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Casino Royale (1967)
Country of
Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1967
Running Times: 130 mins 131
mins
Format: Panavision (anamorphic)
35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation /
Famous Artists Productions
Producers: Charles
K. Feldman, Jerry Bresler
Associate Producer: John Dark
Production Managers: Barrie Melrose, John Merriman,
Douglas Peirce
SCRIPT
Screenplay: Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, Michael Sayers
Additional Screenplay: Billy Wilder (uncredited), Ben Hecht (uncredited),
John Huston (uncredited), Val
Guest (uncredited), Joseph Heller (uncredited), Terry Southern
(uncredited), Peter Sellers (uncredited), Woody Allen (uncredited)
Novel: Ian Fleming
DIRECTION
Directors: John Huston, Kenneth Hughes, Val
Guest, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath
Additional Sequences: Val Guest
Assistant Director: Roy Baird, John Stoneman, Carl Mannin
2nd Unit Director: Robert Talmadge, Anthony Squire
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jack Hildyard
Additional Director of Photography: John Wilcox, Nicolas
Roeg
Camera Operator: Alex Thomson (uncredited)
Colour: Technicolor Lab
EDITOR
Editor: Bill Lenny
Assistant Editor: Alan Strachan
MUSIC
Music/Conductor: Burt Bacharach
Lyrics: Hal David
Main Title Theme Performed By: Herb Alpert and the
Tijuana Brass
Song Performed By: Dusty Springfield (The Look of Love)
Choreography: Tutte Lemkow
SOUND
Sound: John W. Mitchell, Sahs (Sash?) Fisher, Robert
(Bob) Jones, Dick Langford
Sound Editor: Chris Greenham
Dialogue Editor: James Shields
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Chief Make Up Artist: Neville Smallwood
Make Up For Andress: John O'Gorman
Chief Hair: Joan Smallwood
Wardrobe Supervisor: Betty Adamson
Costume Designer: Julie Harris
Costumes for Ursula Andress and Joanna Pettet: Bermans, London (uncredited)
Furs for Ursula Andress: Chombert (uncredited)
Guard Girl Dresses: Paco Rabanne (uncredited)
Casino Dresses: Guy Laroche (uncredited)
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Cliff Richardson, Roy Whybrow
VISUAL EFFECTS
Special Matte Work: Les Bowie
Titles/Montages Designers: Richard Williams, Errol Le Cain (both uncredited)
Titles Animation/Montage Effects: Errol Le Cain, Richard Williams,
Roy Jackson, Stephan Zavrel , Sergio Simonetti, Helga Galler (all uncredited)
Titles Special Camera Effects: Bill Rhodes, Rex Neville (both uncredited)
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Michael Stringer
Art Director: John Howell, Ivor Beddoes, Lionel Couch
Assistant Art Director: Norman Dorme, Tony Rimmington
Construction Manager: Bill MacLaren
Titles and Montage Effects: Richard Williams
Des For Titles/Montages: Bill Rhodes (uncredited), Rex
Neville (uncredited)
Set Dresser: Terence Morgan
OTHER CREW
Technical Advisor: David Berglas
LOCATIONS
Locations: London, England, UK; Scotland, UK
CASTING
Casting: Maude Spector
STUNTS
Stunts: Keith Peacock (uncredited)
CAST
David Niven (Sir James Bond)
Peter Sellers (Evelyn Tremble)
Orson Welles (Le Chiffre)
Deborah Kerr (Agent Mimi/Lady Fiona)
Ursula Andress (Vesper Lynd)
Joanna Pettet (Mata Bond)
Daliah Lavi (The Detainer)
Woody Allen (Jimmy Bond/Dr Noah)
Terence Cooper (Cooper)
Barbara Bouchet (Moneypenny)
William Holden (Ransome)
Charles Boyer (Le Grand)
John Huston (M/McTarry)
Kurt Kasznar (Smernov)
George Raft (himself)
Jean-Paul Belmondo (French Legionnaire)
Angela Scoular (Buttercup)
Gabrielle Lucidi (Eliza)
Tracey Crisp (Heather)
Elaine Taylor (Peg)
Jackie Bisset (Miss Goodthighs)
Alexandra Bastedo (Meg)
Anna Quayle (Frau Hoffner)
Derek Nimmo (Hadley)
Ronnie Corbett (Polo)
Colin Gordon (Casino director)
Bernard Cribbins (taxi driver)
Tracy Reed (Fang leader)
John Bluthal (casino doorman/MI5 man)
Geoffrey Bayldon (Q)
John Wells (Fordyce)
Duncan Macrae (Inspector Mathis)
Graham Stark (cashier)
Chic Murray (Chic)
Jonathan Routh (John)
Richard Wattis (British army officer)
Burt Kwouk (Chinese army officer)
Vladek Sheybal (Le Chiffre's representative)
Percy Herbert (1st piper)
Penny Riley (control girl)
Jeanne Roland (captain of the guards)
John Le Mesurier (chauffeur - uncredited)
Peter O'Toole (piper - uncredited)
Stirling Moss (driver - uncredited)
Mona Washbourne (tea lady - uncredited)
Frances Cosslett (Michele - uncredited)
Valentine Dyall (voice of Dr Noah - uncredited)
Alexander Dore (uncredited)
Arthur Mullard (uncredited)
Barrie Melrose (uncredited)
Yvonne Marsh (uncredited)
Veronica Gardner (uncredited)
Roberta Jones (woman (uncredited))
David Prowse (Frankenstein's creature (uncredited))
Caroline Munro (extra
- uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
James Bond and several
other 007's converge on Casino Royale to do battle with
the villainous Dr Noah and the forces of SMERSH. (Full Synopsis)
CAPSULE REVIEW
Quite dreadful.
