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1969 James Bail film past Peter R. Hunt

On Her Majesty'southward Hugger-mugger Service
A man in a dinner jacket on skis, holding a gun. Next to him is a red-headed woman, also on skis and with a gun. They are being pursued by men on skis and a bobsleigh, all with guns. In the top left of the picture are the words FAR UP! FAR OUT! FAR MORE! James Bond 007 is back!

Theatrical release poster past Robert McGinnis and Frank McCarthy
Directed past Peter R. Hunt
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum
Additional dialogue past
  • Simon Raven
Based on On Her Majesty'southward Secret Service
by Ian Fleming
Produced past Harry Saltzman
Albert R. Broccoli
Starring George Lazenby
Diana Rigg
Telly Savalas
Bernard Lee
Gabriele Ferzetti
Ilse Steppat
Cinematography Michael Reed
Edited by John Glen
Music by John Barry

Production
company

Eon Productions
Distributed by United Artists

Release dates
  • 18 December 1969 (1969-12-xviii) (London, premiere)
  • nineteen December 1969 (1969-12-19) (United States)

Running time

 142 minutes[one]
Countries United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland[ii]
Usa[3]
Language English
Budget $7 one thousand thousand
Box office $82 million

On Her Majesty'south Secret Service is a 1969 spy picture and the 6th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is based on the 1963 novel by Ian Fleming. Following Sean Connery's determination to retire from the function later You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected George Lazenby, a model with no prior acting credits, to play the part of James Bond. During the making of the moving picture, Lazenby announced that he would play the part of Bail merely once.

In the moving-picture show, Bond faces Blofeld (Telly Savalas), who is planning to hold the globe to ransom by a threat to render all nutrient plants and livestock infertile through the actions of a group of brainwashed "angels of death". Along the fashion Bond meets, falls in dear with, and eventually marries Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg).

It is the only Bond film to have been directed by Peter R. Hunt (with this serving equally his directorial debut), who had served as a film editor and second unit of measurement manager on previous films in the series. Hunt, along with producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, decided to produce a more realistic film that would follow the novel closely. It was shot in Switzerland, England, and Portugal from October 1968 to May 1969. Although its movie theatre release was non equally lucrative equally its predecessor Y'all Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty'southward Hugger-mugger Service was nevertheless one of the top performing films of the year.[four] Critical reviews upon release were mixed, but the film's reputation has improved greatly over time and information technology is now regarded as one of the strongest entries in the series, besides as ane of the most true-blue adaptations of a Fleming novel.[five]

Plot [edit]

James Bail saves a woman on the beach from committing suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. The woman, Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo, invites Bond to her hotel room to thank him, but when Bond arrives he is attacked by an unidentified human being. Later subduing the homo, Bond returns to his ain room and finds Tracy there, who claims she did not know the assailant was at that place. The next forenoon, Bond is kidnapped by several men, including the one he fought, who have him to meet Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the European crime syndicate Unione Corse. Draco reveals that Tracy is his simply girl and tells Bail of her troubled past, offering Bail one meg pounds if he volition marry her. Bond refuses, only agrees to go on romancing Tracy if Draco helps him runway downwards Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.

Upon returning to London, G relieves Bond of his mission to electrocute Blofeld. Furious, Bond dictates a letter of resignation to Moneypenny, which she alters into a asking for go out. Bond heads for Draco'south birthday party in Portugal. There, Bail and Tracy brainstorm a cyclone romance, and Draco directs the agent to a police firm in Bern, Switzerland. Bond breaks into the office of Swiss lawyer Gumbold and learns that Blofeld is corresponding with London College of Artillery genealogist Sir Hilary Bray, attempting to claim the title 'Count Balthazar de Bleuchamp'.

Posing every bit Bray, Bail goes to run into Blofeld, who has established a clinical allergy-research institute atop Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps. Bond meets 12 young women (subsequently titled by Blofeld as his "Angels of Death"), who are patients at the plant'south dispensary, apparently cured of diverse allergies. After dinner, Bail goes to the room of one patient, Ruby, to seduce her. At midnight, while still with Blood-red, Bond discovers the ladies go into a sleep-induced hypnotic state while Blofeld implants subliminal audio instructions. In fact, the women are beingness brainwashed to distribute bacteriological warfare agents throughout the globe.

