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Happy Birthday, Mr. Lazenby!
Many of my friends dismiss ‘O.H.M.S.S.’ without a second thought, and that’s a shame! The franchise was in serious trouble after Sean Connery left and George Lazenby delivered a very servieable Bond revealing depth and emotions never explored before. Without all of the trade-mark gimmicks and gizmos that started to define the character instead of aid him.
The story stayed very true to what Ian Fleming had written in his novel and it did not hurt to have Diana Rigg, every male teen’s (at the time) first ever across-the-pond television crush, myself included, as the future Mrs. Bond!
Not as well executed as ‘From Russian With Love’ or ‘Goldfinger’, but certainly better than many of the franchise’s later fare.
Ironically, Roger Moore who was first slated to be Bond and was busy doing ‘The Saint’, was too pretty and smooth to be a believeable Bond when his turn came around.
Pierce Brosnan came off as too glib and slick for his own good. Timothy Dalton, to a slightly lesser degree.
Sean Connery is still the best Bond!
Jack.