Tag: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Yeah, due to the altitude no doubt. This innuendo from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is unapologetically blunt and signals Bond’s sexual confidence in a room full of women while one writes her room number on his inner thigh with… Read More →

This Bond quip from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was quite the graphic tongue-in-cheek line, based on the circumstances, and slightly overreaches.  Delivered as Bond and Tracy launch into the ski chase, the line follows a henchman’s grisly death in… Read More →

If not for “we have all the time in the world” having eight words and not seven, that would obviously be the title for this post to abide by the site’s rules, but alas: this devastating line from the final… Read More →

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a fascinating entry in the Bond canon.  Released in 1969, it perfectly reflects the experimental spirit of its era, emblematic of the late-’60s cultural transformation.  Blofeld’s mountain-top complex borders on science fiction, with his… Read More →

The reveal of the Bond family coat of arms in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is one of those quietly fascinating moments in the franchise’s lore.  “Orbis non sufficit” (the world is not enough) turns out to be more than… Read More →

It’s a combination of his bellowing, sometimes overbearing voice, hist outfit choices and probably just culturally some of the aspects of the late 1960s/early 1970s that crowns George Lazenby as the dorkiest Bond overall.  Doesn’t matter though – On Her… Read More →

Quite the random line from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service…why did they have M suddenly have a butterfly collection hobby?  Surely a writer lost a bet and insisted having “lepidoptery” in the script…? Read More →

And really everything about this scene from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was great.  It still had a dose of 1960s campiness, but that was vastly outshined by blaring the original James Bond theme and the awesome Swiss Alps at… Read More →

Although it’s a cover, this scene from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service still is one of Bond’s most pretentious moments – his nose practically drags across the ceiling! Read More →