On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969 • 142 minutes

4.2

309 reviews

81%

Tomatometer

Eligible

About this movie

In this sixth 007 adventure, Secret Agent James Bond (George Lazenby) again confronts the infamous arch-villain and SPECTRE chief Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), who is planning a biological-warfare assault on the entire world by introducing sterility spores into the world's agricultural supplies. Bond meets his match in a beautiful, intelligent and enchanting woman, Tracy Draco, whom he had rescued from an attempted suicide by drowning. Through Tracy's international Mafioso-ish father, Bond gains entry into Blofeld's incredible Swiss-mountain stronghold to foil Blofeld's attempt to rule the world...but at great cost. Based on the novel by Ian Fleming.

Ratings and reviews

4.2

309 reviews

Sam Finley

December 22, 2015

One of the best Bond films of all time, based on its staying fairly true to Fleming's original novel and Savalas' portrayal of Blofeld. Lazenby is one of the more underrated 007s, and would've been better had he not left after one film. Like many have said before, it would be considered the best of the series if Connery had stayed on. Still, this movie grabs and keeps your attention. Isn't that the mark of a good James Bond film? It's better than Connery's last two, both of Dalton's, and some of Moore's. That puts it pretty high on my list.

A Google user

December 7, 2015

When fans back then learned that George Lazenby would replace Sean Connery, they went nuts. So the producers made sure that everything else was absolutely spectacular...and it worked, somewhat. The action was great for the time albeit a little confusing, the villian was memorable and the setting was beautiful. Everything was perfect, except for one thing a lot of movies have trouble with: it is absolutely boring most of the time. At least the fighting was more convincing than Live And Let Die's.

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Kat Silver

August 6, 2014

Personally, I don't really rate George. However, I do give him credit for the fact that he did all his own stunts. Overall, I believe that this is quite an underrated Bond film. The storyline was decent and I thought it was well based on the book, OHMSS, by Ian Fleming. Diana Rigg was amazing as Teresa (Tracy) and I thought the whole film was well set out in terms of the various events that took place! Worth buying!