James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Original title On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Logo ohmss de.svg
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1969
length 142 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter R. Hunt
script Richard Maibaum ,
Simon Raven
production Albert R. Broccoli ,
Harry Saltzman
music John Barry
camera Michael Reed
cut John Glen
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
James Bond 007 - You Only Live Twice

Successor  →
James Bond 007 - Diamond Fever

James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Original title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service ) is a British feature film from 1969. It is the sixth feature film in the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions . The story is based on the 1963 novel On Her Majesty's Service by British author Ian Fleming . The film was shown in German cinemas on December 19, 1969.

action

Double-zero agent James Bond drives his Aston Martin DBS on a Portuguese country road and is quickly overtaken by a Mercury Cougar . Bond follows the car and sees it empty on a beach; the driver is on the way to the sea. Bond prevents the woman from drowning herself in the sea. Suddenly he is attacked by two men. He wins the fight, but the woman he rescues disappears.

In the hotel, Bond learns the woman's name: It is Contessa Teresa 'Tracy' di Vincenzo, the daughter of the entrepreneur Marc Ange Draco, head of the Corsican mafia. When she loses a card game the next time they meet at Casino Estoril , Bond settles her gambling debts and they spend the night together. The following day, Tracy disappeared.

When leaving the hotel, Bond is kidnapped by several men and taken to a port area, where he meets Marc Ange Draco. He thanks him for saving his daughter and proposes to Bond to marry her. Draco believes that this will help her overcome her emotional instability. As an incentive, Bond is said to receive a dowry of a million pounds in gold on the wedding day . He rejects this; but he would like to know the whereabouts of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of the criminal organization SPECTER. However, Draco only reveals that SPECTER has poached several of his people from him.

Bond's coat of arms with the Latin motto "The world is not enough"

M recognizes Bond's intention to follow Blofeld's heels again and orders him off, whereupon Bond dictates his resignation to Moneypenny. Moneypenny rewrites this as a leave of absence so that Bond can investigate. Bond meets Draco and Tracy at a racecourse, but Tracy has guessed her father's intention to set them up with Bond. She causes her father to give Bond the requested information for no consideration. Draco then reveals to Bond that there are connections between Blofeld and lawyer Gumbold in Bern . Despite being given the information he wanted, Bond spends time with Tracy and they grow closer.

Bond visits the Gumbolds law firm in Bern and discovers a relationship between Blofeld and the royal heraldry institute: Blofeld has applied for recognition of the Comte de Bleuchamp title there . In order to get close to Blofeld, Bond poses as heraldist Sir Hillary Bray, who is supposed to confirm a special characteristic of the Bleuchamps at Blofeld - the lack of earlobes.

Blofeld bought a former sports club under the name “Graf Bleuchamp” on a mountain peak called Piz Gloria and had it converted into a research facility . Officially, the Count wants to rid mankind of allergies and is developing vaccines for this, which he has ten young women tested with an unorthodox allergy therapy in the facility . Bond arrives there as Sir Hillary and finds out that the women are hypnotically trained without their knowledge to spread pathogens around the world on a signal . To do this, they are given a radio receiver and an alleged perfume bottle with the pathogens on departure.

When Bond's colleague is picked up by Blofeld's men, Bonds reveals his true identity, who is then locked in the cable car. However, he escapes on skis, pursued by Blofeld's henchmen. The breakneck escape ends in the valley in a mountain village where the winter carnival is being celebrated. There Bond unexpectedly meets Tracy, who is looking for him. Bond and Tracy flee in a car and can escape Blofeld's henchmen in a barn, where they spend the night and Bond proposes to her. The following day, they are tracked down again and followed through the snow until they get caught in an avalanche. Bond escapes, but Tracy is captured by Blofeld's men and taken to the research station.

Blofeld's girls have now returned to their home countries with the pathogens in their luggage. From Piz Gloria he sends a message to the United Nations in which he threatens the outbreak of a worldwide epidemic if his demands are not met. Due to the great dangers, the Secret Service is not prepared to take a violent counteraction, despite Bond's emphatic demand, but wants to give in to Blofeld's blackmail.

Bond wants to save Tracy and, with the help of Draco's organization, undertakes a spectacular rescue operation with helicopters. The research station and the transmitter on the summit of Piz Gloria are also to be destroyed so that the earth is safe from the outbreak of the epidemic. In a fierce battle, Bond can free Tracy and thwart all of Blofeld's blackmail plans by destroying the station. He escapes and is pursued by Bond. When hunting through an ice channel in skibobs , there is a final battle in which Bond is thrown out of the bob and Blofeld's neck gets caught in a fork of a branch.

