Trivia / When Eight Bells Toll

• What Could Have Been: The movie (along with Where Eagles Dare) was meant to be a film series of espionage thrillers to rival the James Bond movies, or even replace them (it was thought the Bond movies would end when Sean Connery left). Connery however returned in the successful Diamonds Are Forever and and other Bonds followed him, whereas When Eight Bells Toll did poorly at the box office, killing the idea of a Phillip Calvert series.