On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (film)

 

  • [17] Hunt was focused on making his mark – “I wanted it to be different than any other Bond film would be.

  • [12]
    Between the resignation of Sean Connery at the beginning of filming You Only Live Twice and its release, Saltzman had planned to adapt The Man with the Golden Gun in Cambodia and use Roger Moore as the next Bond, but political instability meant the location was ruled out and Moore signed up for another series of The Saint.

  • Future Bond star Timothy Dalton was asked to audition after his appearance in The Lion in Winter but considered himself too young, as he was 25 years old and did not want to succeed Connery as Bond.

  • Following Sean Connery’s decision to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon selected George Lazenby, a model with no prior acting credits, to play the part of James Bond.

  • These include Bond 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 caretaker whistling the theme from Goldfinger.

  • “[24]
    Casting
    [edit]
    Diana Rigg and George Lazenby on set
    In 1967, after five films, Sean Connery resigned from the role of James Bond and was not on speaking terms with Albert Broccoli during the filming of You Only Live Twice.

  • [19]
    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 Secret Service’s script.

  • [29]
    Broccoli was interested in rising star Oliver Reed but decided his public image was already too distinct.

  • [7] Rigg said one of the reasons for accepting the role was that she always wanted to be in an epic film.

  • Plot
    James Bond saves a woman on the beach from an attempted suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino.

  • [17] When writing the script, the producers decided to make the closest adaptation of the book possible: virtually everything in the novel occurs in the film[17] and Hunt was reported to always enter the set carrying an annotated copy of the novel.

  • [15][24]
    To make audiences not forget it was the same James Bond, just played by another actor, the producers inserted many references to the previous films, some as in-jokes.

  • [13] Lazenby was offered a contract for seven films; however, he was convinced by his agent Ronan O’Rahilly that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s, and as a result he left the series after the release of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969.

  • [8][9]
    Production
    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 make On Her Majesty’s Secret Service after Goldfinger and Richard Maibaum worked on a script at that time.

  • [15][16] Hunt also asked for the position during the production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and he brought along with him many crew members, including cinematographer Michael Reed.

  • Hunt, along with producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, decided to produce a more realistic film that would follow the novel closely.

  • [21] Peter Hunt asked Simon Raven to write some of the dialogue between Tracy and Blofeld in Piz Gloria, which was to be “sharper, better and more intellectual”;[22] one of Raven’s additions was having Tracy quoting James Elroy Flecker.

  • [10]
    Peter Hunt, who had worked on the five preceding films, had impressed Broccoli and Saltzman enough to earn his directorial debut as they believed his quick cutting had set the style for the series.

  • Back in London at M’s office, Bond is informed that Blofeld intends to hold the world to ransom by threatening to destroy its agriculture using his brainwashed women, demanding amnesty for all past crimes, and that he be recognised as the current Count de Bleuchamp.

  • During filming, Lazenby announced that he would play the role of Bond only once.

  • The next morning, Bond is kidnapped by several men, including the one he fought, who take him to meet Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the European crime syndicate Unione Corse.

  • “[18] On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was the last film in the series on which Hunt worked.

  • In an interview in 1987, when he was playing Bond in The Living Daylights, Dalton said “I was 24 or 25 at the time.

  • Bond breaks into the office of Swiss lawyer Gebrüder Gumbold and learns that Blofeld is corresponding with London College of Arms genealogist Sir Hilary Bray, attempting to claim the title Count Balthazar de Bleuchamp.

  • [30] Brigitte Bardot was invited, but after she signed to appear in Shalako opposite Sean Connery, the deal fell through,[15] and Diana Rigg—who had already been the popular heroine Emma Peel in The Avengers—was cast instead.

  • [32] Gabriele Ferzetti was cast as Draco after the producers saw him in We Still Kill the Old Way, but Ferzetti’s heavy Italian accent also led to his voice being redubbed by English actor David de Keyser for the final cut.

  • Draco reveals that Tracy is his only daughter and tells Bond of her troubled past, offering Bond one million pounds if he will marry her.

  • [23] In the original script, Bond undergoes plastic surgery to disguise him from his enemies; the intention was to allow an unrecognisable Bond to infiltrate Blofeld’s hideout and help the audience accept the new actor in the role.

  • Baker also provided the voice of Bond while he is imitating Bray.

  • After dinner, Bond goes to the room of one patient, Ruby, who wrote her room number on his bare leg.

