Seing George Lazenby with a long hair, it's no wonder John Cleese wanted him to play Jesus in Life of Brian

So much of this looks more like behind the scenes footage than an actual film

I mean, I can see WHY he did this. This was the late 60s/early 70s. Mercenaries were having a field day. The Katanga Crisis, the Biafra War, everything. There was an idea here. A proper fleshing out of the idea could have really worked.

I look at it this way. If George had signed the 7 film contract we would have never got the Roger Bond movies so I'm happy he left when he did

Another George Lazenby film you should look at is The Man From Hong Kong from 1975. Lazenby plays the villain in the film. It has incredible action and stunts and is basically a Bond film set in Australia.

I’m assuming Tracy’s death shook Bond up so much that he had to be apart of the anti violence Hippie lifestyle! Perhaps that poorly edited shootout at the end of the movie made him come back to his senses and become a spy again, leading to Diamonds aren’t Forever. I’m sure I can fit The Man from Hong Kong into this weird Lazenbyverse somehow…

The still photo of George at 3:28. Good lord such a handsome man. I really wish he had kept going as Bond. It's honestly a tragedy in my opinion.

I am reminded of The Critical Drinker's comment on Lazenby's decision to leave Bond on his agents advice: "A decision which has been officially recognized as the single worst piece of advice that any human has ever given in the whole of history..."

The very first film I've ever seen George Lazenby in was "Gettysburg" -- yes, that 1993 film "Gettysburg" starring Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, and Sam Eliott. He was playing a southern general in that one, General Pettigrew, complete with a Southern accent and everything! I didn't even realize it was him until the film ended and I saw his name on the credits; I was like, "Wait, THAT George Lazenby?! The one that played James Bond??" Another thing I didn't realize upon watching this video was how much of a dead ringer he was back in the day to the actor Clive Owen. To me, he looks just like Clive Owen, but with a handlebar mustache! Back when Pierce Brosnan retired as Bond and they were still in the process of looking for someone to replace him, Clive Owen had always been my favorite (and was really hoping for) to be the next Bond because of his suave and sophisticated demeanor. And he can do action films just fine, like when he played the baddie trying to hunt down Jason Bourne in one of the Bourne films (and he also played as the main character called "The Driver" in the BMW series of films in which he also displayed major Bond vibes all throughout) and so was quite bummed when I heard the news that they eventually went with Daniel Craig as the new Bond... but then fast-forward to today when I saw this video, and now I'm thinking that perhaps one of the reasons they didn't consider him was because Clive reminds them too much of George Lazenby based on how he looks, haha! 😀

Poor George,,,not long after this he was to star in the next Bruce Lee film after he had become a mega star ,,,they were to meet for Dinner to sign the deal but Bruce didn’t show as he was lying dead in a hotel room ! The stars just didn’t align for George at times,,but he seems to look back and laugh at it all now .

I still have always wondered what would have happened if Bruce Lee had lived and ended up working with Lazenby after Enter the Dragon.

Speaking of George Lazenby, until recently he was set to appear in the action film The Order (funded online by backers and starring a number of actors/actresses from the Power Rangers franchise), until it encountered production issues. As far as I know it is not canceled yet, it will be interesting to see once it is finished especially his role since, he did not appear in the proof-of-concept trailer for it.

"Blofeld, like let's give up this war stuff man. Peace and love. Take a joint man, lets sit down and listen to Beatles and Hendrix," that's what I imagine Hippie-Bond would sound like

There is one Lazenby film I’d recommend though: Italian mystery thriller “Who Saw Her Die?”. One of the so-called giallo films. It’s pretty good, Adolfo Celi also pops up in that one btw :)

Calvin I’m just absolutely loving this series you’ve been doing and legitimately get excited every time I see a new video of yours come out. Your commentary is informative and genuinely humorous. Please keep it up, and know you’ve got a true fan of your work.

Amazing how O'Rahilly sounds just like Kevin McClory...

Wow!! What a wild time that must have been. For some more Lazenby action, check out the classic Aussie thriller 'The Man From Hong Kong'

I love Lazenby and I have seen this movie twice, good job trying to cover it. I have seen this twice and have no idea what point it was trying to make, for a pro hippie movie it sure did a good job of making them look like people who shouldn't be in charge of anything because they can't make themselves understood. This movie is just confusing and I say that as a huge David Lynch fan who gets most of his stuff. Just letting everyone get high and then shooting what happens is not how you make a movie. Good job on this one.

