Thursday, 17 January 2013

Bond goes to Spain and Switzerland


On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Directed by Peter Hunt this sixth Bond film stars George Lazenby, Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas. After two years hunting for his arch enemy Bond finally gets a lead from a rival crime boss in exchange for convincing the boss's daughter to marry him.

Reviews for this film are often mixed and the performance of Lazenby tends to divide people but this is one of the better entries in the series. What the film has going for it is that it sticks closely to the source material and has probably the only truly emotional moment of the entire series. There are some continuity errors that arise from the films being made in a different order to the books and the occasional jump cut that likely comes from second unit work but otherwise this is a well made film.

4/5

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