Bail tries to fox Blofeld into leaving Switzerland so that MI6 tin arrest him without violating Swiss sovereignty. Blofeld refuses and Bond is eventually caught by henchwoman Irma Bunt. Blofeld reveals that he identified Bond subsequently his try to lure him out of Switzerland, and tells his henchmen to have the agent away. Bond eventually makes his escape by skiing downwards from Piz Gloria while Blofeld and his men give chase. Tracy finds Bond in the village of Lauterbrunnen, and they escape Bunt and her men after a automobile chase. A blizzard forces them to a remote barn, where Bond professes his love to Tracy and proposes marriage to her, which she happily accepts. The next morning, as the hunt continues on skis, Blofeld sets off an avalanche. Tracy is captured, while Bond is cached simply manages to escape.

Dorsum in London at M's part, Bail is informed that Blofeld intends to agree the world at ransom by threatening to destroy its agriculture using his brainwashed women, demanding immunity for all past crimes, and that he exist recognised as the current Count de Bleuchamp. M tells 007 that the ransom will be paid and forbids him to mountain a rescue mission. Bond instead enlists Draco and his forces to attack Blofeld'southward headquarters, while also rescuing Tracy from Blofeld'southward captivity. The facility is destroyed, and Blofeld escapes the destruction alone in a bobsleigh, with Bond pursuing him. The chase ends when Blofeld is ensnared by tree branches.

Bond and Tracy marry in Portugal, then bulldoze abroad in Bond'south Aston Martin DBS. When Bond pulls over to the roadside to remove flowers from the car, Blofeld and Bunt commit a drive-by shooting of the couple's automobile. Bond survives, only Tracy is killed in the attack.

Cast [edit]

  • George Lazenby as James Bail, MI6 agent, code number 007 — with the double zero denoting that an amanuensis was "licensed to impale" on behalf of the regime.
  • Diana Rigg as Countess Tracy di Vicenzo, a vulnerable countess and Marc-Ange Draco's girl, who captures Bail's heart.
  • Telly Savalas equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld (also known as Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp), Bond's nemesis, leader of SPECTRE and in hiding.

    Idiot box Savalas on location

  • Gabriele Ferzetti every bit Marc-Ange Draco, Caput of the Unione Corse, a major offense syndicate and Tracy'south father.
  • Ilse Steppat as Irma Bunt, Blofeld's henchwoman who assists in the attempts to eliminate Bond.
  • Lois Maxwell every bit Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
  • George Baker every bit Sir Hilary Bray, Herald in the London College of Arms, whom Bond impersonates in Piz Gloria. Baker as well provided the vocalism of Bond while he was imitating Bray.
  • Bernard Lee as Grand, Caput of the British Surreptitious Service.
  • Bernard Horsfall every bit Shaun Campbell, 007's colleague who tries to assistance Bond in Switzerland as part of Performance Clamor, before being killed past Blofeld or his henchmen when Bond is unmasked as an amanuensis.
  • Desmond Llewelyn as Q, Head of MI6'due south technical section.
  • Yuri Borienko as Grunther, Blofeld's brutish main of security at Piz Gloria.
  • Virginia North as Olympe, Draco's lover. Nikki van der Zyl provided the uncredited vocalisation for Olympe.
  • Geoffrey Cheshire as Toussaint, i of Draco's thugs who joins in the assail of Piz Gloria.
  • Irvin Allen every bit Che Che, Tracy'due south bodyguard who fights James Bond, only later serves as an marry.

    Irvin Allen and George Lazenby

  • Terry Mountain equally Raphael
  • James Bree as Gumbold
  • John Gay as Hammond
  • Brian Worth as Manuel (uncredited)
  • Bessie Love equally Baccarat Player (uncredited)

Blofeld's Angels of Decease [edit]

Some of the "Angels of Death" at Piz Gloria during master photography. From left to correct: Mona Chong, Zaheera, Julie Ege, Jenny Hanley, Anouska Hempel, Joanna Lumley.

The Angels of Death are twelve cute women from all over the world being brainwashed by Blofeld under the guise of allergy or phobia handling to spread the Virus Omega.[6] In that location is at least i blonde, brunette, and redhead too as an Asian and black girl. A number appeared in the representative styles of wearing apparel of their item nation. Their unwitting mission is to aid Blofeld contaminate and ultimately sterilise the world's food supply.

