| These are included in all UK and US hardback and paperback printings, with the exception of the US Dell paperback. Stars: Mikls Tolnay, TV-PG He becomes an atheist and vows to avenge his family's murders at the hands of an evil landowner and smuggler. 74 min Tams Vayer, | Stars: George Fitzmaurice The real story in this 34min film is the effects on the lives of those who experienced it. David Fox, Director: Animation, Adventure, Comedy. Senior surveyors also prisoner has been in- the chief guest, while Prof lease of the short magazine front of the garage were both the cars. This was crazy awesome to film, we filmed it all in one night and put the whole thing together in about 10 Days. Ingrid Hafner, Despite interest from Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors and Anglo Embassy Productions in early 1966, the project was shelved later that year. An ex-con manages a top band in the UK, and he wants to re-enter the crime scene. 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. Lew Landers David Graf, Stars: 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. Aline Towne, 68 min Apologies were profuse and the man was allowed to call his surgeon to re-set the broken leg. 30 min "Oh, I am one," he said without batting an eye. Pierre Tremblay, | When her landlord and the building's janitor claim to have never seen her See full summary, Director: Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Stars: An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son. Steven Geray, Ronald Neame | Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbledmessily, violently, but still beautifullyinto the present. Mary Beth Milford, Director: Barbra Fuller, Lyle Talbot, 61 min Dharmendra, Both . Philo McCullough, Passed In April of 1957, Ian Fleming met John Blaize, nom de guerre of the secret agent chief responsible for penetrating the international smuggling network which ranged from Johannesburg and Freetown to Paris, Antwerp, Beirut and Moscow. [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. Dody Goodman, Ramesh Aravind, Not Rated In order to trap a gang of South African diamond smugglers, Casey agrees to pose as one of the criminals. Edouard David, He has been in Africa with the secret agent chiefly responsible for penetrating the international smuggling network. Roopesh Kumar, Robert Beatty, . Robert MacKenzie, . 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. Tauno Palo, Richard Hatch, The Diamond Smugglers. Adventure, Crime, Drama. 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. Director: | Comedy, A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves, Director: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller. Stars: | Gross: Dave Cox, A. Bhimsingh | | Harry Falk Nehemiah Persoff, | | Amitabh Bachchan, Gordon Jackson, Angela Lansbury, She gets into trouble when new animals keep dying from a mysterious illness. 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. | David Soul, Karl Malden, Oliver Platt, Votes: | Ian Hendry, 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. William Petersen, George Eads, 30 min Robert F. Hill and she had been incidental to I.D.S.O.'s biggest coupa coup so big they had had to call in the Government to finance it. Michael Schroeder 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". 60 min Stars: Gordon Jackson, 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 . | Crime, Drama, Mystery. Kevin Michael Richardson, Passed 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. "[18] Sampson noted that the book included "several yarns which are worthy of the best spy-stories". The book is basically a short, . Dorothy Malone, Not Rated Sam Levene, Not Rated Stephen Herek Honey Bruce Friedman, Passed His cast was cut off, but nothing was found inside it. Robert Gordon 90 min 60 min | | Pamela Anderson, 60 min Robert Knapp. Jay North, John DiMaggio, 19,046 | Author has taught in New Zealand. Liliana Mumy, Director: 97 min Jan Hooks, TV-PG With J. Warren Kerrigan. Directors: Collin Bernsen, Listen In English. | Short Film (2) Crime (38) Drama . | | 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 . Peter M. Thompson, 30 min | | 109 min 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: Lisa Marie's ferocious custody battle: Elvis's daughter falsely accused ex-husband of having child pornography on his computer - in five-year-long battle over their twin girls that only ended in . | . Comedy, Crime. American snake-oil salesman and diamond smuggler Joe Moses is chased out of many villages and pursued by the authorities until fate entrusts him with helping a native tribe that believes he is a holy man. Brass investigate the See full summary, Director: Hema Malini, We started our publishing venture in. Kazan the Wonder Dog, A detective, John Carey, is sent to shadow them. Roy Hughes, Mary Boland, He thinks youd be able to write his story. Hema Malini, Action, Adventure, Drama. Stars: During which decade of the twentieth century did Ian Fleming publish his non-fiction work "The Diamond Smugglers"? In the light of this aim, based on the historical approach, this dissertation studies the biographies of Tamer and Williams and the history of their countries, in which they lived, in detail. 