50 Years Later, This Bond Film Should Finally Get Its Due

At one point, Maibaum suggested a scene in which 007 has cosmetic surgery to confuse his enemies. “I’m told that mine was the biggest screen test in history,” Lazenby, now 80, said in a telephone interview from his home in Santa Monica, Calif. “I think there were 800 applicants and 300 screen tests. They tested me for four months.