007 Filming location: Whyte House Casino (Riviera Hotel) / Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

007 Filming location: Whyte House Casino (Riviera Hotel) / Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

April 25, 2025 0 By 007 Travelers

Bond movieDiamonds Are Forever (1971)
Place and location in the movie: Whyte House Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Actual place and location: Riviera Hotel, 2901 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (nowadays there is Las Vegas Convention Center)
What happens here in the movie: The former Riviera hotel was one of the filming locations for “Diamonds Are Forever“. The scene where Bond wins $50,000 with Plenty O’Toole (Lana Wood) at Whyte House Casino was filmed on the Riviera. The film’s screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz says: “We shot at several Vegas hotels. We lived at the Riviera. To shoot in the casino at the Riviera, you had to shoot between 3 and 6 in the morning. (It) was the only way they’d let us shoot, on a weekday morning.” The Riviera was demolished in 2016 and is now home to the Las Vegas Global Business District and the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Visited by 007 Travelers: July 2023

Riviera before it was blown up. (Photo from Internet)

James Bond (Sean Connery) and Plenty O’Toole (Lana Wood) playing at the Riviera Hotel in “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971)
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq, LLC

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