This was the sixth Bond film, and the only one starring George Lazenby as Bond. He was surprisingly good, despite a pair of outwardly jutting bat ears and a slight edge of goofiness. Lazenby had been an unknown male model before winning this role, then he ridiculously declined to ever act as Bond again, a decision he later publicly regretted.So, its stand-alone nature makes it unique in the Bond catalog, but on its own merits, it's one of the very best films of the entire series, with a sinister Telly Savalas bringing actual physically threatening demeanor to the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and Diana Rigg as a captivating heroine, a Bond girl with evident brains, guts and ample self-determination. It features a taut, no-nonsense script, with a tongue-in-cheek opening teaser sequence. ("This never happened to the other fellow," the other fellow being Sean Connery, who had walked away from the franchise after "You Only Live Twice," then returned in one later last official performance, "Diamonds Are Forever.")Savalas was menacing and smoothly evil, this time Blofeld is threatening global destruction of major foodstuffs crops as the means of an enormous extortion scheme, biological warfare to be delivered by a cadre of brainwashed beauties, Blofeld's Angels of Death. The flick boasts rich location settings in Portugal and Switzerland, plus some of the best alpine action scenes ever filmed in the entire Bond series, capped by that wicked fight during the long, long bobsled run. The score by John Barry was excellent, as was Peter Hunt's direction.Critics at the time found Lazenby merely passable, but I found him to be droll, emotive and athletic in the proper proportions, big ears or not. Savalas and Rigg brought their late 60s star power to bear, and the result both shakes and stirs, especially with the shocking ending. This film is among those few in the Bond series that is worthy of repeated viewing, it's right up there with "Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Skyfall." (Note that I refuse to designate one of the two droning, spiritless Timothy Dalton Bond entries as among the best.)

Watch the 2016 Documentary - Becoming Bond. Just one example of how bond like Lazenbt was in real life - he turned down £1 million to sign a contract for 6 more bond films. There is a scene on OHMSS where he does the same - turn down £1m to marry Draco's daughter... think about it, who else would do that in real life. Lazenby epitomized was Bond was really about - he didn't just act it.

After Sean Connery had enough of the Bond schedule and refused to return the hunt went out for a new James Bond and they settled on an Australian model (George Lazenby) with almost no acting experience and promoted long time Bond editor to his debut in the directors chair. Unlike the other bond films this one follows the book much closer, sometimes this is good and sometimes it is a detriment. The film starts with a pre-credit action scene that retains the hard edge of the previous Bond films and eventually reveals the face of the new Bond followed by a tongue in cheek line "this never happened to the other guy", as the girl (Diana Rigg) gets away. The film is immaculately shot with the collaboration of the director and cinematographer making perhaps the best looking Bond film yet but the first half of the film is quite slow and lacks adventure. Even so it attempts to show Bond in a slightly different light with more emotional depth and a seriousness not seen before which would be great if half way through the tone changes to almost a parody of Austin Powers proportions with Bond in the mountains surrounded by a bevy of babes. The third act of the film is the best portion with a better balance of a serious but more emotional Bond combined with great action set pieces all shot beautifully.As for Lazenby, he did the best he could but he is not a good actor.. passable at best but his shortcomings were all too apparent in the emotional climax of the film. He also had a hard time hiding his Australian accent which really did not suit the character. Telly Savlaas (Kojak) plays Blofeld in this film and is so different from any incarnation before that despite him putting in a good performance it doesn't really work in terms of the series. I think it would have been better to just have him as a different villain altogether in this patchy over-long Bond 'adventure'. This film was oft considered the red headed stepchild of the franchise and was not replayed on television over the years in the way the other Bond films were. In more recent years it has been re-evaluated by some, I fear possibly out of the very fact that it had become a more obscure Bond film. While there is plenty to admire here, the parts that do not work are so glaringly bad that it undoes a lot of the great work done on the film.

On her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) starts George Lazenby as James Bond He is a very underrated bond because he never acted before he took on the role of James Bond. George is Ian Fleming's James Bond. George Lazenby added Something New to the Franchise The fight scenes in this film were better than the fight scenes in Sean Connery films. Bond Fans criticize George Lazenby because he Never acted before. They always ranked at the Bottom of as James Bond 007. I think this unfair. I wish Stan on As Bond in one more film. I wanted George to be in the next film Diamonds Are Fore (1971) Sean Connery was Lured back to play Bond one more time. This film suits Roger Moore more than Connery. This film also starts Telly Savalas as Ernst Stravro Blofeld the Head of Spectre. This film is different than the five previous Sean Connery films. I Read The bond novels in high school . The Best Bond films are the ones that follow The Novels written by Ian Fleming. John Berry Did the music to this film. Richard Maibaum wrote the Screenplay for this film. This was directed by Peter Hunt he was the previous editor of the previous five Sean Connery films. This is the best looking film in the Franchise. This is the first emotional Bond Film. So of The films follow the novels some of them do not.