Inside George Lazenby’s Lost 2nd Bond Film 

Would've fitted into the Crime Films of 1971 like Dirty Harry and The French Connection

Decent film but it wouldn't have suddenly given Lazenby charisma. Which remains a problem with OHMSS. What a twit for leaving the series too.

There’s a great documentary on this with Lazenby telling his story. He did the whole thing on a whim anyway so you really cant blame him for quitting!

@@benjaminfisher5351 Yes! "Becoming Bond" (2017), delightfully directed by Josh Greenbaum.

I doubt that very much! OHMSS was not as successful as Connery's Bond films EON was desparate to get him back, hence the million dollar fee. But even then, Diamonds... wasn't the great hit it was expected to be. OHMSS was a better movie, tho.

Worst. Agent. Ever....

A Government Secret Agent 🕵️‍♂️?

​@@user-zw5yx8pw6ujohnny rivers?

Reminds me of Dick Rowe from Decca records who did not sign The Beatles because he thought guitar bands were out.

He wasn't wrong though. Bond completely went into 70's Camp from DaF onwards while the early movies are not necessarily realistic but somewhat serious. That means that the Producers were themselfs aware that they need to change in order to go with the time to stay successful.

Don’t be silly.

you jest of course... Thunderball was more influential; in a certain film called True Lies, Arnold Shwarzenegger wears a tuxedu under a wetsuit. And he also has a "Breather" later in that movie. And a jet is stolen in that movie And of course the film was virtually remade into Never Say Never Again. etc.

Frau was based on a Rosa Klebb from From Russia with Love and Dr. Evil was based on the You Only Live Twice version of Blofeld. All in all Diamonds are Forever seems like a heavier influence on Austin Powers.

@@bobrew461 The tuxedo under the wet suit gag is from Goldfinger not Thunderball

Austin Powers was taken directly from Donald Plesence as Blofeld in ' You Only Live Twice'.

Me too. And even without Connery, OHMSS is still my favorite of the classic Bond films. The direction and cinematography were maybe the best the series would look for a long time. I like Moore's era well enough, but visually they were a big step backwards. Diamonds already was, but Moore's films just looked bland. Even if that skydiving sequence from Moonraker is absolutely incredible. Shame it's in kind of a crap movie, because what a sequence that was!

True. Somehow i had the impression that he was more "modest".

The scene of him breaking down emotionally lost as the henchmen close in is fantastic and not something we'd see from a Bond. It's a great adaption of a great novel and I don't think audiences were ready for that at the time.

@@TheGrenadier97 The funny thing is that the actor himself was the opposite of that impression that he made.

@@davidjames579 Yeah same way they weren't ready for Lazenby. Too gritty for a lot of people. Yet Daniel Craig was a huge hit with audiences.

i don't know about underrated - ohmss is counted as one of the best bond films in terms of story and character

@@spatrick1441 The film only recently has been reassessed by fans and critics I feel in the last decade or so. It use to be sort of be the black sheep of the franchise since Lazenby was one and done. Also, Bond marries the girl which was against the norm back then and stylistically it was very different than the previous Bonds as well. A lot of people didn’t want an emotional Bond…they wanted the womanizing Sean Connery damnit!

@@chase138 And in this film Bond is womanizing.

@@user-xp2gm8im2c Yes, I’m aware. What I mean is they didn’t want Bond to settle down and be a one woman man which he is by the end of the film. In general, audiences of the time weren’t necessarily looking for a courtship/ love story in a Bond film.

​@chase138 Originally Bond was going to have a regular girlfriend. Eunice Grayson played her in the first two movies then the character was dropped.

Part that kills me the most about that film is his rambling genealogy speech to the ladies and how he referred to himself using the nickname "Hildie". Never did quite get used to him as Bond.

I feel it could have potentially have been a Dark Knight or Dune Part Two of the series in the way it expands the character and his journey.

@@davidjames579 I agree completely. Qauntum of Solace which became the first direct sequel in the franchise, is arguably the weakest of Daniel Craig's run in my opinion. This sounds like it would have truly been a classic and on the upper tier of Bond films. Unfortunately we will never know.

It was his choice to act like an obnoxious ass and walk away from the role of a lifetime.

