DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER | Bond escapes in a moon buggy

Bond (Sean Connery) escapes Willard Whyte’s Techtronics research centre in a moon buggy in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971). Production designer Ken Adam said: “The moon buggy was not 100 percent based on the actual moon lunar vehicle as director Guy Hamilton wanted it to look grotesque with these flailing mechanical arms.”

[noalowenstein]

that one astronaut who's so committed to the bit he misses Bond because he's pretending to move in moon gravity is the best part of this scene

[sergs]

Those astronauts are really fine actors they even move in slow mo when trying to catch Bond lolllzz.

[ThexBorg]

At 2:23 when the car rolls and stacks.. the wheel from the buggy that must have fallen off when out of shot was still used... they didn't do a second take on the stunt.. only one buggy :-)

[julkasteven]

Even Bambi and Thumper didn't make me laugh for that long like this scene. Funniest moment in Diamonds are Forever.
One Word to describe: HILARIOUS

[apertureemployee]

I love how tiny those little tricycles are. The way the drivers have to sit all hunched over makes em look like those little electric kiddie cats

[ljdasilva]

Gotta love the bloke on the trike - he starts it, then waits patiently until Bond kicks him off. It's a cruel world.

[mantabond]

'What the hell is this? Amateur Night? Stop him, Harry'.

[JohnDoe-tmwz]

This is both the best and worst thing I've ever seen in my life, 007 FOREVER.

[OneEye.]

Funny part is that they left that LTD sitting there for another 40 years. Used to see it all the time playing in the desert east of Vegas.

[lukedaley]

“If you see a mad professor in a minibus just Smile”😂

[anthonydpearson]

“I’m so glad they made the Daniel Craig movies dark and serious like the Connery ones”
The Connery ones:

[carachamadofinger]

3:19 Never let the image of 007 riding a mopn buggy die.

[mh]

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER — the best comedy film of 1971

[Alexagrigorieff]

The collapsing checkpoint is a nice touch.

[markw]

The moon buggy is a Corvair chassis with fiberglass wheels that kept breaking off. I didn’t notice the wheel in the theatre in Dec. 1971. They had problems with Ford which supplied vehicles for this demolition derby and, after wrecking two Mach 1s doing the jump, Ford gave them one final vehicle. They had to call in legendary stunt driver Bill Hickman to make this work(strangely, he resembles Connery).

[mvtv-montanavigilantetv]

Oh, boy I believed every bit of this when I got to see it way back in 1971 as an 11 year-old. That ultimate-cool yellow Mustang and especially Jill St. John. I think this also includes 2:22 an infamous on-scene goof all likely noticed. Last shot of the buggy before the car roll shows one of its wheels flapping before it fell off, crashed and bounced into frame.

[abrahamcr]

Personality of Sean Connery makes a silly scene a great scene

[bobroberts]

2:15 Looks like the RR wheel on the moon buggy is falling off.
2:24 Confirmed

[GuineaPigEveryday]

0:57 "The damage is not too bad. As long as the foundations are still strong, we can rebuild this place"
1:10 "Oof. No those foundations are gone. Sorry."

[harold]

The Moon Buggy is such a strange vehicle, but I love it for that reason.