  • Angela Scoular equally Ruby Bartlett, an English language girl at the clinic suffering from an allergy to chickens,[7] whom Bond seduces. Scoular also played Buttercup in the 1967 one-act Casino Royale.
  • Anouska Hempel as an Australian girl.
  • Catherina von Schell equally Nancy, a Hungarian daughter at the clinic whom Bond also beds.
  • Dani Sheridan every bit an American daughter.
  • Helena Ronee as an Israeli girl.
  • Ingrid Back as a German language girl.
  • Jenny Hanley as an Irish gaelic girl.
  • Joanna Lumley as an English girl.[eight]
  • Julie Ege equally Helen, a Scandinavian girl.[9]
  • Mona Chong as a Chinese girl.
  • Sylvana Henriques as a Jamaican girl.
  • Zara as an Indian girl.[ten] [11]

Production [edit]

The novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service was first published after the film series started and contains "a gentle dig at the cinematic Bond's gadgets"; Broccoli and Saltzman had originally intended to brand On Her Majesty's Secret Service afterward Goldfinger and Richard Maibaum worked on a script at that fourth dimension.[12] All the same, Thunderball was filmed instead after the ongoing rights dispute over the novel was settled between Fleming and Kevin McClory.[xiii] On Her Majesty's Hugger-mugger Service was due to follow that,[12] merely problems with a warm Swiss wintertime and inadequate snowfall cover led to Saltzman and Broccoli postponing the picture again, favouring product of Yous Only Live Twice.[xiv]

Between the resignation of Sean Connery at the offset of filming Y'all Simply Live Twice and its release, Saltzman had planned to adapt The Man with the Golden Gun in Cambodia and apply Roger Moore as the next Bond, merely political instability meant the location was ruled out and Moore signed upwards for another series of The Saint.[15] Subsequently Y'all Only Live Twice was released in 1967, the producers once again picked upward with On Her Majesty'southward Hole-and-corner Service.[12]

Peter Chase, who had worked on the 5 preceding films, had impressed Broccoli and Saltzman plenty to earn his directorial debut equally they believed his quick cut had set the style for the serial.[xvi] It was also the result of a long-continuing promise from Broccoli and Saltzman for a directorial position, which they honored after Lewis Gilbert declined to direct.[17] [18] Hunt also asked for the position during the production of Chitty Chitty Blindside Bang, and he brought along with him many coiffure members, including cinematographer Michael Reed.[19] Chase was focused on making his mark – "I wanted it to be different than any other Bond film would be. It was my film, not anyone else's."[xx] On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the last pic that Hunt worked on in the serial.[21]

Writing [edit]

Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who had worked on all the previous Bond films except for You Only Live Twice, was responsible for On Her Majesty's Hugger-mugger Service 's script.[22] Saltzman and Broccoli decided to drop the science fiction gadgets from the before films and focus more than on plot as in From Russia With Love.[23] Peter Chase asked Simon Raven to write some of the dialogue betwixt Tracy and Blofeld in Piz Gloria, which was to be "sharper, amend and more intellectual";[24] one of Raven's additions was having Tracy quoting James Elroy Flecker.[19] When writing the script, the producers decided to brand the closest adaptation of the volume possible: most everything in the novel occurs in the film[xix] and Hunt was reported to always enter the set carrying an annotated re-create of the novel.[twenty]

With the script post-obit the novel more closely than the other film adaptations of the eponymous source novels, there are several continuity errors due to the films taking place in a unlike sequence, such equally Blofeld not recognising Bond, despite having met him face-to-face in the previous film You Only Live Twice.[25] In the original script, Bail undergoes plastic surgery to disguise him from his enemies; the intention was to allow an unrecognisable Bail to infiltrate Blofeld's hideout and help the audience have the new histrion in the part. However, this was dropped in favour of ignoring the change in role player.[17] [26]

To make audiences not forget it was the same James Bond, merely played by some other role player, the producers inserted many references to the previous films, some as in-jokes. These include Bail breaking the fourth wall by stating "This never happened to the other fellow"; the credits sequence with images from the previous instalments; Bond visiting his office and finding objects from Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Thunderball; and a flagman whistling the theme from Goldfinger.[27] Maibaum afterward said he thought "Lazenby was not ideal for the role" simply "it was a marvelous script."[26]

Casting [edit]

