Window No. 18

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Another item of regular Christmas holiday viewing was a James Bond film. I say 'a' but the likelihood was that several would feature over the festive period. I've already watched a couple of Sean Connery films in the run up to Christmas this year.

A particularly snow-laden James Bond outing (and hence quite a Christmas-sy one) was On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as the feisty love interest and Telly Savalas as the cat-stroking villain. George Lazenby is often criticised for his version of James Bond but I have to say I loved him in this film. He was handsome, wise-cracking and he got the job done. Diana Rigg was wonderfully glamorous and the kind of witty, gun-toting heroine that the James Bond films always needed, fully capable of holding her own against the flirtacious spy.


Which Bond is your favourite?


 

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