Casino Royale - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Casino Royale. Image shows left to right: Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet), Sir James Bond (David Niven)

Genre

Film

Released

1967

Creator

Ian Fleming

Stars

Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr and more

Writers

Wolf Mankowitz, John Law and Michael Sayers

Directors

John Huston, Kenneth Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish and Joe McGrath

Producers

Charles K. Feldman and Jerry Bresler

Extravagant 007 spoof in which Sir James Bond is brought out of retirement to save the world from the machinations of the criminal organisation SMERSH.

Reluctant to return to the dangers of his old lifestyle, Bond finds himself pressganged back to London by the combined will of MI5, the CIA, KGB, and French secret service, all of whom have their top agents disappearing or dropping like flies. SMERSH must have infiltrated one or all of the top organisations - but who is behind it and for what aim?

Bond creates a host of namesakes from some of the top agents and civillians he knows of - including his own daughter - and sets them on the case. But with rigged casinos, exploding pills, incredibly seductive women, and the upper hand of surprise, SMERSH look set to be a hard nut to crack. It looks like James may just have to go out into the field himself, one last time...

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UK certificate

U

Duration

142 minutes

UK premiere

Thursday 13th April 1967, Leicester Square ODEON

Distributors

Columbia Pictures

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

Music composed and conducted by Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by Hal David. Title theme performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

Broadcast details

Next repeats

  1. Wednesday 8th January at 10:45pm on ITV1
  2. Saturday 11th January at 10:35pm on ITV1

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