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| “ | Mr. Kidd: If God had wanted man to fly... Mr. Wint: ... He would have given him wings, Mr. Kidd. |
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| ~ Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd |
| “ | Mr. Wint: If at first you don't succeed, Mr. Kidd... Mr. Kidd: ... Try, try again, Mr. Wint. |
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| ~ Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd after capturing an unconscious Bond |
Mr. Albert Wint and Mr. Charles Kidd are the secondary antagonists of the 1959 James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever and the 1971 film of the same name.
In the movie they are assassins hired by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while in the original novel they are enforcers who work for a diamond-smuggling criminal syndicate called "The Spangled Mob".
Mr. Wint was portrayed by Bruce Glover, who also played Alec Frost in Sultan and the Rock Star, and Mr. Kidd was portrayed by Putter Smith.
History[]
In both the novel and the film, Wint and Kidd are responsible for the death of everyone who has something to do with the smuggle of the diamonds, in order to eliminate all witnesses. They are highly sadistic and take pleasure from their work. In the novel, Wint has an intense pathological fear of travelling abroard. When he does so, he always carries with him an identifying name tag and a sticker reading "My blood group is F"; he must also be paid a special bonus in order to convince him to leave the United States.
In the Novel, they disguise themselves as American businessmen, under the assumed names of W. Winter and B. Kitteridge, allowing them to travel the world without causing suspicion. Here, they follow the smugglers, to ensure that they stick to the plan. Wint and Kidd torture Bond, but Tiffany Case helps him escape. They pursue Bond and Case to the Queen Elizabeth cruise liner, where they attempt to kill Case, but they themselves are killed by Bond, who arranges the scene to look like a murder-suicide.
In the film, the diamonds are being used by Ernst Stavro Blofeld to construct a weapons satellite. Wint and Kidd prefer overly-elaborate kills, including having Bond incinerated in a crematorium and attempting to have him buried alive in a pipeline, both of which ultimately fail.
After Bond foils Blofeld's plot, Wint and Kidd make one last attempt to kill him, presumably to exact revenge. They follow Bond and Tiffany onto the SS Canberra cruise liner, posing as stewards and serving them a very romantic meal - with a bomb concealed in the dessert. Bond realises who they are after catching and recognising the scent of Wint's aftershave (a container of which saturated his clothes during the desert assassination attempt) and rumbles them by exposing Wint's ignorance regarding clarets. Dropping the charade, Kidd ignites a pair of shasklik skewers and moves to impale Bond with them, whilst Wint strangles him with the chain which his sommeliers tastevin is suspended. Bond smashes a bottle of cognac and splashes the contents onto Kidd and the flaming skewers, causing the flames to pass onto his clothes and setting him on fire; in desperation, Kidd jumps overboard from the high deck into the ocean, presumably killing him on impact. As Wint continues to strangle Bond, Tiffany throws the dessert at him, but she misses and reveals the bomb inside. With Wint temporarily distracted, Bond gains the upper hand against him, tying the assassin's hands together with his coat-tails alongside the bomb before hoisting the him overboard; the bomb explodes and kills Wint before he hits the water.
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Trivia[]
- In the film, it is heavily implied that Wint and Kidd are gay, and possibly lovers. In one scene, they are shown holding hands. In another, Kidd comments that diamond smuggler Tiffany Case is very attractive "for a lady". Additionally, Wint is shown to be visibly distressed upon witnessing Kidd's apparent death.
- This possibly stems from a line in the novel, in which Felix Leiter believes them to be a gay couple.
- Wint and Kidd are never referred to as 'Mr' in the original novel.
