Bond Girls: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Greatest Bond Girls in James Bond Films Title Screen Film Title/Year/Director, Bond Girl (Actress) Screenshots d. Peter Hunt Teresa ("Tracy") Di Vicenzo / Bond (Diana Rigg) Suicidal, lovelorn, tragic and daring Teresa (or "Tracy") first met up with Bond (George Lazenby) on a deserted coastal beach in Portugal, when he rescued her from committing suicide - she was walking fully clothed into the ocean to drown herself. Although Bond saved her, the troubled female sped off in her car and he didn't learn her identity until later - as Contessa Teresa Di Vicenzo, although she liked to be called Tracy. Finding themselves at the same South of France hotel, Bond watched as the beautiful female approached his gambling table in the casino, in a provocatively revealing low-cut dress, and foolishly made a gambling bet. He covered her bet when she lost, after which she invited him to come to her room suite that evening.

After beating off a black assailant in her room, he found her in his own room, wearing his short hotel robe and lingerie underneath, and holding his own gun on him. She proposed: "Suppose I were to kill you for a thrill." He replied: "I can think of something more sociable to do." But then he knocked the gun away and ordered her to get dressed. Lying on his balcony's lounge-bed, she countered that she was there for "a business transaction" - to repay her debt of 20,000 Francs to him. Bond kissed her, and they slept together that night. He was awakened the next morning and discovered she had left (and checked out). In his bedside drawer, Bond's gun had been replaced by two 10,000 Franc gambling chips, he had been "paid in full." Teresa was the only child of crime syndicate head Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), whom he raised alone from age 12 after his wife died.

While unsupervised and finishing her education in Switzerland, she joined the "fast international set, one scandal after another." Draco's spoiled daughter had married an Italian Count who killed himself in a Maserati with one of his mistresses. Bond was offered $1 million pounds in gold (as a "personal dowry") by Draco if he would marry her to provide her fragile and troubled life with stability. Tracy rightly sensed that her father was luring Bond to her by tempting him with information about the whereabouts of villainous, bald SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas). Blofeld, wishing to bestow upon himself the title of Count, maintained a mountaintop hideaway Piz Gloria in Switzerland, an allergy clinic front for patients (Angels of Death), who were to help him in his scheme to blackmail the United Nations and the world with the threat of massive destruction by bacteriological means. Headstrong, adventurous, independent-spirited, and spoiled as a Mafia heiress, Tracy initially resisted Bond because she distrusted her father's motivations, but she eventually succumbed to his sincere romantic interest in her and they became lovers.

She helped Bond to evade Blofeld's pursuing guards on skis when he escaped from Piz Gloria and sought to hide in the village of Murren. She admitted a "new interest in life" and in him while driving wildly in her red Cougar, eventually escaping by sidetracking the pursuit in a stock car race. That evening during a blinding snowstorm, they sought refuge in a barn, and Bond proposed marriage ("I know I'll never find another girl like you...Will you marry me?"). He called her "Mrs. James Bond" while kissing her, but then announced that they wouldn't make love: "The proper time for this is our wedding night, and that's my New Years' resolution." But then he collapsed her bed above him, so that she fell into his arms: "It's not New Year yet." The next day, she was caught in a tremendous man-made avalanche and taken prisoner by Blofeld. However, she was later rescued during her father's massive assault on Piz Gloria, as she also displayed courageous fighting skills by killing henchman Grunther (Yuri Borienko). After the end of Bond's mission, he and Tracy were reunited and married at her father's ranch in Portugal.

In the shocking and tearjerking ending of this film, the British Secret Service 007 agent senselessly lost his newly-wed wife Tracy Bond - the only Bond girl to every marry Bond - only moments after their Portugal wedding. As they left for their honeymoon in his flower-adorned dark-green Aston Martin DBS car, Tracy mentioned wanting a large family ("three girls, three boys"). He assured her: "But darling, now we have all the time in the world." When Bond parked the car on the side of the mountain road to remove some flowers to give her, she mentioned that the best wedding present she had already received was "a future." He kissed her with a flower between her lips. Suddenly without warning, MP-40 submachine gun fire from a passing silver Mercedes 600 sedan strafed their car in a drive-by shooting, and then drove away. Blofeld was driving the vehicle in the attempt on Bond's life -- his henchwoman Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) had fired the shots from the back seat of the sedan. Bond ducked and avoided being hit.

He shouted twice: "It's Blofeld" as he jumped into his car, realizing then that Tracy had been hit in the forehead by a bullet through the windshield and was instantly killed. He cradled her in his arms, and at first denied her death to a police officer on a motorcycle: "It's alright. It's quite alright, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world." Bond's mournful words were underscored by Louis Armstrong's beautiful and ironic rendition of "We Have All the Time in the World." On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular) During Bond's (George Lazenby) investigation of SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), his tactic was to impersonate genealogy expert Sir Hilary Bray. He traveled to Blofeld's massive mountain-top headquarters in the Swiss Alps, Piz Gloria, to verify the villain's claim to the title.