  • [18]
    With the script following 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 different sequence, such as Blofeld not recognising Bond, despite having met him face-to-face in the previous film You Only Live Twice.

  • On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a 1969 spy film and the sixth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions.

  • It is the only Bond film to have been directed by Peter R. Hunt, with this serving as his directorial debut, who had served as a film editor and second unit director on previous films in the series.

  • Although its cinema release was not as lucrative as its predecessor You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was still one of the top-performing films of the year.

  • Bond meets twelve young women, later referred to by Blofeld as his “angels of death”, who are patients at the institute’s clinic, apparently cured of various allergies.

  • [26] Over 400 actors, including many of the most famous performers in the Commonwealth, were considered for the role of James Bond.

  • Fairbanks also thought On Her Majesty’s Secret Service to be “not only the best Bond, it is also the last truly great film in the series.

  • [38] Glen was also the editor of the film, employing a style similar to the one used by Hunt in the previous Bond films, with fast motion in the action scenes and exaggerated sound effects.

  • “[91]
    American filmmaker Steven Soderbergh wrote: “For me there’s no question that cinematically On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the best Bond film and the only one worth watching repeatedly for reasons other than pure entertainment …

  • “[41] Hunt said that if Lazenby had remained in the role, he would also have directed the successor film, 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.

  • [83] Christopher Nolan has also stated that On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was his favourite Bond film; in describing its influence on his own film Inception (2010), Nolan said: “What I liked about it that we’ve tried to emulate in this film is there’s a tremendous balance in that movie of action and scale and romanticism and tragedy and emotion.

  • “[78]
    One 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 almost as good a James Bond as the man referred to in his film as ‘the other fellow’.

  • The film also became a fan favourite, seeing “ultimate success in the home video market”.

  • Lazenby claimed that Hunt also asked the rest of the crew to keep a distance from him, as “Peter thought the more I was alone, the better I would be as James Bond.

  • “[80] Judith Crist of New York also found the actor to be a strong point of the movie, stating that “This time around there’s less suavity and a no-nonsense muscularity and maleness to the role via the handsome Mr.

  • The producers even considered moving to another location in Switzerland, but it was taken by the production of Downhill Racer.

  • “[46]
    Barry felt it would be difficult to compose a theme song containing the title “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” unless it were written operatically, in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan.

  • George Lazenby[18]
    For the cinematography, Hunt aimed for a “simple, but glamorous style like the 1950s Hollywood films I grew up with”,[35] as well as something realistic, “where the sets don’t look like sets”.

  • The soundtrack for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service has been called “perhaps the best score of the series.

  • [89] On the other hand, Danny Peary wrote, “I’m not sure I agree with those who insist that if Connery had played Bond it would definitely be the best of the entire Bond series … Connery’s Bond, with his boundless humor and sense of fun and self-confidence, would be out of place in this picture.

  • I speak of the new and obsolete James Bond, played by a man named George Lazenby, who seems more comfortable in a wet 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.

  • It actually works better with Lazenby because he is incapable of playing Bond as a bigger-than-life hero; for one thing he hasn’t the looks … Lazenby’s Bond also hasn’t the assurance of Connery’s Bond[,] and that is appropriate in the crumbling, depressing world he finds himself.

  • [90]
    Brian Fairbanks differed in his opinion of Lazenby, saying that the film “gives us a James Bond capable of vulnerability, a man who can show fear and is not immune to heartbreak.

  • [61] Lazenby claimed the producers had tried to persuade him to shave it off to appear like Bond, but by then he had already decided not to make another Bond film and rejected the idea.

  • [81]
    The feminist film critic Molly Haskell also wrote an approving review of the film in The Village Voice: “In a world, an industry, and particularly a genre which values the new and improved product above all, it is nothing short of miraculous to see a movie which dares to go backward, a technological artefact which has nobly deteriorated into a human being.

  • We worry about him … On Her Majesty’s Secret Service doesn’t have Connery and it’s impossible to ever fully adjust to Lazenby, but I think that it still might be the best Bond film, as many Bond cultists claim.”

  • and an instrumental version of it appeared on John Barry’s 1970 LP Ready When You Are J.B..[55]
    The theme, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, is used in the film as an action theme alternative to Monty Norman’s “James Bond Theme”, as with Barry’s previous “007” themes.

