Producers: Albert Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Scriptwriters: Richard Maibaum
Score: John Barry
Main Song: Louis Armstrong
Locations: Switzerland, Portugal, Pinewood Studios
Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes

     On Her Majesty's Secret Service was produced in 1969 by Eon Productions. This is two years after the last James Bond. The most noticeable change in this movie is that Connery is not Bond. Instead, the Bond audience was introduced to Australian model/actor George Lazenby. He was only around for one movie. He was offered the roll in Diamonds are Forever, but turned the roll down. This is probably a stupid career move, but Bond fans are eternally grateful.
     In the opening of this movie, Bond prevents the Contessa from committing suicide. Her father is Marc-Ange Draco, the head of a powerful crime syndicate. He is impressed with Bond, and wants him to marry her. In exchange, he will tell Bond where Blofeld is. Bond was just officially taken off Operation Bedlam, the mission to kill Blofeld. Because of this, he tries to resign from MI6, but thanks to Money Penny only gets two weeks leave.
     Once Bond knows that Blofeld is in Switzerland, he poses as a Scottish heraldry expert, Sir Hillary in order to get to him. He subsequently unravels a fiendish plot by Blofeld to cause sterility in all livestock with the "omega virus". This virus would be administered by brainwashed girls, who thought they were only getting treatment for their allergies. Bond stops Blofeld and married Teresa. However, Blofeld gets revenge as he kills Bond's new bride.
A NOTE ABOUT THE SONGS: The title song for OHMSS is strictly instrumental, and is used throughout the movie during action themes. Lyrics were written for the song by Leslie Bricusse, but they were never used. Along with this song is "We Have all the Time in the World", sung with warmth and sincerity by Louis Armstrong.
MY GRADE: D-  No Bond movie could ever be a complete failure, but this is as close as one comes. George Lazenby is the worst Bond of all. He is not manly enough to play Bond the way Dalton or Connery or Brosnan do, being very tough and masculine. This left him to try to play the light, joking side of Bond. However, he could not pull of jokes nearly as well as Connery or Moore. As one man falls into a snow chipper and is shredded, Lazenby says "He had a lot of guts." Ooh, real good. Now tell me one that a two year old couldn't think of. Also, Bond spent half the movie pretending to be a Scottish wussy who got queasy every six minutes. Also, Bond gets married. That's just wrong. Bond also wants to quit MI6 just because he doesn't get the assignment he wants. Does that remind anyone else of the bratty kid who would take his ball home whenever he didn't get his way? Along with having a weak Bond, this movie kept using choppy, fast motion footage during action scenes that were not put together well at all. Some of the shots almost make me dizzy. Finally, the plot was weak, with no chance of global destruction. People just couldn't eat beef for awhile. The horror! Also, the movie is the longest Bond movie ever. It dragged on.
BEST MOMENT: I have to give credit to the ski scenes, which are some of the best in any Bond movie.
DID YOU KNOW...*The Latin translation of Bond's family motto "The World is not Enough" is "Orbis non sufficie"
*Lazenby read the end of the OHMSS novel in order to get the right emotions for the scene. In the first scene, a single tear rolled down his cheek, and the scene was re-shot since the director didn't want Bond to cry.
*When Bond is pretending to be Sir Hillary, it is not Lazenby's voice. George Baker dubbed his voice over.