[Note: Blofeld was attempting to be granted the right to the hereditary title of Count Balthazar de Bleuchamp.] After arriving, Bond (wearing a Scottish kilt) had dinner in the Alpine Room where he was introduced to a bevy of about a dozen beautiful clinic "patients" of an allergy treatment program gathered from around the world. They remarked: "It's a treat having a man here for once." Bond claimed falsely: "I've never had much to do with young ladies." During dinner as he boringly lectured on genealogical matters, one of the flirtatious women sitting next to Bond, Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular) secretly wrote her room number (8) in lipstick on Bond's bare inner thigh under the table, after which he told villainous henchwoman Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) about his temporary discomfort: "Just a slight stiffness coming on in the shoulder. Due to the altitude, no doubt." That evening, Bond escaped his room's door with an improvised tool and visited Room # 8, Ruby's room, where he found her naked in bed.

He complimented her: "You're a picture yourself, and twice as lovely in the firelight." She replied: "You are funny, pretending not to like girls." He flattered her: "You're not usual. That lipstick was an inspiration. So are you...Call me 'Hilly.'" Her eyes widened and she giggled "It's true!" when he dropped his kilt. After love-making, as she was explaining her allergy to chickens, he witnessed her hypnotic cure - a kaleidoscopic set of pulsating lights above her bed accompanied by the soothing recorded voice of Blofeld telling her to love chickens and that her cure was almost complete, putting her in a trance-like state and unable to communicate. Bond returned to his room, where he encountered another of the sex-starved clinic patients (see below). The next evening when Bond was scheduled for a second nocturnal seduction of Ruby, the lascivious Bond found Irma Bunt hiding in Ruby's bed. His cover had been discovered - Sir Hilary Bray wouldn't have seduced patients. Bond was knocked out by Blofeld's henchman Grunther (Yuri Borienko), and exposed as the libidinous 007 before Blofeld.

After being found out, Bond learned that Blofeld was planning to dispense a killer virus around the world, and was training (or brain-washing/hypnotizing) his own "Angels of Death" - his female allergy patients, for the task of delivering the potent virus that would destroy entire species of crops. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Nancy (Catherine Von Schell) Upon his return to his own room from love-making with Ruby (see above), Bond - with lipstick on his right cheek - found a second patient, Nancy (Catherine Von Schell) hiding there in his bedroom. She greeted him: "It is me, yes?" She had escaped her room with a finger-nail file. Bond used the same seductive lines on her that he had just used on Ruby ("You're a picture yourself, and twice as lovely in the firelight"). When she stated: "But I think you do not like girls, Hilly," he claimed: "Usually I don't, but you're not usual. Coming here like this was an inspiration - and so are you.

You'll need to be....A miracle, our meeting like this." When he asked her name, she collapsed in his arms on his bed, and replied: "I'll tell you all about myself later, in the morning." Greatest Bond Girls in James Bond Films (chronological, each Bond film a separate page) Super Reviewer ½ Faced with the necessity of breaking in a new 007 following the departure of Sean Connery, the producers wisely opted for a back-to-basics Bond movie, eschewing most of the ludicrous excesses evident in You Only Live Twice. Gone, at least for the time being, were production designer Ken Adam's cavernous sets, along with the increasingly silly gadgetry. That the film failed to find much of an audience at the time of release - the reasons for which I'll come to in a moment - can only be classed as a great shame, not least for the genuine Bond fan, as Broccoli and Saltzman backslid furiously and Connery picked up where he'd left off, before passing the baton to Roger Moore, who cheapened the character by chiefly playing him for laughs.

Consequently, in the 37 years separating OHMSS and Daniel Craig's revitalisation of the character in Casino Royale there were only a couple of high points in the series, and - surely not coincidentally - each corresponded with a similar back-to-basics agenda. The first of these was the curiously unloved For Your Eyes Only, which notwithstanding its risible prologue and epilogue is the purest Bond film Moore ever made; the second, Timothy Dalton's superb début in The Living Daylights. OHMSS's failure, perhaps unsurprisingly, was due in no small part to George Lazenby, though not for the reason one might expect, namely his performance. The problem with Lazenby was a perceived cockiness and lack of humility that got up the noses of his seasoned cast and crew mates and had the film critics sharpening their knives before nary a foot of film was in the can. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I dare say much of this was a combination of youthful high spirits and naivety, however the damage was done and the finished film was roundly savaged in the press.

As one would imagine, Lazenby was compared unfavourably with Connery, as ever other actor who plays the part continues to be to this day, though I, for one, couldn't disagree more with this assessment. Frankly, Connery was visibly bored with Bond, charmlessly sleepwalking his way through both Thunderball and You Only Live Twice. Furthermore, there is an aura of invincibility about Connery's Bond that precludes one's becoming overly fearful for the character's safety, even with a laser beam trained on his testicles, whereas for all his powerful physique and obvious athleticism, there's an appealing vulnerability to Lazenby's Bond that produces a couple of startling moments in which he resembles a lost little boy in need of a cuddle. Simply put: yes, he's not nearly as good an actor as Connery, but Connery could not have played this Bond this well in this film.

Not only was Diana Rigg's poor-little-rich-girl the first Bond girl of any real substance since Daniela Bianchi's Tatiana in From Russia with Love - and perhaps the last until Eva Green's Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale - she's still arguably the best of an admittedly shallow bunch, her combination of strength and vulnerability complimenting her co-star's perfectly. Without being either as creepy as Donald Pleasance's or as suavely menacing as Chales Gray's, Telly Savalas' Blofeld still manages to be definitive, not just because he plays him straight and with restraint, but because he brings to the role a brute physical presence the others lack; one senses, for once at least, here's an adversary who might give our hero a run for his money in a fistfight. Elsewhere in the casting, From Russia with Love appears to have been a definite reference point, with Ilse Steppat's Irma Bunt echoing Lotte Lenya's Rosa Klebb and Gabriele Ferzetti channelling Pedro Armendáriz's Kerim Bey as Draco. All things taken into consideration, this is probably the second best movie of the entire series after From Russia with Love.