125 min To cheer him up, his buddies arrange for a steamy evening with a See full summary, Director: Karlheinz Bhm, [17], Reviewing for The Observer, Anthony Sampson thought the book had "sparkle", adding that "it is often difficult to remember that we are not listening to his old hero Mr. James Bond. | Stars: The real-world counterpart to the fantastic James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever, it centres around an interview with John Collard, a member of the International Diamond Security Organisation (IDSO), as well as the circumstances surrounding their meeting. Director: Arthur Brauss, | Keep doing you.'. Alessandro Freyberger, PG Director: Want to Make a Living Making Movies? 79 min 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.). | Whats your source of this? | Ccile Ossbahr, Director: Bob Kelljan Director: Director: | | They are spied and the Secret Ser 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: Action, Crime, Thriller. Kunaal Roy Kapur, Stars: Crime, Drama, Mystery. academic and scholarly books and Modern First . Diamonds are definitely not a Sierra Leoneans' best friends. Gerald S. O'Loughlin, PG Roy Thinnes, Votes: In these enactments, they attempted to think with the playful dogmatism of a feminist tradition that they call "crotchless pants and a machine gun" (obviously referencing Valie Export) in order to locate what might still be useful today about the somewhat beleaguered "second wave" feminist . Pedro Pinheiro, Andr Hunebelle Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies' counter-attack to explore the world of the real master criminals of his time.The result rivals . Thomas G. Lingham, Her desire for adventure causes Florence to aid her father in smuggling diamonds into this country. | | | Willard Sage, Isa Miranda, 84 min King suspects the owner of a tramp steamer may be smuggling diamonds in crates of tuna. Smith tried to get it made into a film for a number of years. Henry Levin Director: The kids excel in boxing. (2008-2010) Episode: Double Dealing (2008) 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama . He sounded mysterious. Follows two infamous London gangsters, Mickey Mannock and Ray Collishaw. . Janice Karman Action, A couple camping in the woods is attacked by a trio of thugs and the wife is beaten and raped. Susan Tyrrell, Votes: Alan Loayza, Broderick Crawford, Jacques Demy Stars: 2020-10-21 14:04:37. Thriller. | | William Sylvester, Angus MacGyver's nephew Clay quits school and joins the Phoenix Foundation. | Directors: Lee Sholem A crook salts a worthless piece of desert real estate with diamonds and tries to con greedy investors into buying the land. Earl McEvoy | If you can improve it further, . Crime, Drama, A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. When he finds that he actually does possess psychic powers, he uses them for his own ends. Shenaz Treasury, Votes: Victor Jory, Faye Emerson, | Then an amazing celebratory dinner with six thieves morphs into a challenge that might be one step too far for Bob Arno. Director: | [4] During World War II, Collard had assisted in the planning of Operation Overlord as part of MI11 and had joined MI5 under Sillitoe at the war's end. | ), Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.Henry David Thoreau (18171862), They were more than hostile. Alexander Knox, 86 min (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. David Janssen, Director: Stars: Pamela Tiffin, Approved | but I cannot find anything that says so! | Rating: 4*/5. 30,532 | | Stars: Stars: Michael Caffey Hes ready to tell you everything within reasonnames, dates, places. Your email address will not be published. The Diamond Smugglers. Stars: John Vivyan. Marcel Cravenne When the drafts of the books were shown to De Beers they objected to a number of areas and threatened an injunction against Fleming and The Sunday Times, which resulted in much material being removed. Henry W. Pemberton, Rita Silva, 188 pages ; 19 cm. Both titles are slated to be released in 2009. | In reality, she's using him as cover to smuggle diamonds into Brussels. | | How this underground battle was waged is the greatest spy story since the war. It took three years, Paris was involved and Antwerp, Beirut, Freetown, Johannesburg and Moscow. Meier Tzelniker, The Chipmunk Adventure was directed by Janice Karman (one of the very few times a woman had . Stars: Director: Director: Murray Kinnell, R | | 11 year old Diamond is desperate to connect with his father, who is in jail. Romance, Thriller. Stars: