George Lazenby lacks the swagger of Sean Connery, but this 1969 black sheep is possibly the best 007 film ever.
ON Her Majesty’s Secret Service (OHMSS) had a lot to live up to. As far as the entire world was concerned, Sean Connery was James Bond. And here was some impostor – worse, an impostor from the colonies, George Lazenby, whom nobody had heard of – waltzing in to take his place. It wasn’t right. It wouldn’t do. To rub everyone’s noses in it even further, OHMSS deliberately stuck closely to the book, which meant no audience-pleasing whizz-bang gadgets. And what’s with the bummer of an ending? No wonder the film only took half the amount of You Only Live Twice at the box office.
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