Don't listen to the haters! Stephen M A so so 007 fare .. John Manard On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie? For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for On Her Majesty's Secret Service can be found here . Is "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" based on a book? Most of the James Bond movies are based, in some part, upon novels by British author Ian Fleming [1908-1964]. On Her Majestey's Secret Service is based on Fleming's 1963 novel of the same name. It was adapted for the screen by American screenwriter Richard Maibaum. Who sings the title song? Unlike previous Bond movies (except for Dr.

No), there is no title song. The opening theme is John Barry 's musical variation on the James Bond theme. However, the music during the montage scene, "We Have All the Time in the World", considered by some to be the film's theme, is sung by Louis Armstrong. Why isn't Sean Connery in this one? He's in the movies that come before and after! Sean Connery left the series after his fifth appearance in You Only Live Twice. He had grown weary of the role and had become frustrated by the constant media attention surrounding the character. As a result, after a lengthy talent search, Australian-born actor George Lazenby was selected as Connery's replacement. However, Lazenby was never signed to a long-term contract and decided to quit the series after just one film. The reason that Lazenby quit is supposedly because he and his agent considered a tuxedo-clad secret agent to be out of touch with the newly liberated 1970s. Is SPECTRE involved in this movie? Yes.

The head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld ( Telly Savalas ) (parading under the name of Count Balthazar de Bleauchamp), reveals to Bond that it was he who engineered the outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease in England last year and threatens to unleash virus omega, which will render infertile all biological life, including humans, if his demands are not met. What does SPECTRE stand for? SPECTRE stands for "The SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion." SPECTRE is an international terrorist organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Its members are recruited from the Gestapo, Smersh, the Mafia, and the Union Corse among others. With the exception of Goldfinger, all of the Bond villains from 1962-71 came from this organization. For legal reasons, the producers have been unable to use the names Blofeld and SPECTRE in Bond films after Diamonds Are Forever (1971). The villain in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was originally supposed to be Blofeld, but the name was changed to Stromberg for this reason. What exotic places does Bond visit in this movie?

At the beginning of the movie, Bond is in Portugal where he prevents the Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo ( Diana Rigg ) from drowning herself. Bond is called back to London where M ( Bernard Lee ) releases him from his assignment to find Blofeld. Consequently, Bond resigns from her majesty's secret service, but Miss Moneypenny ( Lois Maxwell ) has it changed to a two week leave. He returns to Portugal and learns from Tracy's father, Marc Ange Draco ( Gabriele Ferzetti ) that there may be a connection between Blofeld and a lawyer named Gebrï¿½der Gumbolt ( James Bree ), so he travels to Bern, Switzerland to investigate the connection. Learning that Gumbolt has been corresponding with the London College of Arms in an attempt to research the title of Comte Balthazar de Bleauchamp (French for "Blofeld"), Bond returns to London where he is briefed by College of Arms genealogist, Sir Hilary Bray ( George Baker ). Posting as Bray, Bond goes back to Switzerland to meet with Bleauchamp/Blofeld at his research institute atop Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps.

Following an avalanche, after which Tracy is spirited away by Blofeld's men, Bond returns to London, where M tells him once again to give up on Blofeld. Bond can't leave Tracy in their hands, so he enlists Draco to fly them back to Piz Gloria in order to rescue Tracy and blow up Blofeld's institute. Finally, its back to Portugal for the final scenes of James and Tracy's wedding. Why was Tracy trying to drown herself? Tracy does not explain herself, but her father, Draco tells Bond about Tracy's troubled past. He sent her off to school in Switzerland, without proper supervision, and she got involved with the international set -- one scandal after another. Consequently, Draco cut off her allowance. To spite her father, Tracy married an Italian count who later killed himself in his Maserati with one of his mistresses. It is Draco's belief that he provided Tracy with too much, which led her to live greedily and eventually to find herself with nothing to show for it. Believing that James might be just the man to tame his wild daughter, Draco makes a deal with him: marry Tracy and he'll give Bond a ï¿½1,000,000 dowry.

Does the movie title appear somewhere during the movie? Several times. When Draco propositions Bond, inviting him to marry Tracy, James asks the whereabouts of Blofeld. "I wouldn't tell her majesty's secret service," Draco replies, "but I might tell my future son-in-law." Shortly thereafter, when M tells Bond that he is to stop looking for Blofeld, James has Miss Moneypenny write his note of resignation from "her majesty's secret service." Again, near the end of the movie when James and Tracy seek refuge in a barn, Bond reminds her that "Her majesty's secret service is still my job." Why did Draco send his men to attack Tracy in the opening sequence? There are two schools of thought about this: (1) Draco was attempting to see whether or not Bond could adequately protect Tracy, and (2) Draco's thugs were following Tracy and attempted to ward off Bond's help to protect her from strangers. In the novel, Bond and Tracy had already met before Tracy tries to commit suicide, so those who commit to option (1) are correct. However, based on just the movie, James had never before met Tracy, so option (2) is also correct. Why doesn't Blofeld recognize Bond?

