Casino Royale
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Short description
Casino Royale is a 1967 spy comedy in which the retired British agent Sir James Bond is persuaded to return to service when the international organization SMERSH begins targeting agents around the world. To confuse the enemy, he devises a plan in which multiple operatives all use the name James Bond, among them Evelyn Tremble, who is sent to face the criminal financier Le Chiffre in a high-stakes baccarat game. The film, a loose and comedic take on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel rather than part of the official Eon series, mixes espionage with slapstick and farce.
The production was a group effort, with John Huston, Robert Parrish, Val Guest, Joseph McGrath and Ken Hughes among the credited directors, while Wolf Mankowitz, John Law and Michael Sayers wrote the screenplay. For Huston it was the thirteenth of the twenty-two films he directed, following The Bible: In the Beginning... and preceding Reflections in a Golden Eye. Peter Sellers appears as Evelyn Tremble, David Niven plays Sir James Bond, and the large cast includes Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet and Daliah Lavi, with sixty-four credited performers in all. Made for twelve million dollars, it took about forty-two million worldwide.
Audience scores are mixed: on IMDb it holds 5 out of 10 from 35,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.2 out of 10 from 860 votes. A critics' rating of 4.9 out of 10 from 42 reviews sits close to those viewer numbers.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was originally planned as another installment in the Bond series, but Feldman was unhappy with the fee Sean Connery demanded for the lead role, and a decision was made to make a parody.
- Val Guest, Ben Hecht, Joseph Heller, Terry Southern, Billy Wilder, and Peter Sellers also contributed to the screenplay but were not credited.
- The film's posters featured a nude tattooed woman, and Orson Welles attributed the film's commercial success to her.
- Next to Orson Welles, one can notice a rug beater as a reference to Fleming's original novel.
- Doctor No and Giovanna Goodfings are references to Fleming's characters Doctor No and Mary Goodnight.
- Ian Fleming always dreamed of seeing actor David Niven in the role of James Bond.
- As a result of a court case over the rights to adapt Fleming's novel of the same name, Sony paid $5 million to MGM and transferred all rights to them in 1999. In 2005, Sony bought MGM and released a new adaptation of the novel in 2006.
- The storyline involving Peter Sellers is the only thing that connects the film to Fleming's book.
- George Raft and Jean-Paul Belmondo are credited in the opening titles of the film, although each of them appears on screen for only a few seconds.
- Problems with actor Peter Sellers forced the producer to reduce and alter the storyline of his character.
- Along with her father John, a young Anjelica Huston makes her film debut as an unnamed agent.
- The role of the man running after the car after the line “Follow that car!” was played by the famous racer Stirling Moss.
- The film is based on Ian Fleming's novel "Casino Royale" (1953).
- The Bond Street musical theme by Burt Bacharach was later used in one of the James Bond films, "Octopussy".
- In 1954, Ian Fleming's novel was adapted for television as part of the "Climax!" series. Feldman's film was the first cinematic adaptation of the novel. The next one wasn't released for another 40 years.
- The film's budget exceeded the budgets of the two previous official James Bond films, "Thunderball" and "You Only Live Twice".
- Ursula Andress is the only actress to have appeared twice as a "Bond girl": in "Dr. No" and in Feldman's parody.
- Besides Ursula Andress, who starred in "Dr. No," some actors also appeared in both the parody and the official Bond films. Vladek Sheybal also played in "From Russia with Love," Bert Kwouk in "Goldfinger" and "You Only Live Twice," Jeanne Roland in "You Only Live Twice," Angela Scoular in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," and Caroline Munro in "The Spy Who Loved Me."
- Deborah Kerr, who was 46 years old during filming, turned out to be the "oldest" of the Bond girls.
- "Casino Royale" is the only known film in which James Bond dies.
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