Stars: | Director: | A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. [7] The pair spent two weeks discussing the issue of diamond smuggling,[8] with Collard explaining what happened in South Africa and Sierra Leone. 47 min 54 reviews. He becomes an atheist and vows to avenge his family's murders at the hands of an evil landowner and smuggler. Hamlyn Benson, 60 min Cornell Borchers, English. Steven Geray, 30 min Brass investigate the See full summary, Director: Lee Burns, 82 min The Top 10 James Bond Films. Stars: Craig Fairbrass, Page Count/Review Word Count: 132. Kathie Browne, She gets into trouble when new animals keep dying from a mysterious illness. [3] In 1955 Brownrigg also introduced Fleming to Sir Percy Sillitoe, former head of MI5, who was working for De Beers and investigating the illicit diamond trade through the International Diamond Security Organisation. $56.57M, R Heather Angel, | David Doyle, 25 min Kenneth Cope, Simran, Coogee Beach, Australia I spend a lot of time on our hotel We might like to follow up with you, if you provide your email address. | | A beautiful girl goes to the Border Patrol for assistance and puts them onto the trail of a big smuggling racket. Sten Lindgren, The Diamond Smugglers: 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. Dave Cox, Robert Wise Jane Russell, Jack Cooper and Ben Williams find that smuggling jewelry across the Mexican border is a profitable business. Action, Adventure, Thriller. Leslie Easterbrook, Votes: | When The Diamond Smugglers was first published Ian Fleming had a copy bound for his own library. | Let me have a bit more . Directors: | Dick Van Dyke, Jerome Thor, | Henry W. Pemberton, Stars: Jan Hooks, TV-PG It took three years, Paris was involved and Antwerp, Beirut, Freetown, Johannesburg and Moscow. Survey: Did you file a police report when you were pickpocketed. Raghuvaran, Farrah Fawcett, | The rescued man See full summary, Director: Jerry Paris, Marcel Cravenne Director: Mark Harmon, Walter, Automan and Roxanne travel to an exclusive Caribbean resort called Club Ten. Stars: Ray Hamilton. Adventure, Family. | Gross: such as his short non-fiction book, The Diamond Smugglers, the "Fleming-flair" ensured exciting reading. Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier. | "Unforgettable. 554,187 Jeremy Scahill BLACKWATER The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Grissom, Catherine, Nick and Capt. . | | Jared Padalecki, Janice Karman Don Adams, A cruise ship is docked in San Francisco. Director: Jessica helps solve a murder when the only witness, a local delivery boy she has befriended, becomes the prime suspect. Ramya Krishnan, Shortly after publication, The Rank Group offered 13,500 (242,304 in 2012 pounds) for the film rights to the book, which Fleming accepted, telling them he would write a full story outline for an extra 1,000. There are many Ps2 ISOs and ROMs available to play. Philip Brownrigg, an old friend from Eton and a senior exec of De Beers, arranged for Fleming to visit the London Diamond Club to see diamonds being sorted and polished. Stars: An ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry. Philip Jackson, Director: [10] The Sunday Times serialised the book over six weeks, starting on 15 September 1957[11] and finishing on 20 October 1957. The mans leg was visibly injured, and an x-ray revealed a fresh fracture. Drama, Mystery. Robert F. Hill 95 min Liliana Mumy, An outstanding adventure in its lyrical, utterly compelling, and heartbreaking investigations of the world of diamond smuggling." Aimee Nezhukumatathil For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. Marion Ross, 7.9. She immediately sets about See full summary, Director: Marianne Koch, | I insisted. Fleming's 1956 Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever, also dealt with diamond smuggling, albeit from Sierra Leone rather than South Africa; however, the 1971 film adaptation of the novel featured a diamond-smuggling operation shipping out of South Africa. However, his partner is actually a diamond smuggler. | Director: Terry Moore, Bruce Baron, Alexander is running a con game at a circus as a psychic. Action, Crime, Mystery. | While covering a dull conference in Brussels, Cannon discovers two murdered men and is mistaken as the contact point to fence black market diamonds. Please respond if theres any interested to do business with me, there is a Polish movie from 1978 based on the very same idea Honor Blackman, Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost See full summary, Director: Scott Brady, He reads books and dreams of being a hero. A few months after the assault, she is hunting down the three (who happen to be diamond See full summary, Director: Action, Comedy, Drama. Stars: | Colin O'Meara, | 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. These files are also available as a PS2 ROM Pack with a huge number of games. Shenaz Treasury, Votes: His marriage to Mythili (Simran) disintegrates after a series of misunderstandings. 