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On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  • 19691969
  • PGPG
  • 2h 22m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
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James Bond woos a mob boss' daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps involving beautiful women from around the wo... Read allJames Bond woos a mob boss' daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps involving beautiful women from around the world.James Bond woos a mob boss' daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps involving beautiful women from around the world.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
92K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,504
79
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    • Director
      • Peter R. Hunt
    • Writers
      • Simon Raven(additional dialogue)
      • Richard Maibaum(screenplay)
      • Ian Fleming(novel)
    • Stars
      • George Lazenby
      • Diana Rigg
      • Telly Savalas
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Peter R. Hunt
    • Writers
      • Simon Raven(additional dialogue)
      • Richard Maibaum(screenplay)
      • Ian Fleming(novel)
    • Stars
      • George Lazenby
      • Diana Rigg
      • Telly Savalas
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 605User reviews
    • 132Critic reviews
    • 61Metascore
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 4 nominations

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    Diana Rigg and George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
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    Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    Diana Rigg and George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    Diana Rigg and George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    Diana Rigg and George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
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    George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    Telly Savalas and George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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    George Lazenby
    George Lazenby
    • James Bond
    Diana Rigg
    Diana Rigg
    • Tracy
    Telly Savalas
    Telly Savalas
    • Blofeld
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    • Draco
    Ilse Steppat
    Ilse Steppat
    • Irma Bunt
    Lois Maxwell
    Lois Maxwell
    • Moneypenny
    George Baker
    George Baker
    • Sir Hilary Bray
    Bernard Lee
    Bernard Lee
    • 'M'
    Bernard Horsfall
    Bernard Horsfall
    • Campbell
    Desmond Llewelyn
    Desmond Llewelyn
    • 'Q'
    Yuri Borienko
    • Grunther
    Virginia North
    Virginia North
    • Olympe
    Geoffrey Cheshire
    • Toussaint
    Irvin Allen
    Irvin Allen
    • Che Che
    Terence Mountain
    • Raphael
    • (as Terry Mountain)
    John Gay
    • Hammond
    James Bree
    James Bree
    • Gebrüder Gumbold
    Angela Scoular
    Angela Scoular
    • Ruby
    • Director
      • Peter R. Hunt
    • Writers
      • Simon Raven(additional dialogue)
      • Richard Maibaum(screenplay)
      • Ian Fleming(novel) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      As of 2021, George Lazenby is the youngest actor to portray 007, at age twenty-nine during filming. The rest of the actors and their ages, in no particular order: Sir Sean Connery - thirty-one, Sir Roger Moore - forty-five, Timothy Dalton - forty, Pierce Brosnan - forty-one, and Daniel Craig - thirty-eight.
    • Goofs
      Bond's Aston Martin's tires screech repeatedly on the loose sand of the beach. And during the later car chase, tyres screech almost all the time when cornering on snow and ice.
    • Quotes

      James Bond: [to the camera] This never happened to the other fellow.

    • Crazy credits
      During the opening credits, images are shown of Bond girls and villains. (This is the first Bond movie since Goldfinger to feature previous movies' footage in its credits.) Specifics are as follows. *First Set. *Honey Ryder from Dr. No (1962), standing on the beach. *Dr. No from the same, in front of his underground aquarium. *Tatiana Romanova from From Russia with Love (1963), messing around with her hair. *Pussy Galore from Goldfinger (1964), in the barn scene. *Second Set. *The title character from Goldfinger. *Assorted Bond girls from Goldfinger and Thunderball (1965). *The "Flaming Car Crash" scene from Thunderball. *Third set. *Emilio Largo, the main villain from Thunderball. *Aki, Kissy Suzuki, and a swordsman from You Only Live Twice (1967). *Blofeld's volcano lair exploding from the end of the same. Note the strategic absence of Blofeld from You Only Live Twice, due to the change of Blofeld actors.
    • Alternate versions
      In the French theatrical version the song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" by Nina was sung by Isabelle Aubret under the title "Savez-vous ce qu'il faut au sapin de Noel?" (Do You Know what a Christmas tree needs?).
    • Connections
      Edited into The Passage (1979)
    • Soundtracks
      We Have all the Time in the World
      Music by John Barry

