George Lazenby's James Bond Revisited: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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- Welcome back to James Bond Revisited, as we look back at all the 007 flicks, counting down to the (eventual) theatrical release of NO TIME TO DIE. In 1967, Sean Connery's contract as James Bond had reached its end, and he seemingly had no interest in returning to the role. Thus, the hunt for on for a new actor to take his place - with the producers eventually settling on an Australian model named George Lazenby. The resulting film, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, would become one of the more obscure Bond films, but also one of the best and most influential, counting directors like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino as fans. So join us as we look back at what just might be the greatest James Bond film of them all!
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George Lazenby was handsome, tall and had an exceptional body. He started out and made a great movie, then there was a great Diana Rggs. great Gabriele Ferzetti great Telly Savalas. Then the one-of-a-kind ending in the Bond genre. A very underrated super movie
That movie is so underrated. Love it. Diana Riggs and George Lazenby are amazing and so is Telly Savalas.
This is my favorite Bond film. You could tell Lazenby could actually really fight. No stunt double necessary. Bond had a great character arc in this one. The score was phenomenal too.
His hooks were a bit wide but he was a big guy.
The only difficulty was he really went after the stuntmen which is off limits. Those men rely on their bodies to make their money, so hurting them unnecessarily is plain disrespectful.
He could've done movies with Bruce Lee.
@@AndyJay1985Lee died.
Sean connery I heard did he own stunts too. One was he was a great swimmer and he knew how to fight also. I heard a real story of him he knocked out cold six to seven gangsters when he was young. In a airport.
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is very under-rated. I think it was a great Bond film.
It’s the worst in the entire series in my opinion
Everyone says its under rated, to the point its now the most over-rated Bond!
Completely agree. Though I have to admit, it took me years after I first watched it to fully appreciate it myself.
What was shocking to me was the end since all Bond films ended him and a babe but Lazenby did a great job with him cradling Tracy and you could feel his grief then one of the best versions of the Bond theme with a moog synthesizer.
Really to have seen a second One with him.
I don’t care what anyone says , but for me “ On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” is the best Bond film . I love this movie so much! What a shame Lazenby didn’t reprise his role .
Always thought he did a great job and his film stands out for me as one of the best after sean connery, with Timothy Dalton a close third. For me it's not about the acting so much as nailing the tone, which is the tricky thing with bond films. It involves a lot of nostalgia and walking the line between cool and absurd.
I think that is pretty much accepted by most fans and critics mate
It's my favorite, too. To this day, I do not understand why so many have criticized George's performance. I thought he did great.
I don't agree that it's the "best", but I have said many times it's the most underrated Bond film...terribly underrated.
@@johncuevas7084 Definitely underrated for sure! I would not necessarily say it's the best one, either, but it's my favorite.
The most underrated Bond film, it has everything u want in a Bond film..John Barry's score is brilliant and the late Dame Diana Rigg is top class..sad ending gets me every time 👍🥰
I agree with you
It's the first time I ever saw Bond being a spy. He did actual spy stuff 😂
My mother is in this movie. She was an au pair in Grindelwald in 1968 and she was asked to be in the film as an extra.
What is a au pair? I've heard the term I don't know what it is
@@thebipolarbear1 It’s young girls who leave to another country for a year to live and work as a ‘maid’ or ‘helper’ in a family so that she can learn the language and get some experience in life.
The slow instrumental version of "we have all the time in the world" is the most beautifully tragic pieces of music I have heard. It makes me tear up when ever I hear it.
It's a beautiful track.
All the more tragic that Louis Armstrong died shortly after recording it.
Listen to Iggy Pops version.
I have always thought this was, overall, the best bond film ever done. I had the chance to meet with Peter Hunt and had a quite long conversation about the making of this film and found out a lot of things I did not know. Great guy, jovial in an old fashioned British way. A very unexpected happenstance.
and the one part autobiography of Ian Fleming in film form with sandy haired Jason Connery is fantastic and on YOU TUBE. It was a made for TV movie and I looked for it for years! it is outstanding and sad and true and important.
Rest in eternal peace to Dame Diana Rigg (1938 - 2020).
Beautiful she is
She was good in Game of Thrones.
She preferredConnery.
She was so good in this film
@@zahawolfe : The scenes with the equally formidable Telly Savalas are the best in within the series!.
George Lazenby got some really bad advice from his friends telling him he would be typecast if he kept doing more Bonds. Additionally, he was very "difficult" off screen. This was confirmed by numerous actors, technicians, etc. Too bad as he did a great job in “ On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”
"Typecast" pah! You got cast as James Bond, who gives a fuck?
Well he was 28 years old. He admits himself he had a lot of growing up to do. But I think with better guidance he would have been just fine.
