On Her Majesty's Secret Service [1969] (1 disc)

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• Sean Connery was offered a then very large salary of $1 million to make this film but declined.
• Timothy Dalton was offered the part of James Bond, but turned it down feeling that, at 22, he was too young and relatively unexperienced to take the role. Dalton would go on to play Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill nearly twenty years later.
• Sean Connery later said that he would have preferred to do a [Bond] film like this one, as opposed to You Only Live Twice.
• Adam West, a personal friend of Albert R. Broccoli, was offered the part of James Bond for the movie. West said that while he was very tempted, he ultimately turned it down feeling the role should be played by an English Actor.
• This is the last time that John Barry's original Dr. No arrangement of the James Bond Theme would be used onscreen. It would however, continue to be used in trailers etc. as late as Licence to Kill.
• This is Christopher Nolan's favourite movie, and many references can be found in the movie Inception.
• For the opening sequence, railway sleepers (railroad ties) were buried under the sand to allow Bond's Aston Martin to drive on the beach.
• This was the longest [Bond] film, at 140 minutes, until the appearance of Casino Royale in 2006 which runs 4 minutes longer.
• Features the only signature gun barrel sequence of all [Bond] films in which Bond drops down on one knee while shooting at the audience. It's also the only version of the sequence where the descending blood completely erases Bond's image, leaving only the red circle.
• The only [James Bond] movie in which both the main villain (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) and his sidekick (henchwoman Irma Bunt) survive and are not captured, arrested or killed.
• The producers originally intended to explain the change of lead actors in the film by saying that Bond had undergone plastic surgery because his "old" face was now too well known by foreign spies and terrorists for him to go undercover, but they then decided not to refer at all to the change, and thus hopefully minimize the public attention being paid to George Lazenby replacing Sean Connery. However, after the opening action sequence, right before the titles, Bond states "This never happened to the other fellow," an intentionally comedic reference to the change in actors.
• As of 2009, George Lazenby is the youngest actor to portray 007 at age 29 during filming. The rest of the actors and their ages, in no particular order: Sean Connery - 31, Roger Moore - 45, Timothy Dalton - 40, Pierce Brosnan - 41 and Daniel Craig - 38.