@@shib2352 yeah, he agrees with you on that.

@@QuintonLeo This also had a lot to do with the writer’s strike at the time. No professional writers could edit the script and they went into production with it really not being ready. Craig was having to do rewrites with the director day off in some cases onset.

006 was always killed before 007 was put on the case.

@@brucegilbert7243 I always thought there were several double 0’s out in the field at once?

@@whiskeyfx_7893008 is mentioned but never seen in Goldfinger.

@@brucegilbert7243 double 0 agents do work together, GoldenEye. Wish we saw more of that

Right? I loved Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye! I kind of wish they'd let him live in the end, and have him return as a recurring villain.

💯 He was the proto-Dalton/Craig. More serious and grounded

The great composer John Barry, wrote an incredible score for this movie, perhaps the best of his Bond scores. It's here on youtube ru-vid.com/group/OLAK5uy_na2bQww286MtcLwf7kBN2eiBasfztuDhY

No divas allowed!

Best bond theme full stop

True, easily the worst of the Connery Bond movies.

It's so ridiculous and camp that it's entertaining.

It's a really odd one. The pre credits scene is awful , particularly as it's the only reference to the previous film. Then the first hour or so is pretty good. Tiffany Case is an interesting character as are Whit and Kidd. But then it just goes completely off the rails like another director came on board😮.

At least the climatic battle between Bond and Blofeld is top shelf, the way he bashes the minisub into things is thrilling cinema.

@@tedbailey3673Nice.

High as a kite too haha. But yes, thnx for the correction

It's a pretty unlikely survival though...

​@@garethpeck3607in the Licence To Kill novelisation it's Felix's SECOND leg to be bitten off by a shark. As following novel Canon he'd already lost one to shark torture in Live And Let Die. In the book he even comments on the bad luck of running foul of two independent sets of baddies who feed victims to sharks.

Wow that’s ridiculous.

@@benjaminfisher5351 lol I know it's like something out of Austin Powers. But the writer was told to keep the novelisation of the film a sequel to the Fleming novels. Despite the films not being in continuity to the novels (the shark attack was not used in the film of Live And Let Die but held off until Licence To Kill).

Would've fitted into the Crime Films of that Year like Dirty Harry and The French Connection

Daniel Craig looks too Russian to be a Brit Bond...

Lazenby was too wooden acting but would have liked to see more of Diana Rigg...

SPECTRE most likely disbanded, and Blofeld got dumped down a smokestack in the beginning of "For Your Eyes Only."

@@Kutanamar I don't consider that scene in FYEO to be canon.

​@@mayerbasic7004 I couldn't stand that. For me, it was more insulting than DAF ignoring OHMSS.

Anthony Hopkins (who was also offered the role of Elliot Carver in *"Tomorrow Never Dies")* was considered for the role of Augustus Trevelyan, but he turned it down. Also, Alan Rickman was considered but he too turned it down, stating that he was getting tired of playing a villain.

I easily pictured Dalton

Dalton was the man

Check out the Lazenby documentary “Becoming Bond” starring him!

Agree. I'm not a big fan of his Bond, but he was probably the actor who thought most about what's right for the character. I didn't even know until now that he was already considered so early for the role...crazy.

I prefer *Tony* Dalton's James Bond in _Better Call Saul_ .The Lalo character is obviously based on 007, with him coming to a hilariously inverted end.

George had also got into The Counter Culture (and LSD) and genuinely believed Bond was old news, and in fact a bully of the state. He used his brief clout to get a film made that addresses this, Universal Soldier (1971). In the film, Lazenby plays an ace hit man who retires after giving up violence and embracing peace.

Wow, thanks!

“Hello there” “Mr. Bond, you are a bold one”

​@@johnclements6070part of the fun of the Bond fandom is passing on things found out. Yes you could look that up on Wikipedia, but don't put someone down for passing on something they've found out. There's excitement in talking about anything to do with Bond. No need to be snarky.

And Jude Law

So was Clive Owen.

All terrible choices.

