"When I was a boy I was brought up in a circus. My only real friend was a huge, magnificent African bull elephant. One day, his handler mistreated him and he went berserk.
Bleeding, dying, he came and found me, stood on one leg, his best trick, picked me up and put me on his back. The drunken handler came along and emptied his gun into his eye... I emptied my stage pistol into his"
My second Bond film to see in the theater (1974) and has remained a Top Five ever since. The soundtrack is in my car as we speak. Don't know that I've ever been without it.
Rest in peace, sir. You will be missed.