ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE: THIS NEVER HAPPENED TO THE OTHER FELLOW.
Even with the presence of George Lazenby, it’s one of the best Bond films, not least of which because of Diana Rigg, fresh off the Avengers, as the “Bond girl.” Or as the head of 20th Century Fox told producer Cubby Broccoli during its premiere, the wrong character died at the end of the movie: “You should have killed him and saved the girl!”