On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Dir. Peter R. Hunt. U.K. 1969, 142 mins. 4K DCP. With George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Bernard Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn. For the sixth installment of its peaking Bond franchise, Eon Productions selected new face Lazenby, a model with no previous acting experience, to fill Sean Connery’s already iconic shoes. The resulting film, highly criticized at the time for the unseasoned Lazenby’s more reticent and vulnerable approach to the character, remains perhaps the most cinematically accomplished of the franchise, directed by series editor Hunt and lensed by the great Hammer Films cinematographer Michael Reed (The Gorgon, Dracula: Prince of Darkness) with an almost Hitchcockian sense of pace and visual poetry, while taking full advantage of the vertiginous curves of the Swiss Alps. 

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

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