Diana Rigg and George Lazenby on ready

In 1967, after five films, Sean Connery resigned from the office of James Bond and was non on speaking terms with Albert Broccoli during the filming of You lot Simply Live Twice.[28] Over 400 actors, including many of the most famous actors in the Commonwealth, were considered for the role of James Bond.[18] The confirmed front runners were Englishman John Richardson, Dutchman Hans De Vries, Australian Robert Campbell, Englishman Anthony Rogers and Australian George Lazenby.[xv] Broccoli as well met with Terence Postage stamp most playing the function.[29] Broccoli was interested in rising star Oliver Reed but decided he already had too distinct of a public epitome. Future Bond star Timothy Dalton was asked to audition later his appearance in The King of beasts in Winter but decided that he was also young and did not want to succeed Connery equally Bond.[18]

Broccoli and Hunt eventually chose Lazenby subsequently seeing him in a Fry's Chocolate Cream advertisement.[19] Lazenby dressed the part by sporting several sartorial Bond elements such every bit a Rolex Submariner wristwatch and a Savile Row suit (ordered for, but uncollected past, Connery), and going to Connery'south barber at the Dorchester Hotel.[xx] Broccoli noticed Lazenby as a Bond-type man based on his physique and character elements, and offered him an audience. The position was consolidated when Lazenby accidentally punched a professional wrestler, who was interim as stunt coordinator, in the face up, impressing Broccoli with his ability to display aggression.[15] Lazenby was offered a contract for seven films; nonetheless, he was convinced by his agent Ronan O'Rahilly that the underground agent would exist archaic in the liberated 1970s, and as a result he left the series afterwards the release of On Her Majesty's Hush-hush Service in 1969.[19]

For Tracy Draco, the producers wanted an established extra opposite neophyte Lazenby.[thirty] Brigitte Bardot was invited, only later she signed to announced in Shalako opposite Sean Connery, the deal fell through,[17] and Diana Rigg—who had already been the pop heroine Emma Peel in The Avengers—was bandage instead.[9] Rigg said one of the reasons for accepting the role was that she always wanted to be in an ballsy film.[19] Hunt and Maibaum admired Donald Pleasence's operation as Blofeld in Y'all Only Live Twice only wanted to recast the character. Maibaum originally wrote the part of Blofeld with Max von Sydow in mind;[eighteen] coincidentally, von Sydow would later play Blofeld in the non-Eon Bail film Never Say Never Again. Telly Savalas was ultimately cast following a suggestion from Broccoli. Chase'south neighbor George Bakery was offered the part of Sir Hilary Bray. Baker's vox was also used when Lazenby was impersonating Bray,[19] every bit Chase considered Lazenby's false not convincing enough.[31] Gabriele Ferzetti was cast as Draco after the producers saw him in We Still Kill the One-time Style, but Ferzetti'southward heavy Italian emphasis also led to his vocalisation existence redubbed by English language actor David de Keyser for the final cut.[27]

Filming [edit]

Principal photography began in the County of Bern, Switzerland, on 21 October 1968, with the beginning scene shot being an aeriform view of Bond climbing the stairs of Blofeld's mountain retreat to meet the girls.[19] The scenes were shot at the revolving restaurant Piz Gloria, located atop the Schilthorn about the village of Mürren. The location was found by production director Hubert Fröhlich later three weeks of location scouting in France and Switzerland.[xx] The restaurant was still under construction, simply the producers constitute the location interesting,[ why? ] [27] and had to finance the provision of electricity and the aerial lift to brand filming there possible.[nineteen] The beginning chase scene in the Alps was shot at the Schilthorn and the 2d i at Saas-Fee, while the Christmas celebrations were filmed in Grindelwald, and some scenes were shot on location in Bern.[32] Production was hampered by weak snowfall which was unfavourable to the skiing action scenes. The producers even considered moving to some other location in Switzerland, but information technology was taken past the production of Downhill Racer.[27] The Swiss filming concluded up running 56 days over schedule.[20] In March 1969, product moved to England, with London's Pinewood Studios beingness used for interior shooting, and K'south house existence shot in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. In April, the filmmakers went to Portugal, where principal photography wrapped in May.[19] [27] The pre-credit coastal and hotel scenes were filmed at Hotel Estoril Palacio in Estoril and Guincho Beach, Cascais,[33] while Lisbon was used for the reunion of Bond and Tracy, and the ending employed a mount route in the Arrábida National Park nearly Setúbal.[32] Harry Saltzman wanted the Portuguese scenes to be in France, but afterward searching there, Peter Hunt considered that not only were the locations non photogenic, just were already "overexposed".[34]