@@leftcoaster67 Me too. He did one of the better Bond movies. In my opinion.
Yes he would have been great in more pictures!
Diana Rigg was The Best Bond Girl Ever. OHMSS, as you so rightly stated, deserves a lot more love! I still tear up at the end, and I'm pushing 60!
She was a Bond woman, not just a Bond girl.
glad to see a still PR shot of her in that wonderful wedding dress!
George Lazenby's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" since childhood to now has always been my favorite Bond movie........
In my opinion: the best Bond film, the best Bond girl, and the best Bond score. I would’ve loved to see Lazenby in more Bond films - he was great! Thanks for making this terrific video!
Totally agree with you John!
Nailed it, totally agree.
100% couldn’t have said it better myself.
Thanks John!
Roger that!
The ultimate Bond movie, closest to its source novel with someone in the lead role, who had never acted and who delivers IMO the greatest debut performance in screen history, perfection
And the TV film that is the real biography of Ian Fleming in film form SPYMAKER made in 1990 for TV with sandy haired Jason Connery is on YOU TUBE. Glad there is a copy to few there, one part, all true.
Lazenby turned out to become a talented businessman. He lived the Bond life.
If you watch his documentary, it's basically just 2 hours of him bragging how much he got laid in the Sixties.
@@CT_Phipps Everybody got laid in the 60's thanks to the pill. Good for him.
good to know I wondered what his real life future became!
It’s one of the few times Bond has ever really gone under cover, not just using an alias but playing a character who’s completely different than himself. Great movie
Just wanted to say that I've been really enjoying this James Bond Revisited series. It's really good.
I wanted to say the same thing. It’s a great little series here
I wanted to say something, but I forgot what it was.
@@sasshole8121stop being such a sass hole
Agreed!
Thanks so much Casey! Much appreciated. Lots more to come.
George Lazenby pays tribute to Sean Connery on his 90th birthday:
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Happy 90th birthday to the all time greatest @007 - Sean Connery. Sean, for me, was always the man. I walked in his footsteps - I had to look and dress like Sean Connery - I went to his barber's and tailors. I had no fear when I went up for the role - he was the guy who inspired me to never hesitate. Another thing we have in common is that we're both family men, so best wishes to Lady Connery, your kids and grand kids and stay safe. Love George x
Very well said George.
@MOONLIGHT SHADOW George Lazenby for Connery death
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Only a few weeks ago I was wishing Sean all the best for his 90th birthday. Now, I'm very sad to be condoling with his family and friends. Of course, Sean Connery as James Bond inspired me personally but seems to have encapsulated an age, the Sixties. I met Sean a couple of times and I was pleased he'd given my Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, his seal of approval. He was going to do my film many times and felt it was the best of the Fleming tales. But, to me, the most important thing was his work went far beyond Bond: into charity, into family, into politics and into golf. A man after my own heart. A great actor, a great man and underappreciated artist has left us. My thoughts are with Lady Micheline and Sean's children and grandchildren. Only love, George XXXA
He is the most "human" James Bond.
We agree 100%. He and OHMSS set the stage and tone for future Bond's and Bond girls to come.
@@JoBloOriginals It wouldn't be until For Your Eyes Only(1981) that a Bond film would have a more serious tone to it. Ironically in the opening of the movie, Roger Moore as Bond makes a brief visit to Tracy's grave. A rare tribute to Contessa Teresa by EON Productions. Speaking of EON, based what I've seen in the No Time To Die trailers, I have a gut feeling that the filmmakers have tried to replicate the emotional punch of OHMSS in Craig's latest. Not too sure that Craig and Lea have a convincing on screen chemistry however. Her character Dr. Swann didn't seem to like him in Spectre after all. But maybe she warms to Bond in NTTD. I'm skeptical though, considering that George and Diana had terrific screen chemistry, and no amount of acting "titles and accomplishments" can duplicate THEIR screen chemistry. We shall see....presumingly next year.
The only Bond actor you would believe falling in love and getting married. Same for Diana Rigg.
It’s a shame Lazenby didn’t do a second film!
@@padijeff5675 I honestly couldn't agree more!!!!
Part of interview Connery in ''Playboy'' November 1965
PLAYBOY: In any case, ''Dr. No'' turned out to be a hit, and you found yourself under contract for a series ... exactly what you said you wanted to avoid.
CONNERY: Yes ... but it allows me to make other films, and I have only two more Bonds to do.
PLAYBOY: Which ones?
CONNERY: ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' and possibly ''You Only Live Twice''. They would like to start ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' in Switzerland in January, but I'm not sure I'll be free in time and I don't want to rush it, although they say the snow will be at its best then. I'm not going to rush anything anymore.
