Dr No (1962) - James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate what is causing interference with American space launches on the island of Crab Key. Bond and adventuress Honey Ryder find the answer to the mystery and come face to face with the diabolical Dr. No. - James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond Felix Leiter Jack Lord Mission James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate what is causing interference with American space launches on the island of Crab Key. Bond and adventuress Honey Ryder find the answer to the mystery and come face to face with the diabolical Dr. No. Locations London, UK; Kingston, Jamaica; Crab Key. Pre-Credits Sequence The only film in the series not to include a "pre-credits sequence", as the opening of the movie begins with electronic noises and the names of the producers displayed. The title sequence is composed of sequences of dots to the James Bond theme. Title As with Ian Fleming's novel, the central villain lends his name to the title of the film.

Release Data UK: 5th October 1962 (PG) USA: 8th May 1963 (PG) World Premiere: 5th October 1962 (London Pavilion, UK) UK TV Premiere: 28th October 1975, ITV US TV Premiere: 10th November 1974, ABC Running Time: 105 minutes Classification: PG (UK), PG (US) Budget: $1.0m Bond: "Bond... James Bond." Best Mistake At one point Bond picks a thug up with his left hand and prepares to lay into him with his right. However, he then hits him with his left hand. Distinguishing feature The first time Bond uses a Walther PPK, replacing his preferred Beretta. Vital Statistics "Bond, James Bond": 1 Cut Scenes & Alternate Versions The ending had originally featured Honey being attacked by land crabs when Bond rescues her. The crabs moved too slowly to be really menacing and the ending was reshot without the crabs. Still photographs of the earlier ending can be seen on the special edition DVD.

During the Dent execution, most TV versions omit Bond's second gunshot into Dent's back. Some TV versions shorten the opening scenes to speed up Bond's introduction. In particular a scene featuring a fellow agent arriving at the casino in search of Bond is cut, and the card game with Sylvia Trench begins just prior to the famous "Bond, James Bond" introduction, omitting the lengthy lead-up in the original. Some foreign prints omit the scene entirely. Alternate versions of some scenes were filmed for European markets, including a somewhat more revealing scene involving the character Miss Taro. MI6 Ranking Fan Ranking The only Bond film to not include some variation of "James Bond will return" in the closing credits You Might Also Like Dr. No - James Bond Movies Dr. No Jack Lord Plot When the Station Chief of Jamaica John Strangways misses the daily report to London headquarters, and is reported missing along with his secretary, James Bond is sent to investigate. Bond arrives in Jamaica and is greeted by a driver claiming to be from Government House, even though such an arrangement was never made. He goes along with it anyway and is soon chased by two men.

After loosing them, Bond interrogates the driver, who commits suicide with a cyanide filled cigarette before giving out any information. Bond proceeds to Government House and visits Strangways home, finding a geology receipt from a Professor Dent. An officer from Government House tells Bond that Strangways had taken a boat out to collect rock samples with a local fisherman named Quarrel. Bond finds Quarrel and realizes that he was one of the men following him from the airport. After a brief brawl with Quarrel, another man shows up and holds Bond up at gunpoint, later revealing himself to be Felix Leiter of the CIA. They go to Quarrel's boat with a Geiger counter and Bond discovers that the place in the boat where Strangways put the rocks has a high reading--the rocks were radioactive. Bond goes to visit Professor Dent, who tells him that Strangways brought back some iron ore rocks, thinking they were valuable. Fearing that he knows too much, Dent tries to lure Bond into a trap. However, knowing the truth about the rock samples, Bond is ready waiting, and kills the Professor.

Bond then visits Crab Key Island , where the rocks had come from, after hearing that the island is heavily guarded by a strange Chinese man. They meet a girl named Honey Ryder, who is collecting shells on the beach. The guard patrols see Honey's boat and chase after them. They are eventually caught up by a vehicle dressed up to look like a dragon, and are captured after Quarrel is killed. Bond meets the owner of the island, Dr. No, and discovers that he works for SPECTRE, the SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. They have dinner and Dr. No reveals his plan to demonstrate SPECTRE's power by using an nuclear powered radio beam to disrupt rockets in NASA's Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program in America. After refusing an offer to join the organization, Bond is imprisoned in a small cell. He manages to escape through the vent system and ambushes a technician, taking his clothes and sneaking into the control room. He then overpowers the reactor, causing an impending meltdown, and the island is evacuated. Dr. No goes after Bond and is thrown to his death in the heart of the reactor.