Ah the 60s early 70s when every man and his dog thought they'd have a go at making a professional movie that could be screened to millions of people. And some of those directors included Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and even Clint Eastwood in a way. Low budget was just a cool thing I guess.

I do have a theory that even if Lazenby had signed that contract he was offered, he wouldn't have done any more. This is based on UA David V. Picker wanting Connery back with money no object and basically got Connery back over Eon's head. While paying off Lazenby would cost more than John Gavin [who was hired for Diamonds], I still think he might have just paid him not to appear [but who knows ultimately]. Peter Hunt was asked to return for Diamonds but wasn't free and never worked on a Bond again but he remained loyal, turning down the opportunity to direct Never Say Never Again.

18:13 So if George Lazenby had stayed as Bond into the 70s we might have had John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band doing the Live and Let Die theme instead of Paul McCartney and Wings. Speaking of The Beatles - a film made in an improvised style by actors high off their minds on drugs and too high on their own hubris to realise it was all a bad idea? Universal Solider sounds like it failed for the exact same reasons Magical Mystery Tour did. But at least MMT was only 50 minutes long, has some killer tunes in it, and has that one scene of John Lennon shovelling a mountain of spaghetti. I feel this film would’ve been improved considerably if Lazenby too shovelled a mountain of spaghetti. Can’t think of a reason why he’d do it, but hey, it’s experimental filmmaking, when have they ever gotten bogged down with such insignificant concerns like “reasons” or “explanations” or “plot structure”?

Goddard's 'Breathless' was a huge influence on the 'apparently improvised' genre of the sixties, with its documentary style of filming, and jump cut editing. Might be worth a watch, to compare and contrast with more mainstream cinema. Breathless was pre Dr. No, but took a while for its influence to spread.

'The Man From Hong Kong' is definitely worth seeing for Lazenby as a villain - and for a stunt that almost had him severely burned. He was also very good in Peter Bogdanovich's 'Saint Jack' playing a politician who is a blackmail victim. It is a small part but it did get him good reviews and is definitely not Bond.

You should review Who Saw Her Die? Lazenby gave a great performance in that film, his co-star was Adolfo Celi (so you can do your Thunderball jokes there) and it is one of the best Italian giallo films out there. So if you are going to focus on George, shine a light on that gem.

„Guns are baaaad~“ *insane giggle* Oh my, I guess Calvin lost his mind for a few seconds there. Never heard him corpse like that.

You should try The Man from Hong Kong where Lazenby is the villain

I love George Lazenby as James Bond! And ohmss is on my top 3 bonds of all time with GoldenEye and Goldfinger

"Christ!! Find us an actor who's affable and happy to do a few films. Get us Roger Moore, damn it!!!" I did chuckle

It's funny you should mention his hair length by the time _Diamonds Are Forever_ was being shot. At the 2014 SupaNova convention, he was asked about about _Live And Let Die._ Apparently, Lazenby was offered to return in _Live And Let Die,_ but the director thought he was too hairy. It's interesting to think that had he stuck around until he was Roger Moore's age when he left the role, Lazenby could have conceivably played Bond well into the 90s.

As much as I enjoy my fellow Australian’s larrikin attitude, I feel he’s created his own legend. A good Bond though.

I love it when you review former Bond actors other roles. It gives a great dichotomy.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure the reason for the bad editing isn’t the editor of the film it’s the fact who ever uploaded this to KZfaq cut it weirdly to avoid copyright claims

By the way, I haven't edited this. This is exactly how this text appears in the comments section.

It's often mentioned that Lazenby dis a few years in the Australian army but there's never any details. As a retired soldier, this aspect of his past interests me. If anyone knows any details, it'd be great to see them. I assume he served just prior to Australia's involvement in Vietnam.

I think the aimless, meandering style of storytelling worked for Easy Rider in a way it didn't for Universal Soldier was because in that film, it reflected the way the lead characters lived their lives (being unemployed stoners drifting from day to day in their motorcycles and all) in a manner it didn't here. Mercenaries, unlike hippies, are men with a purpose and a mission, so the film should've reflected that by having a stronger narrative drive and focus at the start, only for its plot to slowly diminish its importance as Riker becomes more and more seduced by the hippie lifestyle. If they structured the film more like this and avoided passing judgment as to whether Lazenby's character was doing the right thing, perhaps its lack of narrative momentum would've felt meaningful and rewarding rather than boring and aimless.

looking back Lazenby did have a certain charisma. Having lived through that era I can honestly say that it was often confusing to make the right choices what with so many changes taking place.

