You Only Live Twice: Whicker's World - Highlights from the 1967 BBC Documentary (2006 Video) User Reviews

"Its stylish camp quality . . . "

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 9 April 2014]

" . . . neutralizes criticism of the violence," 1960s British media maven Alan Whicker intones regarding the mayhem featured in 1967's episode of the James Bond series, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. This 5-minute, 21.75-second excerpt includes archival footage of Bond producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, frequent Bond flick D.P. Freddie Young, 2nd unit director Peter Hunt, and the Mrs. Sean Connery of the late 1960s, Aussie actress Diane Cilentro (a swimmer who "doubled" all the Japanese female extras during the shoot, as they were "afraid" to dive into the ocean). YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE had a shooting budget of "three million pounds," we learn, which figure hung over the heads cast and crew "like a guillotine," Whicker observes. In a brief interview snippet, producer Broccoli notes that Japanese tabloids were spreading a rumor that the Bond bunch were intending to duck out of the country without paying their bills. Perhaps several fatal airline crashes in Japan during the filming period scotched this notion.