Camp as Christmas and gay as a window, the burly assassins played by Putter Smith and Bruce Glover in 1971’s Diamonds are Forever couldn’t have been less menacing if they tried.
Having dispatched one target with a scorpion and drowned another in an Amsterdam canal, this deadly duo finally come a cropper trying to blow up Bond with an exploding cake. 007 rumbles their ruse, though, thanks to Kidd using an aftershave that “smells like a tart’s handkerchief.” Glover, incidentally, was definitely not as fey as his character, having sired Back to the Future star Crispin some seven years earlier.
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