PLAYBOY: We'll be looking forward to both films ... especially since we were fortunate enough to serialize both books exclusively prior to their hardcover publication. Do you think the success of the series will continue to snowball?
CONNERY: Well, it's a healthy market and it has been maintained because each succeeding film has got bigger and the gimmicks trickier. But we have to be careful where we go next, because I think with ''Thunderball'' we've reached the limit as far as size and gimmicks are concerned. In ''Thunderball'' we have Bond underwater for about 40 percent of the time, and there is a love scene underwater, and attacks by aquaparas from the sky, and two-man submarines under the sea, and Bond is menaced by sharks. Instead of the Aston Martin we have a hydrofoil disguised as a cabin cruiser, and Bond escapes with a self-propelling jet set attached to his back. So all the gimmicks now have been done. And they are expected. What is needed now is a change of course ... more attention to character and better dialogue.
on YOU TUBE the biopic of Ian Fleming entitled SPYMAKER in 1990 for TV is fantastic a one part staring sandy haired Jason Connery all true. I looked for a copy for years and there it is right here on YOU TUBE. Perfectly done with every 1940's detail and all sad and true and real.
I love On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, it’s one of my top 5 favorite James Bond Films. It does deserve more love.
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Absolutely
@@christopherward8657 yes
OHMSS has always been my favorite... From the score, to the fight, plot, girls. It is actually the perfect Bond film. I even say Lazenby was perfect for the role as this one actually required to have Bond in a vulnerable role, emotionally, and feel Connery wouldn't have been able to pull that off with his disengaged attitude toward the series. Also, while a massive plot hole with Bond and Blofeld, I kinda look at it as Blofeld playing chicken with Bond to see who will make the first mistake. Lastly, it IS a Christmas movie like Die Hard. Great review!
I read that, because of a new lead actor, everyone else involved in the production threw their full A-game at it. You can see it in the results; best script, best direction, best Bond girl, best score, phenomenal supporting cast. And, for my money, the best Blofeld too. Do you know how Christmas trees are grown?
Connery was a superb actor and could actually nail vulnerability and sensitivity very well (see The Hill), but I don't think it would've been right for him to bring it to his stoic and badass portrayal of Bond. So yeah, no regrets having Lazenby in this film, he was the right guy for the job.
Always been my favorite. Very well grounded, no stupid gadgets, darker & more brutal than Moore or Brosnan.
Roger Moore was like a closeted suit salesman and Brosnan less threating than a chicken wing.
@@maxbrazil3712 Moore (except the last film) and Brosnan, were the right choice for the role and the time.
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the true biopic of Ian Fleming entitled SPYMAKER in 1990 with sandy haired Jason Connery and shot as if it was a BOND picture, soundtrack and all, one part made for TV and it is on YOU TUBE. I was so glad it is on here. ENJOY it, sad and true and real and 1940's.
It took me many years and a few viewings, but OHMSS is definitely one of best entries in the series. I would have liked Lazenby to at least continue to do one more movie. His presence in Diamonds Are Forever would have completely changed the tone of that movie.
Best soundtrack for a Bond movie ! Really love this film, but over the years I've heard many comments about Lazenby's ego that aren't flattering. His natural confidence shows thru, and that's perfect for the role, but hurt his off camera relationships with the cast and crew. Showing up at a cast party he queried why he hadn't gotten a special invitation, especially since he was the star. the producer stated, " You're only a star if the fans say you are." Sounds like a reality check to me. The opening sequence is one of my all time favorites ! The car, the action, the dialogue. "This never happened to the other fella'" left me thinking, is he referring to the Prince in the fable of Cinderella, or more likely Connery ? Very clever writing, and that hook got me passed the obvious change in casting of Bond. Diana Rigg was perfect as Tracy. The whirlwind romance sequences almost plays as travelogue or an advertisement for jewelry shops. Very smooth editing. But the story is so good ! Bond's interaction with the head of a criminal empire to get information on Blofeld plays so convincingly. His single minded obsession to track down his arch enemy. Great stuff ! So is the tragic ending. There is no happily ever after for Bond, or for that matter, anyone in his life. Tracy is taken away from him just as he is on the cusp of a new life.
thank you, i've been saying this for over 20 years, that it is the best Bond movie. ps- nice Diana Rigg tribute at the end
8:21 - 8:32 I have always said that had Connery starred this one, OHMSS would be THE BOND FILM and not Goldfinger. People who dismiss this film just because it doesn't star Connery should really give it a chance to see for themselves that they have been missing on a pretty good movie all along.
OHMSS is my 2nd personal favorite of all Bond films.
i feel the same way. i didnt like lazenby as bond though at all. the story and the actors besides him are excellent. just he didnt pull it off to me. if connery or even mooore had stared in this probably be the best bond film.