'Feldman's Folly' is a virtually unwatchable fiasco, a
monstrous self-indulgence from which virtually no-one
emerges unscathed. Very much a product of its time, we
can count ourselves very lucky that such a farrago could
probably never happen again. (Full Review)
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia
Laserdisc Distributor: RCA/Columbia 30630;
Columbia/Tristar 76846 (23 November 1994)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Austria
Rating: 16
Finland
Rating: K-12
Sweden
Rating: 11
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1965
Summer
Day Unknown: David Niven is signed to play Sir James Bond.
September
Day Unknown: Shirley MacLaine and Trevor Howard are
announced as co-stars - neither would
appear in the film.
December
8: Shooting is projected to begin - in the end, the day
comes and goes without a single frame
having been shot.
1966
January
Wednesday 11: Shooting finally begins at Shepperton
Studios.
March
2: Feldman tells Variety that "the story breaks into
various sequences and we've been trying to find the ideal
director to match the mood of each... This is the age of
specialisation. Our concept for this film includes not
only multiple stars, such as Peter Sellers, Ursula
Andress and Orson Welles among others, but also multiple
directors."
8: John Huston comes on board to direct David Niven's
sequences.
8: The Sun carries a report from the set which makes it
perfectly clear that all is far from well.
10: Kinematograph Weekly notes that the budget has now
reached $8 million.
1967
April
28: USA theatrical release
December
22: Finland, France and Sweden theatrical releases
1977
April
3: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)
1983
April
15: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1987
November
15: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)
1990
March
4: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)
1991
November
9: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)
1994
November
23: USA laserdisc release (Columbia/Tristar 76846)
1995
September
3: UK - television broadcast (on ITV - LWT)
1999
January
31: UK - television broadcast (on ITV - LWT)
June
26: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
POSTER TAGS
Casino Royale is too much for one James
Bond!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
James Bond 007 Casino Royale - Italian
title
AWARDS
1968
Academy Awards (USA)
Best
Music, Song ((Burt Bacharach (music), Hal David (lyrics)
- For the song The Look of Love) - nominated
British Academy Awards
Best British Costume (Colour) (Julie Harris) -
nominated
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Austin Powers -
International Man of Mystery (1997)
Austin Powers -
The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
The Avengers (1998)
Dr No (1962)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Frankenstein (1931)
Goldfinger (1964)
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1957)
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari (1920)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Bright Lights Film Journal No.28
(April 2000) (USA)
article (Casino Royale at 33: The Postmodern Epic In
Spite of Itself by Robert Dassanowsky)
Daily Cinema no.9356 (17 April
1967) p.3 (UK)
review
Film Daily vol.130 no.83 (1 May
1967) p.8 (USA)
review
Films and Filming vol.13 no.4
(January 1967) p.61 (UK)
review
Films in Review June /
July 1988 pp.336 - 349 (USA)
illustrated article (Casino Royale Revisited by Robert
Dassanowsky)
Kine Weekly no.3106 (22 April 1967)
p.15 (UK)
review
London Life 23 April 1966 p.8 (UK)
note
London Life 30 April 1966 p.27 (UK)
note
London Life 7 May 1966 p.22 (UK)
note
London Life 17 December 1966
pp.22-14 (UK)
interview
Monthly Film Bulletin June
1967 p.87 (UK)
credits, review by J.R.T.
Shock Cinema no.7 (1995)
p.3 (USA)
review (by Jim Ridley)
TV Times 22-28 June 1985
p.33 (UK)
credits, TV data
Variety 19 April 1967 (USA)
review (by Rich)
BOOKS
The A-Z of Science Fiction and
Fantasy Films p.56
short review, credits
The Bond Files pp.360-366
trivia
Elliot's Guide to Films on Video
p.131
short review, credits, video data
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and
Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.65
review, credits
Kiss Kiss, Bang! Bang! pp.56-69
article, review, credits
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films
p.57
credits KEYWORDS
casinos; james bond; secret organisations; flying saucers
Last Updated:
3 May, 2009
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