For some good non-bond Lazenby I recommend ‘The Man from Hong Kong’ (originally supposed to star Bruce Lee and has a catchy theme tune) and Italian horror ‘Who saw her Die?’ (although he’s sadly dubbed it does also feature Adolfo Celi)

Not related to this but I was watching Goldfinger and if Goldfinger had succeeded and made the gold radioactive for 58 years it would become safe again this year in 2022…

It's amazing to think all Lazenby had to do was just do a handful of Bond films and he would be a household name.

One thing I’ve always been teased about among my fellow Bond fan friends is ranking Lazenby as my third favourite Bond actor, following Craig and Brosnan. I think the reason is partly due to his arrogance and his own relation to the Bond character in that regard. The producer he was talking about (Saltzman or Broccoli) was 100% right in my eyes. The 007 character needs to have a level of smugness and arrogance which I think Lazenby does. I also think that he is having fun in the role, he smiles, he laughs and grins his way through that film until the very end (which still reduces me to tears, yes). I understand his career has been less than the sum of his fellow Bond actors but to me, Lazenby will always be the Bond of my childhood and the first 007 I ever seen. Great work, as always, Calvin.

This film plays out a little like some of the other arthouse-style films that existed back in those days. It reminds me a little of the Marianne Faithful film Girl on a Motorcycle which was also made around the same time. They all look like they were made on a budget with a limited script and resources.

Art people think is created on drugs: Easy Rider, the music of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, Beat Generation literature/poetry... Art that is actually created on drugs:

somewhere there is an alternate reality where lazenby did at least a few more films, particulary a revenge follow-up to OHMSS

THE MAN FROM HONG KONG is one of the most fun, WTF! action films I've ever seen. Some really good extras on the Blu-ray that details the Director's on-set issues with Jimmy Wang Yu and George Lazenby (who was set on fire🔥)

" World domination is bad karma, Blofeld ! "

Has anyone seen Who Saw Her Die? George is a tremendously improved actor. The Man From Hong Kong and Stoner were awesome action flicks and Becoming Bond is a brilliant documentary.

I do alway think that Lazenby was a victim of the time he found himself in the role , the very late 60s was such a weird transitional time, by about 1972 it had all calmed down, am sure if he had got the role in 79 instead of 69 his tenure as Bond would have been very different

"No amount of sex and weed would counter that" have you any idea how hard it is for a hippy to accept that?

I understand Lazenby somewhat. 1. Lots of Movies of that time felt like they were made without a script. As if something happened and there happened to be a camera there to record it. And they looked a bit surreal. Mash is for example such a movie. There definitely was a script by the way. 2. Times were changing in just about anything. Live, entertainment, relationships, etc. Look at Lazenby's life. He might had more sex in real life than James Bond had. 3. Series that had a change in lead actor did not do well. Look for example at the Pink Panther. Only Peter Sellers would be accepted and not even an experienced actor like Alan Arkin could not take over. It was not yet established that they could go on with a new actor

A very well-balanced and considered review! While still not straying from the expected opinion, haha. Hippie cinema has never been my cup of tea either. I do find it amusing though that it seemed so dominant a force that some felt it would genuinely unseat Bond as a cultural institution! Riker's mate clearly has a thing for Avon ladies...Oh. Oh dear lord! xD Thankfully they clearly showed more sense and intelligence then him, haha

I have to mention "Becoming Bond" to those who haven't seen it, loved that.

This was great viewing. Hopefully you get around to The Man from Hong Kong from 1975. I think Lazenby’s best film other than OHMSS. Would be interested in what you think Calvin.

Tenuous link alert between Bond and the more famous Universal Solider: Van Damn plays Luc Deveraux in the Universal solider series-and Pierce Brosnan plays Peter Devereaux [sounds similar, different spelling] in The November Man [kind of his un-official Bond reprisal which I hope you review someday].

