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{{Short description|1968 British film by Christopher Morahan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Diamonds for Breakfast
| image = Diamonds for Breakfast (film).jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Christopher Morahan]]
| producer = [[Carlo Ponti]]
| writer = [[Ernesto Gastaldi]]<br>[[Ronald Harwood]]<br>Pierre Rouve<br>[[N. F. Simpson]]
| starring = [[Marcello Mastroianni]]
| music = [[Norman Kay (composer)|Norman Kay]]
| cinematography = [[Gerry Turpin]]
| editing = [[Peter Tanner]]
| studio = [[ABC Films]]<br>Bridge Films
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released = {{film date|df=yes|1968|12}}
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = $1.3 million<ref name="variety">"ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", ''Variety'', 31 May 1973 p 3</ref>
}}
'''''Diamonds for Breakfast''''' is a 1968 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Christopher Morahan]].<ref name="NY Times.com">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/89470/Diamonds-for-Breakfast/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021000740/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/89470/Diamonds-for-Breakfast/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 October 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2012 |title=NY Times: Diamonds for Breakfast |access-date=23 March 2009}}</ref><ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Diamonds for Breakfast |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150017434 |access-date=12 February 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> The film opened in London but was never released in the US. It recorded an overall loss of $1,445,000.<ref name="variety"/>

== Plot ==
Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno is a hard-up Russian aristocrat who owns a London boutique. At an art exhibition he slips on a banana skin and, recovering, hears the ghosts of his ancestors suggesting he steals the imperial diamonds. He assembles a team of female accomplices and posing as models they steal jewels by attaching them to carrier pigeons. However Nikolas's aunt ambushes the pigeons, and loses everything gambling in Monte Carlo.

==Cast==
* [[Marcello Mastroianni]] as Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno
* [[Rita Tushingham]] as Bridget Rafferty
* [[Elaine Taylor (actress)|Elaine Taylor]] as Victoria
* [[Margaret Blye]] as Honey
* [[Francesca Tu]] as Jeanne Silkingers
* The Karlins as triplets
* [[Warren Mitchell]] as Popov
* [[Nora Nicholson]] as Anastasia Petrovna
* [[Bryan Pringle]] as Police Sergeant
* [[Leonard Rossiter]] as Inspector Dudley
* [[Bill Fraser]] as bookseller
* [[David Horne (actor)|David Horne]] as Duke of Windemere
* [[Charles Lloyd-Pack]] as butler
* Anne Blake as Nashka
* [[Ian Trigger]] as Popov's assistant

== Critical reception ==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Unswervingly vulgar and soporific comedy whose principal joke is the sexual fatigue that overwhelms the hero in his patriotic attempts to keep his lady accomplices happy. The fantasy element is clumsily inserted (with great-grandfather's ghost looking remarkably like an extra from ''[[Ivan the Terrible (1944 film)|Ivan the Terrible]]'' (1944)), and N. F. Simpson's contribution to the script is discernible only in the accurately clichéd comments of the visitors to the Soviet exhibition and in the conversation of the elderly English Duke who boasts of having "slept through two World Wars". Mastroianni seems as embarrassed by his slapstick gags as Rita Tushingham does by the combination of Liverpudlian kookiness and romantic initiative with which the script burdens her; and only Warren Mitchell as the perspiring Russian (quoting Marx dogmatically, but still crossing himself for luck) strikes the right farcical note."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1968 |title=Diamonds for Breakfast |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305826627/54456338431D4320PQ/1 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=35 |issue=408 |pages=200 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0062888|title=Diamonds for Breakfast}}
*[https://www.reelstreets.com/films/diamonds-for-breakfast/ ''Diamonds for Breakfast''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]

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[[Category:Films directed by Christopher Morahan]]
[[Category:British heist films]]
[[Category:Films produced by Carlo Ponti]]
[[Category:ABC Motion Pictures films]]
[[Category:Paramount Pictures films]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Ronald Harwood]]
[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
[[Category:1960s British films]]
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