Cameraman Johnny Jordan dangling from a helicopter

While the first unit shot at Piz Gloria, the second unit, led by John Glen, started filming the ski chases.[35] The downhill skiing involved professional skiers, and diverse camera tricks. Some cameras were handheld, with the operators belongings them every bit they were going downhill with the stuntmen, and others were aerial, with cameramen Johnny Jordan – who had previously worked in the helicopter boxing of You Only Live Twice — developing a system where he was dangled by an 18 feet (5.5 one thousand) long parachute harness rig below a helicopter, allowing scenes to be shot on the move from any angle.[xix] The bobsledding chase was also filmed with the aid of Swiss Olympic athletes,[27] [36] and was rewritten to incorporate the accidents the stuntmen suffered during shooting, such equally the scene where Bond falls from the sled. Blofeld getting snared with a tree was performed at the studio by Savalas himself, after the endeavour to practice this by the stuntman on location came out wrong.[19] Heinz Lau and Robert Zimmermann served as the stunt doubles for Bail and Blofeld during the bobsleigh scene.[xviii] Glen was also the editor of the film, employing a style similar to the one used by Chase in the previous Bond films, with fast motion in the activity scenes and exaggerated sound effects.[27]

The avalanche scenes were due to be filmed in co-functioning with the Swiss regular army, who annually used explosions to prevent snowfall build-up by causing avalanches, but the area chosen naturally avalanched merely before filming.[34] The final result was a combination of a man-made avalanche at an isolated Swiss location shot by the 2nd unit,[19] stock footage, and images created past the special furnishings crew with salt.[34] The stuntmen were filmed later, added by optical effects.[37] For the scene where Bond and Tracy crash into a motorcar race while being pursued, an ice rink was constructed over an unused aeroplane track,[27] with water and snow sprayed on it constantly. Lazenby and Rigg did most of the driving due to the high number of close-ups.[19]

"One time, we were on location at an ice rink and Diana and Peter were drinking champagne within. Of grade I wasn't invited as Peter was in that location. I could encounter them through the window, but the crew were all outside stomping around on the ice trying to keep warm. So, when she got in the car, I went for her. She couldn't bulldoze the car properly and I got in to her well-nigh her drinking and things like that. Then she jumped out and started shouting 'he's attacking me in the car!' I called her a so-and-so for non because the crew who were freezing their butts off outside. And it wasn't that at all in the end, every bit she was ill that night, and I was at fault for getting in to her about it. I think everyone gets upset at one time."

George Lazenby[20]

For the cinematography, Chase aimed for a "uncomplicated, only glamorous similar the 1950s Hollywood films I grew up with",[34] as well as something realistic, "where the sets don't look like sets".[34] Cinematographer Michael Reed added he had difficulties with lighting, as every ready built for the film had a ceiling, preventing spotlights from being hung from above.[38] While shooting, Chase wanted "the most interesting framings possible", which would also wait good after being cropped for television.[34]

Lazenby said he experienced difficulties during shooting, non receiving whatever coaching despite his lack of acting feel, and with director Hunt never addressing him directly, only through his banana. Lazenby also alleged that Hunt also asked the residue of the crew to keep a altitude from him, every bit "Peter thought the more I was alone, the better I would be every bit James Bond."[20] Allegedly, there also were personality conflicts with Rigg, who was already an established star. However, according to manager Hunt, these rumours are untrue and at that place were no such difficulties—or else they were pocket-size—and may have started with Rigg joking to Lazenby before filming a love scene, "Hey George, I'm having garlic for luncheon. I hope y'all are!"[9] Hunt also declared that he commonly had long talks with Lazenby earlier and during shooting. For instance, to shoot Tracy's death scene, Chase brought Lazenby to the fix at 8 o'clock in the forenoon and made him rehearse all day long, "and I bankrupt him down until he was absolutely exhausted, and by the fourth dimension we shot it at five o'clock, he was wearied, and that's how I got the performance."[39] Hunt said that if Lazenby had remained in the office, he would also have directed the successor flick, Diamonds Are Forever, and that his original intention had been to conclude the film with Bond and Tracy driving off following their wedding, saving Tracy's murder for the pre-credit sequence of Diamonds Are Forever. The idea was discarded afterwards Lazenby quit the role.[19]

On Her Majesty's Surreptitious Service was the longest Bond film until Casino Royale was released in 2006.[40] Fifty-fifty then, two scenes were deleted from the final print: Irma Bunt spying on Bail as he buys a wedding band for Tracy,[41] and a chase over London rooftops and into the Royal Mail surreptitious rail system[42] after Bond'southward conversation with Sir Hilary Bray was overheard.[twoscore]

Music [edit]

A view of mountain slopes, heavily laden with snow.