  • 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 website’s critical consensus states, “George Lazenby’s only appearance as 007 is a fine entry in the series, featuring one of the most intriguing Bond girls in Tracy di Vincenzo (Diana Rigg), breathtaking visuals, and some great ski chases.

  • Barry opted to use more electronic instruments and a more aggressive sound in the music – “I have to stick my oar in the musical area double strong to make the audience try and forget they don’t have Sean … to be Bondian beyond Bondian.

  • [35] Cinematographer Michael Reed added he had difficulties with lighting, as every set built for the film had a ceiling, preventing spotlights from being hung from above.

  • Shot to shot, this movie is beautiful in a way none of the other Bond films are”.

  • [96] In September 2012, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service had topped a poll of Bond fans run by 007 Magazine to determine the greatest ever Bond film.

  • “[82]
    Retrospective reviews
    [edit]
    Diana Rigg and George Lazenby
    Modern reception of the film has seen a strong positive reversal, to the point that many Bond connoisseurs have ranked it as their personal favourite, including multiple Academy Award winners and participants in a magazine fan poll.

  • Some cameras were handheld, with the operators holding them as they were going downhill with the stuntmen, and others were aerial, with cameramen Johnny Jordan – who had previously worked in the helicopter battle of You Only Live Twice — developing a system where he was dangled by an 18 feet (5.5 m) long parachute harness rig below a helicopter, allowing scenes to be shot on the move from any angle.

  • For instance, to shoot Tracy’s death scene, Hunt brought Lazenby to the set at 8 o’clock in the morning and made him rehearse all day long, “and I broke him down until he was absolutely exhausted, and by the time we shot it at five o’clock, he was exhausted, and that’s how I got the performance.

  • [63]
    Because Lazenby had informed the producers that On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was to be his only outing as Bond and because of the lack of gadgets used by Bond in the film, few items of merchandise were produced for the film, apart from the soundtrack album and a film edition of the book.

  • “[87][clarification needed] 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.

  • “[79]
    Zec was kinder to Lazenby’s co-star, saying that “there is style to Diana Rigg’s performance and I suspect that the last scene which draws something of a performance out of Lazenby owes much to her silken expertise.

  • [40] While shooting, Hunt wanted “the most interesting framings possible”, which would also look good after being cropped for television.

  • [18] The restaurant was still under construction, but the producers found the spectacular location visually interesting for film-making,[25] and had to finance the provision of electricity and the aerial lift to make filming there possible.

  • All the pleasing oddities and eccentricities and gadgets of the earlier films have somehow been lost, leaving a routine trail through which the new James Bond strides without noticeable signs of animation.

  • In fact, had the decision been made to end the series, this would have been the perfect final chapter.

  • [75] 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.

  • [83][84][85][86]
    Film critic James Berardinelli summarized in his review: “with the exception of one production aspect, [it] is by far the best entry of the long-running James Bond series.

  • [73]
    Contemporary reviews
    [edit]
    George Lazenby as James Bond
    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 as “The Big Fry”, a reference to his previous acting in Fry’s chocolate advertisements.

  • [35] The final result was a combination of a man-made avalanche at an isolated Swiss location shot by the second unit,[17] stock footage, and images created by the special effects crew with salt.

  • “[77] Siskel also wrote that Rigg “is well-cast as the girl, but we lose her for about an hour In the film, only to have her return in a most implausible location and time.

  • [47] Leslie Bricusse had considered lyrics for the title song[48] but director Peter R. Hunt allowed an instrumental title theme in the tradition of the first two Bond films.

  • [42] Even so, two scenes were deleted from the final print: Irma Bunt spying on Bond as he buys a wedding ring for Tracy,[43] and a chase over London rooftops and into the Royal Mail underground rail system[44] after Bond’s conversation with Sir Hilary Bray was overheard.

  • [17]
    The first chase scene in the Alps was shot at the Schilthorn and the second one at Saas-Fee, while the Christmas celebrations were filmed in Grindelwald, and some scenes were shot on location in Bern.

  • [88]
    American film reviewer Leonard Maltin has suggested that if it had been Connery in the leading role, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service would have epitomised the series.

  • [17] The bobsledding chase was also filmed with the help of Swiss Olympic athletes,[25][37] and was rewritten to incorporate the accidents the stuntmen suffered during shooting, such as the scene where Bond falls from the sled.

  • [70] It was one of the most popular movies in France in 1969, with admissions of 1,958,172.

 

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