Bruce Timm and Paul Dini have said that On Her Magesty's Secret Service is among their favorite Bond films, and have even given Lazenby a recurring role in Batman Beyond as Royal Flush Gang patriarch, King
Christopher Nolan has also said this is his favourite James Bond film
Let's not forget how it influenced their version of Lex Luthor
@@venturatheace1 Indeed! Luthor was designed to look just like Telly Savalas and Clancy Brown tailored his performance to embody this particular version of Blofeld.
It usually takes 2-3 films before the audience to get use to a new Bond actor, I like Lazenby and wish he got to do at least one more.
Yes it took Moore until The Spy Who Loved Me to get comfortable in the role. They tried to make him too much like Connery in Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun.
@@leftcoaster67 #Fact
Great review. Until fairly recently, this Bond film often made the bottom of the list as the worst Bond film of them all, in part because Lazenby was considered to be horrible. I’m so happy to have witnessed over the past 20 years a gradual reappraisal of this film. It really is among the very best Bond films.
I always thought of this one as of an outsider. Lazenby was ok but he was not as cool as Connery nor as funny as Moore. Well it seemed he tried to copy Connery but it really did not work that well.
@@kkarx At the time that he was cast, Lazenby had no experience as an actor besides being in a few TV commercials. He wasn’t always the greatest delivering his lines, but he moved well and he was very good in the fights and action scenes.
I think that Connery was unmotivated and unhappy and out of shape playing Bond at the time, and so Lazenby brought his own strengths to the role.
If Lazenby had done more Bond films I think that his acting would have gotten better as he learned and gained experience. I really liked his overall portrayal of Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
@@iakona23 I saw Lazenby in other movies and he was pretty good. I remember I did not like Savalas very much (not his fault but I still see him as Kojak :S) and those dresses they put on Lazenby were just borderline embarassing. The movie felt somewhat weird. Anyway I'm rewatching it today. I wonder if I like it more this time.
George Lazenby might be not the best Bond.
But this movie is the best movie in the franchise in my opinion.
The soundtrack while the ski chase is absolutly incredible!
Are you out of your mind. that entire movie liked charisma which it wasn't his fault period but concerning his performance it was stiff and he brought the least to the role out of all of James Bond's
@@BrimsHL However @bufu1994 is exactly right about the score, and the movie is beautifully shot, with good editing, mostly good direction, and the script had good bones. Change the actor, or even just give him some coaching, and change some of Bond's lines, and you'd have had a masterpiece.
@@AndSendMe are you kidding me, the music for this movie is not memorable. no one ever talks about the music from this movie. The editing has been sped up for the action scenes which looks ridiculous. Across the board this movie sucked on a production level. Are you blind?!?!??
I am surprised that Geo Lazenby would have been asked back for another Bond movie given his antics. I must agree that Diana Rigg was the BEST Bond Girl. I would say that she was a Bond Woman.
Diana Rigg as Tracy is definitely the ultimate Bond girl.
Correction: Diana Rigg was a Bond WOMAN.
Lazenby was the only James Bond I would believe would get married. Turns out the casting worked.
@@howie9751 The casting worked as a love story, not a Bond film.
This is my favorite still after all these years. Thanks for a great review. I had a chance to see this in the theater in Glendale,CA a few years ago and the event was hosted by George Lazenby himself. Wow! Seeing and hearing it on the big screen was mind blowing. I wish he had done more.
I was always clueless over George Lazanby but I was unaware he turned down doing another James Bond film & it is tragic because I think this particuler James Bond film is in my top 3 of all time
If I remember correctly, lazenby was a decent fighter bc he was always into martial arts. He trained under Bruce lee, who was huge during the early 70’s.
YES he was excellent in that picture, also the true biopic of Ian Fleming entitled SPYMAKER made in 1990 and stars sandy haired Jason Connery. Finally found it to see it again on YOU TUBE! The real story but beautiful camera work and soundtrack as if it was a BOND picture. 1940 details all perfection.
I was 8. I was in the movie theater (cinema). It was before multiplexes and the massive auditorium was only one screen, not chopped up into half a dozen.
Outside, the world went by, all beige and brown with some white and maybe a splash of green or red here and there.
Skiing! In the Alps! And a chase! And a big red American car! And... And...
This video took me back there.
From an old man, thank you.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is my favorite Bond film. For me - it is the best story, checking all the boxes of a great movie, and not relying on just action scenes and special effects. My second favorite is Doctor No.
Linda Thorson was Diana Rigg's replacement on The Avengers. Joanna Lumley appeared in the followup series, The New Avengers (1976-1977), which Rigg had no participation in.
This
Yes you are right. Linda Thorson took over when Diana Riggs left. A tough role to follow.
you beat me to it.