After the liberation, Bond and Tracy marry. On their way to their honeymoon, they stop to remove the flower decorations on the car. At that moment a car appears with Blofeld at the wheel. Irma Bunt, Blofeld's right-hand man, shoots Bond and Tracy from the moving car. The bride is fatally hit.

production

Planning

Her Majesty's Secret Service was originally planned as the fourth film in the series. But since Eon Productions Ltd. was able to agree on a film adaptation with Kevin McClory , the rights holder of the novel Fireball, this was first realized. Then, on Her Majesty's Secret Service , they wanted to release the next film after Fireball , but the producers feared that the similarity to the fourth film in the series was too great. Instead, Eon Productions Ltd. therefore you only live twice . After that, however, the planning for On Her Majesty's Secret Service began.

script

Since Sean Connery was not to be seen in the role of the secret agent Bond for the first time, while work on the script was being considered to write a scene that shows 007 in a hospital. There, Bond was supposed to undergo plastic surgery. The scene was not used, but the idea was taken up again in the next James Bond film, Diamond Fever , but to explain the changed appearance of the film villain Blofeld and to create Blofeld doubles.

occupation

In his 1961 contract, Sean Connery committed to directing one James Bond film every year from 1962 to 1967. The steadily growing commercial success resulted in ever greater public interest. As an actor, the Scot was only perceived as the figure of the secret agent. Connery lamented this and complained to the producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman about the longer filming of the film and its small share in the economic success of the film series. In 1966, Eon Productions dissolved the old contract and signed a single contract for You Only Live Twice . For the first time, a longer break was set up between the films Fireball and You Only Live Twice , so that the leading actor could relax and devote himself to other projects. Although Connery's fee was adjusted, he made it clear to the public while working on You Only Live twice that he would not be available for a sixth film. Broccoli and Saltzmann, however, were confident that Connery could be persuaded to make another film, if only the money was right. They made him a whole series of "last offers", all of which he declined.

As the shooting of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, directed by Peter R. Hunt, was getting closer and Connery was going to Spain to film Shalako , the producers decided in June 1967 to look for a new actor. Hunt, who had been responsible for the editing of the films in the previous adaptations of the Ian Fleming novels, was given the post of director in recognition of his previous work.

Eon Productions Ltd. cast various actors for the sixth part of the film series. For the role of James Bond, the two later actors Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton , but also well-known actors such as Roy Thinnes and Adam West were considered. George Lazenby was first noticed by producer Broccoli at a hairdresser appointment; he received an invitation to audition after officially introducing himself to Harry Saltzmann.

In April 1968, the five remaining contenders for the coveted role of secret agent had to pass some camera tests. Besides Lazenby, the participants were John Richardson , Anthony Rogers , Robert Campbell and Hans de Vries . The actors had to play both love scenes and fight scenes. During the fight scenes, Lazenby displayed tremendous physical presence and accidentally broke the nose of a stuntman, which particularly impressed Broccoli. Both producers and United Artists agreed to sign Lazenby as the new James Bond.

Until then, Lazenby had no acting experience, as he had only appeared as a photo model and actor in commercials. The Australian was noticed because of his masculine physical charisma and the lack of artistic experience was not seen as a problem. The Australian's resemblance to Connery was seen as an advantage, as the public always associated the role of James Bond with the Scotsman. Gert Günther Hoffmann , who had already dubbed Connery, spoke to him in the German version . Eon Productions offered Lazenby a contract for, depending on the sources, five or six films, which he did not sign because of problems clarifying the contractual clauses.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the only Bond film with George Lazenby in the lead role. For the seventh part of the series, Diamantenfieber , which appeared in 1971, Sean Connery was hired again. Connery received a fee of 1.43 million US dollars, a percentage share of the gross profit, the promise of a shooting time of 18 weeks and the opportunity to create two films of his choice.

The American Telly Savalas was hired for the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld . The German theater and film actress Ilse Steppat played his assistant Irma Bunt in her last film role. British actress Diana Rigg was known to a wide audience through the series With Umbrella, Charm and Melon (The Avengers) . Rigg in the role of Tracy was already the second actress from the series to be engaged as a Bond girl: Honor Blackman , her direct predecessor in the television series, played alongside Sean Connery in James Bond 007 - Goldfinger . And a third star on the series was in the movie; Joanna Lumley (The English Girl) was in 21 episodes as "Purdey" successor to Diana Rigg as "Emma Peel" in the new edition The New Avengers .