Bond then finds Honey Ryder and escapes in a boat just as the island explodes. Production - The Start of an Era In late 1960, Producer Harry Saltzman approached James Bond author Ian Fleming, wanting to discuss the sale of the film rights for the novels. Fleming, having written Bond novels for 7 years at that point, had probably seen his fair share of illegitimate offers for the rights in the past. So to be sure Saltzman was serious, he suggested a price quite absurdly high for the time, $50,000 for a 6 month hold, and $100,000 per film on their release. To his surprise, Saltzman accepted. Meanwhile, Producer Cubby Broccoli had broken up with his film partner Irving Allen, and was looking for a new project. He heard from a friend that Harry Saltzman had the rights, and was having trouble getting the money together, with his 6 month hold on the novels about to run out. Cubby went to see him, attempting to buy the rights, but Harry didn't want to give them up, so they instead formed a partnership, and the legend began.

Cubby and Harry went to American and pitched the movie to the heads of United Artists, who, as it turned out, had been looking to acquire the rights to James Bond earlier that year. The deal was made, and the production began, on a budget of $1,000,000. UA originally planned to make Thunderball the first movie, as the novel had just been released several months earlier. A screenplay was even written, but problems arose and the project was cancelled. Several years earlier, Ian Fleming had begun a project to make a screenplay with several other authors, which Kevin McClory was to direct. The project fell through, and was completely scrapped, but Ian Fleming used some elements of the screenplay in his novel Thunderball. Around the time Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had teamed up, Kevin had become aware of their intention to make Thunderball and sued Ian Fleming, claiming rights on elements of the novel. There is a large debate over the authorship, but to be brief, Kevin won the case. So Thunderball was scrapped, and the producers decided to instead move onto an adaption of Dr. No. They brought in writer Richard Maibaum, who had been working on the scrapped Thunderball screenplay.

Cubby also pulled in director Terence Young, who he'd worked with before on some of his earliest productions. They were almost set, but still without a lead actor. Casting James Bond Several famous actors had been considered for the role of James Bond, but Harry and Cubby had always had a preference for an unknown actor to play the part. A competition was set up to "Find James Bond", and a few of the finalists auditioned in front of Harry, Cubby and Ian Fleming. The best candidate was announced to be professional model Peter Anthony, but Cubby decided he couldn't handle the part. The producers finally settled on Sean Connery, who not only had the style and charisma required for Bond, but also had a certain roughness about him which would even out Bond's Snobbery into a more balanced character. Connery was initially offered a 3 year contract for 6 films, but having recently gotten out of a bad contract with Fox, demanded the freedom to play other roles. The producers accepted, the agreement was changed to 1 film per year, and Sean Connery became James Bond.

Honey Ryder While searching for the perfect actress to play Honey Rider, producer Cubby Broccoli discovered a photo of Ursula Andress among a pile of hundreds of publicity shots lying on his desk. As Cubby recollected in his autobiography, he picked up the photo and said to fellow producer Harry Saltzman, "Well, this is the girl, Harry", casting her in the role almost immediately. Ursula accepted the role on the advise of her husband, two weeks before the beginning of shooting. Funnily enough, the publicity shot Cubby had seen on his desk had been of Ursula walking out of the water, in a similar fashion to how she would later appear in the film. Music The Dr. No soundtrack was released to coincide with the American release of Dr. No on May 8th, 1963. Besides those recorded by the John Barry Orchestra, most of the songs on the album were performed by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, who appeared in the film singing Jump Up. There is still much debate and controversy over who composed the James Bond Theme. Monty Norman was originally hired to write the film's soundtrack, and was credited for it in the film.

However, midway through the production, the producers hired composer John Barry to rearrange the main theme, and write the rest of the music for the film. The change in composer introduced inconsistencies between the film and the soundtrack. The music in film was almost entirely John Barry's, while the soundtrack is mostly Monty Normans work, most of which was unused in the film. Because of this, the album received sub-par reviews from the media and Bond fans alike. Also note that Diana Coupland was Norman's wife at the time. Track # Unknown Goofs Every movie has a few interesting and sometimes funny mistakes, but most lists of movie goofs are full of duplicates, and pick apart the tiniest details, like a speck of dandruff disappearing between shots! Here we try to list the best of the bunch, short and sweet. Disappearing tie Bond's gun changes mid-fight During the car chase to Miss Taro's bungalow, the sound of screeching tires is heard. But the chase actually occurs on a gravel road, where it's not possible for tires to screech. While putting on his silencer, Bond's tie disappears (see right) Just before Bond falls down the pipe in Dr.

No's lair, Connery's stunt double can be clearly seen for a few seconds Near the end of the film, in the boat, Bond holds up the oil level dip stick when he announces that they are out of fuel. When shooting at the dragon in the swamp, Bond's gun changes from a Walther PPK to a Colt .45 (see right) Just before Bond kills Professor Dent, he says "Smith & Wesson, you've had your six". However, the gun wasn't a Smith & Wesson, and it actually carried seven bullets. This error was introduced because an earlier version of the scene had Dent firing one last bullet, but missing, before being gunned down by Bond. Box Office Dr. No (1962) - Plot Summary - IMDb Dr. No (1962) Plot Summary Showing all 6 plot summaries James Bond (007) is Britain's top agent and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamaica, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal CIA agent, Felix Leiter.