I learned as an adult that Ring left to do Shakespeare and all were fine with it and happy. The teen fan magazines often lied to use so there are many Linda Thorson Avengers I can enjoy that I have not seen. Also the Ian Fleming biopic SPYMAKER 1990 is on YOU TUBE and true and excellent with camera work and soundtrack as if it was a BOND picture. Every 1940's detail is perfection.
Finally some love for this movie! This is a great Bond entry. Diana Rigg was awesome, pushing the boundaries of what movies “allowed” women to do, and pulling off a fully realized human being we actually, truly care about. And Lazenby effectively foreshadows Daniel Craig’s highly successful turn at the role, especially in my personal favorite Bond film, Skyfall.
Best Bond for me ever. John Barrys best score next to Moonraker. Wish Hunt and Lazenby would have made another one or 2 or 3. Very atmospheric late 60's.
Truly a vastly underrated Bond film. From Russia With Love is still my favorite but this is definitely 2nd. Such a shame Lazenby didn’t continue for a few more films he was a natural in the role.
What were the odds that Richard Donner would revisit the basic idea of Salt and Pepper twenty years later?
And how legendary it would become.
Thank goodness he didn’t think he was too old for that shit
It´s definately my favourite movie. In fact it´s so good that it inspired me to go live in the Alps for the rest of my life as soon as I left school, with my first five years in the very place that this movie was made.
My favorite Bond film.
Terrific review!
The Hulu film/docudrama “Becoming Bond” is actually a great backstory to this and the circumstances of Lazenby tricking the Producers into hiring him by completely making up films he starred in is just the stuff of legends.
This is simply as good as James Bond gets - the story, the action - everything - is just perfect.
There is no question that if it was Connery playing James Bond here it would be considered the best of the series by everybody- no questions asked.
As it stands though, Lazenby is actually very good considering it is his first film.
He has a great cool presence, is great in the action and even handles the humor beautifully- it is just in the emotional beats where his inexperience shows.
But overall, this film is absolutely a James Bond masterpiece on every way.
I was always a bit peeved that Sean Connery didn't play James Bond in this movie, had he than this would be considered the best Bond movie made.
Yeah On her majesty's secret service is a masterpiece but holy hell the ending was dark
I love the way he quips, "this didn't happen to 'the other guy'" referring to Connery indirectly. And then in the opening credits they have background scenes from the previous movies, tying Connery in indirectly. Again, Lazenby has fun with James Bond in the Return of the Man from UNCLE, and his stint on OHMSS. Nobody gives credit to this man as much as he deserves.
I had never even heard of this Bond film til I was a teen. I remember my mom rented it for me. I was completely blown away. They never showed this one on TV or anything. Out of all the old ones this one holds up the best. And that ending. What a tragedy. This is in my top 5 Bond films.
This is one of my favorites. I thought Lazenby was flat as Bond, but it allowed for other outstanding parts of the movie to stand out. The overall movie, action, Diana Rigg, the music, and especially Telly Savalas. Seeing Blofeld as more involved in the action, rather than sitting behind a desk stroking his cat, added a lot to the movie.
Lazenby's physicality and doing some of his own stunts made his turn as Bond believable. David Picker wanted Sean Connery back on a permanent basis. He only came back for Diamonds are Forever which was a disaster of a movie.
We'll be talking about that in the next episode! ;)
Connery is Bond for everyone until the early 70s. If ''Diamonds Are Forever'' was a revenge film - and not a follow-up of ''You Only Live Twice''- his aging, his overweight and his acting are perfect, as Bond after Tracy's death.
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Best Bond movie, best Bond, best supporting actress, and best soundtrack. As for your comment about Connery in the role, I respectfully disagree, it would not have worked with him at all. Lazenby was perfect, and as for the fight scenes, easily the best since Daniel Craig became 007. RIP Dianna Rigg. Easily my number 1.
I wouldn't have believed any of the other Bonds getting married.
@@howie9751 Dalton wasn't much of a womanizer, so I can see him getting married too. Same with Craig
That was also Louis Armstrong's last hit record before passing away in 1971.
What a catchy song. Absolutely love it
I remember as a kid playing the latest Bond LP with all the songs on my record player, and when that song came on my granda perked right up, calling Armstrong an "old crooner" (a jazz term), as he remembered him from a much earlier time. I still cherish those memories.
OHMSS completely makes Bond relatable, which is a huge plus for me and a huge strike for others. The scene at the ice rink where Bond realizes he's trapped and sits down to think/wait for the end is a moment I don't think we've had before or since (at least until Craig's Bond). It isn't until Diana Rigg arrives that Bond finds hope again and, this is key, immediately accepts her help in escaping, which she does splendidly. Some might see this as some sort of weakness on Bond's part or some kind of progressive slant at the franchise but it is done so naturally and without comment it truly makes one wonder why they ever went back to making most Bond Girls someone Bond either manipulates, rescues or often both. It is much more fun and engaging for Bond to have a love interest/partner who is as capable as he (see the excellent Moore film For Your Eyes Only for another example of this).