Might I just say, I am just absolutely enjoying this series you're doing of reviewing all of the Bond actor's other bodies of work, I would've never even bothered venturing into them had it not been for your videos. It does make me pose the question of which Dalton movie you'd choose to review if you ever chose to in the future, aside from his work from the 2000s onwards and I guess maybe that Charlie's Angels episode he was in where he played a Bondian character, alot of his stuff are period dramas or comedies and the like. Cheers!

It’s easy to think Lazenby and/or his manager must have been mad to give up the opportunity of Bond, but in the context of the time, it would have seemed clear that Bond was hopelessly out of step with the way culture was heading, and heading fast. Had Lazenby got lucky, and ended up in an “Easy Rider” instead of a “Universal Soldier”, things could have ended up very different for him. It was an educated gamble, and the fact that it didn’t pay off is really mostly bad luck.

Man if you want an AWESOME SUPER 1980's James Bond meets Mad Max flick WITH GEORGE LAZENBY DEFINITELY check out Never Too Young to Die. It's Kingsman if it came out in the 80's swapping the lead from a street hood to a gymnast. It stars John Stamos as the new spy, Lazenby as his dad, Vanity/80's Beyonce and...a very un PC but cartoonish as hell Gene Simmons as the most 80's of Bond villains. I think the whole thing is on KZfaq and is well worth a watch especially with your intoxicant of choice. There's also SUPER cool/super 80's Bond gadgets and car chases in it too.

Funny you post this now. I just happen to be in Lauterbrunnen and visited Piz Gloria 2 days ago. Here in that Lauterbrunnen valley (George Lazenby IS Bond). On signs and advertisements all over the place).

Calvin did you know that Lazenby was cast to play Tony Stark/Iron Man by Glen A Larson for an abandoned Iron Man pilot movie planned for late 1980 & tv series planned for 1981? He mentioned at a convention how he was Iron Man before Robert Downey jr. They couldn't get the armour right, there are photos of Lazenby in glittery gold spandex & day-glow red rubber that is supposed to be Iron. The project was abandoned due to the high production costs.

Are we sure that isn't Cubby Broccoli in the Rolls-Royce at the end bumping off Lazenby?

Calvin you should watch Roger Moore in The Cannonball run if you haven’t

You are right. This is not a good film. There are, however, things about this film that I like. 1) George Lazenby has a great screen presence. I’m not saying that he is a great actor, but he catches and maintains your attention. He’s fun to watch. 2) I love the scenery, the clothes, the film coloring etc. For an Anglophile, London in the late 60s / early 70s is where it’s at! The Ipcress File, Hammer’s Dracula AD 1972. I would love to wear those cool clothes and experience that world.

This looks like a strange film, to say the least. But, everyone puts out their share of turkeys. Examples: Sean Connery in “Zardoz,” “The Terrorists,” and “The Next Man.” Roger Moore in “Crossplot,” “Street People,” and “Bullseye!” Timothy Dalton in “The Beautician and the Beast.” Pierce Brosnan’s “singing” in “Mamma Mia!” Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier . . . the list is endless!

When George Lazenby crashed the hovercraft, was there a double-taking pigeon looking on?

From the producers of Platoon and Hoosiers… Why no mention of The Terminator?🤣 Same production company. I apologise for getting political but I find the debate scene hilarious, in the fact that some of these peace loving hippies would turn out to be the biggest bunch of hypocrites fifty years on … Rant Over The film tries so hard to be Easy Rider, but that film at least had some semblance of a plot. Also Lazenby, Greer vs Jack Nicholson… yeah, no contest. Don’t get me wrong, I agree about with you about Easy Rider, it is a meandering film.

I clicked on the link and watched the ending of this movie and I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes straight. The way it's shot, edited and how standard rules of film making are just ignored was just funny as hell to me.

Here's a Bond related film recommendation for you. Even if you don't review it, it's worth a watch. "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning". An "angry young man" film from 1960. It was the film that convinced Ian Flemming that Harry Saltzman could handle producing Bond within the UK cinema industry. All filmed in my home town of Nottingham and even starring Kincaid from Skyfall (Albert Finney).

Lazenby is the Pete Best of the Bond story, forced to talk endlessly about what might have been. But at least George made the decision himself and it is he, not Pete, who made the "worst career move in history.

He kinda looks looks like Robert Z'Dar in this movie. He could have played one of the henchmen's in Diamond's are forever, and nobody would have noticed it.

