Release Information - On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Most European non-English language prints and videos are cut and omit the scene where Bond is almost caught in the office of Blofeld's lawyer cracking a safe. The scene is now being included in the German TV version.

Some versions include a scene where Bond's blonde colleague (the mountain climber who also appears before the office of Blofeld's lawyer in the above scene) tries to check out the valley station of the cableway to Piz Gloria, and gets thrown out by Blofeld's guards, who speak in an unsynchronised Swiss German dialect. This scene is apparently missing from either the German and English versions.

The original version edited for American Television was re-cut in several places. The film started "in medias res" with the escape from Piz Gloria, then flashing back to the beginning of the film. The entire film featured Bond's voice over (done by a different actor than Lazenby), and included a shot before the wedding in which Bond and Tracy buy her the wedding ring and Irma Bunt's reflection is seen in the window of the jeweler's.

R1 DVD release omits a few seconds from a mountain climbing scene, showing the shadow of a moving cable car on a cliff face.

The DVD R2 release differs slightly from the most recent (complete) VHS version. Notably:
- The shot of the shadow of a cable car moving across a cliff side when Bond's helper (Bernard Horsfall) is climbing a cliff is missing.
- The music starts differently when Herr Gumbold leaves his office prior to Bond breaks into the office's safe.
- When Bond speaks the line "I told you the crowd would discourage them" after the stock car race, he was previously shown saying so in close up [which has been released intact on video], now the line is only heard as Bond and Tracy speeds away.

The trailers included on the DVD show extra footage of Blofeld's Piz Gloria base being destroyed from the inside, namely the chemical labs and ice cavern.

In the German theatrical version the song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" by Nina was sung by Katja Ebstein under the title "Wovon trumt ein Weihnachtsbaum im Mai?" (What does a christmas tree in May dreams about?).

When the British Film Institute struck new prints of the first six films, they mistakenly used a heavily cut negative for OHMSS despite the film having been then-recently restored. This cut version is the print they now hold in the National Film and Television Archive as it was deemed too expensive to strike a new print from the complete negative.

The film was edited by the BBFC to change a single line for theatrical exhibition. After Bond says "I feel a slight stiffness coming on" the line "... in my shoulder" has been badly added, ruining the joke totally.

International Release Dates

Country	Release Date	Foreign Title
Denmark	18 December 1969	I Hendes Majestaets hemmelige tjenste
Finland	19 December 1969	Hänen majesteettinsa salaisessa palveluksessa
France	12 December 1969	Au Service Secret de Sa Majeste
Germany (West)	19 December 1969	Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestat
Norway	18 December 1969	I Hennes Majestets Hemmelige Tjeneste
Sweden	18 December 1969	I hennes Majestäts hemliga tjänst
UK	18 December 1969
USA	18 December 1969