ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE TRAILER...

This trailer's a bit embarrassing to be honest.  It

goes overboard in drawing attention to the fact that

it's a 'different' BOND, as if the viewers are too thick

to notice for themselves.  They'd have been better not

making an issue of it and letting GEORGE LAZENBY

settle into the role as the movie unfolded, instead of

trying to shoehorn him into it in advance.

The trouble was, aside from George having no real

acting experience to speak of, he was too much in the

SEAN CONNERY mould, while at the same time not

being quite enough like Sean to carry it off, paradoxical

as that may sound.  George reprised his role as 007 in

the TV movie The MAN From U.N.C.L.E. - The

15 YEARS LATER AFFAIR in the early '80s.

Had he been able to lose the Australian accent,

and with a little more experience, I think George

may have turned out to be quite a decent Bond.

Alas, we shall never know for sure.

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