They met in the last movie. In making the films, screenwriter Richard Maibaum stuck very closely to the original story when writing the screenplay for On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond and Blofeld had not yet met at that point. Roald Dahl, the screenwriter for You Only Live Twice, the novel of which followed On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) but was filmed as preceding this movie, made major changes in his screenplay and added a scene where Bond and Blofeld meet. The initial plan to explain the change in Bond's appearance (from Sean Connery to George Lazenby was to have James Bond undergo plastic surgery, because his face became too well-known to his enemies. However, that was scrapped from the film, but the viewer can simply imagine Blofeld not recognizing James Bond because of the facial operation he underwent in the events preceding the film. Who were Blofeld's Angels of Death? Each of the ten girls that Bond met at Piz Gloria were from different countries. Blofeld had been "treating" them for their allergies by making them susceptible to his hypnotic suggestions.

When they were "cured", they were given going-away gifts of perfumes, which were actually vials of the virus omega that Blofeld intended to unleash upon the world. When Blofeld had completed his preparations of the girls and for his master plan, he'd contact them through the radios he provided in the gift bags he gave them. The signal for the girls to release the virus would be a hypnotic trigger. How does Blofeld discover that Sir Hilary Bray is really James Bond? After James (as Sir Hilary Bray) has snuck out several times from his room for a romantic encounter with the female patients, the suspicious Blofeld finally identifies Bond because of a slip that the real Bray would not have made. Earlier in the day, Bond had explained to Blofeld that the de Bleauchamp tombs are in the Augsburg Cathedral, but they are actually located in the Ste. Anna Kirche (Church) in the same city. Is there a deleted scene in which Bond chases a man across London? It's not on the DVD. That's because it was never filmed. For many years, books on Bond have hinted at a lost scene in which Bond finds a SPECTRE mole inside the Royal College of Arms.

He chases him through the streets and across the rooftops of London, finally cornering him in the UK post office's underground railway where the villain meets a sticky end (though some sources say he escapes and tells Blofeld all about Bond). According to director Peter Hunt, quoted by author Gary Giblin in "James Bond's London", the sequence was scripted and storyboarded but cut due to budget concerns. In case the scene is resurrected in a future Bond film, the late director would not elaborate on how the sequence would have ended, but look closely at the front page of Shaun Campbell's Daily Express which he's reading at the Swiss railway station - "19 dead in railway crash" How does the movie end? After rescuing Tracy from Blofeld's allergy institute at the top of Piz Gloria, Draco and Tracy escape in a helicopter, leaving James behind. While the bomb ticks away, James attempts to photograph pictures of the Angels of Death that Blofeld has planted around the world. Blofeld finds him and fires a shot. James goes after Blofeld, and the both of them manage to leap from the building just before the bomb goes off, destroying the whole building.

Blofeld grabs a bobsled from a nearby shed, as does James, and they race down the mountainside. James tosses a grenade into Blofeld's sled, but Blofeld retrieves it and tosses it back, blowing up Bond's sled. James cuts off Blofeld's sled, jumps on it, and they swap blows until Blofeld's neck is snared in a tree branch. James jumps off the sled just as it plunges off the mountain. Assuming Blofeld is dead, James and Tracy marry, while Draco, M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny watch (Moneypenny crying all the while). James returns Draco's ï¿½1,000,000, and he and Tracy take off in the Aston Martin for their honeymoon, which has been covered with flowers. They stop along the roadside to remove the flowers. A car passes by revealing Blofeld (in a neck brace) driving the car, and Irma Bunt ( Ilse Steppat ) inside. Shots are fired by Irma, missing Bond. When James gets back in the car to apparently give chase, he finds that Tracy is dead, having taken a bullet right between the eyes.

As James caresses his dead wife, a police officer on a motorcycle pulls up beside them. In the final shot, James looks up just long enough to mutter, "We have all the time in the world." Despite Blofeld being defeated in his plans for the world, he and his right-hand woman, Irma, both survive to get a final back-at-you revenge against James Bond by killing his new wife, Tracy, and thus leaving the door wide open for another Bond sequel. In the novel: Bond is forced to remain on "Operation Bedlam". He believes Blofeld is dead. Bond and Tracy had met (and made love) previously on the beach where he saved her life. Bond does not fight off Draco's men, he lets himself and Tracy be taken away in a raft where they are taken to Draco. Bond never meets Sir Hilary Bray for Bray was not in England at the time, and Bond does not wear a disguise when he travels to Switzerland. Blofeld is now very thin and has long white hair. He claims to be "Count Bleuville". Blofeld has women from the English territories at his clinic, not all parts of the world.

Although Bond is found out by Blofeld before he escapes, he only finds out minutes before, when he intercepts a telephone call that they are coming to get him. Blofeld does not kidnap Tracy. Bond and Blofeld do not fight on their bobsleds, they never even get close to one another. Blofeld's neck is not injured. As Bond and Tracy drive away after being married, Blofeld himself, not Irma Bunt, is the one who guns Tracy down in the drive-by shooting. Did On Her Majesty's Secret Service lose money? No. Although it has widely been reported that the film lost money, it did not. When documenting studio data for research histories into the Bond films, researchers learn the following about On Her Majesty's Secret Service's financial performance: 1. The film had a pre-production cost of $1 million. 2. The film had a production cost of $7 million. 3. The film had a worldwide marketing budget of $5 million. 4. The film's total cost was therefore $13 million. 5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service grossed $87.4 million worldwide at the box office through the year 1970. 5.

