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

1. It Inspired Both Spectre & Inception

If you haven't seen OHMSS in quite a while, it's easy to forget that its style and tone - especially in the chilly third act - has been lovingly (and blatantly) homaged in recent years.

The most obvious example is in the Bond franchise itself, with Spectre featuring numerous narrative similarities to the film, from Blofeld holing up at a new-age medical institute in the mountains with a secret identity, to the subsequent snowy set-pieces, to Bond supposedly quitting the spy's life with his new love interest, Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux).

Back in 2010, though, Christopher Nolan gamely homaged the movie in his ingenious thriller Inception, with a memorable alpine action sequence bearing an extremely strong resemblance to the ski chase and shootout from OHMSS.

Nolan had no qualms about admitting this, either, declaring OHMSS his favourite Bond film: "What I liked about it that we've tried to emulate in [Inception] is there's a tremendous balance in that movie of action and scale and romanticism and tragedy and emotion."

While OHMSS remains a tough sell to a lot of Bond traditionalists and Lazenby nay-sayers, its continued influence on tentpole action is undeniable.

What do you think of On Her Majesty's Secret Service? Was Lazenby up to the task, or a total dud? Shout it out in the comments!