The opening sequence of, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", was an instrumental arrangement, but within the film is a killer tune “We Have All the Time in the World", sung by Louis Armstrong. Armstrong was the ideal person to sing the sentiment of the song, especially with everything he had gone through the previous years his voice now burned to a husk that just lent a deeper emotion to the song.
Because the film was generally regarded a turkey by the critics and the majority of Bond fans the song not getting the recognition it deserved. It failed to chart in the USA or UK. In 1994, 25 years after the original recording, Guinness used it in a television commercial in the UK. All of a sudden, people were clamouring for this long-forgotten Louis Armstrong recording, to the point that it hit the UK music charts reaching third in the charts.
It just happens to come from one of my favourite Bond movies ‘On Her Majesty's Secret Service’ (1969) in my opinion one of the best early film of the series. I felt that the critics unfairly slagged off George Lazenby for his performance. He did the best that he could seeing it was his first movie after a number of years modelling in London.
The action set pieces were impressive, Diana Rigg was hot as the leading lady, and Telly Savalas was excellent as the baddie, Blofeld. Everything about this movie had a cool aura to it. The stunt scenes were amazing (for it's era) and the cinematography was beautifully shot. I had one bone to pick with the film. The in jokes got a bit heavy handed. Other than that, it's a fun and enjoy action film.
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