The studios netted $32.4 million of the $87.4 million gross as their share. 6. So the film actually netted $19.4 million in pure revenues for the studios through 1970. If you inflate that figure from 1970 dollars into 2006 dollars, the figure is equivalent to $98.8 million dollars in today's money. This is actually more money earned through box office revenues than any Bond film since Live and Let Die. How much did On Her Majesty's Secret Service gross at the box office? On Her Majesty's Secret Service grossed $22.8 million in the US, $64.6 million overseas, and $87.4 million worldwide through the end of the year 1970. The film's overseas gross of $64.6 million was wrongly listed as its worldwide gross in The James Bond Legacy book which caused some confusion for a time as to how much the film had actually grossed. The movie box office web site the-numbers.com has also listed an incorrect worldwide gross of $82 million.

This gross did not count the money the film made in Japan, because it was not listed in some sources until many years after the film's initial release. Therefore, sometimes the studios reported that figure instead of the actual total of $87.4 million. The $87.4 million worldwide gross, which is the US gross of $22.8 million, plus the overseas gross of $64.6 million, does not count any money the film made after the year 1970, as the studios have only released initial run gross figures for the Bond films, choosing to keep the liftetime grosses secret. Did Bond ever avenge Tracy's death? Yes, although it takes awhile to do it completely. Diamonds Are Forever opens with Bond pursuing Blofeld around the world and finally attacking him in a secret lair and drowning him in superheated mud that is part of a plastic surgery procedure. That man turns out to be an imposter and Bond learns that Blofeld is behind Bond's next major mission investigating diamond smuggling which turns out to be part of a scheme to terrorize the world with an orbital laser cannon.

In the climatic raid of Blofeld's headquarter on a off shore oil rig, Blofeld attempts to escape in a specialized submarine (a "bathosub") only to have Bond seize control of the crane used to lower the sub into the water and wildly swing it around like a wrecking ball with Blofeld inside. How exactly Blofeld survived and escaped Bond in that situation is not revealed. Bond finally gets his revenge in the opening of For Your Eyes Only (1981). Bond (played by Roger Moore ) is seen visiting Tracy's grave in the pre-title sequence. After dropping flowers off, his solemn moment with his wife is interrupted by a priest, who tells him his office has called for him and sent a helicopter to pick him up. This is actually a trap set for him by a wheelchair bound Blofeld (likely due to being severely injured at the end of Diamonds Are Forever), who has remote control of the helicopter and tries to kill Bond, but Bond manages to get control of the helicopter and uses it to snare Blofeld's wheelchair and then drops him into a smokestack. What did Bond mean when he said "This never happened to the other fellow."?

This is actually a joke for the audience referring to Lazenby's debut as Bond. As Sean Connery had been James Bond for the previous films, always being able to seduce every woman he met and so on. George Lazenby, being the new Bond meets Tracy who runs away from him. Bond is slightly perplexed, because he is "James Bond" and women usually melt in his arms. So "the other fellow" was Sean Connery. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) James Bond Films On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) d. Peter Hunt, 140 minutes Opening Credits, Title Sequence In the gun-barrel sequence, Lazenby (as Bond) was the only one to kneel when he fired. His image also disappeared as the blood washed over the barrel, leaving a red circle - the sole instance. At the end of the pre-title credits sequence, Bond joked to the camera: "This never happened to the other fellow." This was the first film since Dr. No (1962) featuring an instrumental track during the main title sequence.

During the title credits, stills from previous Bond films were seen. Gun-barrel Sequence: Designed by Maurice Binder Main Title Sequence: Designed by Maurice Binder Title Song: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (instrumental, John Barry) Film Plot Summary The pre-title credits sequence opened at Universal Exports (London), where "M" (Bernard Lee) was having difficulty locating Bond (George Lazenby). He was in Portugal, driving along the coast in his 1969 Aston Martin DBS (with telescopic rifle built into glove compartment), when passed by a speeding car (red Ford-Mercury Cougar convertible) driven by a beautiful woman. Shortly later, he came upon the same woman who had hurriedly parked her car. With the telescopic sight from the rifle, he spied on the woman on the beach, who was attempting to commit suicide in the ocean. As she walked fully dressed into the water after removing her shoes, he raced to her side and saved her from drowning. After carrying her back to the sand and reviving her, he introduced himself: "Good morning. My name's Bond, James Bond." But then the two were confronted by two men - at gun-point.

Bond was ordered to lie down in a fishing boat, while the woman was dragged away at knife-point. To defend himself, Bond threw a grappling hook at the man and they engaged in a vicious fight both on the beach and in the water. The second man released the woman and joined in the fight against Bond. While Bond incapacitated them, the woman ran away, raced off in Bond's car to the road above the beach, and then transferred to her own car. Bond was left holding her discarded shoes as he joked with the audience (breaking the "fourth wall") when he said to the camera, smirking: "This never happened to the other fellow." To establish continuity with the previous Connery-Bond films, scenes from several previous installments were seen during the title sequence. When Bond arrived at his hotel across the border in the South of France, he realized that the suicidal woman's red Ford Cougar was parked outside, and she was also a guest there. The hotel manager identified its owner as Contessa Teresa Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg). When she appeared with a revealing low-cut dress at Bond's gambling table at the hotel's casino, and then lost a bet, he offered to pay her gambling debt.

