On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - 12/18/69 The Last Great James Bond Movie Premiered (40 years ago)

12.18.09 | Perdogg

[Perdogg]

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 2 minutes and 44 seconds.

Pretitle Sequence “This Never Happened to the other Fellar”

Maurice Binder’s Title Sequence

The Real James Bond, George Lazenby (Born 09-05-1939)



Diana Rigg (born 07-30-1938) as the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo



Telly Savalas (01-21-1922 – 01-22-1994) as Ernst Starvo Blofeld



Rest of the Cast

Gabriele Ferzetti as Marc-Ange Draco - Head of the Union Corse, a major crime syndicate and Tracy's father

Ilse Steppat as Irma Bunt - Blofeld's henchwoman who takes part in his quest to try and eliminate Bond.

Bernard Lee as M - Head of the British Secret Service.

Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny - M's secretary

George Baker as Sir Hilary Bray - Professor in the London College of Arms, who Bond impersonates in Piz Gloria

Yuri Borienko as Grunther - Blofeld's brutish chief of security at Piz Gloria who is killed by Bond's fiancée Tracy di Vicenzo, who pushes him onto a wall of spikes

Bernard Horsfall as Shaun Campbell - 007's colleague who tries to aid Bond in Switzerland on Operation Bedlam

Desmond Llewelyn as Q

Angela Scoular as Ruby Bartlett - an English girl at the clinic whom Bond beds

Catherine Schell as Nancy - another girl at the clinic Bond romances

Julie Ege as Helen - Scandinavian Girl at the Blofeld clinic

Virginia North as Olympe - Draco's female assistant

Music:

All Music by John Barry and song ‘We Have All the Time in the World' (words by Hal David and sung by Louis Armstrong)

All Music by John Barry and song ‘Do You Know How Christmas Trees are Grown?' (words by Hal David and sung by Nina)

“We Have all of the Time in the World” Fan tribute

Music Trivia:

One of the three Bond Films (besides "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love") to feature an instrumental for the Main Title sequence.

Filming Locations :

Lisbon, Portugal; Murren, near Interlaken, Switzerland; St Moritz, Switzerland; College Of Arms and MI6, London, England, UK.

Best Quote:

Bond: "This never happened to the other fellow!"

Other Facts

Budget - $7,000,000 (approx.)

Total Box Office - $87,450,000

Running Time - 2 hours and 22 minutes

Bond’s Car: 1969 Aston Martin DBS

what On Her Majesty’s Secret Service might have looked like with Sean Connery

[potlatch]

Thanks Perdogg, have an idea devolve is scouting up all his great graphics on this. He has webpages full.

[JoeProBono]

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

He did a great job as Pettigrew.

[devolve]

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I may be a tad slow on getting graphics, pages, etc. tonight

[nkycincinnatikid]

I have thought and thought about it, and decided that Lazenbys best line occurs when he visit M at his estate.
M is mounting butterflies as Bond is ushered in and Bond states something like “unusualy small for a Pollycloris Bergenatis, and M says something like “I didn’t realize your knowledge extended to Lepidoptery” or some such.
That was awesome.

[potlatch]

You need to get one of your Bond pages checked out and in perfect shape. You have every poster. I kindof think that "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" posters were some of the least attractive. Some of yours; CLICK for music

[devolve]

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Top left (half) is Mrs. Emma Peel photograph from “The Avengers” TV series

I made lots of retro-mod posters and graphics from different scenes in all the Bond movies

Some of the original 007 posters were a tad lame or boring - so I made some to fill in the gaps and confuse SPECTRE

The Moneypenny-Bond-M photograph never existed as I created it as a composite

[potlatch]

I searched through several of your 007 and Bond folders and you didn’t have much on this particular movie. Your one profile page with all of them is great but has one picture missing;

http://domania.us/Oaccess/Bond/d-Locations.html

[devolve]

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Oh yeah

My Sean Connery profile page with links - and auto-background music

I just saved to an email to myself - bottom graphic link is dead

I should be able to find it or swap in another appropriate graphic

[potlatch]

You have some even better Bond pages but I didn’t find them.

[Perdogg]

One of my favorite tracks in Goldfinger

[yarddog]

I always thought Gert B. Frobe as Auric Goldfinger was the best of all the Bond villains. I am not even sure why, just something about him was intriguing or interesting.

[devolve]

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Yup

Cars, other 007 webpage themes

I got carried away with a never-ending 007 profile page back a while

[potlatch]

Your big 007 one is really good though. Think it became hard for you to ‘open’, lol.

[potlatch]

Thanks, that was good. devolve can’t view you tube and I never watched that movie. Is the pretty blond all through it the same one who is painted gold and dies?

I could do screen captures and make a slideshow of it.

[Perdogg]

This a screen test of Sam Neil for the James Bond role

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfl9atd-Wq8&feature=related

[fieldmarshaldj]

It’s too bad we didn’t hear Herr Frobe’s actual speaking voice in the movie. I think they thought his German accent too thick. You can hear his real voice in some other films, it’s similar to the person who dubbed it in GF, but not 100%.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I saw that and the James Brolin (?!?) clips. Neill is a bit, I’m not sure, but he’s not quite right as JB, either. Maybe it’s a stiffness, or just a peculiarity about him, he strikes me as someone better suited to play a villain. Come to think of it, he might not be such a bad choice to play one in an upcoming JB film. I’d suggest a rogue ex-Double-Oh agent, but that’s practically been done to death.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Quite so. I’d almost forgotten about that. Draco would’ve wanted Blofeld dead just as much as JB and that all fell by the wayside with DAF, which unfortunately kicked off all the ‘70s JB silliness.

[SJSAMPLE]

The slide on the Beretta (?) is locked back.
I wish the prop guys would pay attention once in a while.