Similar scene like in the ice rink 4 years earlier.
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Girls save Bond before O.H.M.S.S.
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Amen! Perhaps aside from 'From Russia With Love', we just never got that sense that "Bond is in deep shit" until this movie. Lazenby made Bond believable
This is my favorite Bond movie of them all. I think George Lazenby did a great job and he deserves more credit.
Before watching this film about fifteen years ago, all I heard were the negatives from people who didn’t really understand film or Bond. It was also weird then knowing there was a non-Connery Bond film from the 60s.
I fell in love with OHMSS the first time I saw it.
Due a rewatch.
OHMS is my favorite Bond movie.
Thank you the video. Have a nice day.
This is my favorite Bond film. As good as Connery was, he could never have got some of the subtilties Lazenby did. You have to wonder what Diamonds Are Forever would have been like had he returned as the plan was to start that movie with Tracy's death. Yes, there are the flaws, like you pointed out. But still it deserves better than it often gets.
Bond here is not relatively young, vulnerable and infinite, but a mature man with experience, like the actors in the other roles.
A missed opportunity. Lazenby would have grown in the role if he continued.
especially if he continued but whoever did his wardrobe for the movie didn't
@Le Zouzou I'm fine with the kilt, it's the ruffled shirts and such I didn't care for
@@perfumistaperfumista943 just a part of the times. Clothing sometimes doesn't age well, I don't think it takes away from the movie whatsoever
@@perfumistaperfumista943 they dubbed his voice by the real guy while he was in disguise. If he didn't get the " Connery haircut and have him act like himself than Connery people may had accepted him right away than decades . It was the producers wanting to play it safe . Lazenby had a bad mgr and fed him Bond was corny and out of touch with the times. Boy was he wrong and Lazenby regrets his decision .
I’ve always seen “ On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” in 1969 as the last of the great, classic Bond movies. The seriousness, cinematography, pacing, color palette, and musical score! Last of the great Bonds.
I love that this Bond and his super-villian had a real-life high-stakes card game, and Bond lost only to come back later with help. Memories of Montenegro!
Connery was already showing his age in Thunderball and looked even older in YOLT. He would not have fit OHMSS. OHMSS is my favorite Bond film to date and I wish Lazenby had done more; I immediately liked him.
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Its one of the best bond movies
Dunno Connery still acted like he enjoyed himself in Thunderball but hated the gadgets. He was fed up before filming YOLT since he felt like he was being underpaid and wanted a raise and back end of the profits . Producers think actors as nothing and can be replaced more now than then but Connery deserved more since he made Bond and poor Lazenby had big shoes to fill and critics ate him alive but I enjoyed the film its the last of that era since DRF was getting designed for the Moore films .
RIP, Diana Rigg the most beautyful Bond Girl ever ❤️🥰😍
It's kind of weird almost no one mentions that Lazenby served in the Australian army. That, at the very least, actually helps explain why he can do some of the things he does.
I just watched today this for the first time since I was a kid in the 70s/80s. In those days, Roger Moore was my favorite Bond. I always hated this movie, especially the tragic ending. No cool gadgets!?! I only watched it once before today. I was skeptical going in. When Bond looked at the camera and said, “this never happens to the other fellow,” I was about to turn it off. And then I took note of how frequently people got the best of him: Tracy overtakes him on the road to the beach, he gets taken by surprise by two villains (and more than once in the same fight), Tracy steals his ride (if only to drive up to her own car), he gets ambushed in her hotel room, she pulls his own gun on him, she bails on him in his sleep, she swipes his gun, he gets ambushed again... all this in the first 20 minutes. I’m thinking, this Bond was written to be a buffoon. And then I resented how he courted this suicidally depressed daughter of a monster; is this what James Bond would do? And then, after all that courting, he goes off on sexcapades with Blofeld’s patients, and was about to go for another round before he was caught. But I thought he was falling in love with Tracy? Bond is a cad!
