YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE | Little Nellie 

RIP Sir Sean Connery. You set the bar high for Bonds.

this movie seriously had the coolest Q gadgets. The Little Nellie, the rocket pistols, the cigarette gun, to name a few

I loved this scene and the Thunderball underwater fight scene the most when I saw these movies in the 1960s as a grade school boy.

What I loved about the helicopter dogfight scene, apart from being mostly shot with real aircrafts performing the stunts, was that the simply-constructed airframes of the Bell 47 and the Little Nellie fighting with close-range weapons reminded me of the early dogfights in World War One, yet the technologies were unmistakably at 1960s level. Such contrasting impression really clicks with me, It's like cyborgs dressed in period clothes performing medieval duels.

The WA-116 (Little Nelly) was on the cover of the June 1967 Popular Science magazine here in the states... Retired Royal Air Force Wing Commander Ken Wallis (the inventor and manufacturer) flew it himself for the movie. Awesome sequence and one of the cooler gadgets that Bond ever had!

What I find fantastic about the James Bond films were the fabulous gadgets that made us dream. Some of them have come true. 007 Live Forever!

“Hello Base One…there’s nothing here but old volcanoes”. Tanaka: “Ok, thanks…I’ll let the cartographers know”.

2:02 When I think of James Bond I think of *THIS* scene. They knew this scene was so good that it warranted the James Bond theme. Its got the definitive James Bond (RIP Sean Connery) using an awesome gadget to fight against villains in an exotic location. You also have Q and a beautiful woman.

One of the greatest Bond scenes. Little Nellie was a star.

You know, if they'd had the sense to just leave Bond alone, he might have flown back to base with the idea that he was barking up the wrong tree, that the freighter had off-loaded it's cargo somewhere else. Attacking him just draws more attention to the island. Even if he was shot down, it would mean someone would follow up on his death.

One of the best Bond scenes ever.

Black sunglasses, black clothes, black hat, black helicopters. These are the bad guys. :D

This was awesome to see on the big screen within a packed theater.

RIP Sean Connery legend of the ageless

That song should be played during action scenes in more Bond films. It is just SO perfect. You cannot possibly over-use it.

My favorite James Bond film.

This is a great sequence that I've always enjoyed. But I just realized that if the bad guys hadn't attacked Bond then he never would have known that the base was there! I mean what's the point of having such a perfectly camouflaged volcano hideout if you're going to give away your position by attacking? They should have just let him go by, lol! But of course then we wouldn't have gotten such an exciting sequence.

I don't care what people say, but You Only Live Twice is my most favourite of all of Connery's Bond films, and as a Japanophile, I love the fact that it takes place in Japan!

Connery was really pissed off with Bond by this stage, BUT later on he embraced the fact that it would stay with him for life... God bless you Sean..and keep an eye on Roger

after seeing this as a 13 year old kid in 1967, I dreamed and dreamed of ultimately owning a autogyro like Little Nellie..i remember dreaming how I would fly it to high school.. looking at it now,, man, does that look awfully dangerous

I love how the antagonists fire thousands of rounds without hitting the target, Bond fires like 10 and hits all of them.

Little Nelly got a hot reception but she defended her honor with great success

One of the best action sequences in the whole series. A couple of the wide shots reminded me of MASH with those Bell choppers with the mountains in the background.

This has always been my favourite cinematic Bond moment. It always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

You Only Live Twice is my favourite Connery film! This is mainly due to the atmosphere of the movie. The japanese culture and style is done so well in this film! Not only that! Lookwise, this film is absolutely amazing! The 2nd best after Moonraker if you ask me! It‘s filled up with beautiful cinematography, amazing filmsets and wonderful areal shots of Japan, like here! All of this just has to be praised! Blofeld as portrayed by Donald Pleasence is for me the most iconic villain of the series! SPECTRE’s Number 1 reveals his face! This reveal is a huge and very iconic moment in the franchise! Though my personal favourite Blofeld is Telly Savalas. I really like the Bond girls in here too! They are sweet and pretty, girls that every guy wants to be with! Connery himself gives more of a weaker performance though but I was never too bothered by this. John Barry‘s score gets better and better and better until he reaches his all time high in "Diamonds Are Forever"! I also really like the top 10 worthy title song too! Overall I consider this movie to be underrated because I‘m used to seeing it low in the rankings.

The cinematography here is spectacular considering it was shot in 1966.

I remember this!!!!!! I was 10 years old!, Watching this on the big screen!, Wakefield movie theater in the Bronx!,This is totally awesome! Watching James Bond In Qs toy helicopter with all those gadgets blowing away the bad guys!!!!!!!!! These aerial scenes actually made me dizzy!!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤣👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Rest in peace Mr Connery - my favourite Connery Bond scene.

