# The James Bond Film Festival. Part 6: On Her Majesty's Secret Service **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672 "2003-08-03T03:50:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/21 "2003-08-04T22:33:25Z")
I thought someone had already mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/22 "2003-08-04T22:35:23Z")
**elf6c** : Please forgive me my short answer. I had something else goign on at the time. In any case, I usually try to write out the title, by this one is so long that OHMSS is easier. And I’ve abbreviated in other threads when I didn’t feel like typing the whole thing out. Just use whatever is comfortable for you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/23 "2003-08-06T00:49:32Z")
> [@](#): > > And they hammer this home in a scene in the movie where Bond looks through his desk and finds Honey’s knife from _Dr. No_, Robert Shaw’s watch used in _From Russia With Love_ and that tiny scuba-diving thing from _Thunderball_, all while the score plays songs from those movies. They also show images from the earlier films during the title sequence (in the hour glass). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/24 "2003-08-06T01:14:18Z")
Third best Bond ever (after Goldfinger and FRWL)! Originally they planned to do this one right after Thunderball. Too bad they didn’t–we could have been spared the misstep that was You Only Live Twice, and we would have had Connery in one of Fleming’s better stories. As it is, Lazenby gives an adequate performance (thanks in part to the editing–film performances are all made in the editing room!). Diana Rigg is a perfect Tracy and Telly Savalas is the best Blofeld ever. The photography is gorgeous from beginning to end and the ski stunts are among the most spectacular in the series. IMHO, this was the last great Bond film until Timothy Dalton took over the role. ---
**Author:** ![Caprigenus\_Chevre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@Caprigenus\_Chevre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprigenus_Chevre)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/25 "2003-08-06T05:13:58Z")
Silly question… Somebody told me there is a blink-and-you-miss-it reference to Tracy in one of the Brosnan films. Does anybody know anything about it? I forget the film that he mentioned it was in, but I tend to think it was TWINE or Goldeneye… Or was my friend just deluded? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/26 "2003-08-06T12:49:29Z")
I remember hearing a Tracy reference in one of the later films, but I don’t remember which one. It will come along eventually. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Caprigenus\_Chevre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@Caprigenus\_Chevre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprigenus_Chevre)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/27 "2003-08-07T19:43:55Z")
^thanks. At least I know my friend ain’t insane. And now I have a reason to watch the Brosnan films again! To catch that darn reference! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/28 "2003-08-07T20:31:33Z")
Bond visits Tracy’s grave at the start of _For Your Eyes Only_, and refuses to catch the bouquet at Felix’s wedding in _Licence to Kill_. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/29 "2003-08-07T22:34:46Z")
Don’t get me wrong. Sean Connery is the best James Bond – ever. But OHMSS is the first Bond film I ever saw, my favorite Bond film of the franchise, and George Lazenby is my favorite Bond. This was the Bond movie my Mom finally agreed I was old enough to watch on TV when I turned 8. In this film I was introduced to the whole James Bond mythos-- saw him fall in love, get married and lose his newly-wed bride. This is the ONLY James Bond film to suggest any real emotional commitmen and vulnerability. There are Bond movies with better fights, more impressive gadgets, more exotic locales, sexier Bond girls and more outlandish Blofelds, but all in all this Bond film sticks to me in ways the others don’t – and can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672/30 "2003-08-07T23:55:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*Bond visits Tracy’s grave at the start of _For Your Eyes Only_, and refuses to catch the bouquet at Felix’s wedding in _Licence to Kill_. \*\* In _The Spy Who Loved Me_, when Bond and Anya first meet, she recites from his dossier, mentioning that he was married once, and he cuts her off curtly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-6-on-her-majestys-secret-service/192672.md?page=1)