Since the character of Tracy in Fleming's novel was described as a blonde, the two French actresses Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot were also in discussion for the role. Deneuve was not interested in the role, however, and Brigitte Bardot had just signed a contract with Sean Connery to film Shalako .

The role of Irma Bunt was the only English-language role of Ilse Steppat. She died just two days after the film premiered.

The beach at Praia do Guincho

Title design

In the opening credits, the designer Maurice Binder used scenes from the previous Bond films, which are shown in an hourglass.

Filming

Shooting of the approximately seven million US dollar production began on October 21, 1968 in Switzerland. The futuristic revolving restaurant on the Schilthorn served as one of the main locations . The German production manager Hubert Fröhlich discovered this location . In the film, this is Blofeld's headquarters on the fictional mountain Piz Gloria.

Since there were problems with financing the construction of the Schilthornbahn, the film producers paid for the permanent expansion of the summit building as well as all transport, operating and personnel costs of the Schilthornbahn for the shooting. The bond producers had the helicopter landing pad not actually planned by the mountain railway operators built; today this serves as a viewing platform. The film producers were also able to design the missing interior of the summit restaurant according to their needs. A large part of it remained in a permanent construction for the later tourism business, which today includes the revolving restaurant named Piz Gloria and the interactive exhibition Bond World 007 . The cable car cabins have been colored orange and bear the Blofeld coat of arms. The orange paintwork of the gondolas was actually only intended for the duration of the film, but it remained (without the coat of arms ) until the cabins were replaced in 1995.

Willy Bogner's team was responsible for the ski scenes filmed in Switzerland . The then no longer active ski racer Ludwig Leitner acted as a double for George Lazenby . New camera equipment was designed for the shooting and used unconventionally. Bogner raced down the mountain partly backwards and filmed the chases. Ski racer Bernhard Russi played one of James Bond's chasers, the one who got caught in the snow blower. The exterior shots of the film were to be shot in one piece so that the film crew could quickly return to the studios for the interior shots. Due to problems with the weather and the risks for the shooters, however, the work was delayed and by mid-November 1968 the shooting schedule was already 16 days overdrawn.

In February 1969, the schedule fell further behind and director Hunt asked his film editor John Glen to come on the set and take over the direction of the second film team. Glen shot the chase in Mürren on a bobsleigh run that was closed in 1937 , while Anthony Squires shot the scenes at the stock car race in nearby Lauterbrunnen . Then the second film team moved to Grindelwald to record the scenes in which Bond and Tracy meet again while ice skating. The scenes in which Bond and Tracy flee from Blofeld's henchmen on skis from a barn were then recorded near Winteregg .

The exterior of M's house was filmed in Marlow , near Pinewood Studios , in the second week of April 1969 . At the end of the month, the Palacio Hotel in Estoril Bond's wedding was filmed, followed by scenes from Tracy's murder. Not far from Estoril, on Praia do Guincho beach , the filming of the opening sequence took place in May, in which Bond saves Tracy from drowning. Draco's birthday party was also recorded in Portugal, namely in Zambujal .

The interior shots were filmed at Pinewood Studios near London .

Filming was finished on June 23, 1969; the schedule was exceeded by almost two months.

During the production, director Peter Hunt had the idea to let the film end with the departure of the newlyweds. He wanted to use Tracy's murder by Irma Bunt as the introduction to the next Bond film, Diamond Fever , to make it more emotional. Ultimately, however, the producers are said to have decided to let the film end with the death of Tracy, like Fleming's novel.

Glen's first cut version had a running time of 170 minutes, then about 30 minutes of film material was parted with. The resulting runtime made On Her Majesty's Secret Service the longest Bond film to date.