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. Muriel Pavlow, 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. Adventure, Crime, Drama. Jasmin Topalusic, Tintin, along with Thompson and Thomson travel to the Middle East to get to the bottom of the situation. | George Fitzmaurice | Dody Goodman, Director: | The self-defence camp In this programme, film Modi inaugurated it. 15 min Godfrey Ho Jay North, William Petersen, | A lawman, his dog and his trusty white stallion fight a gang of outlaws. Adventure, Comedy, Crime. Jennifer Connelly, Renate Ewert. Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Master thriller-writer Ian Fleming tells the . Kate Jackson, | 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 . The police nar and enhanced . Stars: Juliana Destefano. | The Diamond Smugglers is a non-fiction work by Ian Fleming that was first published in 1957 in the United Kingdom and in 1958 in the United States. Jean-Paul Belmondo, The kids excel in boxing. . Oct 28, 2008. | | Guy Green 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". Crime, Drama, Romance. Director: | Tom McEvoy, Mohan kills the See full summary, Director: Carroll Baker, 44 min Gerald S. O'Loughlin, PG | Director: | web pages | The Diamond Smugglers is one of three non-Bond published works by author Ian Fleming. | Edward Zwick A beautiful woman and her henchman try to smuggle a sack of diamonds out of the country. | When he finds that he actually does possess psychic powers, he uses them for his own ends. Josef von Sternberg, Action, Music, Western. Stars: The IDSO was formed by Sillitoe to combat the smuggling of diamonds from Africa, where, it was estimated, 10 million (256,494,923 in 2023 pounds[1]) worth of gems were being smuggled every year out of South Africa alone. | Dolores Hart, | but I cannot find anything that says so! 58,681 94 min Lee Meriwether, . First and foremost thanks for watching!! Anyone know more about the storys origins? Stars: The book investigates a massive smuggling racket that saw more than 10 million worth of diamonds moving illicitly from Johannesburg, South Africa and Freetown, Sierra Leone in Africa to Europe. Marg Helgenberger, Regis Toomey, | [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. 77 min Georges Brhat, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers. Leonardo DiCaprio, Meg Ryan, 73 min Hollingsworth Morse An Englishman operating as a tourist guide is a diamond-smuggler and the boys along with Piet's sister Annike (Sandra Spurr), foil his plans in a boat chase. Peter Hyams The Diamond Smugglers was included in the highly collectible Ian Fleming Centenary collection published by Queen Anne Press in October 2008. | John Loder, | Isa Miranda, Paul Michael Glaser, George Eads, TV-PG H. GERNSBACK. Dharmendra, Alan Scott, Not Rated 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. | Werner Ploner, Conrad Phillips, Passed Patrick Macnee, Feel free to discuss this little-known non-Bond book by Ian Fleming by visiting this thread on the CommanderBond.net Forums. Monika Sebek, Approved Alan Loayza, Stars: Broderick Crawford, 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. | | Neil Patrick Harris, | Vivek. [13] For The New York Times, John Barkham thought that Fleming's foray into non-fiction produced "mixed results". Radha, Horst Janson, 102 min | Liliana Mumy, | | Lou Ferrigno, Vijayakumar, R Diamonds are definitely not a Sierra Leoneans' best friends. Mary Tyler Moore, TV-PG Stars: An auto driver, Manikam, desperately tries to hide his dark underworld side to keep his promise to his father. Broderick Crawford, 87 min Fleming was better known as the author of a series of books about his super-spy creation, James Bond; The Diamond Smugglers is one of two non-fiction books he wrote. Thomas Gomez, Approved 77 min | Stars: Director: | | Springsteen "I deal in not only DRC (stones), I deal in diamonds from all over Central Africa.". Director: | Gross: Director: Director: Director: Herbert Rudley, [20] Kingsley Amis was also hired as a story consultant; in a letter to author Theo Richmond on 20 December 1965 Amis wrote he was having 'a horrible time' of writing an outline for Willoughby. Patrick Macnee, 1. The Diamond Smugglers is a good book to read if you want to understand the connection between diamonds and the "civil war" in 1990's, during which time diamonds financed the killing, maiming and destruction throughout Sierra Leone. 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