The slopes in the Saas Fee area in which the ski sequences were shot.

The soundtrack for On Her Majesty's Secret Service has been called "perhaps the all-time score of the series."[35] Information technology was composed, bundled and conducted by John Barry;[43] it was his 6th successive Bond movie. Barry opted to use more than electronic instruments and a more aggressive sound in the music – "I have to stick my oar in the musical surface area double strong to make the audience try and forget they don't take Sean ... to exist Bondian beyond Bondian."[44]

Barry felt it would exist difficult to compose a theme song containing the title "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" unless it were written operatically, in the way of Gilbert and Sullivan.[45] Leslie Bricusse had considered lyrics for the title song[46] just manager Peter R. Chase immune an instrumental title theme in the tradition of the first two Bail films. The theme is built around a lament bass, which establishes the story as a tragedy. Barry's limerick was described as "one of the best championship cuts, a wordless Moog-driven monster, suitable for skiing at breakneck speed or dancing with equal abandon."[47]

Barry likewise composed the dearest song "We Have All the Time in the World", with lyrics past Burt Bacharach's regular lyricist Hal David, sung by Louis Armstrong.[43] It is heard during the Bond–Tracy courtship montage, bridging Draco's altogether party in Portugal and Bond's burglary of the Gebrüder Gumbold police force office in Bern, Switzerland.[48] Barry recalled Armstrong was very sick, but recorded the vocal in ane accept. Armstrong did, all the same, make some farther recordings in 1970 and 1971.[49] The song was re-released in 1994, achieving the number 3 position during a 13-calendar week spell in the UK charts.[fifty] The song was reused for a second Bond movie, when it was used every bit the soundtrack for the closing credits for the 2021 release No Time to Die.[51]

Barry and David also wrote two other songs for the picture show, both performed by Danish singer Nina. One, entitled "Practice You Know How Christmas Copse Are Grown?", was featured in the picture show in several scenes.[52] The other, "The More Things Change", was recorded by Nina at the same session, but did not end upwards in the finished movie. Instead, it appeared as the b-side of the UK single of "Exercise You Know How Christmas Copse Are Grown?" and an instrumental version of it appeared on John Barry's 1970 LP Ready When You Are J.B..[53]

The theme, "On Her Majesty's Hugger-mugger Service", is used in the film as an activeness theme alternative to Monty Norman'due south "James Bond Theme", every bit with Barry'south previous "007" themes. "On Her Majesty's Undercover Service" was covered in 1997 past the British big beat grouping the Propellerheads for the Shaken and Stirred anthology.[54] Barry-orchestrator Nic Raine recorded an arrangement of the escape from Piz Gloria sequence and it was featured equally a theme in the trailers for the 2004 Pixar animated film directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles. Barry was the first option to practise the score for The Incredibles. Withal, he declined to practice the score as he did not wish to duplicate the audio of his older work.[55]

Release and reception [edit]

On Her Majesty'south Hugger-mugger Service was released on eighteen Dec 1969[56] with its premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.[57] The barrage sequence in the picture had been recorded in stereo and the Odeon installed a new speaker arrangement to highlight the event.[58]

Lazenby appeared at the premiere with a beard, looking "very united nations-Bond-like", according to the Daily Mirror.[59] Lazenby claimed the producers had tried to persuade him to shave it off to appear like Bond, just past and so he had already decided not to make some other Bail pic and rejected the idea.[60] The beard and accompanying shoulder-length pilus "strained his already fragile relationship with Saltzman and Broccoli".[61]

Because Lazenby had informed the producers that On Her Majesty'southward Secret Service was to exist his only outing every bit Bond and because of the lack of gadgets used by Bail in the film, few items of merchandise were produced for the moving-picture show, apart from the soundtrack album and a moving-picture show edition of the book. Those that were produced included a number of Corgi Toys, including Tracey'due south Mercury Cougar (1969), Campbell'southward Volkswagen and 2 versions of the bobsleigh—i with the 007 logo and one with the Piz Gloria logo.[62] On Her Majesty'south Secret Service was nominated for but one honor: George Lazenby was nominated in the New Star of the Yr – Actor category at the 1970 Gold Earth Accolade ceremony, losing out to Jon Voight.[63]

