Fresh
Film of break-neck physical excitement and stunning visual attractions in which George Lazenby replaced Sean Connery as James Bond.
Variety Staff, Variety
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Far up! Far out! Far more! James Bond 007 is back!
1969 · 2h 22m · PG
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Directed by
Peter R. Hunt
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Overview
With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.
Director and cast
- Peter R. Hunt Director
- George Lazenby as James Bond
- Diana Rigg as Tracy Di Vicenzo
- Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
- Gabriele Ferzetti as Marc Ange Draco
- Ilse Steppat as Irma Bunt
- Bernard Lee as M
- Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
- George Baker as Sir Hilary Bray
- Bernard Horsfall as Campbell
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Director Peter Hunt manages to inject some life into this 1969 exercise with a wonderful ski chase, but otherwise the film is a bore.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The Bond films were bad enough even with the partially ironic performances of Connery.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service.
A.H. Weiler, New York Times
Fresh
It offers supremely satisfying versions of all the conventions we expect from the series ... and then it does the one thing you don't expect a James Bond movie to do: It breaks your heart.
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
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