He was an idiot. He was extremely arrogant and he pissed off the producers instead of being grateful. He deserved to be fired.

He should have been allowed to play bond his way as it's all fiction no need to keep to the novels!

​@@yutopia7 He was cocky and foolish but who isn't at 29?

I don't think it's the best Bond adventure: The villain and his motive leave much to be desired. However, I think it's quite the film. OHMSS is the best in terms of cinematic craftsmanship.

I've always thought so too. I thought Lazenby was terrific, I can't imagine this movie working with Connery. It was followed by Diamonds, which was shockingly bad, Connery looked completely disinterested in the part, both physically and emotionally.

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Connery was almost as bad, save he didn't alienate the duplicitous producers and avaristic co-stars and production staff quite so much;

Now OHMSS is considered as top ten, but the 60's audience didn't recieve it that openly box office wise. It's a matter of opinion, Flemming was not happy with a Scottsman playing his English agent, but after seeing his performance he said Connery was Bond. Still you may have a point as I'm not real crazy about the Flemming book Bond so when people say this actor or that actor looked like or portrayed Bond closer to Flemming's 007 it really doesn;t matter to me, I wasn't really that crazy about the cold James Bond in the books. Had that Bond been portrayed in the first 007 film by another actor, say stone face Richard Burton and another director say Martin Ritt, and done word for word out of Flemming's book, maybe his first book Casino Royal as it was originally planned, I really think it would have stayed in the drive-ins with lesser acceptance. People were not into cold serious spys at that time. In my opinion I felt that director Terrence Young and Sean Connery were really the ones that made James Bond a success, and set the blueprint for future James Bond movies even over Flemming's writing. Sean, like a lot of people, is my favorite 007, and really George Lazenby is my second favorite just the way he moved. not so much how close he looked to Ian Flemmings British spy. But as you pointed out he got a big head

The Score is the best ever in a Bond movie.

actually, no, it wasn't..you're forgetting You Only Live Twice;

@@dreemeagle that was not real Bond was undercover to become Japanese and was married in a fake Japanese wedding in which which Bonds contact Tanaka set up to have him marry Kissy

Thank you John! 😊

you mean like Roger Moore? most times he looked like a plank from the deck of HMS Victory..and was near as old for the role;

Hunt and Lazenby were both newbies at their jobs.

Agree with you over Lazenby’s performance in what is my favorite film of the franchise. The problem with George was that he lacked “star quality” being a neophyte and was basically ignored by Hunt. That and a bit of a testy relationship with Rigg, who WAS signed on because she was a star who brought with her the “gravitas” that the film needed only further served to foster resentment and disenchantment on the set for George.

@@trevorsmith7753 Peter Hunt was a firm member of the film crew for all five prior James Bond films.

​@@michaelschramm1064 Yeah, but only as editor. Guy Hamilton or Lewis Gilbert would have held the actors together and maintained discipline. Hunt was too much of a diva, like Lazenby.

@@trevorsmith7753 Hamilton and Gilbert worked with Connery who was a seasoned professional by that time and required little coaching and patience anymore-all thanks to Terence Young, BTW who had to teach Connery EVERYTHING on how to behave like Fleming’s fictional spy: how to talk, walk, order from a menu, hold a lady while dancing, how to use utensils-ALL of it. Lazenby was a 29 year old somewhat cocky newbie (being no person of refinement himself) somewhat brash and uncultured, and a former model with no experience whatsoever, so of course Hunt was bound to be short with him-the entire crew was. And I realize he was “just” an editor but in that profession and over the course of five Bond films, he learned IMO a great deal-he once detailed in print what he gleaned between the years 1962-1967 and it seemed most accomplished I felt. For me, he was the equal of Terence Young, well adept at composing scenes with consummate skill. One could lift a frame from any scene in OHMSS and a have a marvelous still suitable for framing. The way we captured the mood for scenes with Bond and M, Bond and Tracy, the Gumbold safe break, the helicopter flight, Bond’s escape from Piz Gloria, Blofeld’s unveiling of the plot to the “angels of death”…there’s just too many sublime moments in OHMSS to cover.

sean took his agent to court for swindling , he was lucky he didn`t get pulled into a dark alley .

age humbles us all .

Not Hong Kong but Singapore - an episode in two parts called The Year Of The Horse .

Yeah, we might not have t wait until 2007 for that to happen

I always ask myself what “might have been” if Lazenby had honored his contract. Likely, the franchise would have been much more closely allied with Fleming’s world, thereby negating Moore’s entry, leading the franchise down the path of “pastiche”, save for perhaps 2 of his latter films. Lazenby with his youth and vigor could have assumed the mantle of 007 for 25 years (!)

moore, the comedian , is the worst

Because the storyline, as dictated by the Fleming novel in question, didn’t require it.

Sean connery first to play James Bond. George lazenby very good as James Bond. On her majesty secret service is the best of all the Bond films 🎥. Dianna Riggs the best Bond girl Telly savalas best Blofield.

not any great mountain to climb..Connery was hardly the next Sir Ralph Richardson;

I loved Connery as Bond. I loved Lazenby as Bond. But, OHMSS is the only Bond film that’s among my all-time favorite movies.

@@dreemeagle Yes your right don't have to be a great actor to play James Bond. Sean connery came in at the right time be the first to play James Bond. But after he left connery films was not that good apart from the Untouchables but some other films was OK. Like all the actors to play James Bond after they left the films they made was a load of crap Roger Moore film career went down hill. As for Daniel Craig is the most ugly looking James Bond the worst James Bond who ever pick him needs their eyes tested Bond films have had their days.

Tell him!

@@kevinbrady6075 🤔You tell him, anyway he's already knows, that walking away from Bond,was the biggest mistake of his life. He received some really bad advice 😕.

@@alancrisp1582 fU!

@@kevinbrady6075 🤐likewise to you....

Already by 1967 Connery was bored, tired, lethargic, pudgy and disinterested in putting his best forward for the role. I, for one am glad Connery didn’t star in OHMSS becase he would have erased any sense of pathos and compassion as reflected in Fleming’s stellar novel, one of the top three he penned. Connery’s clipped, terse delivery of dialog, coupled with his penchant for narcissism would have completely changed the tone of the film, which, as it stands is the most accurate representation of Fleming’s universe until 1987’s “The Living Daylights” featuring Dalton’s superb performance. Albert R. Broccoli himself went on record stating that had Lazenby honored his 7 film contract his versioning of 007 would have become the one by which all others are measured.

Far better than Roger moore

Precisely Lazenby became the one by which all others are measured. Poor fellow !

I thought he did a pretty good job wish he did more films in the role

@@DaveTravelsinTime free expression allows people to totally disagree on those entertainment subjects.

and Roger Moore wasn't?

@@dreemeagle Roger Moore was a skilled and successful actor who played "The Saint" on TV and far from "wooden"...he was also the worst James Bond because he brought the same character to the Bond movies.

@@ivandafoe5451 Moore was accomplished as “The Saint” because the role mirrors his persona to a much greater extent than James Bond. What Moore did was basically re-enact Simon Templar and it comes across as disingenuous to what Fleming created. Lazenby, however captured the role to near perfection and would have certainly improved greatly with each portrayal given some additional coaching.

Well the English have never exactly looked favorably on the Australians…

@@michaelschramm1064 to their repeated detriment;