He followed her to the bar, where she asked: "Why do you persist in rescuing me, Mr. Bond?" He learned that she liked to be called Tracy. She threw her room key at him, and invited him to come later. When he entered her suite, he was assailed by a powerful black man whom he knocked out. When Bond returned to his own room, Tracy was there wearing his short hotel robe and lingerie underneath, holding his own gun on him and proposing: "Suppose I were to kill you for a thrill." He replied: "I can think of something more sociable to do." But then he knocked the gun away and ordered her to get dressed. Lying on his balcony's lounge-bed, she countered that she was there for "a business transaction" - to repay her debt of 20,000 Francs to him - she kissed Bond (# 1 tryst). After spending the night with Bond, he was awakened the next morning and discovered she had left (and checked out).

In his bedside drawer, Bond's gun had been replaced by two 10,000 Franc gambling chips, he had been "paid in full." On his way out of the hotel for a game of golf, Bond was confronted by the two men he had fought on the beach, and the black assailant. He was kidnapped and driven away to a demolition dock-yard for an appointment. After fighting off the three men, he entered the plush office of the head of Draco Construction (located in Portugal), Marc Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti) - a European Mafia-like crime syndicate king-pin (of Corsican descent) of Union Corse. He identified himself as the father of wayward daughter Teresa, his only child whom he raised alone from age 12 after his wife died. While unsupervised and finishing her education in Switzerland, she joined the "fast international set, one scandal after another." His spoiled daughter had married an Italian Count who killed himself in a Maserati with one of his mistresses. Draco knew of Bond's dealings with his rambunctious daughter and was grateful to Bond for saving Tracy's life. He wanted Bond to further help her (Bond replied: "She needs a psychiatrist, not me").

Bond was offered $1 million pounds in gold (as a "personal dowry") if he would marry her to provide her fragile and troubled life with stability. Bond declined, arguing that he didn't need the money, and that a wife would be a liability for someone in his profession. Their conversation drifted to Draco's competition, SPECTRE villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas). Draco temptingly noted that he wouldn't tell "Her Majesty's Secret Service" the whereabouts of Blofeld, but he might tell his future son-in-law. Bond agreed to attend the next weeks' birthday celebration for Draco - an event Tracy was guaranteed to attend (Bond: "Let's say I'll sleep on the idea"), where Bond could become better acquainted. Bond returned to London, England for a briefing with "M" - where he was told that he had been released from "Operation Bedlam" - the code name for the search for Blofeld. "M" was frustrated that Bond's two-year search for the criminal was not going well.

In anger, Bond promptly threatened to resign with a dictated note to "M's" secretary Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell), and as he packed up his office, he was reminded of previous missions - Honey Ryder's knife from Dr. No (1962), and Red Grant's garrotte-wrist-watch from From Russia With Love (1963). Miss Moneypenny acted as a go-between to resolve differences between Bond and his superior, and Bond's "request" was granted. Moneypenny had resolved the crisis by altering Bond's request, changing it to "two weeks leave," during which time Bond would still have the opportunity to pursue Blofeld. As he left the office, he kissed the surprised secretary on the lips. Acting haughty and headstrong, Tracy was reacquainted with Bond at her father's birthday party at his ranch in Portugal, but she was suspicious of her father's "business arrangement" or deal with Bond - the swap of information for being with her. She demanded that Draco tell Bond what he wanted to know ("Tell him, Papa, or you'll never see me again").

Bond learned from Draco that Blofeld was linked to a Swiss lawyer named Gumbold (James Bree) with offices in Bern. Tracy then ran off, feeling used, but Bond pursued her and wiped away her tears, calling her a friend and a lover. In a montage of scenes, Tracy and Bond became romantically involved, to the tune of Louis Armstrong's "We Have All the Time in the World." Bond traveled to Bern, Switzerland where he broke into Gumbold's high-rise law office during lunchtime. With assistance from a crane at the Draco Construction Company nearby, he had MI6 agent Campbell (Bernard Horsfall) hoist up to him a full-sized photocopier and a small safecracker device to break into the office's safe. While patiently waiting, Bond looked at the centerfold in a copy of the February 1969 Playboy Magazine (and later left with the issue). He photocopied correspondence, including a letter from genealogy expert Sir Hilary Bray of the Royal College of Arms in London. [Through Gumbold, client Blofeld had hired Bray to trace his family tree.

Blofeld was attempting to be granted the right to the hereditary title of Count Balthazar de Bleuchamp.] Bond then returned to England and visited Quarterdeck, the home of "M," where his superior was engaged in his favorite hobby, lepidoptery (study of moths and butterflies). Bond requested and was given authorization to recommence his investigation of Blofeld, by impersonating Sir Hilary Bray. He had already contacted the College of Arms and received their consent for the deception, assured that it was a matter of "national importance." Bond would travel to Blofeld's massive mountain-top headquarters in the Swiss Alps, Piz Gloria, to verify the villain's claim to the title. He was met at the Murren train station by Blofeld's personal secretary Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat), and transported by a horse-drawn sleigh and then a helicopter to Blofeld's private hideaway. The bald Blofeld (identified at first by a Persian cat in his lap), referred to as "The Count" by Bunt, appeared to be the director of the non-profit allergy clinic, treating allergies, hayfever and reactions to oysters, among other things, with vaccines.