Locations

The Estoril Casino

The film was shot in the following countries:

Trivia

The Piz Gloria summit restaurant on the Schilthorn
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the first James Bond film recorded in stereo.
  • George Lazenby, who wanted to do all the stunts he thought feasible, broke his arm in one scene.
  • George Lazenby cries during the first shot of the dead Tracy in his arms. Director Peter R. Hunt asked for a new shot without tears, as the character James Bond never cries. The first take was much more moving.
  • When James Bond first met Draco, a short janitor whistled the melody of the title song from Goldfinger while sweeping . Other tunes from the secret agent's earlier movies are used when James Bond is tidying up his desk and comes across paraphernalia from previous films.
  • In this film, James Bond learns his family motto: "The world is not enough" through his family crest at the Heraldry Institute . In 1999, this theme became the title of the third James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan , The World Is Not Enough .
  • James Bond's pursuers are historically correctly equipped with the Swiss Army Weapon Assault Rifle 57 , which is almost exclusively used in Switzerland and is therefore an extremely rare film prop.
  • Although the film is set in the middle of Switzerland, Tracy suggests that James Bond drive to a phone booth in Feldkirch. Feldkirch, however, is located in Austria and is about 200 kilometers from Lauterbrunnen.
Teresa Bond's tombstone
  • The prologue of the 1981 Bond film In A Deadly Mission begins with Bond (played by Roger Moore) laying flowers at the grave of his wife Teresa (who dies in this film), but a helicopter spontaneously picked them up in the cemetery for an alleged mission which turns out to be a trap set by Blofeld. Bond succeeds in killing Blofeld.
  • As Bond waits in the attorney's office for his machine to crack the safe, he finds the February 1969 Playboy edition in a daily newspaper and steals the centerfold from it with a picture of Lorrie Menconi . It is an allusion to the fact that the novel for the film was first published in the May 1963 issue of the magazine.
  • Actually, Blofeld should have seen through Bond's disguise as Sir Hillary Bray, since the two had only met twice in the previously released film You Lived. However, On Her Majesty's Secret Service - from a chronological point of view - plays before the prequel You Only Live Twice . In addition, the original plan was to subject Bond to facial surgery as part of a subplot to explain the agent's changed appearance. [1]

Vehicles and gadgets

The James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service uses comparatively few gadgets :

  • The Aston Martin DBS , driven by James Bond, can only be seen four times. The first time at the beginning of the film, outside of James Bonds Hotel, in front of the jewelry store and the last time at the end of the film as a wedding car. The car does not have any built-in "extras", but has a sniper rifle that can be dismantled and is housed in the glove compartment.
  • While breaking into the law firm, James Bond uses a safe cracker. This small device consists of a cable on a handle, which can be attached to the combination lock of a safe and determines the code to be entered. Furthermore, the device contains one of the first Olivetti - wet copier to prepare photocopies. In fact, wet copiers are unsuitable for such missions, as they must not be tilted, otherwise the highly toxic transfer liquid will leak.
  • Bond arrives in Lauterbrunnen in an ABDeh 4/4 railcar (built in 1949, series 301 to 304) of the Bernese Oberland Railway .
  • Tracy drives a red Mercury Cougar , with which she also chases Bond's escape from Piz Gloria.
  • Towards the end of the film, Bond photographs the map of the locations where the “Angels of Death” were deployed with a Minox-B-8x11 miniature camera.
  • Blofeld's guards were armed with the Assault Rifle 57 and the SIG P210 handgun, which were the orderly weapons of the Swiss Army at the time.

Film music

John Barry was responsible for the sixth film in the series. The Brit composed, arranged and conducted his fifth film score for the agent series. Since the musical title theme of a James Bond film usually uses the film title in the lyrics - exceptions are later the song All Time High from the film Octopussy and the medley from the first film James Bond - 007 Dr. No - Barry was in a difficult position. The composer felt unable to write a song that included the words On her Majesty's Secret Service . Director Hunt was convinced by Barry that an instrumental piece of music would be used for the opening credits. This arrangement, titled On her Majesty's Secret Service , is also used during the film and is an addition to the famous James Bond theme . This instrumental piece of music was rearranged in 1997 by the British band Propellerheads . The musical theme was also used in the advertising trailers for the 2004 film The Incredibles . The topic can also be heard in the trailer for the 2015 Bond film Specter . It was also used in the German version in the opening credits of the 2002, for the 40th anniversary of the film series, the various documentation Best ever Bond .

The love song We have All The Time in the World was sung by Louis Armstrong . John Barry composed the music, the lyrics are by Hal David . It is played in the film at the beginning of the relationship between James Bond and Tracy. In contrast to the previous title songs, the song was not a commercial success and only became number 1 on the Italian charts two years after the film was released. It is the last song recorded by Louis Armstrong. He died in New York on July 6, 1971.

