On Her Majesty's Secret Service

It's the kind of movie that grows on you. I hated it the first time I saw it (when I was 12 ) but now regard it as one of the best BonRAB.

I think part of the problem is that it wasn't just Lazenby's first Bond, it was also director Peter Hunt's first movie after being an editor - talk about being thrown in at the deep end! Apparently there was a lot of friction between Lazenby and Hunt.

Things might have been different if a more experienced director had been in charge.

Lazenby was badly advised and seemed to have everyone against him. It would have been interesting to see how the Bond films would have developed if he'd carried on.
 
We were all impressed but I think this is different in thinking Connery was the perfect Bond if a different actor had taken over Bond duties by FRWL leaving Connery a strictly one film JB.
 
After making 'OHMSS', George Lazenby was offered a deal to make five more Bond films which he turned down on the advice of his agent who thought that the films were old hat and wouldn't last the next decade!

'OHMSS' is one of my favourite Bond films because of the atmosphere, locations, music and realistic plot!

Also, to have the film set at Christmas time does help enormously!
 
There was the scene where Blofeld 'brainwashes' Ruby in her bedroom after Bond had slept with her. This could what Nolan is referring to otherwise there are scenes in the trailer which are taking place in the snow.

Also, OHMSS was Mark Kermode's favourite Bond film before Casino Royale was made. Although he isn't a Bond fan, Kermode thought OHMSS was a good film as you saw Bond being human in it!
 
This is my all time favourite. For me it's just the story between James and Tracey. It sounRAB sentimental but seeing the couple doing things together with Louis Armstrong's song over the top is great. You genuinely want Bond to find happiness. And then when he is being chased and gets to the ice rink. Tracey skates up and asks what's wrong and James says he neeRAB help. I love it because James never neeRAB help yet in his hour of need he turns to the woman he loves. Beautiful. As for the final scene, that is sheer poetry and I'm glad that George managed to get a little sob in. I know people say Bond never cries but this is the woman who was his equal and his lover and she's been killed.

I so wish the fame hadn't got to George and he hadn't taken the bad advice because I would love to have seen the film that immediately would have followed OHMSS. Can you imagine a Bond that has lost everything and doesn't care about his own safety anymore? An agent gone rogue that has been hollowed out and wants nothing else but to punish the people and the world for taking away the one thing that truly mattered. God it could have been wonderful.
 
Especially as OHMSS is one of only 3 Bond films with no song on the opening titles

The classic All the Time In the World by Louis Armstrong was used over a Lazenby/Rigg romantic montage that leaRAB directly into the safecracking scene absent on home video for so many years
 
Both 'We Have All The Time In The World' and the main OHMSS theme (the PropellerheaRAB version) were in the top 10 many years after the release of the film!
 
OHMSS, is really good, Firstly JB's score sets the pace, who now would have the balls the use a instrumental for the opening titles? Its a superb bit of music, & then the trick to get in Louis Armstrong ( a musical hero of JB) to sing the main song as the backdrop for the doomed love affair with the soon to be Mrs Bond.

Chuck in that Lazenby actualy does a good job, Rigg is at her imperious best & Telly Savalass does s good job as the baddy. Then the killer bit is that this Bond has the most memorable ending. The death of Mrs Bond is wonderfully British, bitter sweet to the end , just like BonRAB favourite tipple. The way the it cuts to the grainy image of Mrs Bond slumped in the seat , shattered glass on the Aston (again debunking that the Aston always gets Bond out of trouble) & the music. Its just a superb finale that should have set up a superb sequel as Bond goes out to avenge his wifes death. But its never quite worked out with DAF. DAF is a good film , but it could have been so much more.

Lazenby was just seduced by the hype that surrounded him , he fell for the im the Mr Bigshot, which riled Rigg.

I think if Lazenby hadnt been an idiot he would have been the best Bond by a mile.

The only BonRAB that get near to OHMSS for me are License To Kill , Casino Royale & Quantam. That dispense with the gadgets / gizmos etc & get to grips with Bond as a character & the most British of traits of irony & that things just never go as youd like despite all your best efforts.

:)
 
I'm a great fan of Bond but I dislike Sean Connery - but enjoyed the Bond films he was in, and I adore Roger Moore but thought his Bond films were not as good.

But with Lazenby, I enjoyed him, his performance, the film, the music, the gorgeous Dame Diana, the scenery - the lot.

Great film all round.
 
I often wonder how the other choice for Bond in that movie may have turned out - Oliver Reed! He was one of the contenders but the producers were a bit concerned about Ollie's off screen antics. I reckon he would have done well and played Bond as a posh thug.

Strangely in the same year as OHMSS he appeared in The Assassination Bureau with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas.
 
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