At 7 pm dinner in the Alpine Room, Bond (wearing a Scottish kilt) was met by Bunt, and introduced to a bevy of about a dozen beautiful clinic "patients" from around the world. During dinner, one of the women, Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular) secretly wrote her room number (8) in lipstick on Bond's bare thigh under the table, after which he told Irma about his temporary discomfort: "Just a slight stiffness coming on - in the shoulder due to the altitude, no doubt." Bond was dismissed from the meal to see the Count, who described how he was undoubtedly of Bleuchamp ancestry, born without earlobes, although Bond (as Bray) insisted on further research and confirmation. Bond tried to convince Blofeld to leave his fortress and visit Augsburg (Germany) Cathedral where the Bleuchamp ancestral tombs were located (although Bond's error about the location of the tombs, actually located at St. Anna Kirche, eventually betrayed him). That evening, Bond escaped his room's door with an improvised tool and visited Room # 8, Ruby's room, where he found her naked in bed, and soon seduced her (# 2 tryst).

After love-making, as she was explaining her allergy to chickens, he witnessed her hypnotic cure - a kaleidoscopic set of pulsating lights above her bed accompanied by the soothing recorded voice of Blofeld telling her to love chickens. Upon his return to his room, Bond found a second patient, Nancy (Catherine Von Schell), who had escaped her room with a finger-nail file. As she collapsed in his arms on his bed, she said: "I'll tell you all about myself later, in the morning." (# 3 tryst). The next day, MI6 agent Campbell shadowed Bond by impersonating a climber and attempting to gain access to Blofeld's institute, but he was captured on the rock cliff and charged with trespassing. That evening at 8 pm for his scheduled second nocturnal seduction of Ruby, the lascivious Bond found Irma Bunt hiding in Ruby's bed. He was knocked out by Blofeld's henchman Grunther (Yuri Borienko), and exposed as the libidinous 007 before Blofeld.

The megalomaniac then described his plan for biochemical (or bacteriological) terror - he was going to ransom-blackmail the entire world through the United Nations, by threatening to distribute a deadly "Omega Virus" that would cause "total infertility" for all flora and fauna - the world's food supply. To dispense the killer virus around the world, he admitted training (or brain-washing/hypnotizing) his own "Angels of Death" - his female allergy patients, for that task. Blofeld claimed that his extortionist ransom would not be for millions of dollars. As Bond was led to a prison cell (the gear-works for the cable-car gondola), Blofeld exhibited Campbell's body hanging by his heels (# 1 death). Blofeld's cured patients, Angels of Death, were gathered together to receive their going-away Yuletide gifts. Meanwhile, Bond escaped via the cable, snuck back into Piz Gloria, and overheard Blofeld delivering instructions to his girls, via hypnosis, about their gifts. Their main present was a make-up case: with a perfume atomizer containing the Virus Omega, and a hidden radio receiver with antenna installed in the compact mirror.

As the girls were taken off the mountain via cable-car gondola, Bond knocked out one guard, stole some skis, and fled down the mountain - avoiding machine-gun fire. Guards in pursuit chased downhill after him, as he made his way into a small town of Murren in the valley. Two henchmen fell to their deaths from a steep precipice (# 2-3 deaths, # 1-2 Bond kills). In the village, Bond joined crowds celebrating the Grand Ice Carnival in order to be inconspicuous, but he found himself trapped by Bunt and her henchmen. Suddenly Tracy (who had followed him with a "new interest in life") pleasantly appeared in front of him on skates and helped him to escape by car in her red Cougar, leading to an exciting car chase from Murren. They soon merged onto the snowy race track of a stock-car race. After the demolition derby on the track, Bunt's car overturned and exploded, although everyone survived. Bond and Tracy continued on, encountered a blinding snowstorm, and sought refuge for the night in a barn.

As they kissed and spoke intimately to each other, Bond considered finding another profession and confessed his love for Tracy - and then proposed marriage ("I know I'll never find another girl like you...Will you marry me?"). He called her "Mrs. James Bond" while kissing her, but then announced that they wouldn't make love: "The proper time for this is our wedding night, and that's my New Years' resolution." But then he collapsed her bed above him, so that she fell into his arms: "It's not New Year yet." (# 4 tryst). The next morning, they skied downhill, away from Blofeld and his men who had traced them to the barn. One of Blofeld's men was chewed up in a snow-blowing grooming machine (# 4 death). Blofeld caused a man-made avalanche, which engulfed and killed three of Blofeld's own men (# 5-7 deaths), and Tracy was also partially buried. She was dug out of the snow and taken prisoner, while Bond escaped.

Back in London, "M" informed Bond that Blofeld's two modest demands were going to be met: (1) a full pardon of his past criminal activity, and (2) legal recognition of his title as Count. Bond insisted on destroying Blofeld's Piz Gloria Institute and Blofeld himself (and his virus), but it was considered too risky ("Operation Bedlam is dead"). To rescue Tracy himself, Bond organized a dawn military raid ("a demolition deal") upon Piz Gloria with Draco's help via a fleet of helicopters (disguised as a "mercy" medical flight). Meanwhile, inside Blofeld's headquarters, Tracy fended off Blofeld's romantic advances, and courageously fought off Grunther with a champagne bottle. She killed him by thrusting his back into a set of ornamental spikes hanging on a wall (# 8 death). Many of Blofeld's men were killed during the assault (unknown number of deaths). Bond machine-gunned one of Blofeld's henchmen (# 9 death, # 3 Bond kill), then headed for the laboratory and killed a technician who hurled acid at him (# 10 death, # 4 Bond kill).

