Title:
Casino Royale (1967)
URL:
http://www.imdb.com/Title?Casino%20Royale%20%281967%29
Aka Titles:
Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale (1967)
James Bond 007 Casino Royale (1967) (Italy)
Tag Line:
Casino Royale is too much for one James Bond!
Production Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation [us]
Famous Artists Productions [us]
Distributor:
Columbia Pictures [us]
Country of Production:
UK
Certificates:
Austria:16
Finland:K-12
Sweden:11
Running Time:
UK:131
USA:130
Filmed In:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Technical Info:
Negative Format: 35 mm
Process: Panavision (anamorphic)
Print Format: 35 mm
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Release Date:
USA:28 April 1967
Finland:22 December 1967
France:22 December 1967
Sweden:22 December 1967
Locations:
London, England, UK
Scotland, UK
Language:
English
Summary:
Sir James Bond, a spy from the old school (a good spy is a pure
spy) is called back to service by the death of "M" and the imminent
collapse of civilization. The opposition tries to compromise him,
but even as nubile young agents are thrown at him, he remains above
it all. Going beyond parody to sillyness, every agent is renamed
James Bond, 007 to confuse the enemy, including Woody Allen who
plays, Little Jimmy Bond.
Summary by:
John Vogel
Summary:
Sir James Bond is enjoying his retirement when four international
agents press him into service again in hopes of smashing SMERSH and
Topple LeChiffre at the baccarat tables. Bond is taken in by Agent
Mimi (alias Lady Fiona McTarry) who immediately falls in love with
him. Bond's illegitimate daughter, Mata Bond, whose mother was the
late Mata Hari, is going to help out. The current agent using the
Bond name, Cooper, has his hands full, despite his assistance by
beautiful secretary, Moneypenny. 007's nephew Jimmy Bond is
supposedly incompetent. Bond, hoping to clear his name from its
current low repute, hires Evelyn Tremble to meet LeChiffre at the
gambling tables at Casino Royale. The world's richest agent, Vesper
Lynd, helps convince Tremble to masquerade as 007.
Summary by:
Aaron Handy III
Genres:
Comedy
Keywords:
based-on-novel farce james-bond screwball spoof spy-spoof spy hell
Producers:
Jerry Bresler
John Dark (associate)
Charles K. Feldman
Directors:
Val Guest
Ken Hughes (I) (as Kenneth Hughes)
John Huston
Joseph McGrath (I)
Robert Parrish
Writers: (credits order)
Ian Fleming (novel)
Wolf Mankowitz &
John Law (I) &
Michael Sayers
Woody Allen (uncredited) and
Val Guest (uncredited) and
Ben Hecht (uncredited) and
Joseph Heller (uncredited) and
Terry Southern (uncredited) and
Billy Wilder (uncredited) and
Peter Sellers (uncredited)
Composer:
Burt Bacharach
Cinematographer:
Jack Hildyard
Editor:
Bill Lenny
Production Designer:
Michael Stringer (III)
Costume Designers:
Julie Harris (II)
Guy Laroche (casino gowns)
Paco Rabanne (guard dresses)
Casting:
Maude Spector
Art Directors:
Ivor Beddoes
Lionel Couch
John Howell
Assistant Directors:
Roy Baird (assistant director)
Carl Mannin (assistant director)
Anthony Squire (second Unit Director)
John Stoneman (I) (assistant director)
Richard Talmadge (second Unit Director)
Production Managers:
Barrie Melrose (production manager)
John D. Merriman (production manager)
Douglas Peirce (production manager) (as Douglas Peirce)
Sound:
Sash Fisher (sound)
Chris Greenham (sound editor)
Bob Jones (I) (sound)
Richard Langford (sound) (as Dick Langford)
John W. Mitchell (sound)
James Shields (I) (dialogue editor)
Special Effects:
Cliff Richardson (special effects)
Roy Whybrow (special effects)
Make-Up:
John O'Gorman (I) (makeup artist: Ursula Andress)
Joan Smallwood (hair stylist)
Neville Smallwood (key makeup artist)
Verified Complete Cast: (credits order)
Peter Sellers ..................... Evelyn Tremble(James Bond-007)
Ursula Andress .................... Vesper Lynd (007)
David Niven ....................... Sir James Bond
Orson Welles ...................... Le Chiffre
Joanna Pettet ..................... Mata Bond (007)
Daliah Lavi ....................... The Detainer (007)
Woody Allen ....................... Jimmy Bond (Dr. Noah)
Deborah Kerr ...................... Agent Mimi (alias Lady Fiona McTarry)
William Holden .................... Ransome (CIA)
Charles Boyer ..................... Legrand (Cinquieme Bureau)
John Huston ....................... McTarry (M)
Kurt Kasznar ...................... Smernov (KGB)
George Raft ....................... Himself
Jean-Paul Belmondo ................ French Legionnaire
Terence Cooper .................... Cooper (James Bond-007)
Barbara Bouchet ................... Moneypenny
Angela Scoular .................... Buttercup
Gabriella Licudi .................. Eliza
Tracey Crisp ...................... Heather
Elaine Taylor ..................... Peg
Jacqueline Bisset (as Jacky Bisset) .. Miss Goodthighs
Alexandra Bastedo ................. Meg
Anna Quayle ....................... Frau Hoffner
Derek Nimmo ....................... Hadley
Ronnie Corbett .................... Polo
Bernard Cribbins .................. Taxi Driver/Capt. Carlton Towers F.O.
