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You Only Live Twice (1967) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Lewis Gilbert and produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli.

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You Only Live Twice (1967)

By Beatrice on Nov 6, 2019 From Flickers in Time

You Only Live Twice Directed by Lewis Gilbert Written by Roald Dahl from a novel by Ian Fleming 1967/UK Eon Productions First viewing/Amazon Prime James Bond: Oh, no. I like sake. Especially when it’s served at the correct temperature: 98.4 degrees fahrenheit like this is. 1967’s Bond en... Read full article

You Only Live Twice (1967, Lewis Gilbert)

on May 31, 2009 From The Stop Button

My wife walked out on You Only Live Twice. She got up and left about forty minutes in. I finished it because I figured forty minutes was halfway and I could make it. It was tough. The film’s memorable because of the beginning, where James Bond dies. It’s an interesting scene, even though... Read full article

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Actor and Stuntman Joe Robinson instructed Sean Connery in the art of Judo for the scene where Bond has to fight with Blofeld's giant bodyguard Hans near the end of the film. Robinson also doubled the actor Ronald Rich who portrayed Hans. He would later appear as diamond smuggler Peter Franks in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.
Footage of the US Jupiter spacecraft in the film is actually film of the real Gemini spacecraft which flew between 1965 and 1966. The Gemini spacecraft were used for testing of such activities as EVA and docking for the Apollo space project which was to follow. Ironically, the Soviet spacecraft in the film were called Gemini (the name of the real life US spacecraft) and their designs were based on inaccurate UK perceptions of what the Russian Voskhod and Vostok spacecraft looked like, something which was not known until 1967 after the film had wrapped shooting.
First film to show James Bond in his Royal Navy uniform and to clearly indicate that he holds the rank of Commander.
The literal translations of some of this film's foreign language titles include One Doesn't Live More Than Twice (France); It Only Lives Twice (Latin America); 007 Dies Twice (Japan); One Only Lives Twice / A Man Doesn't Live More Than Twice (Germany); James Bond In Japan (Norway & Greece); You Live Only Twice (Finland); With 007 You Only Live Twice (Brazil & Portugal) and 007 Seized The Rocket Base (China).
This is the first film in the series where James Bond does not wear his trademark dinner jacket.
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