Where to watch On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
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A secret agent teams up with the daughter of a crime boss while pursuing a dangerous enemy to a secluded mountain retreat. There, the enemy is preparing a scheme involving a group of seemingly glamorous but lethal women, forcing the agent into a risky undercover mission.
Cast: Diana Rigg, George Lazenby, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, George Baker, Bernard Horsfall, Desmond Llewelyn, Yuri Borienko, Virginia North
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Trivia & production notes
- Over 400 actors were considered for the Bond role after Sean Connery's departure, with frontrunners including John Richardson, Hans De Vries, Robert Campbell, Anthony Rogers, Giorgos Fountas, and George Lazenby.
- George Lazenby was discovered in a Fry's Chocolate Cream advertisement and was offered the role after impressing producer Broccoli by accidentally punching a professional wrestler who was serving as stunt coordinator.
- Lazenby was offered a seven-film contract but left the series after one film because his agent convinced him the secret agent character would be obsolete in the liberated 1970s.
- Diana Rigg was cast as Tracy Draco after Brigitte Bardot had to withdraw when she signed to appear opposite Sean Connery in another film.
- George Baker's voice was dubbed over George Lazenby's when Lazenby impersonated the character Sir Hilary Bray, as director Peter Hunt felt Lazenby's imitation was unconvincing.
- The producers decided to drop science fiction gadgets from earlier Bond films to focus more on plot, similar to the approach used in From Russia with Love.
- A script featuring Bond undergoing plastic surgery to help audiences accept the new actor was abandoned in favor of simply ignoring the casting change and inserting callbacks to previous films instead.
- The Piz Gloria location, a revolving restaurant atop the Schilthorn mountain, was still under construction when discovered after three weeks of location scouting, and producers financed electricity and an aerial lift to make filming possible.
- Cameraman Johnny Jordan was suspended 18 feet below a helicopter by a parachute harness to film aerial skiing scenes, a technique he had previously developed for the helicopter battle in You Only Live Twice.
- Swiss snowfall was so weak that filming ran 56 days over schedule, and producers considered moving to another Swiss location before learning it was occupied by the production of Downhill Racer.
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