The movie has a scene that happens today – September 13. I hope you will enjoy this film while watching it tonight.
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE
British Secret Service agent James Bond, Agent 007 saves a woman from committing suicide, in spite of being attacked by four men. He later learns she is Tracy di Vicenzo and saves her from being embarrassed at a casino. Afterwards they have an amorous interlude. On September 13, 1969 [18:41 to 26:43] Bond is kidnapped and taken to see Draco, the head of the Union Corse and Tracy’s father. He offers to pay Bond £1,000,000 to marry her. Bond refuses, but offers to do it if Draco will tell him where Blofeld, Bond’s arch-enemy is hiding. In London Bond is removed from the Blofeld investigation, so Bond goes and courts Tracy. Bond breaks into the safe of a Swiss lawyer and learns Blofeld is seeking the help of Sir Hilary Bray of the College of Arms to establish his right to the title “Comte de Bleuchamp”. Bond, impersonating Bray goes to Blofeld’s hideout, an allergy clinic he is running, located atop Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps. Bond is eventually caught, but learns that ten female patients at the clinic are being brainwashed into distributing bacteriological warfare agents around the world to destroy domestic plants and animals. Bond makes a breathtaking ski escape from the mountain. He reaches the village of Lauterbrunnen, where he is rescued by Tracy who had been looking for him. They take refuge in a barn where Bond proposes to her. Later trying to get out of the area they are caught in an avalanche caused by Blofeld. Bond escapes, but Tracy is captured. When the UN decides to pay Blofeld off, Bond is forbidden to do anything. He teams up with Draco and launches an attack on Piz Gloria, destroying the facility and rescuing Tracy. Blofeld escapes. Tracy and Bond are married, but on the way to their honeymoon, she is killed by Blofeld and his henchwoman, Irma Blunt.
Although Lazenby’s performance was widely derided at the time, I think this is one of my favorite Bond films. Lazenby plays Bond as a real person, not a secret agent caricature. Diana Rigg of course is the ultimate Bond girl. After all, she was the only one who ever got Bond to the altar.
In the film at 22:05 Draco says “today is the 13th”. At 26:34 the calendar shows September.
Producer - Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli
Director - Peter R. Hunt
Screenplay - Richard Maibaum
Runtime – 2 hours 20 minutes
Released – December 18, 1969
Starring -
George Lazenby as James Bond– MI6 agent, codename 007.
Diana Rigg as Countess Tracy di Vicenzo – a vulnerable countess
Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld – Bond's arch nemesis, leader of SPECTRE
Gabriele Ferzetti as Marc-Ange Draco – Head of the Union Corse
Ilse Steppat as Irma Bunt – Blofeld's henchwoman
Bernard Lee as M – Head of the British Secret Service.
Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny – M's secretary.
George Baker as Sir Hilary Bray – Professor in the London College of Arms
Yuri Borienko as Grunther – Blofeld's brutish chief of security at Piz Gloria.
Bernard Horsfall as Shaun Campbell – 007's colleague who tries to aid Bond
Desmond Llewelyn as Q – MI6 gadgets expert
Virginia North as Olympe – Draco's female assistant
Catherine Schell as Nancy, a Hungarian girl at the clinic whom Bond seduces.
Angela Scoular as Ruby Bartlett – an English girl with an allergy to chickens
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