The song Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? the singer Nina (female part of the duo Nina & Frederik ) is also used. In the German dubbed version, the song was sung in German. The interpreter was Katja Ebstein and the title was What does a Christmas tree dream of in May? .

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was first released on LP in 1969 by United Artists Records . In 1988 EMI released the first CD pressing. After the fortieth James Bond anniversary, a new revised version was released by Capitol Records in 2003. The extended version contains extended pieces of music from the original soundtrack, which were cut due to the limited capacity of the LP. In the German version, the cover titles were adapted and the song Do you know how christmas trees are grown? against the version sung by Katja Ebstein What does a Christmas tree dream of in May? been exchanged.

Original edition (1969)
  1. We have all the time in the world (03:08) sung by Louis Armstrong
  2. This never happened to the other fella (04:25)
  3. Try (03:24)
  4. Ski chase (02:52)
  5. Do you know how christmas trees are grown? (03:19) sung by Nina
  6. Main theme "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (02:33)
  7. Journey to Blofield's hideaway (03:25)
  8. We have all the time in the world (02:56)
  9. Over & Out (02:40)
  10. Battle at Piz Gloria (04:00)
  11. We have all the time in the world - James Bond Theme (04:32)
Extended Version (2003)
  1. We Have All The Time In The World (03:15) sung by Louis Armstrong
  2. This Never Happened To The Other Feller (05:06)
  3. Try (03:26)
  4. Ski Chase (03:39)
  5. Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? (03:21) sung by Nina
  6. Main Theme - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (02:35)
  7. Journey To Blofeld's Hideaway (04:53)
  8. We Have All The Time In The World (02:59)
  9. Over and Out (03:11)
  10. Battle At Piz Gloria (04:03)
  11. We Have All The Time In The World - James Bond Theme (04:38)
  12. Journey To Draco's Hideaway (03:41)
  13. Bond and Draco (04:34)
  14. Gumbold's Safe (04:59)
  15. Bond Settles In (02:16)
  16. Bond Meets The Girls (03:27)
  17. Dusk At Piz Gloria (02:32)
  18. Sir Hillary's Night Out (Who Will Buy My Yesterdays?) (04:46)
  19. Blofeld's Plot (05:19)
  20. Escape From Piz Gloria (04:53)
  21. Bobsled Chase (02:03)

synchronization

Since the original German version of the film was shortened, some scenes had to be dubbed. During post-production, however, dialogues were also recorded that were already in the original synchronization. You can also hear the German version of “Do you know how Christmas trees are grown?” (“What does a Christmas tree dream of in May?”, Sung by Katja Ebstein ) now partly in the original version by Nina.

role actor Voice actor
James Bond George Lazenby Gert Günther Hoffmann ,
Erich Räuker (New Scenes)
Teresa "Tracy" di Vincenzo Diana Rigg Margot Leonard ,
Sabine Arnhold (New Scenes)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Telly Savalas Martin Hirthe ,
Jürgen Kluckert (new scenes)
Marc-Ange Draco Gabriele Ferzetti Klaus Miedel ,
Lutz Mackensy (New Scenes)
Irma Bunt Use Steppat Ilse Steppat,
Joseline Gassen (new scenes)
Ruby Bartlett Angela Scoular Beate Hasenau
Nancy Catherina von Schell Almut Eggert
Hillary Bray George Baker Heinz Petruo
Moneypenny Lois Maxwell Inge Estate
M. Bernard Lee Konrad Wagner
Q Desmond Llewelyn Horst Keitel ,
Reinhard Kuhnert (new scenes)
Shaun Campbell Bernard Horsfall Klaus Sunshine
Hammond John Gay Joachim Pukass

premiere

On Her Majesty's Secret Service premiered on December 18, 1969 at Odeon Leicester Square , London. George Lazenby made his only official public appearance as a James Bond actor on this occasion, but the audience was disappointed as he appeared with shoulder-length hair and a full beard and did not correspond to the public image. The film opened in British cinemas the same day .

The film was also shown in US cinemas from December 18, 1969. It was the first time that a James Bond film opened in the United States on the same day as in the United Kingdom. The theatrical release in the Federal Republic took place the next day, December 19, 1969.

The film ran for the first time on German television on October 18, 1986 at 8:15 p.m. on ARD.

reception

Grossing results

At $ 87.4 million, box-office profits were roughly 12 times the production budget, but significantly lower than the previous film You Only Live Twice ($ 111.6 million).

