Casino Royale 1967 Trivia 4,4/5 3996 reviews

'And afterwords we can run amok! Or if you're too tired, we can walk amok.' - Jimmy Bond

Mission
A satirical romp through the spy-fi genre begins as legendary spy Sir James Bond is coaxed out of retirement to take on SMERSH. With M dead in a fantastical explosion Sir James becomes head of MI6 and leads a squad of 'James Bonds' to all fight crime in his name. One is Evelyn Tremble, recruited as one of the many 007s and tasked to face SMERSH agent Le Chiffre at the baccarat table.

Trivia The character first appeared in the 1953 novel Casino Royale played by David Niven, and the first film starring the character, Dr. No, was released in 1962.


Cast

Casino Royale 1967 Movie Cast

  1. Casino Royale is a 1967 British-American spy parody film originally produced by Columbia Pictures featuring an ensemble cast.It is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the 'original' Bond, Sir James Bond 007.Forced out of retirement to investigate the deaths and disappearances of international spies, he soon battles the mysterious Dr. Noah and SMERSH.
  2. Casino Royale is the theme song for the unofficial 1967 James Bond film Casino Royale, composed by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David.It is performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass with the lyrics sung by Mike Redway. Seven James Bonds at Casino Royale, They came to save the world and win a gal at Casino Royale. Six of them went to a heavenly spot.
  3. Octopussy Theatrical release poster by Dan Goozee and Renato Casaro Directed by John Glen Produced by Albert R. Broccoli Screenplay by George MacDonald Fraser Richard Maibaum Michael G. Wilson Based on James Bond by Ian Fleming Starring Roger Moore Maud Adams Louis Jourdan Kristina Wayborn Kabir Bedi Music by John Barry Cinematography Alan Hume Edited by Peter Davies Henry Richardson.
  4. The movie Casino Royale is based on a novel of the same title, written by Ian Flemming. It also happens to be the first novel for Flemming's character of James Bond.

Casino Royale 1967 Trivia

Sir James BondDavid Niven
Evelyn TremblePeter Sellers
Vesper Lynd - 007Ursula Andress
Le ChiffreOrson Welles
Jimmy Bond - Dr. NoahWoody Allen
Agent Mimi aka Lady FionaDeborah Kerr
Mata BondJoanna Pettet
RansomeWilliam Holden

Trivia
Though this film is not part of the EON Productions official series, a number of compilation albums and CDs of James Bond film music actually often incorporate one or both of two tracks from this film, 'The Look of Love' and 'Casino Royale', in their collections. The former is one of Burt Bacharach's most remembered and successful tracks.

Crew

DirectorsVal Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, et al
ProducersJerry Bresler, John Dark, Charles K. Feldman
WritersWolf Mankowitz, John Law, Michael Sayers et al
ComposerBurt Bacharach
EditorBill Lenny

Peter Sellers
Evelyn Tremble
Vital Statistics
Running Time131 minutes
Budget$12m
US Box Office$22.7m
Worldwide Box Office$19m

Best Quote
Sir James: 'It's depressing that the words 'secret agent' have become synonymous with 'sex maniac.'

Release Data

Casino Royale 1967 Full Movie

USA28 April 1967
UK13 April 1967
Australia8 September 1967
Denmark21 December 1967
France22 December 1967
Turkey1 April 1969
Spain11 December 1977

Production Notes
Respected Hollywood producer Charles K. Feldman had recently acquired the rights to the Ian Fleming novel 'Casino Royale' and its source material and had initially approached the producers at EON Productions in order to collaborate on an 'official' version of the debut 007 story. However, after the complexities of 'Thunderball' - having co-produced the fourth James Bond outing with Kevin McClory - Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were reluctant (to say the least) to team up with another production company. The parties could not come to a satisfactory agreement and so parted ways, with EON producing the Japanese-set 'You Only Live Twice', and Feldman, not wishing to compete with the official series for viewers, opting to use the rights to shoot an all-out 1960s spoof of the genre.

Feldman sought the backing of Columbia and secured a very respectable budget of $6 million to shoot his spoof, but the production ran into complexities and by the end of the protracted shoot, the budget was almost double that of the expected outlay. This would prove to be greater than that of 'Thunderball', the last official 007 outing. The convoluted nature of the production required the assistance of many directors. Ken Hughes (who would later go on to direct EON Productions' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang') was brought onto the production to capture the Berlin scenes, John Huston worked with the cast in Scotland (doubling for Sir James Bond's home), Robert Parrish worked on the scenes between Orson Wells and Peter Sellers (largely across the casino table), with Joseph McGrath and Richard Talmadge both contributing to the coordination of extra scenes.