And not one shot in CGI thank god. All done proper

If I could go back in time, the 60s is when I'd go. The coolest time for movies and music. It was a great era to grow up in.

Love this Bond movie. Underrated in terms of Connery era but the song was beautiful, sad and intriguing. This action scene is also amazing for its time! It ages better than a lot of the action of the earlier Bond movies (rear projections).

Great score to go with a great scene.

Most of this epic sequence was filmed by aerial photographer Johnny Jordan. Which he got seriously injured while shooting this when a choppers rotors caught his foot from underneath him. He later had it amputated.

Almost 60 yrs. Still great!

Bond in Japan, my country!!!!!!!!

Greatest bond there ever was and will be, RIP Sir Seán Connery

:10 The stress on the stunt pilot's body from that climb rate must have been immense.

Funny, but sending the choppers after Bond only gave him reason to believe there was something unusual about the volcano.

Ah, You Only Live Twice. When I was a kid, this was the ultimate Bond. Also just realized, A-A Missiles didn't stand for Anti-Air, but rather, based on their maneuvering, All-Aspect.

The best ever scene in a James Bond film - RIP Sir Sean Connery 🎬😓

One of the coolest and the most exciting moment in Bond history. We love you Little Nellie!!

My mum took me to the cinema during the school holidays to see this. It was the most exciting film I'd ever seen. Kudos to Ken Barnes Wallis for the flying scenes.

I was really surprised how well done and entertaining this scene was watching it for the first time

Oh my I just love just how realistic this is. Most definitely

I remember seeing this when I was a kid and I've always wanted to fly autogyros since then :)

Great scene of the best Bond,movies ever a classic

R.I.P. Sean Connery (1930-2020). 😞

Rare sequence where the 007 theme merges more or less into The James Bond Theme.

Love how the models hesitate after they explode until a stage hand cuts the string😅

" Ah Good Ole Little Nellie "

The Bond enemy training school for helicopter pilots closed shortly afterwards.

Big Picture Bond. It would have been more compelling had OHMSS been filmed first in 1967 (as was originally intended) and then make YOLT the revenge film in '69 and stick to the novel, complete with Japanese castle, poison garden and Bond strangling Shatterhand/Blofeld. Somehow Broccoli and Saltzman fell in love with the volcano concept, probably because of the Gemini/Apollo program and the Moon Race at the time.

Ken Wallis who designed and built Little Nellie, flew her for the movie. He had served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and during the post war years he became a leading exponent of autogyros.

First Bond movie I ever watched when I was 12 years old. I Watched it on TV in early 80´s. Back then I had heard and read so much about this "spy" that I could not let pass the chance to watch one of the movies. It happened to be "You Only Live Ywice" and was broadcasted on a very late TV session, starting 11pm on a weekday when I was supposed to be in bed by 9pm to attend school the next morning. But, boy, it was worth every second of it. Still today, I measure all other Bond movies bar "Goldfinger" to this one. Of course not talking about modern CGI or size of the menace he was put himself against but by the sheer fun of getting all these memorable expected lines, gadgets and plot for the very 1st time. Connery is the ultimate Bond, hands down. Perhaps because he was the James Bond right from the peak of Cold War days added to the innovative and creative spirit of the 60´s. Main song, sung by Nancy Sinatra is undoubtly the best Bond theme ever.

Sir Sean Connery, you are simply the best bond 👍🏻

4 choppers down. One short of being an ace. He should be wearing eye goggles! 👀

Gotta love the shot where shadows of 4 helicopters suddenly appear...I think they said it took 4 days to shoot all the flying scenes between 'little nellie' and the helicopters, and that the guy flying little Nelly had to fly it for countless hours to get all the shots right. Classic scene

Spectacular film, photographed by the great Freddie Young!

A I believe Little Nellie was flown by the Wing Commander himself, met him twice and he was a real gentleman.

2:00 4 heavily armed helicopters vs. James Bond in His specially designed and equipped gyrocopter. Odds are: they don't stand a CHANCE!!

Popular Science magazine actually had an article about Little Nellie that year. It really was a genuine flying machine. Of course the weapons were just special effects. I dreamed for years of having my own version of Little Nellie. I was ten years old at the time.

Of all the gadgets, my favorite is Nelly :)

It is just incredible. An action movie without CGI. Shocking, positively shocking.

Even though you can see they were models being blown up, it was still a great scene.

The 4 bad guys must have practiced at The Storm Trooper Shooting Range :)

I love this scene. Great Barry music 🎶

Such a Roald Dahl sequence. Which I mean as the highest of compliments.

