On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

[Bond throws a knife and hits a calendar on a bookshelf, on the 14th day]
Draco: But today is the thirteenth, Commander.
James Bond: I'm superstitious.

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Ernst Stavro Blofeld: I've taught you to love chickens, to love their flesh, their voice.

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Draco: My apologies for the way you were brought here. I wasn't sure you'd accept a *formal* invitation.
James Bond: There's always something formal about the point of a pistol.

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Certain film techniques appear in the James Bond series for the first time in this picture: slow motion (when Bond is knocked out in his bedroom), flashback (Bond remembering Tracy being captured). Often "breaking the fourth wall" is named as a technique that is (for the first time) used in this movie, but in fact is isn't: George Lazenby does not look into the camera, when he says; "This never happened to the other fellow". And though it seems to be a self referential remark (Lazenby replaced Sean Connery as Bond) it also has a meaning in the context of the story.
The poetry that Tracy quotes to Blofeld ('Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn ... ') is derived from a speech in James Elroy Flecker's play, 'The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand'.
A tagline on an unused piece of poster artwork read: The New Bond. 007 and Bride.
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