The convoluted nature of the shoot was not helped by its stars, Peter Sellers and Orson Welles, whose feud in the midst of the production reportedly resulted in the two actors unable to work in the same room as one another. Additionally, according to 'The Life and Death of Peter Sellers', the actor was unwilling to stick to the script (which had already been written and rewritten by a squad of Hollywood's most creative screenwriters) and insisted on dropping in his own one-liners and dialogue. As one critic said, Sellers' desired 'to turn the flattery of the role (love scene with Ursula Andress and a hefty sum) into a long-sought Cary Grant-type image.' Director Val Guest wrote that Welles did not think much of Sellers, and had refused to work with 'that amateur'. In the end, Sellers departed the production before all of the planned material was in the can. Fans to this day speculate whether he quit or was fired, but all of that remains unknown but hugely consequential to the fashion in which the film ends.

'Casino Royale' attracted a number of famed guest stars willing to make cameos with the cinema stars Welles, Sellers and Niven. Peter O'Toole, George Raft and Jean-Paul Belmond all appeared in the film whilst Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren were set to make cameos but were unable to attend the shooting.

As well as the bigger names, Ursula Andress, Vladek Sheybal, Burt Kwouk, John Hollis, Angela Scoular and Caroline Munro were among those cast members that had or would go on to perform in an EON Productions James Bond film.

The film was recently posted to YouTube in its entirety as one of six in a join venture between the studio and MGM. Fans from select global regions can watch it free of charge online today.

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Capsule Reviews
'Niven seems justifiably bewildered by the proceedings, but he has a neat delivery of throwaway lines and enters into the exuberant physical action with pleasant blandness. Peter Sellers has some amusing gags as the gambler, the chance of dressing up in various guises and a neat near-seduction scene with Ursula Andress.' -- Variety

'But there is never much chance for the comedy, let alone for the original yarn (which, like all Bond stories, could not be taken seriously, but which at least was a story). The movie is too busy kidding the previous Bond movies, which kidded the books and themselves before they were in turn kidded by the U.N.C.L.E.s and Flints. Poor 007 is now lost in a hall of distorting mirrors. It is no surprise that by the last reel there is a distinct air of defeat about Casino Royale, as if the money ($12 million) and the time (134 minutes) had run out. The final footage shows the U.S. cavalry riding to Bond's rescue, joined shortly by American Indians parachuting from planes and shouting 'Geronimo!', the French Foreign Legion, and a Mack Sennett-style squadron of period policemen. This kind of keystone cop-out was done faster and funnier 34 years ago when the Marx Brothers made Duck Soup. But in those days comedies consisted of scenes and not herds.' -- Time

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James Bond Films List

  1. Dr. No (1962) - Sean Connery (trivia: Honey Rider is played by Swiss actress Ursula Andress)
  2. From Russia with Love (1963) - Sean Connery (trivia: Rosa Klebb attempts to kick Bond with a poison-tipped right shoe)