Still, Her Majesty's Secret Service broke three records for theatrical release in the United States:

  • highest grossing result on the first evaluation day
  • highest grossing result in one day
  • highest grossing result on the first weekend.

Overall, this James Bond film was number one in US cinemas for four weeks and was only pushed to second place in the box office by Easy Rider . After the western Two Bandits , this film was the second highest grossing film to hit theaters in 1969.

criticism

"Even without Sean Connery, Bond is amazing."

- TV movie

“The latest James Bond film [...] is not able to interest us despite the enormous effort. The story is rough, and the new lead actor George Lazenby is less popular than Sean Connery before. "

- Protestant film observer

radio play

The label Europa released the revised soundtrack of the film as a radio play on music cassette. The narrator that does not exist in the film is spoken by Norbert Langer .

Movie versions

John Glen was in charge of the second camera team and was also responsible for editing the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service . The first working version of the film was 2 hours and 50 minutes long. Glen cut the film by half an hour to a length of 140 minutes. Originally, a film length of two hours was agreed with the United Artists theatrical distributor. For a long time, On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the longest James Bond film to be shown in theaters. The length of 2 hours and 20 minutes was only surpassed by Casino Royale in 2006 .

The original cinema trailer of the film shows the destruction of the chemistry laboratory and the ice rink on Piz Gloria from the inside.

Most of the cinema, television and video versions published in non-English-speaking countries have been shortened, including the German theatrical version. The following scenes were missing, shortened or changed:

  • James Bond's break-in into the Gumbold brothers' law firm in Bern was cut out for the German original theatrical version, was also missing in the German TV and video versions, but is available on the current German DVD version and has been shown since the last TV broadcast.
  • Also a scene with James Bond's blond helper Campbell, who tries to get on the cable car going to Piz Gloria and is prevented from doing so by Blofeld's men. The next shot shows the cable car with a person casting a shadow on the roof.
  • Scenes with dialogues (e.g. Tracy's conversation with her father in his limousine during the break-in scene and Campbell's argument with one of Blofeld's men at the cable car station) were dubbed with other speakers.
  • Katja Ebstein's singing at the train station in Lauterbrunnen as well as in the chase scene on the ice rink in Mürren has been replaced in the latest German versions by the original English version of Nina, but when the dialog starts, you can hear the German singing again.

The DVD version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service , which was released in Europe, differs from the US version in the following ways:

  • The music starts differently when the lawyer Gumbold leaves his office and James Bond breaks into the office.
  • A line of dialogue from James Bond to Tracy in the stock car race was originally shown in a closeup . In the European version, this sentence is now spoken from the off .

The movie was first shown on US television on September 16 and September 23, 1976. The television station ABC split On Her Majesty's Secret Service into two parts. The chronology of the plot has been changed. The first part begins with the escape from Piz Gloria and only then does the film start with the original beginning. The entire film is accompanied by a narrator.

Film rights and distribution

Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli produced a James Bond film for the seventh time. Their joint production company Eon Productions Ltd. was responsible for the production of the movie. Danjaq SA , which was founded to exercise all rights to the James Bond films, held the copyright. Since Saltzman sold his shares in the rights company to United Artists in 1975, the rights company and the film company now share the copyright to the feature film.

Eon Productions Ltd. In 1961, the first six feature films were signed with the US film distributor United Artists. On Her Majesty's Secret Service , the sixth part of the film series falls under this first agreement. The film was brought to cinema theaters worldwide by the respective national subsidiaries of the United Artists. The subsidiary United Artists Television was responsible for the sale of the broadcasting rights for television .

After United Artists was acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981 , United Artists closed all of its worldwide theatrical distribution companies. The exploitation rights - video, laser disc, DVD and television since the 1990s - have since been controlled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. To this end, long-term contracts have been concluded between Danjaq SA and the film company.

The film was released on VHS and laser disc in German-speaking countries. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer used the distribution of Warner Home Video and paid a percentage of the sales proceeds. The contract between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Home Video was terminated at the end of 1999 and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's MGM Home Entertainment used the distribution network of 20th Century Fox between 2000 and 2003. In 2000 the first DVD of On Her Majesty's Secret Service was released in German-speaking countries. Marketing was done by MGM Home Entertainment. From 2003 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sold its film library under sole management. With the sale of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to a consortium led by Sony Pictures Entertainment , the independent distribution of its own film library in Germany was given up again and Sony's subsidiary Sony Pictures Home Entertainment had been responsible for distribution in German-speaking countries since September 2005. The distribution agreement between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment was terminated in the spring of 2006 and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment took over the distribution of the feature film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in the home entertainment sector in German-speaking countries from September 1, 2006 .

