Cinemaretro.com offers a look at Joe Dante's Trailers from Hell web site, which presents film editor Mark Goldblatt's tribute to the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Goldblatt provides an insightful and very appreciative analysis of the film and correctly points out that, contrary to popular belief, George Lazenby's only Bond film was indeed a box office success.
You can watch the video clip via the below link:
www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/10395-TRAILERS-FROM-HELL-PRESENTS-ON-HER-MAJESTYS-SECRET-SERVICE.html
Considering that George Lazenby had not acted before, and he had to replace the great Sean Connery, I thought he gave a fine performance. He looked like Ian Fleming's Bond and he did the fight and action scenes very well. I'd rank him as the third best Bond, after Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.
Although I would have
preferred a European actor to portray the mad, evil criminal genius, Ernst
Stavro Blofeld, Telly Salvalas was very good in the role. Salvalas had a great
sense of command and madness and I believe he was the best Blofeld in the film
series.
The beautiful and alluring Diana Rigg was also very good as
Bond's doomed girlfriend, and briefly, his wife. I loved her in
the TV series The Avengers, and I loved as Tracy in this film.
And John Barry's musical soundtrack is truly outstanding and one of his best.
It is a pity that George Lazenby did not continue in the series,
as I believe he would have grown into the role and given Sean Connery a run for his
money. And we would have been spared the decade of Bond-lite with Roger Moore
portraying a lighthearted, comical Bond. (I loved Roger Moore as The Saint, but I didn't care for his portrayal of Bond).And John Barry's musical soundtrack is truly outstanding and one of his best.
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