James Bond tells Draco, regarding Tracy, "Her price is far above rubies or even your million pounds," The first six words are from the Bible's Proverbs 31:10, which describes a worthy woman.
Last full length feature film of Brian Worth.
Lyrics were originally intended for John Barry's main theme, but were later rejected in favor of Louis Armstrong's memorable rendition of "We Have All The Time In The World". This love theme composed by John Barry and written by Hal David was the last song ever recorded by Louis Armstrong. A re-mix of the song "We Have All The Time In The World" was a No. #3 hit in the UK twenty five years after the movie was originally released. The song has also been covered by Iggy Pop and it can be heard on the David Arnold Bond song compilation album, "Shaken and Stirred: the David Arnold James Bond Project". This album also features a cover of the film's OHMSS main title theme performed by The Propellerheads.
Many Olympic ski competitors as well as other ski experts contributed as body doubles, extras and supporting roles for performing the necessary skiing sequences in the movie. The principal actors were not allowed to ski in the movie due to insurance regulations.
Most close-ups of principal actors skiing were actually filmed back at Pinewood Studios as back-projection process shots. The principal actors were not allowed to ski in the movie due to insurance regulations.
Most of Brian Grellis's performance was removed from the final print.
Novelist Simon Raven was brought in to polish the dialog, notably the exchanges between Tracy and Blofeld.
Product placements, brand integrations and promotional tie-ins for this movie include the Aston Martin 1969 DBS; Hennessy Brandy; Playboy Magazine; Campari; the Ford Motor Company, particularly the 1969 Ford Mercury Cougar Convertible; Jack Daniel's Whiskey; Schilthorn Piz Gloria Revolving Restaurant; Krug Champagne; Dom Perignon Champagne, particularly a Dom Perignon '57; and Rolex Watches including the Rolex Submariner 5513 and Rolex Chronograph 6238 watches.
The John Barry score for this movie was the first in the EON Production series to extensively use synthesizers and electric guitars.
The film performed admirably, out-grossing its nearest competitor almost two to one at the U.S. box office where, according to Variety, it was the most popular film in the country for four solid weeks. It generated enough rentals at the box-office to claim ninth position on the box office chart for the year 1970. The persistent belief that it was a flop arises from its disappointing showing in comparison to the previous three Sean Connery Bond films, all of which made more than 100 million dollars worldwide, whereas this film grossed 87 million worldwide.
The film was originally rated M by the MPAA in the USA. It was subsequently re-rated PG.
The film's CD Soundtrack sleeve notes state that the soundtrack album debuted in the US Charts on 7 February 1970 where it peaked at the No. #103 spot.
The first Bond film in which 007 used skis. As this is a 1960s Bond movie, it is interesting to note that the first and big 60s Bond star Sean Connery never did a skiing or snow sequence Bond movie, his James Bond only ever drives through snow-capped mountains in Goldfinger.
The first line of the Ian Fleming "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" James Bond novel: "It was one of those Septembers when it seemed that the summer would never end." The last line: "The young patrolman took a last scared look at the motionless couple, hurried over to his motor cycle, picked up the hand-microphone, and began talking urgently to the rescue headquarters".
The German inscription on the wall of Piz Gloria briefly seen during the final battle means "Reconciliation of Nature and Technology".
The literal translations of some of this film's foreign language titles include On Her Majesty's Service (Sweden & Israel); The Queen's 007 (Japan); On The Secret Service of Her Majesty (Belgium, Canada, France and West Germany); To Serve Her Majesty (Italy); 007 On Her Majesty's Service (Brazil & Portugal); 007 On Her Queen's Service (Spain); To Her Majesty's Secret Service (Denmark) and 007 Seized The Snow Mountain Castle (China & Norway)
The Maginot Line was a key contender for the major mountain location before the production settled on Mount Schilthorn and Piz Gloria.
The only James Bond film which is both entirely set and entirely filmed in Europe.
The only James Bond movie where both the main villain (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) and sidekick (henchwoman Irma Bunt) survive and are neither captured, nor arrested, nor killed.
The picture of Tracy's mother was a photograph of Diana Rigg's own mother.