Yes I was the same. I utterly loved Roger Moore as Bond. Why? He was the one I saw first. People forget the 70s was a pretty grim time. Moore was the perfect Bond for that era, the over the top fun and brilliant adventures. Live and Let Die is good, The Spy Who Loved me is utterly superb and Moonraker is bonkers fun, For Your Eyes only is brilliant as well...All the Bonds had at least one great Bond movie. The thing I liked most about Moore though, is he was a true gent. He was as sophisticated, suave and urbane as the characters he played. He was also a true Englishman of the old school, old fashioned type. I always thought Connery when I saw him as Bond was a bit too...I dont know...smug maybe. Moore never moaned about the role off screen unlike a lot of the others as well, he got on with it and made the best of it and stuck with it as he knew it made him a lot of money. Why complain about something that makes you rich and famous and opens doors? Connery, Lazenby and Craig should have kept that in mind....

Mankiewicz's script had some good ideas but it was far too campy.

The interviewers in Japan kept addressing him as James Bond and didn't want to see him as anything but that, e.g wanting to discuss other roles he was doing or would like to.

The movie was better than the actor. Not that he came off too terribly, but I wouldn't have minded him being recast again, with a story in the same vein.

And ever.

@@frankstrawnation AND EVER! Search for Shirley Bassey singing "Where Do I Begin". She sounds like she's singing a Bond theme even when she's not!

As a lifelong Bond fan who devours any knowledge I can find about the subject this was breath taking as I'd never heard this ever before.

Yes, I'm the same! Might have been the same showing! It meant I had a different view of the Bond series from a lot of people, since the early 80s was peak Roger Moore.

@@DomH75 ABC SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES!!!

​@@juniorjames7076 That was probably the one: I was very young and ABC lost its franchise in the early 80s! I'll never forget seeing that ending: it really hit me at such an early age.

Dalton with Judi Dench as Traci Draco ☺... but seriously... other Bond books have been written by other authors and as it stands.. The Man With the Golde gun is a contiuation of the YOLT plot lines that were used in NTTD.

Yeah. That was the only part I wasn't all that keen on. Seems like a silly way to end such an iconic foe.

Connery was too old in ''Never Say Never Again''. Moore, especially from ''The Spy Who Loved Me'', was the right man at the right time (except the last film). 28.01- 29.06 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vQ5PC7m45_0.html

Apparently one of the reasons EON are against doing a period Bond is a large part of their funding comes from product placement and you can't sell new phones and watches in a period film.

@@davidjames579 true but you can say that they're experimental in that time period. Just got to be a little creative

I have a video on that

No, no, no. Too late for that! 1987: TIMOTHY DALTON!!! & 1995: PIERCE BROSNAN!!!

The question for me is, what if Timothy Dalton starting in ''A View to a Kill'' 1985?

Thank you very much!

It's a great James Bond film! My Top-10 is: 1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1995.

Already have

@@Bulletsandblockbusters whoops, I thought you did just wasn't sure

I’m sure it played a part

It is funny after keeping continuity after Lazenby and Steppat not returning they then cast Charles Grey again but as Blofeld this time.

Wouldn’t have made a difference. They recast Blofeld in every movie he was in in the 60s and 70s and they didn’t care about that.

If Bunt is for most of her appearance in DAF looking like a man, I wonder if Lazenby could have chased and fought a stuntman, then Bunt's only appearance is when the disguise is removed. Could they have got away with it after Steppat's death? Maybe used a double, but with her eyes closed and obscured by a dark railway tunnel. And turn have Bond and M discuss Bunt's death, so we know it's her.

@@thefonzkiss True - but his character was easily recognisable to audiences (the suit, the white cat, etc) in a way that Bunt was not.

It's a pity that EON gave up on the chance to do an interesting exploration of the character. They'd been planning OHMSS since 1964 as the big one, and they when they finally released it they got scared it wasn't Bond enough and hadn't made enough money. It cost less than YOLT and made not much less than it. Lazenby leaving gave them the perfect excuse to hit reset and pretend OHMSS had never happened. I think it was an overreaction. OHMSS wasn't universally hated or a bomb. Neither was Lazenby. But EON decided they wanted another Goldfinger and set about bringing in the personnel from there. As much as I love Diamonds it was still a cop out. A variety show rather than where does Bond go after his wife is murdered.

that is from the swedish movie "let the right one in" and it is a very good movie. great cast, great soundtrack!