As the story developed I started to appreciate the lack of cool gadgets, forcing Bond to rely more on his wits and cool demeanor. I immediately (from the start) recognized that Lazenby was a good fight actor; his fighting scenes were impressive. Lazenby’s acting wasn’t as bad as I remembered, it just wasn’t that cheeky Roger Moore interpretation of Bond. But his wasn’t that humorless Bond (like Timothy Dalton’s Bond) I remembered, either. I found that whole story element of Heraldry to be unique and fascinating; I paused the movie to research about Heraldry. Then, Telly Savalas was an excellent Blofeld and that drew me closer to appreciation. The skiing action was the best and most realistic skiing action in any Bond film; far better than what I’ve seen in The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, and The World is Not Enough. When Bond reconnects with Tracy as he is making his getaway from Blofeld, I was fully drawn into their romance and believed they were a perfect match. I had to reconcile Bond’s sexcapades as intentional in the film in order to add weight to Bond’s proposal of marriage; now it made sense. He was a real playboy in this film and that was highlighted when he read the Playboy and kept the centerfold. So he was dead serious about his feelings for Tracy.
I used to rank this as my least favorite Bond film. 25 of 25. But now I have to rank it as my second favorite, right behind Casino Royale. I think now that I’m in my late 40’s, the gadgets mean less to me than the character and the drama. That’s what these two movies excel in.
Same here. I've heard from many die-hard Bond-fans (including my own family) that this one is their favorite. Until Daniel Craige, this one, I think, was the one that really took chances and tried to stand out from the others. Let's just hope the next guy lives up to this standard.
I saw this on the screen (35mm) in Seattle back in 2008. Awesome!
A severely underrated Bond movie.
This is easily my favourite series on CZcams right now. Very well done, thoughtful retrospective looks at some classic films. I'm going to have to give OHMSS another watch based on this retrospective....
This is, without exception, my VERY favorite Bond film. Simply the best one they made in every way. And what an amazing score.
If Lazenby had stuck around for 2 or 3 more movies, I have absolutely no doubt that he'd be universally regarded as the best, most quintessential, Bond rather than just a very good Bond (although he is my personal favourite) - that said, OHMSS is still the best Bond movie in terms of cinematography (by a mile), and ranks in the top 3 in terms of story, characters, stunt work, and overall Bond tone.
Put that all together and you have a serious contender for best bond movie of all time.
This is my favorite Bond movie.
This James Bond series finally earned you my sub. 👍
Bond played by a young Lazenby was superb :-) I hope they release this movie on Imax, it's a MASTERPIECE...
George Lazenby's fight scenes were superb.
A small correction: Joanna Lumley was not Diana Rigg's replacement on The Avengers. When Rigg retired from the role of Emma Peel in The Avengers to do OHMSS in 1968, Linda Thorson took over as Patrick Macnee's new sidekick, Tara King, for what would become the show's final season, ending in 1969.
In 1976 and 1977, Macnee reprised his role as John Steed in The New Avengers, in which he had two costars, Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit, and Joanna Lumley as Purdey. So, Lumley does have an Avengers connection, just not through the original TV show.
However, there are many, many other actors who appeared in both a Bond film and The Avengers. Just a few of the more prominent examples:
- Julian Glover (Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only) appeared in four episodes of The Avengers.
- Steven Berkoff (Orlov in Octopussy) appeared in one episode of The Avengers with Diana Rigg.
- Robert Brown (M from Octopussy thru License to Kill) was in an early Rigg episode.
- John Cleese (R/Q in the later Brosnan Bonds) appeared in one episode of The Avengers with Thorson.
And while it is a fairly small part, there is one other direct connection between OHMSS and The Avengers: James Bree was in two episodes of The Avengers and also played Blofeld's Swiss lawyer in OHMSS.
Also Rigg went on to do Shakespeare and she and others were happy. The teen gossip magazines at that time did not report accurately on that. Also the biopic of Ian Fleming SPYMAKER in 1990 for TV is on YOU TUBE it is fabulous. Soundtrack and camera work and true with the author played by sandy haired Jason Connery.
I can confirm as a retired un armed combat instructor that the opening fight scene was well put together and put across in a very intense way. no silly jokes or props but using what is in your environment at hand.
That is how it happens in real life, serious no comedy, its either them or you who survives.
I also agree with many good comments about this movie yet never understood how press turned on George as James Bond because if anything it was taking James Bond back into the style of serious agent.
From there it became more about how many silly one liner jokes to get in with false fake looking backgrounds.
Just saying, does not mean I am right .
Agreed: "Lazenby is bloody good in it."
great flick, perhaps the most underrated in history.
I love this film. It's among my top favorite Bond movies. Excellent video, too. Please, keep them coming. Greetings from Brazil!
Lazenby was fun in The Man From Hong Kong.
Saw that and it was funny that they introduction him as James Bond.
I never watched this movie.... but I will now
I really enjoyed OHMSS, i always hated how they got Sean Connery back for Diamonds Are Forever instead of continuing the Lazenby's story where he would chase Blofeld down because he killed his one and only wife. Also I almost forgot to mention Diana Rigg as maybe the best Bond girl we have seen so far.
This never happened to the “other fella”!
Classic line!
