On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Directed by Peter Hunt (1969)

A new Bond (literally) with George Lazenby

Bad acting right from the start.  They must bargain shop for the henchmen because these guys can't act their way out of a paper bag.  The fight choreophraphy is pretty bad as well, a lot of quick pans and shaky camera type stuff.

Of course the bad guys seem to know all about Secret Agent 007.  They should call him PUBLIC agent, everybody knows who he is!

Early on a crime boss offers Bond a million £ of gold to marry his daughter, because "she needs a good man to make lots of love to her."

Not a bad deal if you ask me!  Sadly at some point Bond slaps her around a bit, I guess that was still cool in 1969.  I sure hope he gives up this habit in later episodes.

Of course she drives a cool car...

1969 Mercury Cougar XR-7 convertible

The story develops and we meet our head villain who turns out to be Blofeld yet again, who is going by the name Count De Blouchamp, this time played by Telly Savalas.  We must simply ignore the fact that the two of them met face to face in the last movie as Bond goes undercover posing as a genealogist who's a bit "light in the loafers" to infiltrate the count's mansion which sits atop a mountain in the Alps.  This is a pretty significant plot hole IMO.  Considering the last film, You Only Live Twice, these men should have recognized each other immediately, but they don't.  Par for the course, Blowfeld is on to 007 from the very start and captures him.

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Bond ends up falling in love, beds multiple women on the same night, then ends up marrying.  Wait, James Bond marries???  Well you know this can't last, as his bride is gunned down minutes after saying "I do".  Bond is a single man again.

I had my doubts about Geroge Lazenby, but I enjoyed the movie.  He played Bond very well.

I rate it