I thought someone had already mentioned it.
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.
They also show images from the earlier films during the title sequence (in the hour glass).
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.
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?
I remember hearing a Tracy reference in one of the later films, but I don’t remember which one. It will come along eventually.
^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!
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.
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.
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.