On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    1969

    Synopsis

    James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.

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    Cast

    • George LazenbyJames Bond
    • Diana RiggTracy Di Vicenzo
    • Telly SavalasErnst Stavro Blofeld
    • Gabriele FerzettiMarc Ange Draco
    • Ilse SteppatIrma Bunt
    • Bernard LeeM
    • Lois MaxwellMiss Moneypenny
    • George BakerSir Hilary Bray
    • Bernard HorsfallCampbell
    • Desmond LlewelynQ

    Recommendations

    • 90

      The Telegraph

      Hunt, who served as editor on the first three Connery films, gives Lazenby’s fist fights a whipcrack intensity and the ski-jumping, stock car-racing, bobsled-sliding finale is one of the series’ best.
    • 88

      ReelViews

      The film contains some of the most exhilarating action sequences ever to reach the screen, a touching love story, and a nice subplot that has agent 007 crossing (and even threatening to resign from) Her Majesty's Secret Service. The problem is with Bond himself. Following Sean Connery's departure after You Only Live Twice, the film makers had to come up with a replacement. The man they chose, a model named George Lazenby, is boring, and his ineffectualness lowers the picture's quality.
    • 80

      Empire

      This is the Bond flick blessed with the best plot, a genuine sense of emotion and a spirit closest to Ian Fleming’s novels.
    • 80

      Salon

      On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the only Bond film that gets beyond the dirty boy’s-book spirit of the series to a core of real emotion. It also has what are probably the best action sequences of any 007 adventure.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      With On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter Hunt has directed what to my mind is the most engaging and exciting James Bond film.
    • 63

      RogerEbert.com

      A rather uneven Bond, one with a great story but a few too many problems, belonging somewhere in the middle section of the series' canon.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      He's tall, dark, handsome and has a dimpled chin. But Mr. Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement. For the record, he plays a decidedly second fiddle to an overabundance of continuous action, a soundtrack as explosive as the London Blitz, and flip dialogue and characterizations set against some authentic, truly spectacular Portuguese and Swiss scenic backgrounds, caught in eyecatching colors.
    • 50

      Chicago Reader

      George Lazenby has so much reserve as James Bond that he makes Sean Connery seem almost frenetic by comparison. Director Peter Hunt manages to inject some life into this 1969 exercise with a wonderful ski chase, but otherwise the film is a bore.

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