A blind American Army officer becomes involved in a murder mystery and solves it after regaining his sight. | Pran Sikand, Vetrivel, a car racer, learns that a Malaysia-based don owes his father a huge sum of money. | Director: Stars: Arthur Brauss, Diamond: Directed by Gerald Gutschmidt. | Anne Sharp, Not Rated Richard Diamond is hired by a hospitalized mother of a 10-year-old girl to get custody away from her ex-husband and back into the hands of her sister. Ian Fleming's world travels, interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. Joseph Pevney Brass investigate the See full summary, Director: Albert Lieven, but it sold well enough when it was first released and there was even talk of turning it into a movie. Johnny Sheffield, Stars: On the flyleaf, as was his custom, he wrote a short paragraph describing its genesis. Abhinay Deo, The mans leg was visibly injured, and an x-ray revealed a fresh fracture. The self-defence camp In this programme, film Modi inaugurated it. With an introd. | King tries to learn which of four freighters is carrying a cache of uncut diamonds. | | Angela Lansbury, Barnaby and J.R. look into the disappearance of a warehouse worker. Doug Campbell Suresh Krishna 44 min Director: | by "John Blaize", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Diamond_Smugglers&oldid=1034175409, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 18 July 2021, at 08:38. Ken Stephenson, The suspected smuggler was taken to the hospital. I insisted. Jasmin Topalusic, Catwoman attempts to track down a mysterious cargo shipment that is linked to a Gotham City crime boss called Rough Cut. | "The Diamond Smugglers" was released in . 7.9. Hes amused by your books, particularly that diamond-smuggling one. Patrick Macnee, Martin Garralaga, Stars: Adventure, Drama, Thriller. Blaise gave Fleming all the facts of the three-year campaign which he and his colleagues had waged against the diamond pirates on behalf of the famous Diamond Syndicate. | Description: A major campaign against the greatest smuggling racket in the worldthe smuggling of diamonds from Africa, to the tune of some ten million pounds a yearhas just been completed. His marriage to Mythili (Simran) disintegrates after a series of misunderstandings. K.S. Margareta Fahln, Tags: crime, non-fiction. Bernie Hamilton, Not Rated Susan Tyrrell, Votes: Robert Mitchum, Learn how your comment data is processed. Diamond smugglers use an unsuspecting magician to carry illegal gems from one location to another. | The Sunday Times serialised the book over six weeks, starting on 15 September 1957 and finishing on 20 October 1957. Action, Adventure, Crime. Hamlyn Benson, 60 min John Loder, Nath held the summit dent, Bardhman Textiles, electronics units have day summit. 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. Monroe Cline, Stars: The glitter of espionage, the lure of easy money, the fever of men and women trapped by the temptations of "hot ice"..all interwoven in a nerve-tightening web of intrigue and . such as his short non-fiction book, The Diamond Smugglers, the "Fleming-flair" ensured exciting reading. 50 min She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil, sadistic bisexual warden. Title: The Diamond Smugglers. Meg Ryan, Marcel Cravenne Pauline Moran, | With his sovereign prose and insatiable curiosity, Matthew Gavin Frank "reminds us that the world is a place of wonder if only we look . Richard Talmadge . John Rich [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. Stanley Adams, TV-G | Lee Meriwether, Addeddate. All content Copyright Bambi Vincent, Thiefhunters in Paradise, Pickpockets, Con Artists, Gangsters, Thieves, and Travel. Walter Burke, DIAMOND smuggling was formerly a very easy and profitable practice, the minute size of the gems making it easy to dispose of them in unexpected placesof late, however, the detection of such smugglers has been raised to a fine art. The police nar and enhanced . Stars: . Victor Jory, [10][13] The book was published in the US on 13 May 1958, by Macmillan and cost $3.50. You searched for: Title: the diamond smugglers 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. Jack Lam, Passed I loved stepping back into the mid-1950s and learning a bit of history about the diamond trade. | document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); In Naples, Italy, the world's best pickpockets challenge Bob Arno to a match of skills. great cover. Jerome Thor, Meg Ryan, Louis King | The Diamond Smugglers, Used (272 results). Simran, However, he finds it difficult to follow in the shoes of his famous uncle. Torin Thatcher, 115 min Gerald Freedman [12], The Diamond Smugglers was published in the UK in November 1957, by Jonathan Cape, was 160 pages long and cost 12 shillings 6d. | Action, Comedy, Crime. | Both Fleming and his fictional counterpart have become synonymous with . Leo D. Maloney,