  3. Goldfinger (1964) - Sean Connery (trivia: the villain is Auric Goldfinger who has a Korean manservant called Oddjob and the pilot Pussy Galore)
  4. Thunderball (1965) - Sean Connery (trivia: Bond's mission is to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE)
  5. You Only Live Twice (1967) - Sean Connery (trivia: Blofeld's piranha tank is used for carrying out executions)
  6. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) - George Lazenby (trivia: Bond marries Contessa Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) who is killed by Blofeld)
  7. Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Sean Connery (trivia: until the film Spectre in 2015, this was the last James Bond movie to officially use the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. crime organization)
  8. Live and Let Die (1973) - Roger Moore (trivia: features Dr. Kananga, the dictator of a small Caribbean island, San Monique)
  9. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - Roger Moore (trivia: Christopher Lee portrays Scaramanga and Britt Ekland plays Bond's assistant Mary Goodnight)
  10. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Roger Moore (trivia: Barbara Bach plays Bond girl Anya Amasova)
  11. Moonraker (1979) - Roger Moore (trivia: Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet Overture' plays when Jaws meets new girlfriend Dolly following his accident)
  12. For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Roger Moore (trivia: it was the first Bond film not to feature Bernard Lee as M)
  13. Octopussy (1983) - Roger Moore (trivia: Bond investigates the murder of Agent 009, who was killed in East Berlin while carrying a fake Faberge egg)
  14. A View to Kill (1985) - Roger Moore (trivia: Bond is pitted against Christopher Walken’s Max Zorin, an industrialist who wants to destroy Silicon Valley)
  15. The Living Daylights (1987) - Timothy Dalton (trivia: Christopher Reeve turned down a million-dollar offer by Albert R. Broccoli to play James Bond in this film)
  16. License to Kill (1989) - Timothy Dalton (trivia: the first film in the Bond series to not use the title of an Ian Fleming story)
  17. GoldenEye (1995) - Pierce Brosnan (trivia: Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate in Jamaica)
  18. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - Pierce Brosnan (trivia: Bond finds himself investigating the sinking of a British warship in Chinese waters connected to media mogul Elliot Carver)
  19. The World Is Not Enough (1999) - Pierce Brosnan (trivia: Dr. Christmas Jones is a fictional nuclear physicist and an assistant to Q was introduced, played by John Cleese)
  20. Die Another Day (2002) - Pierce Brosnan (trivia: Madonna plays the fencing instructor Verity, making this the first Bond film to feature a cameo by the performer who also sings the theme song)
  21. Casino Royale (2006) - Daniel Crai (trivia: Casino Royale was the first James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming)
  22. Quantum of Solace (2008) - Daniel Craig (trivia: the Quantum organisation intends to seize control of their water supply in Bolivia)
  23. Skyfall (2012) - Daniel Craig (trivia: Skyfall is the name of Bond's childhood home in the Scottish Highlands)
  24. Spectre (2015) - Daniel Craig (trivia: Writing's on the Wall became the first Bond movie theme music to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart)
  25. No Time To Die (2020) - Daniel Craig

Casino Royale 1967 Theme Song


Unofficial James Bond Films - not produced by Eon Productions

  1. Casino Royale (1967) - David Niven (trivia: Woody Allen played Jimmy Bond, Bond's nephew)
  2. Never Say Never Again (1983) - Sean Connery (trivia: Rowan Atkinson plays Nigel Small-Fawcett, a Foreign Office representative in the Bahamas)

Casino Royale 1967 Trivia

The James Bond Quiz

  1. Jaws, the fictional character played by Richard Kiel features in which two James Bond films?
  2. Dominetta Vitali or Domino is the main Bond girl in which James Bond film?
  3. Which actor was the oldest Bond?


  4. Which physical anomaly did Scaramanga have in The Man With The Golden Gun?
  5. Which non james Bond book was Ian Fleming famous for writing? And which famous author wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice?
  6. Who played the grumpy gadget man 'Q' seventeen times?
  7. Which Bond film is set primarily in Japan?
  8. Bond’s father was Scottish but what nationality was his mother?
  9. How many Bond themes were sung by Shirley Bassey?
  10. What happened to Bond girl Jill Masterson who was played by Shirley Easton?
  11. Orbis non Sufficit is the James Bond family motto, what is it's translation?
  12. Which Canadian actress played Miss Moneypenny in the first fourteen Eon-produced James Bond films?
  13. 'Nobody Does It Better' by Carly Simon was the theme song to which film?
  14. Who played Bond girl Jinx in the 2002 film Die Another Day?
  15. What's the name of the jewel smuggler and wealthy businesswoman played by Maud Adams?
  16. What was the name of Grace Jones's character in the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill?
  17. Alec Trevelyan's fictional character Janus is the main antagonist in which 1995 James Bond film?
  18. In which film did Judi Dench's character M die at the end?
  19. In which film did James Bond use crocodiles as stepping stones?
  20. The Aston Martin DB5 James Bond car first appeared in which James Bond film?

Answers:

  1. The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker
  2. Thunderball
  3. Roger Moore was 58 in A View To A Kill
  4. Three nipples
  5. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Roald Dahl.
  6. Desmond Llewellyn
  7. You Only Live Twice
  8. Swiss
  9. Three (Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, and Moonraker)
  10. She was sprayed with gold paint and died of skin suffication in the film Goldfinger
  11. The world is not enough

  12. Lois Maxwell
  13. The Spy Who Loved Me
  14. Halle Berry
  15. Octopussy
  16. May Day
  17. Golden Eye
  18. Skyfall
  19. Live and Let Die
  20. Goldfinger