"This never happened to the other fellow." Australian George Lazenby's lone outing as 007 failed to equal the box office impact of its Sean Connery-starring predecessors, but fans of the James Bond franchise, Christopher Nolan and Steven Soderbergh among them, treasure this film for its start-to-finish excellence and faithfulness to the source novel. Villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld (this time played by KOJAK's Telly Savalas) plans to cripple the world's crop production by spreading the Virus Omega by means of the sexiest sleeper cell ever devised: the Angels of Death, 12 brainwashed beauties from around the globe (look for AB FAB's Joanna Lumley among them). Featuring Diana Rigg (Emma Peel from TV's THE AVENGERS) as Tracy, one of the all-time best of the Bond girls, and a score by John Barry. DIR Peter R. Hunt; SCR Richard Maibaum, from the novel by Ian Fleming; PROD Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman. UK, 1969, color, 142 min. RATED PG