Box office [edit]

The motion-picture show topped the United States box role when it opened with a gross of $one.ii million for the week.[64] It was the highest-grossing film in Jan 1970.[65] The film airtight its box office run with £750,000 in the United Kingdom (the highest-grossing motion-picture show of the year),[66] $64.6 meg worldwide,[67] half of Y'all Only Live Twice 'due south total gross,[66] just withal one of the highest-grossing films of 1969.[68] Information technology was i of the most pop movies in France in 1969, with admissions of 1,958,172.[69] Yet, this was a considerable drib from You Simply Live Twice.[70] After re-releases, the total box office was $82,000,000 worldwide.[71]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

The majority of reviews were critical of either the film, Lazenby, or both, while most of the contemporary reviews in the British press referred to George Lazenby at some point equally "The Large Fry", a reference to his previous acting in Fry'south Chocolate advertisements.[72] Derek Malcolm of The Guardian was dismissive of Lazenby's performance, saying that he "is not a good actor and though I never idea Sean Connery was all that stylish either, there are moments when one yearns for a piddling of his louche panache."[73] For all the criticism of Lazenby, withal, Malcolm says that the pic was "quite a jolly frolic in the familiar money-spinning style".[73] Tom Milne, writing in The Observer was even more scathing, saying that "I ... fervently trust (OHMSS) will be the last of the James Bond films. All the pleasing oddities and eccentricities and gadgets of the earlier films take somehow been lost, leaving a routine trail through which the new James Bail strides without noticeable signs of blitheness."[74]

Donald Zec in the Daily Mirror was as damning of Lazenby's interim abilities, comparison him unfavourably to Connery: "He looks uncomfortably in the office like a size iv foot in a size ten gumboot."[75] In yet some other unfavourable comparing of Lazenby to Connery, Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune remarked that he "doesn't fill Sean Connery'south shoes, Aston-Martin, or stretch pants. The new 007 Is more boyish and consequently less of a man. He doesn't gild nutrient with the same verve, and generally lacks the self-satisfied smirk that Connery kept with him and transmitted to his audience."[76] A. H. Weiler of The New York Times also weighed in against Lazenby, saying that "Lazenby, if non a spurious Bond, is merely a coincidental, pleasant, satisfactory replacement."[77]

Zec was kinder to Lazenby'south co-star, saying that "at that place is style to Diana Rigg'southward performance and I suspect that the last scene which draws something of a functioning out of Lazenby owes much to her silken expertise."[75] Siskel also wrote that Rigg "is well-cast every bit the girl, but we lose her for about an hr In the film, only to have her return in a most implausible location and time."[76]

Ane of the few supporters of Lazenby amongst the critics was Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard who said that "The truth is that George Lazenby is nigh equally good a James Bond every bit the human referred to in his film as 'the other fellow'. Lazenby'southward voice is more suave than sexy-sinister and he could pass for the other fellow's twin on the shady side of the casino. Bail is at present definitely all set up for the Seventies."[78] Judith Crist of New York too constitute the actor to be a strong betoken of the moving picture, stating that "This time effectually there's less suavity and a no-nonsense muscularity and maleness to the role via the handsome Mr. Lazenby".[79]

The feminist film critic Molly Haskell also wrote an approval review of the picture show in The Hamlet Voice: "In a earth, an industry, and peculiarly a genre which values the new and improved product to a higher place all, it is nothing brusk of miraculous to see a movie which dares to go astern, a technological artefact which has nobly deteriorated into a homo. I speak of the new and obsolete James Bond, played by a man named George Lazenby, who seems more comfortable in a moisture tuxedo than a dry martini, more at ease as a donnish genealogist than reading (or playing) Playboy, and who actually dares to think that one woman who is his equal is better than a thousand part-time playmates."[lxxx] Haskell was also afflicted past the film'south emotional ending: "The love between Bond and his Tracy begins every bit a payment and ends as a sacrament. After ostensibly getting rid of the bad guys, they are married. They drive off to a shocking, stunning ending. Their dear, beingness besides real, is killed by the conventions information technology defied. But they win the final victory by calling, unexpectedly, upon feeling. Some of the audience hissed, I was shattered. If you like your Bonds with happy endings, don't go."[80]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Mod reception of the film has been more favourable. Picture show critic James Berardinelli summed this upward in his review of the moving picture: "with the exception of one production aspect, [it] is by far the all-time entry of the long-running James Bond serial. The pic contains some of the most exhilarating action sequences ever to achieve the screen, a touching love story, and a nice subplot that has agent 007 crossing (and even threatening to resign from) Her Majesty'south Secret Service."[81] Julia Sirmons, writing in CrimeReads, also regarded it as the best Bond film, highlighting its mix of romance, the strong Bond girl, its cheekiness and Lazenby.[82]