Awards

George Lazenby was nominated for Best Young Actor at the 1970 Golden Globe Awards .

Further information

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: On Her Majesty's Secret Service  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 41 714-a V).
  2. ↑ Interview with Sean Connery in Playboy, November 1965 at seanconneryonline.com (English), accessed on November 4, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c d Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 77.
  4. ↑ You Only Live Twice on tcm.com , accessed November 4, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , pp. 86–87.
  6. ↑ a b c d Documentation Inside On Her Majesty's Secret Service on DVD purchase James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Ultimate Edition), MGM, 2006.
  7. ↑ Being 007: Behind the Scenes at James Bond Auditions ( Memento November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on life.time.com (English), accessed on November 12, 2012.
  8. ↑ a b Lazenby celebrates his 70th birthday on n-tv.de , accessed on October 23, 2012.
  9. ↑ Biography on mi6-hq.com (English), accessed on October 23, 2012.
  10. ↑ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond . Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 90.
  11. ↑ On Her Majesty's Secret Service at mi6-hq.com , accessed November 13, 2012.
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g h Production Notes at mi6-hq.com (English), accessed on November 13, 2012.
  13. ↑ TV documentary "Drama am Gipfel" (ARTE / October 2014) about filming in the Alps
  14. ^ Mourning for Ludwig "Luggi" Leitner , DSV obituary, accessed on April 15, 2013.
  15. ^ Siegfried Tescher: The great James Bond atlas. Wissen Media Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07305-9 .
  16. ^ "The" great James Bond Atlas, p. 167.
  17. ↑ stereophile.com: Stereophile: It Takes More than Martinis, Mister! ( Memento of September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 15, 2008.
  18. ↑ On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - This and that. In: german.imdb.com , accessed September 15, 2008.
  19. ↑ Manuel Gurtner: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (railroad in the film). In: http://www.eisenbahn-im-film.de . Railroad in the movie - Rail Movies, March 15, 2003, accessed June 22, 2008 .
  20. ↑ All of Dr. No to Skyfall. In: Focus online , accessed December 27, 2014.
  21. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3a7cyDpOLw
  22. ↑ German synchronous index | Movies | On Her Majesty's Secret Service. In: https://www.synchronkartei.de . Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Gerald Wurm: On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Cut Report: Special Edition. Schnittberichte.com, January 20, 2007, accessed June 30, 2020 .
  24. ↑ a b c Release dates. From: imdb.com , accessed April 16, 2013.
  25. ↑ YEAR 1980–2000. In: http://jamesbondfilme.de . Source: AGF / GfK-Fernsehforschung / PC # TV - Aktuell / BRD, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Film review on TV feature film
  27. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 3/1970
  28. ↑ On Her Majesty's Secret Service. James Bond radio plays. In: jamesbondfilme.de. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  29. ↑ George Lazenby ( Memento of May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on goldenglobes.org (English), accessed on November 14, 2012.
James Bond films
Eon Productions
Sean Connery

James Bond chases Dr. No  (1962)  • Greetings from Moscow  (1963)  • Goldfinger  (1964)  • Fireball  (1965)  • You Only Live Twice  (1967)  • Diamond Fever  (1971)

George Lazenby

On Her Majesty's Secret Service  (1969)

Roger Moore

Live and Let Die  (1973)  • The Man with the Golden Gun  (1974)  • The Spy Who Loved Me  (1977)  • Moonraker - Top Secret  (1979)  • On A Deadly Mission  (1981)  • Octopussy  (1983)  • In the Face of death  (1985)

Timothy Dalton

The Living Daylights  (1987)  • License to Kill  (1989)

Pierce Brosnan

GoldenEye  (1995)  • Tomorrow Never Dies  (1997)  • The World Is Not Enough  (1999)  • Die Another Day  (2002)

Daniel Craig

Casino Royale  (2006)  • Quantum of Solace  (2008)  • Skyfall  (2012)  • Specter  (2015)  • No Time To Die  (2020)

Other films
Barry Nelson

Casino Royale ( Movie made for TV , 1954)

David Niven

Casino Royale  ( parody , 1967)

---Sean Connery

Never Say Never ( Remake , 1983)