Colin Gordon ...................... Casino Director
Tracy Reed (I) .................... Fang Leader
John Bluthal ...................... Casino Doorman
Geoffrey Bayldon .................. 'Q'
John Wells (I) .................... 'Q's assistant
Duncan Macrae ..................... Inspector Mathis
Graham Stark ...................... Cashier
Chic Murray ....................... Chic
Jonathan Routh .................... John
Richard Wattis .................... British Army Officer
Vladek Sheybal .................... Le Chiffre's Representative
Percy Herbert ..................... 1st Piper
Penny Riley ....................... Control Girl
Jeanne Roland ..................... Captain of the Guards
Remainder of Cast: (alphabetical order)
Valentine Dyall ................... Voice of Dr. Noah
Roberta Jones (uncredited) ........ Woman
Bert Kwouk (uncredited) ........... Chinese general
John Le Mesurier (uncredited) ..... M's Driver
Stirling Moss (uncredited) ........ Driver
Peter O'Toole (uncredited) ........ Piper
David Prowse (uncredited) ......... Frankenstein's creature
Miscellaneous:
Betty Adamson (wardrobe supervisor)
David Berglas (Technical Advisor)
Les Bowie (special matte worker)
Chombert (furs)
Hal David (II) (lyricist)
Norman Dorme (assistant art director)
Tutte Lemkow (choreographer)
Bill MacLaren (construction manager)
Terence Morgan (III) (set dresser)
Tony Rimmington (assistant art director)
Nicolas Roeg (additional photographer)
Alan Strachan (assistant film editor)
Alex Thomson (camera operator)
John Wilcox (I) (additional photographer)
Richard Williams (I) (titles and montage effects)
Crew believed to be complete.
Movie Links:
(references Frankenstein (1931))
(references Mata Hari (1931))
(references Wuthering Heights (1939))
(references Moulin Rouge (1952))
(references Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957))
(references Some Like It Hot (1959))
(references Dr. No (1962))
(references Goldfinger (1964))
(references What's New, Pussycat (1965))
(references Born Free (1966))
(referenced in Fifth Element, The (1997))
(referenced in Avengers, The (1998))
(referenced in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999))
(spoofs Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das (1920))
(spoofed in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997))
(featured in Boca a boca (1995))
Trivia:
- Cameos by 'Sinatra, Frank' (qv), 'Loren, Sophia' (qv), and
'Streisand, Barbra' (qv) were planned.
- When Mata Bond swings into action, the background music is "Bond Street".
- 'Sellers, Peter' (qv) and 'Welles, Orson' (qv) hated each other so much
that the filming of the scene where both of them face each other across a
gaming table actually took place on different days with a double standing
in for one the actors.
- Sellers often caused interruptions by leaving the set for days at a time.
- Numerous screenwriters and directors contributed bits to the film and
were uncredited: 'Wilder, Billy' (qv) (the "Nobody's Perfect" tag line)
and 'Southern, Terry' (qv) (the war room in Berlin) among them.
- An enormous Taj Mahal-type set was designed for the film but never built.
Quotes:
Piper: Are you Richard Burton?
Evelyn Tremble: No, I'm Peter O'Toole!
Piper: Then you're the greatest man that ever BREATHED.
[In a building that is about to explode.]
Cooper: What's the strategy, sir?
Bond: Get out of the bloody place before it blows up!
Frau Hoffner: Hmmm, it is little Otto. He was one of your mother's
lovers. We often find him lying around.
Mata Bond: Is he dead?
Frau Hoffner: Hard to tell. He always looked like that.
Jimmy Bond: You can't shoot me! I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
[In front of 10 Downing Street.]
Mata Bond: I bet Mummy would've taken me in!
Sir James: Mummy took everyone in.
[Upon seeing Mata Hari's bedroom.]
Mata Bond: Hey, what an enormous bed!
Polo: The German army was very large in those days.
Sir James: I remember your chap Lenin very well. First class
organizer. Second class mind.
Sir James: It's depressing that the words "secret agent" have become
synonymous with "sex maniac."
Sir James: The whole world believes that you were eaten by a shark,
Miss Lynd.
Vesper Lynd: That was no shark. That was my personal submarine. But
enough of this polite conversation. What is the purpose of your
visit?
Soundtrack:
- "Casino Royale"
(Instrumental Version) by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- "The Look Of Love"
(Instrumental Version) by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- "The Look Of Love"
(Vocal) by Dusty Springfield
Literature:
Novel:
Fleming, Ian. Casino Royale
Essays:
Dassanowsky, Robert. "Casino Royale Revisited." Films in Review, June/July 1988. (MG)
Business Info:
Budget:
$9,000,000 (USA)
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