George Lazenby has had a wonderfully strange career. His very first film was playing James Bond in Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) then he gave up that role thinking the 1970s would not be kind to Bond. Then he spent the next decade making wild European genre movies and has since played small roles in a variety of movies and TV series including a sting in some made-for-TV Emmanuelle rip-offs alongside Sylvia Kristel.

In A Queen’s Ransom, he plays an Irish mercenary out to assassinate the Queen of England on her visit to Hong Kong. The film actually shot footage of the real queen in her real visit to the Asian city and then basically built a movie around it. You can read my full review here.