Always thought this was an underrated Bond film, albeit it focuses more on action and stunts because as like Thunderball, YOLT had a bigger budget than the first couple of films, the volcano set is impressive, this helicopter scene was quite well done, the fake death and funeral scene was a nice touch and a couple of the fight sequences are decent, the plot is fairly simple and bit over the top but bearing in mind it didn’t follow the plot in the book aside from the Japanese location and Bond meeting Blofeld and while Connery had defined the role of Bond and made it his own you can tell in this film that he was ready to retire as Bond, he’s by no means ineffective, he still makes the grade so to speak but there’s just a little bit of the enthusiasm missing, he announced during the filming that he was leaving the series, his contract was finished and as the producers wouldn’t pay him the increased salary he wanted he decided to call it a day, he was becoming tired of playing Bond and felt the character was becoming secondary to the gadgets and the spectacle which was happening to a degree and didn’t have any reservations about giving it up, he was also tiring of the longer filming schedules of the Bond films and in Connery s time as Bond they made one every year so it didn’t give him much time to do other films and then have time to himself before doing the next Bond but his relationship with the producers had deteriorated as he felt they weren’t being fair to him financially as he had signed up as Bond in 1961 on a low salary as nobody knew how well it would do but when the films raked in hundreds of millions of pounds they didn’t increase Connery s salary accordingly, albeit he was given a slice of the profits later on. The studio did persuade him to return once more for Diamonds are Forever on a big money salary after George Lazenby resigned as Bond but he was never going to continue as Bond beyond that even when they offered him even more for Live and Let Die but Connery s Bond was suited to the 60s Cold War era and not to the lighter hearted films of the 70s.

Goodbye to the best bond there ever was. Sir Sean Connery. Dead aged 90. Rest in peace.

So smooth when they cued up the Bond theme. One of the best chases in the franchise!

One of my favorite action scenes of any Bond film.

This was the first bondfilm I saw when I was a kid in the late 80's. My dad rented it for me at a local videostore. Today I am an avid bondfan. Though Roger is my favourite Bond actor with For your eyes only as my top favourite film. However Little Nellie is my favourite gadget of all Bonds arsenal.

My favourite will always be From Russia With Love, but this one is a close second. I've seen Little Nellie at the IWM Duxford a few years ago. I didn't think to ask anyone if she still flew but she looked intact and air-worthy.

Iconic scene, nicely choreographed. Little footnote; those stunt pilots had to hold back somewhat. In reality the Bell 47G-3 completely outmaneuvers and outpaces that little gyrocopter. 😉

Ken Wallis (retired RAF Wing Commander) was an autogyro enthusiast and builder. He was the pilot in this sequence as I recall. He built and flew autogyros at air shows and would show off their stability by flying in front of the crowds sitting sidesaddle with both legs out of the side of the aircraft and waving with both hands. If that isn't enough to inspire confidence, I'm not sure what is.

Bond has the first generation go pro mounted on his helmet.

As a massive Bond fan have just named our new puppy “Little Nellie” 🐶

the women in that fishing village... dang 😍

James Bond and the first Go-pro in an integrated helmet💯

Sir Sean Connery, Desmond Llewelyn, Tetsuso Tamba - all the good guys' actors in this scene are gone already.

The shooting down of the enemy helicopters should have alerted the bad guys that they had been detected.

Best scence best timing

Definitely a top Bond chase scene! Wasn’t sure how they could top the Astin Martinnchase scenes but they did!

I always wondered if the scene in the Last Crusade where Henry Jones machine-guns their own propeller was a reference to 2:54.

Looks like Q got him one of those Dymo label makers!

Best bit off this scene is the shadows of the helicopters on the side of the volcano.

I love the cuts to them ducking.

1:03 "...nothing to report..." except for those sexy legged Diving Girls!

I bet you a nickel this is sikorski's favorite James Bond movie!

When he was little, my nephew loved the Bond movies, & being fascinated by gadgets, his favourite character was Q. His absolute favourite gadget was Little Nellie, never mind the Aston Martin DB5!!!

What a great scene from the film and OH, the bond theme with it.!! Can't get any better than that!!

You Only Live Twice is my favorite Bond theme song.

I have that Little Nelly gyrokopter As a model from Airfix I built it in the mid Seventies and it is still on my shelf 😀

Good job, mister Q !

I saw this as a double feature with Thunderball probably around 1969, 1970 at a second run theater where I lived in Royal oak, Michigan, outside of Detroit. So I was 10, maybe 11. Loved it.

I have actually seen Little Nelly a couple of time at airshows. Tiny little thing

Is it me, or is Bond wearing a GoPro in 1966?

What is it about this scene that captivates me ? It must be the magnificent scenery . A beautiful , some what mystical ,far flung island in the Pacific ocean !

The cameraman who took the aerial photos had his foot mangled when one helicopter collided with his. Eventually, he lost his foot. He kept doing aerial photography until he fell and during scene and was killed.

This shows how foolish SPECTRE really is. If they hadn't attacked, Bond would have thought it was just another volcano.