12 Things You Learn Rewatching On Her Majesty's Secret Service

3. The Ending Remains Emotionally Devastating

The Bond franchise isn't exactly known for its emotional impact, but OHMSS is almost the sole outlier - aside from M's (Judi Dench) death in Skyfall perhaps - in terms of serving up a poignant, almost tear-jerking finale.

The film concludes with Bond and Tracy getting married and appearing to settle down into a simpler life, but of course, Blofeld has other plans. He and Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) riddle the Bond wedding car with machine-gun fire, killing Tracy instantly, and leaving a traumatised Bond to cradle her lifeless corpse as the credits roll.

As a shell-shocked Bond tells a passing cop, "She having a rest" and that "we have all the time in the world", 007 is presented at his most emotionally vulnerable and raw. It's a stunningly unhappy ending that, at the time of the movie's release, was no doubt decidedly more shocking than it is in retrospect.

Nevertheless, due to Lazenby's superb performance and the more muted, downcast tone of the sequence, it has a real weight to it that's unlike almost anything else in the franchise.