Bond gets a helping hand from a giant magnet in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967). Associate producer William Cartlidge said: “I remember script conferences where the idea was to think of as many outrageous suggestions as you could and this was one of them.” | James Bond 007

Did you know that Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's grandfather, ‘High Chief’ Peter Fanene Maivia appeared in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE? The filming of the fight scene took place throughout this week in 1966 at Pinewood Studios. Copies of Japanese antiques were specially made to be broken during the fight scene between 007 and the car driver. | James Bond 007

Bond composer and The Sound of 007 In Concert producer David Arnold shares his favourite 60 years of Bond moment: “My standout moment from the series is from YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, the first Bond film I ever saw. I was 8. In the opening, Blofeld’s spacecraft – in pursuit of a NASA rocket (a much smaller piece of space hardware) – opens its jaw-like tip and consumes the NASA vehicle entirely, not only trapping the astronauts within, but simultaneously severing the lifeline of the one astronaut who

#OnThisDay 1967: The fifth 007 movie, You Only Live Twice, premiered in London. The set was mountainous! | BBC Archive

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