A lot of films rushed to try and emulate the success of Easy Rider through the appeal of an improvised political film. However, while a lot of the "guerilla" filmmaking with that piece came from the style in which it was shot and the dialogue/performance from the actors. What people don't realize is that there was a huge of amount of planning, writing, and creative thought put into the project before and after filming that wasn't just people getting high and trying to say something meaningful off the top of their head. It's a shame that Lazenby is relegated as a sort of punchline in the Bond community, and as someone who really appreciated the softer side he brought to the role, I really wish he could have broken out with a New-Hollywood-style indie hit. This is not that, but Universal Soldier does appeal to my love for awful 70's fashion, so that's ugh, something?

Jack Lord and George Lazenby together in the Hawaii Five-0 season 11'finale set in Hong Kong

Before you watched this on KZfaq, I could say I was 1 up on you for watching Lazenby in films other than as Bond or spoofing Bond (Man from Unclle). The movie I saw was Kentucky Fried Movie. He had a cameo in it. I wish Lazenby had accepted the contract to continue playing Bond. Then the end of OHMSS would have been the start of Diamonds Are Forever & the plot would have been a lot different, & hopefully better, than the plot with Connery had. Easy Rider is something that was a part of my generation. I was only 13 when it came out so I couldn't see it until a few years later. But I think it is a great movie. But I can understand why it wasn't your cup of tea. Finally Lazenby's moustache in Universal Soldier reminds me of the moustache Connery had in Zardoz.

Calvin, you should check out The Man from Hong Kong. Delightful film and Lazenby plays the villain!

I think the idea of Bond becoming more of a pacifist who doesn't want to kill anymore could work if we had a much older Bond who is reflecting on his life and starts to feel some guilt about gunning down people who were merely working for megalomaniacs that wanted to destroy the world. It might not make a great movie to the general public, but it can be an interesting take nonetheless.

I think we have all done something relly dumb that we regret but none at this level.

At the time of Easy Rider America was at war with Vietnam as there was also a anti war element in the film

Easy Rider was good at the time but it's a hard watch nowadays.

Actually saw this movie many years ago. And no doubt about it - possibly the very worst film any Bond Actor has ever done after leaving the franchise. And - of course - one of the most ridiculous career decisions in Hollywood History! Choosing Hippies over James Bond! Sad too - because I thought he did pretty darn great for a debut acting performance as 007 in OHMSS - and I really think he would have grown very nicely into the James Bond role had he done some more films. Still, George ended up doing very well for himself and certainly seems happy and content with his life. And he can always proudly say he was part of One of the best James Bond films ever made - and the one that’s truest to the Ian Fleming novel on which it’s based! ( btw - have you covered “ Becoming Bond” on Hulu about how he got the 007 role? It is one of the greatest casting stories in movie history!)

The captions made watching the clips bearable and great review as usual. I really appreciate how you put this film into context, especially with Easy Rider [the ending of Rider is presumably what the editor was attempting to replicate in this film]. Would this beat 1998's 'The Avengers' as the worst film reviewed on the channel so far?

Hey man can we get an update on the Licence to Kill review? It’s been 5 months since you did a review I miss them

The irony is 70s pop culture cinema was going gritty not hippy! 😄 Films like Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Dirty Harry, The French Connection, Death Wish depicted the uglier crime-ridden urban sprawl of 70s America. Even more uplifting fare like Rocky was based in an urban gritty setting. Easy Rider was not indicative of 70s pop culture. Lazenby and his manager were wrong in their prediction.

I thought that the Licence To Kill in depth review would be coming out today, will it be coming out next Sunday?

Beeing a big George fan I saw this movie and as you pointed out it's almost a documentary about what George was at that point of his own life, a globe trotter that wanted to be free to do anything. Needless to say that the movie is a real mess but George is such a charismatic man that I enjoy either. Go see CHI L'HA VISTA MORIRE a sort of giallo/horror Dario Argento style, I'm lucky to be italian so I could easly find the original version and I don't know if there is a dubbed version available, for sure You can find The man from Honk Kong and that is a flik for you Calvin because it's the right blend between OO7 and Bruce Lee. The Kentucky fried movie is just a curiosity because George has a tiny but very funny cameo in it. Never saw Stoner and a movie of Peter Bogdanovich with George in it.

