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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Blofeld’s bizarre “waxwork show for morbid tourists”

Alongside some of James Bond/Sir Hilary Bray’s stranger lines in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ernst Stavro Blofeld has a few odd sayings of his own. Here, he’s referring to the unfortunate Shaun Campbell, another British agent investigating Piz Gloria, whose corpse is rather bizarrely hung in effigy from a jagged section of the mountain. The staging is creepy enough, but the body is positioned almost perfectly within view of a subdued Bond. It makes for an unsettling image, yet Blofeld’s description somehow makes the moment even stranger. Despite the strange dialogue, Telly Savalas delivers a strong and on-point performance of Blofeld that make these overly theatrical lines stand out all the more. “Waxwork show” and “morbid tourists” certainly weren’t on my James Bond Movie Transcript bingo card.

On This Day…

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August 23, 2026 – 10:07 AM UTC

In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, did you ever notice that we never hear George Lazenby’s James Bond recite the sacred “shaken, not stirred” martini line? No, instead, we get these pompous lines from James Bond as genealogist Sir Hilary Bray (Brayisms) with awkward, almost over-acted deliveries from George Lazenby. And although I understand that…

August 23, 2025 – 10:07 PM UTC

Although I’m not a huge fan overall of The World Is Not Enough theme, it does have some great lyrics, like the above.  Also this: “The World Is Not Enough…But it is such a perfect place to start, my love.” I liked the great 90s choice of Garbage for the song, but to this day…

August 23, 2025 – 10:07 AM UTC

It’s not a stretch to imagine some of the current contenders for the role of James Bond, 007 wouldn’t be considered for other roles.  Tom Holland as 008?  Sign me up!