On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film, 1969)
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Peter R. Hunt |
| Produced by | Albert R. Broccoli Harry Saltzman |
| Written by | Ian Fleming (original) Richard Maibaum |
| Starring | George Lazenby Telly Savalas Diana Rigg Bernard Lee Desmond Llewelyn Lois Maxwell |
| Music by | John Barry |
| Cinematography | Michael Reed |
| Editing by | John Glen |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | December 18, 1969 |
| Running time | 140 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | You Only Live Twice |
| Followed by | Diamonds Are Forever |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is the sixth film of the James Bond film series and the first and only film to star George Lazenby as fictional British secret agent James Bond. It is a loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's eleventh James Bond novel. The film is significant due to Bond marrying the leading Bond girl, Tracey di Vicenzo, at the conclusion of the film followed by her death at the very end at the hands of the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In later Bond films, Bond was shown to feel discomfort when a subject related to his wife was brought up, due to her untimely death. The film was the second of three of the franchises installments known as the "Blofeld trilogy" due to Blofeld being the main villain in all three, the former being You Only Live Twice (1967) and the following being Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
