1969, Peter Hunt, 142 mins.
The first Bond movie without Sean Connery sees Bond battle Blofeld in Switzerland.
My favourite Bond movie and one of the best films of the Sixties.
It’s got just about everything; wit, charm, astonishingly visceral action, a pounding
John Barry score, gorgeous location photography, and classic villains in the
shape of Ilse Steppat’s Irma Bunt and Telly Savalas’s definitive Ernst Stavro
Blofeld. Admittedly, it’s also got George Lazenby but, personally, I like him –
he does very well in the action scenes and has genuine presence, while his
engagement with proceedings is a vast improvement on Sean Connery’s efforts in
his later Bond movies. He has a lot to carry too – a more emotional storyline
than usual which allows the role of the Bond girl, in the shape of Diana Rigg,
to be fully developed; and an ending which hits you like a hard blow to the gut
even when you know it’s coming.
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