You Only Live Twice

James Bond & Friends – Episode 0093: Not Turning Japanese

June 8th, 2021 by

Following our recent You Only Live Twice watchalong, we revisit the question as to why the film with such iconic imagery and all the Bond ingredients fails to stick the landing and isn’t that well regarded within fandom.

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James Bond & Friends – Episode 0090: Watchalong with You Only Live Twice

May 14th, 2021 by

Join us as we watch 1967’s You Only Live Twice together as a group experience.

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William P Cartlidge dies aged 78

March 8th, 2021 by

William P Cartlidge, who worked on three James Bond films in the 1960s and 70s, died last week at the age of 78. He regularly worked with Lewis Gilbert, who brought him on board as first assistant director for You Only Live Twice (1967). He returned as associate producer on The Spy Who Loved Me […]

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Fleming book reviews (3/3)

April 2nd, 2020 by

In the last of this three part series Kathryn Smith shares her thoughts and impressions of Ian Fleming’s final 007 books. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service I really did enjoy this book and found that it was very close to the film adaptation. There were still a few things mentioned in the book that were […]

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Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97

February 27th, 2018 by

Three time Bond director Lewis Gilbert has died at the age of 97. Lewis Gilbert, who directed Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice (1967) and returned to the series to direct the late Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), has died according to a tweet by 007 website […]

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Actress Karin Dor dies aged 79

November 9th, 2017 by

It was announced yesterday that Karin Dor, who appeared alongside Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice, has died at the age of 79. The German played SPECTRE number 11, Helga Brandt, in the 1967 movie directed by Lewis Gilbert. At one stage the SPECTRE henchwoman captures 007, but he manages to escape. She ends up […]

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Three time Bond actor Burt Kwouk dies aged 85

May 24th, 2016 by

Burt Kwouk, who appeared in Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice and the 1967 Casino Royale spoof, has died at the age of 85. Kwouk was born in Cheshire in 1930 but was brought up in Shanghai until he was 17 years old, when his Chinese parents returned to England. After completing his studies in the United States […]

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New James Bond paperback editions from Vintage

October 2nd, 2015 by

Holding the world to ransom, planning to destroy Britain from the inside, and battling Bond to the death: discover the origins of SPECTRE in this omnibus edition of Ian Fleming’s Thunderball, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice. Discover where SPECTRE began: these three Bond novels tell of the rise and fall of the criminal network, […]

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October to see ‘The SPECTRE Trilogy’ released by Vintage

June 17th, 2015 by

Timed to coincide with the release later this year of SPECTRE, Vintage Books are to release a paperback collection of three Bond adventures as The SPECTRE Trilogy in October. The collection contains Thunderball, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice, sometimes referred to as “the Blofeld trilogy” (and previously published together under that […]

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Ken Wallis of Little Nellie fame dies

September 5th, 2013 by

Ken Wallis, who designed Little Nellie (seen below at a car show in Barcelona in 2003) and flew her in the aerial scenes of You Only Live Twice, died this week at the age of 97. Wallis flew a number of missions during the Second World War, including secondment to the US Strategic Air Command […]

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