Draco's men threw hand-grenades and set explosive charges throughout Piz Gloria, set to detonate in only a few minutes. In Blofeld's office, Bond took photographs (with a pocket-sized camera) of the Angels of Death and their worldwide locations. Resistant about leaving without Bond, Tracy was knocked out by her father and dragged to the safety of a departing helicopter. The last two left inside the institute, Blofeld and Bond were forced to leap from the building as Piz Gloria blew up. Bond pursued Blofeld downhill on a racing bobsled, but Bond was blown off his bobsled by a thrown hand-grenade. They engaged in a brutal hand-to-hand fight when Bond jumped onto the back of Blofeld's bobsled - and the SPECTRE chief was severely injured when he became snared and entangled in the low-bough of a tree, breaking his neck in the V-shaped branch (Bond: "He's branched off"). Afterwards, Bond and Tracy were reunited and married at her father's ranch in Portugal.

In the shocking and tearjerking ending of this film, the British Secret Service 007 agent senselessly lost his newly-wed wife Tracy Bond - the only Bond girl to every marry Bond - only moments after their Portugal wedding. As they left for their honeymoon in his flower-adorned Aston Martin DBS car, Tracy mentioned wanting a large family ("three girls, three boys"). He assured her: "But darling, now we have all the time in the world." When Bond parked the car on the side of the mountain road to remove some flowers to give her, she mentioned that the best wedding present she had already received was "a future." He kissed her with a flower between her lips. Suddenly without warning, MP-40 submachine gun fire from a passing silver Mercedes 600 sedan strafed their car in a drive-by shooting. Blofeld (with a neck brace) was driving the vehicle in the attempt on Bond's life -- his henchwoman Irma Bunt had fired the shots from the back seat of the sedan. Bond ducked and avoided being hit.

He shouted twice: "It's Blofeld" as he jumped into his car, realizing then that Tracy had been hit in the forehead by a bullet through the windshield and was instantly killed (# 11 death). He cradled her in his arms, and at first denied her death to a police officer on a motorcycle: "It's alright. It's quite alright, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world." Bond's mournful words were underscored by another rendition of Louis Armstrong's beautiful and ironic rendition of "We Have All the Time in the World." Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.) The sixth film in the series. With a very long running time (2 hours, 20 minutes), the longest Bond film to date, bested by Casino Royale (2006) at 2 hours, 24 minutes. The first (and last) film with Australian-born actor George Lazenby as Agent 007, the youngest (at age 29) of the actors to portray Bond at the time of filming.

This was the only film in which Bond married one of his romantic conquests - although his bride was murdered in a drive-by shooting shortly afterwards on her wedding day by Blofeld's assistant Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat). This film marked the directorial debut of long-time Bond editor Peter Hunt. It was his sole Bond film. This was the second of the so-called "Blofeld Trilogy" of films, beginning with You Only Live Twice (1967) (with Donald Pleasence as the villain), and Diamonds Are Forever (1971) (with Charles Gray as the villain). With a production budget of $7 million, and gross revenue of $22 million (domestic) and $87 million (worldwide). The film performed weakly compared to the previous Bond films, but was still a box-office hit. This Bond film was entirely set in Europe, and filmed there. This film was one of the closest adaptations to the Ian Fleming novel, with a screenplay adapted by Richard Maibaum, and less emphasis on gadgetry, vehicles, and hardware.

Set-pieces: the pre-credits sequence on a Portugal beach, the multi-stage chases (ski and car) - especially the one onto a snowy stock-car race track, the avalanche, and the concluding fleet of helicopters' attack on Piz Gloria.

Bond Villains: Ernst Stavro Blofeld or "The Count" (Telly Savalas), Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat), Grunther (Yuri Borienko) Bond Girls: Countess Teresa ("Tracy") Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg), Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular), Nancy (Catherine Von Schell) Number of Love-Making Encounters: 4 Film Locales: London, England, coastline of Portugal, The South of France, Switzerland: Bern, the Swiss Alps (mountaintop Piz Gloria), Murren (train station and village near Interlaken) and surrounding areas Gadgets: radioactive lint tracking device in plastic container, Aston-Martin glove compartment telescopic rifle, dagger thrown by Bond at Draco's calendar page, small safecracker device attached to full-sized photocopier, improvised door escape tool, Angel of Death make-up case: with a perfume atomizer containing the deadly Virus Omega, and a hidden radio receiver with antenna installed in the compact mirror, pocket-sized Minox B spy camera, and Tracy's wedding ring Vehicles: 1969 dark-green Aston Martin DBS (with telescopic rifle built into glove compartment), Tracy's

 red Ford-Mercury Cougar (convertible), Draco's Rolls-Royce, Murren train, horse-drawn sleigh, Blofeld's Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter, a cable car gondola, stock cars in the stock car rally, two bobsleds, Blofeld's silver Mercedes-Benz 600 sedan Number of Deaths (Bond Kills): 11 (4) James Bond:

Question: Who played Tracy di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’?
Answer: Diana Rigg