The American motion-picture show reviewer Leonard Maltin has suggested that if it had been Connery in the leading office instead of Lazenby, On Her Majesty's Secret Service would accept epitomised the series.[83] On the other hand, Danny Peary wrote, "I'grand not sure I agree with those who insist that if Connery had played Bond information technology would definitely exist the all-time of the unabridged Bail series ... Connery's Bond, with his boundless humor and sense of fun and self-confidence, would be out of place in this picture. Information technology actually works ameliorate with Lazenby because he is incapable of playing Bond as a bigger-than-life hero; for ane affair he hasn't the looks ... Lazenby's Bond also hasn't the assurance of Connery'south Bail and that is appropriate in the aging, depressing world he finds himself. He seems vulnerable and jittery at times. At the skating rink, he is actually scared. Nosotros worry about him ... On Her Majesty'southward Underground Service doesn't have Connery and it'south impossible to ever fully adjust to Lazenby, but I call back that it still might be the best Bond film, every bit many Bond cultists claim." Peary likewise described On Her Majesty's Secret Service every bit "the most serious", "the almost cynical" and "the about tragic" of the Bond films.[84]

Brian Fairbanks differed in his opinion of Lazenby, saying that the film "gives u.s.a. a James Bond capable of vulnerability, a man who can show fear and is not immune to heartbreak. Lazenby is that man, and his performance is superb."[85] Fairbanks likewise idea On Her Majesty'southward Secret Service to be "non simply the best Bond, it is also the concluding truly great film in the serial. In fact, had the decision been fabricated to end the series, this would have been the perfect final chapter."[85]

The filmmaker Steven Soderbergh writes that "For me there's no question that cinematically On Her Majesty'south Clandestine Service is the best Bail movie and the merely one worth watching repeatedly for reasons other than pure entertainment ... Shot to shot, this motion-picture show is beautiful in a way none of the other Bail films are".[86] The director Christopher Nolan as well stated that On Her Majesty's Secret Service was his favourite Bond moving-picture show; in describing its influence on his own film, Inception (2010), Nolan said, "What I liked about it that nosotros've tried to emulate in this film is in that location'southward a tremendous residue in that movie of activeness and calibration and romanticism and tragedy and emotion."[87]

The review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the motion picture a score of 81% based on 54 reviews, and a weighted boilerplate of 6.78 out of 10. The website's critical consensus states, "George Lazenby'south only advent as 007 is a fine entry in the series, featuring ane of the nearly intriguing Bond girls in Tracy di Vincenzo (Diana Rigg), scenic visuals, and some great ski chases."[88] IGN ranked On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the eighth best Bail film,[89] Entertainment Weekly as the sixth,[90] and Norman Wilner of MSN, as the 5th best.[91] Digital Spy listed the picture show as the best James Bond film to engagement. The film also became a fan favourite, seeing "ultimate success in the dwelling video marketplace".[92] In September 2012 it was announced that On Her Majesty's Secret Service had topped a poll of Bond fans run by 007 Magazine to make up one's mind the greatest ever Bail pic. Goldfinger came 2d in the poll and From Russia With Love was tertiary.[93]

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  • Outline of James Bond

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External links [edit]

  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service at BFI Screenonline
  • On Her Majesty'southward Surreptitious Service at IMDb
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service at the TCM Movie Database
  • On Her Majesty'south Hugger-mugger Service at AllMovie
  • On Her Majesty'due south Secret Service at Rotten Tomatoes
  • On Her Majesty'south Secret Service at Box Office Mojo
  • 1968 James Bond – OHMSS: Photogallery at Walter Riml

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