Great review Calvin!! Will your Licence to Kill review be out soon? I’m really really excited for it!!!

Who Saw Her Die is pretty amazing though. Check that out. It’s on DVD too and comes across as Bond meets Don’t Look Now.

I wonder if he was influenced by Patrick MacGoohan, who made a similar transition, from Danger Man to The Prisoner.

Didn't Dennis Hopper follow up Easy Rider by directing a very weird , off-the-wall film....simply because he could . ?

THE DIRECTOR IS ALSO BEHIND ZULU!!!! Wow, genuinely shocked there

I think Lazenby could have grown into the Bond role, it’s sort of a shame that his first attempt came with such a relatively heavy, emotional story. Maybe if he’d had a chance to build up to it with three or four films his tenure would be viewed very differently. Anyway, fair play to him for not just chasing the money at the time, he’s still done pretty well out of it all.

Waiting for Calvin to cover all the actors’ filmographies till Bond 26 comes out

So basically, Lazenby thought that political movies with a message would be the future and that would make plain action obsolete. Some people think that today as well apparently… They learned nothing did they?

All I can say is that I think you'll enjoy The Man from Hong Kong a lot more

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Now you're exploring some interesting tangents to the Bond series, can I recommend ’8 Bells Toll’? Great little early 70s action thriller starring Anthony Hopkins. Apparently intended as the first of a new espionage cycle based on the work of Alistair MacLean to rival Bond at the point when the franchise was looking uncertain. Sadly it flopped at the box office. Comparable to Michael Caine/Len Deighton's Harry Palmer films as one of the excellent 'not Bond' spy thrillers.

I really hope the Broccoli’s announce the new Bond film soon before Calvin has to punish himself further😂

I heard The Man from Hong Kong is very good. I think Lazenby is the villain. Loved his cameo as "J.B." in The Return of the Man from UNCLE.

Mmm talk about awesome plot twists due to you liking Pink Flamingos and Last House.. maybe reviews of those one of these days? I'd love to see your reactions to the weird comedy scenes of Last House. Plus hard to top the saga of Johnson, Babs Johnson.

I absolutely love this film - its like Easy Rider meets Frederick Forsyth's Dogs of War and a wonderful time capsule of post-swinging, post 60's London.

Tidbit of trivia: There are SIX Universal Soldier movies, across THREE different canons/timelines. I would recommend at least watching the first one. It's a lot of fun.

The docu-drama Becoming Bond seems to show that George was already in this mindset or world before he auditioned to play Bond. He had no thought of becoming an actor (beyond The Big Fry ad, which was just another job like a photo shoot). His friend, Theatrical Agent Maggie Abbot thought he would be perfect to play Bond, and kept pushing him to audition. After phoning him while he was Paris about it, he agreed then forgot about it on returning to London, such was his apathy about it. She saw him again and said he should. He turned up at the auditions with no plan or ambition, and after being sent away as he wasn't with Equity, it was only after speaking to Maggie again that he got the idea on how to get seen. He did seem to get excited by the adventure of pretending to be Bond and pretending to be an experienced actor, but before the end of shooting OHMSS I think the novelty had worn off. Lazenby already had the Bond life so he wasn't passing up on the superstar lifestyle except for the big money. He already had wealth as a model, and his looks and charm ensured he got women, both models and civilians. He also had a circle of cool, well to do friends. And was enjoying everything about The Swinging Sixties with or without Bond. If he had stayed he would have been tied into a multi film contract lasting years, and aside from wearing a full beard to the premiere and refusing to shave it, his talking in interviews about his beliefs would have come up sooner rather than later. This may have been problematic with him playing Bond. In the early 70's he appeared on a talk show while tripping on LSD and proceeding to name all the US Senators he believed had ordered the assassination of John F Kennedy. He had been a habitual user of LSD since before auditioning to Bond, and think this and his naturalness to speak his mind on set and with the media would have caused problems for the family friendly image EON were trying to keep for the Bond films. I like George and respect his choices to be himself and live life without a care, but while Sean may have been a big personality he knew where toe the line, and I think George just would have continued to go over the line. The making of his Bond films could have been legendary for their hellishness, and possibly EON may have sought to end his contract early.

Wish you would review the charles vine film Series…. Licence to kill , Where are the Bullets fly , as they played him as the second best Secret agent behind James Bond