This shows that Connery is still Bond for everyone. Lazenby didn't say ''This never happened to the other movies''. Until today none of the new Bond say something for his predecessor.
I really enjoy this series. I always learn something even when I know the film well. OHMSS is my favourite Bond film and it brightened my day that you reflected it’s excellence. Thank you.
My favourite 007 film, not only a brilliant Bond but a brilliant film in general, with an emotional core that wasn't really matched until Skyfall was released.
I'm also a huge Lazenby fan! I found his childhood house in Qeanbeyan in 2018, and I own 2 other films of his, "the Man from Hong Kong", and "Kentucky Fried Movie". I also adored the doco-movie "Becoming Bond".
At last! A review that pays due credit to this movie! It is one of the best in the series no doubt! I got the chance to watch this on the big screen last year and seeing it at the cinema for the first time made it even more special!
Paused... You said "bloody Good" nice one. This Englishman appreciated that.
My favorite as well. I think Lazenby made a fantastic Bond. Given a sequel he would have taken over completely. Diana Rigg was my dream girl, and the best Bond girl. When he looked into the screen at the beginning and remarks "This never happened to the other fellow" you know its about to be on.
I was a freshman in high school when this came out and had been a huge Bond fan ever since I had seen Goldfinger at age 10 and at the time I just could not imagine anyone replacing Sean Connery. As a result, I saw it but decided to “hate” it. It seems at the time, I wasn’t alone. Now that we’ve been treated to six different Bonds, I think this film now gets its due as, without a doubt, one of the best, and certainly one of three that was most loyal to Fleming’s novels, the others being Casino Royale (Craig version) and From Russia With Love.
This was a really good Bond film. Perhaps one of the best, indeed. A shame about all the tension stuff, though.
Totally agree. It's far and away the best Bond film. So nice to hear a reviewer acknowledge it and also give Lazenby the credit he deserves for a great performance.
Still my favourite Bond movie, definitely one of the strongest stories and love the way the action slowly builds. Lazenby done a great job, if only he had have been given better advice and not let his ego take over, too much too soon I guess?
Excellent review!!!!! I consider OHMSS in the top 3 of Bond films as well as Bond novels. Lazenby gave a very sincere performance and, of course, the incomparable Diana Rigg and Gabriele Ferzetti were perfectly cast as daugher and father. Highly underrated film that has stood the test of time and gains more momentum every year.
Rewatched all the Bond films recently and no Bond film dropped from my top ten... except this one. At two and half hours long, the last hour of the film is Bond at his best. The ski chase is nerve wracking, the rally is fantastic, Diana Rigg’s Tracy may well be the best leading lady so far, the score by John Barry is one of the best of the series, Louis Armstrong’s song still brings me to tears, the action finale is sensational and the very ending is heartbreaking. After everything Bond and Tracy have gone through, it ends with the way it does... sad, very sad.
However the first 90 or so minutes of this film is IMO very slow, and the films plot really doesn’t kick in till 40 or so minutes in and that is what hinders the film for me. Sure its good for characterisation, Moneypenny has her finest hour here acting as peacemaker between Bond and M, but its too much.
Sadly this is exactly why they try to not stick so hard to the book. They are usually very slow until it’s finally time to get the big bad
Yeah, everyone seems to remember the ending, and forgets the dull beginning and middle
@@BlueSunShineDM I love most of the novels. In fact Skyfall is the one IMO that almost has the pacing of one of the Fleming novels, but at least Skyfall is all plot related.
@@spaceodds1985 sky fall and Casino Royale are strong entries in the franchise. Great characters, plot devices, moves at a good pace. Love those two
I love the delay of the plot kicking in because the film focused on characters. Bond stumbling upon this troubled girl and trying to rescue her and Moneypenny's brief episode with Bond was stimulating to watch. For the first time, I was watching a Bond film that featured flesh and blood human beings with frailties. However, I will agree that the film spends too much time at the faux clinic and what also didn't help was Telly Savalas as Blofeld was merely a competent antagonist instead of being darkly perverse like Goldfinger.
My favorite one liner happens in the beginning of the film. Diana rigg gets away and James bond says "this never happened to the other fellow "
That would've been a great final line to the camera for Craig's Bond!
If I was playing opposite Diana Rigg I would have fallen head over heels in love with her. HER MAJESTY SECRET SERVICE is my favorite James Bond 007
After Connery, Lazenby fitted the part better than any other, and this is my all-time favourite Bond film, period. It is sad this film did not fair better...and that Lazenby did not return as Bond. In the beach fight scene his dress looks fantastic and I feel his costumes including the Scotsman' dress were well acted by him. Also the best title track of all...
I liked this one better than the Connery ones as well. I appreciated the more grounded approach. I thought Tracey's character was really well handled and her romance with Bond felt believable.