Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 8, 2018 9:33:21 GMT
Dr. No and OHMSS was a double feature that my parents took us too around 75'. Lazenby had big shoes to fill, but I also feel he was able to project a vulnerability that wasn't present in other Bonds. I loved the setting in Switzerland and until I saw it again years later, all I could recall about it was that I had a little boy man crush on him, the scene when he was dressed in a Kilt with the pretty ladies; when he was trapped in the cable car mechanics room and when his wife got killed at the end. I was just devastated.
I often wonder how OHMSS would have turned out if Connery had returned. I wonder if he regrets it, because in spite of the flack that Lazenby gets, it is still considered one of the more solid and better 007's.
The fact that it managed to survive the miscasting of both the main hero and the main villain is a testament to just how good the original story was, not to mention the talent and effort put in by everyone else involved in the project.
And I expect the filmmakers missed Sean Connery's presence a lot more than he missed them.