It helps to know my personal Bond peeves… 
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It may also help to know that another future multiple times Bond veteran had his hands in this one. 
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I am like…
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Okay, I’m gonna go way out on a limb here since I haven’t seen this film, but all the pieces are in place.
Curd Jurgens (hence the giggle?) and Orson Welles (LeChiffre #2 of 3) starred together in Lewis Gilbert’s “Ferry To Hong Kong,” as did Milton Reid, aka Sandor the “helpful chap” who worked for Stromberg in TSWLM (and was already a Bond veteran from DN). The film was released in 1959, meaning it predated all three’s appearances in their respective Bond entries.
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And we have a winner 
Edited by Peter Hunt.
The giggle was because he fell for the red herring with the multiple incarnations and was going for Blofeld actors 
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The weird thing is: I’ve actually seen that flick back in the early 80s on the telly. Jürgens plays a washed up bum who somehow ends up living on the ferry because neither Hong Kong nor Macao let him off the vessel. Don’t remember much more about it though.
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Me too, everything that had the slightest connection with Bond was interesting to me, I also watched it on German television, back than we only had two or three Dutch television channels and not much great movies were on it, so I watched a lot of movies on German tv, also on the Belgium French RTBF channel.
I can’t remember much of it either, but only that it was not a great exciting movie.
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he seemed apt…
But seriously well done on that. I was well off.
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Thanks for posting the film, that was fun.
The only part I was unsure of with my guess was who killed Reid, but with a mug like his it was a cinch somebody would always have to.
I’m guessing this was the largest role he ever played? Certainly it’s the most I’ve ever heard him speak…unless it was all dubbed.
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Reid’s specialty used to be countless bouncer/bruiser/sentry/henchman roles, oftentimes uncredited. Without knowing his entire body of work I assume he was mostly hired as a ‘type’ with only the barest possible dialogue (that might have often ended up on the cutting room floor on top of it). Still, a sizeable œuvre spanning almost 30 years in the business. He must have been in the good books of producers.
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Just making my way through the films before they leave Netflix on the 20th. Not much to say, I just absolutely love this film.
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OHMSS, DAF and MR are my trinity of Bond perfection! 
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No room for SPECTRE, Mr. Hinx?
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Lashings of love for it, of course! However, for me to call it perfection would be a push! My top 3 have not a single, ‘if only they’d…’ moment in any of them, but Spectre definitely has a couple! That said, I could watch the arrival scene at the crater base on loop for hours!
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So true.
My top three are 2/3’s yours, with SP subbing for OHMSS–the final Bond for Connery, and what should have been the final Bond for Moore and Craig (though Moore survives his overstay in often more than decent fashion).
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Casablanca.
Still underconvinced by its brilliance, but it has the opportunity to shine.
It tries.
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Then I watched Eyes Wide Shut.
Then I rewatched Eyes Wide Shut.
Extraordinary. On the basis that means being outside of the ordinary.
Probably art, but possibly crap.
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Le Carré goes on for a chapter how Kubrick nearly hired him to write the script in The Pigeon Tunnel. Turned out Kubrick already had entirely his own vision of how to do it. 
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MILDRED PIERCE is a greater Curtiz movie. Also: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD: THE BREAKING POINT: FLAMINGO ROAD: THE SEA WOLF.
For me, he gets into the Pantheon on those five films.
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