      Lyrics by Hal David

      Performed by Louis Armstrong

    User reviews605

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    Top review
    8/10
    Not a Bad Deal at All.
    To understand the controversy behind `On Her Majesty's Secret Service,' one must understand the events so impacting the spy genre by the time of its production in 1969. After the back to back tremendous successes of `Goldfinger' and `From Russia With Love,' every hack producer and distributor rushed to make spy movies. There were serious ones (`The Spy That Came in From the Cold,' `The Ipcress File'), satirical ones (`Our Man Flint,' `The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,' `Get Smart' ), and incredibly silly ones (`The Silencers,' `Last of the Secret Agents,' `Casino Royale'). `Casino Royale' was especially damaging, since it was (VERY LOOSELY) based on a Fleming novel, and used the character of James Bond, 007. In fact, in `Casino Royale,' nearly EVERYBODY played `James Bond'. `If we don't know what we are doing, how will the enemy,' was the explanation `James Bond' (David Niven) gave to explain why MI6 was calling all its agents `James Bond'. To protect their franchise, the producers of the `real' James Bond movies emphasized in their promotion `Sean Connery IS James Bond.' In a demonstration of `gratitude,' Connery up and quit the series, leaving `On Her Majesty's Secret Service,' which was shortly to go into production, without a `Bond.'

    Arguably the most ambitious and difficult to shoot of ALL the Bond films (at least to that time), it's a miracle ANYTHING works in OHMSS. Much of the time it works VERY well, though the shaky underpinnings of the first hour frequently threaten to undo it. There is so much choppy editing and dubbed dialogue, one begins to suspect he is watching a foreign film. The second hour plus works much better, all the more surprising since it was shot first. One reason may be that the film went WAY over both shooting schedule and budget, and there was enough made up `bad' press to put a great deal of pressure on the producers, first time director, Peter Hunt and star, George Lazenby. In the middle of it all, Lazenby's publicist announced that Lazenby was not going to do another Bond (Lazenby is credible when he says that announcement was not his idea. One suspects, from the bonus material, that Cubby Broccoli planted that story to discredit Lazenby, should the film fail). Add to all this the films' tacked-on, unhappy ending (planned to be the prologue for `Diamonds are Forever'), which plays completely against the humor of earlier moments, and it's a wonder the film was NOT a dismal failure. Quite the contrary, OHMSS is one of the BEST of the Bond films, filled with nonstop action, outstanding stunts, incredible sound, the best score (along with `Goldfinger') and a credible enough romance to lend it genuine poignancy. Lazenby overcame many tremendous handicaps: having to replace one of the best known and popular actors in the world; he was 28, younger than Connery when he made `Dr. No'; he was completely inexperienced as an actor (OHMSS was Lazenby's FIRST movie, not just his first starring role); his accent (thick Australian outback) and the INCREDIBLE physical demands (Lazenby did many of his own stunts). Considering all this, Lazenby is downright remarkable. Certainly, in my opinion he is better than either the snooty Timothy Dalton or the lightweight Roger Moore were in ANY of their outings as Bond.. The bonus feature on the DVD concludes with strong evidence that Lazenby became a scapegoat, despite the eventual financial success of OHMSS. Lazenby, refreshingly displays no bitterness that his career nearly ended as soon as it began. He's had a reasonably busy career playing character roles and we have OHMSS. Not a bad deal at all.
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    • Is the song We Have All The Time In The World actually used in this film? I have the film on VHS and DVD and the song does not appear.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 19, 1969 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official Site
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    • Filming locations
      • Piz Gloria Revolving Restaurant, Piz Gloria, Kanton Bern, Switzerland
    • Production company
      • Eon Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $7,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $22,774,493
    • Gross worldwide
      • $22,787,885
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 22 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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