Mistakes - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Bond's Aston Martin's tires screech repeatedly on the loose
sand of the beach.
Blofeld fails to recognize Bond, even though the two met face-to-face
in the previous film, You Only Live Twice (1967). The original
script for OHMSS began with Bond having his face altered via plastic
surgery (to explain the change of lead actor). This idea was dropped,
but in doing so it created this continuity error later in the
film. The root cause of the issue is the producer's decision to
shoot the films in a different order to Ian Fleming's original
novels.
When Bond is talking to Tracy at the beginning in the casino,
Tracy is resting her chin on her hand. When she says, "If
you want to stay alive, then play it safe," she lowers her
hand and leans forward. The shot changes and she is resting her
chin on her hand again without having time to return to that position.
Bond clearly has even greater card skills than we suspected -
when he's playing at the gaming table, he's dealt cards with a
white back, but he somehow transforms them into ones with red
backs only seconds later!
Bond mentions that his family coat or arms bears four bezants
and three gold balls. Watch closely and you'll see that Lazenby
is actually saying three bezants (which is correct), but somewhere
along the line the actual dialogue was changed to four bezants.
When Bond is first summoned from the dinner to meet with Blofeld
in his office, Grunther assists him in putting on his overcoat.
Bond puts both arms in the sleeves but when he arrives at the
office he is wearing the coat draped over his shoulders as can
clearly be seen as Grunther slips it off.
When Bond meets Blofeld for the first time, Blofeld starts to
undo the buttons on his jacket. When we next cut back to Blofeld,
his buttons are all done up.
After Fraulein Bunt sees the girls off in the van, a car with
three Blofeld henchmen pulls up. They honk to her and the man
riding shotgun gets out and lets her into the front passenger
seat. He gets in the back. But in the next shot of the car's occupants,
Bunt is in the back with a man to her left and one in front of
her.
Piz Gloria is supposed to be absolutely off limits private property,
yet when Bond skis out the lower door in the escape sequence he's
obviously on a well groomed ski slope that's been skied on by
many previous skiers.
How come Bond doesn't seem to get cold while he's in the cable
car gear house? It must be pretty exposed in there and he's only
wearing a thin looking pullover.
When Bond and Tracy are skiing, pursued by Blofeld and his henchmen,
there is a moment before they realize they are being chased. Tracy
looks back, smiling, and the fan of a wind machine is visible
behind Bond's head.
At the end of the first ski chase, in which Bond ends up on one
ski, he nearly goes over a cliff edge. As he pulls himself back,
a thin safety cable can be seen attached to his ankle.
How long does it take the thugs to drive Bond to visit Draco?
They set off in the early morning [Bond has only just got up]
but it's night by the time they arrive.
During the stock car scene, when one of the legitimate contestants'
car gets flipped, there is an in-car POV from the upside-down
stock car. However, one can see that the shot is really a conventional
reaction shot of the driver inverted in the editing room by the
fact that the background and spectators are also upside-down.
In the stock-car scene, when Tracy says "James! How do we
get out?" her lips aren't moving to match her speech.
At one point, Tracy kisses her father goodbye, yet we hear her
voice continue to speak clearly.
Bond's body position changes too quickly, from shot to shot,
at least twice, during the conversation with the real Sir Hillary
at the Royal College of Arms.
In one shot where both Bond and Draco are shown in the cockpit,
the Huey behind them has the tail rotor on starboard but all other
shots show the tail rotors on port.
During the distant view of the helicopter assault on Piz Gloria
towards the end of the film, a helicopter that is slowly approaching
the building at the far right of the screen (widescreen DVD version),
suddenly vanishes into thin air and then reappears as a landed
'copter just one second later.
During the helicopter attack one helicopter suddenly shifts position.
This can be seen when the tail shifts upward about 15 degrees.
During the attack on the Piz Gloria, one of the scientists throws
a large beaker at a glass double-door before Bond gets to it,
splattering a purple liquid across both doors near the handles.
The next shot shows a close-up with a large hole burned through
the left glass door at head level surrounded by gray char marks
as Bond walks through the opened right door. The next shot has
Bond through the doors, which are closed, intact and clean.
During the bob-sleigh chase, Blofeld is caught in a tree branch
and, in close up, we see the branch wrapped around his neck. The
accompanying long shot, however, shows him hanging from the tree
by his hands.