While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons" and a trio of assassins, known as the three blind mice. Bond meets up with the beautiful Honey Ryder and goes face to face with the evil Dr. No. - Written by simon_hrdng When the British agent John Strangways and his secretary vanish in Jamaica, James Bond is assigned by M to investigate what might have happened with the agents. 007 teams-up with the CIA agent Felix Leiter and the native Quarrel that works with him and 007 learns that Strangways was investigating the Crab Key Island that belongs to the mysterious Dr. No and is very well protected by armed guards. Soon they learn that Dr. is toppling the rockets launched by the NASA Cape Canaveral and 007 goes to Crab Key with Quarrel to seek evidences against Dr. No. They meet the sexy Honey Ryder collecting seashells in the island. They stay together but soon they are found by the security guards and arrested in Dr. No's facility, and James Bond learns the evil plan of Dr. No and The SPECTRE.

- Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil An agent of the British Secret Service, James Bond (007), is sent out to the West Indies in order to find out why another of his number was killed. His arrival is not welcomed by everyone, but it is not long before he is on the trail of the killer. The trail leads to a secretive scientist, Dr. No, but the discovery has wider implications... - Written by Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk> Bond's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where mysterious energy waves are interfering with U.S. missile launches. As he unravels the astonishing truth, 007 must fight deadly assassins, sexy femme fatales and even a poisonous tarantula. With the help of crack CIA agent Felix Leiter and the beautiful Honey Ryder, he searches for the headquarters of Dr. No, a fanatical scientist who is implementing an evil plan of world domination. Only James Bond, with his combination of wit, charm and skill, can confront the madman and save the human race from a horrible fate.

- Written by Robert Lynch <docrlynch@yahoo.com> James Bond 007, seductive British secret agent, has been sent to the West Indies to investigate the disappearance of British agent John Strangway and his secretary. Once arriving, 007 becomes suspicious of scientist Proffesor Dent, who was the last person to have seen Strangway before he disappeared. After learning Professor Dent is working for a terrorist with a metal hand Dr. Julius No and Strangway is dead, 007 meets CIA agent Felix Leiter and his assistant Quarrel in Jamiaca. 007 and Quarrel head to the tropical island Crab Key, after encountering the beautiful Honey Ryder, 007 finds the island is Dr. No's secret lair and 007 and Honey are captured but Quarrel is killed. Where 007 learns Dr. No is has been disrupting the American rocket launches at NASA and he is out for world domination and plots to unleash his vengeance on the United States of America. Can James Bond defeat Dr. No and save the world?

- Written by Daniel Williamson A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. Super Reviewer ½ The bond film to start all bond films. "Dr. No" is the type of spy film that you just cannot dislike, because the cleverness will cloud any doubt. Sean Connery kicks off the series with a bang, creating an atmosphere that I loved to death. This film is about agent OO7 and his assignment where he is sent across country where he comes into contact with an evil doctor. This plot is not wholly original nowadays, but for it's time, it is unbeatable. "Dr. No" boasts fantastic acting, a great script, and some pretty intense scenes. There was never a dull moment in this film, or any moment for that matter that made me bored. This film is well paced and the pay-off is excellent. This James Bond film is not one to miss! KJ Proulx Super Reviewer An Englishman let loose amongst the filthy, ignorant natives, these present of Jamaica, teaching them the right way of class and order.

Connery is a fav to Bond fans for his smug condescension to absolutely everyone (no doubt a comfort to the boys at home), his only equal onscreen is an American CIA operative (winningly downplayed by Jack Lord) who is pleased as punch to learn from his betters. Forgetting the political underpinnings, its a decent actioner, but the politics are an essential part of the package, which begins to annoy like a leafblower on a quiet Sunday morning. Kevin M. Williams Super Reviewer ½ Although rough around the edges, many of the hallmarks of the series are present and correct in the very first film. Connery's Bond has a ruthlessness about him here that he would sadly lose as the series progressed. The modesty of the budget thankfully keeps the writers' imaginations and Ken Adam's production design of villain Joseph Wiseman's lair in check, a situation which would alter as the series became a victim of its own success, culminating in a plausibility nadir of sorts with Donald Pleasance's volcanic hideout in You Only Live Twice. Stephen M MI6 :: Dr. No (1962) :: James Bond 007 Production Notes - Dr.

No The progress of James Bond, 007 from the printed page to the big screen was not an easy passage. The journey began in May 1954 when Gregory Ratoff, the Russian-born director / producer, successfully bid for the television rights to Ian Fleming 's first Bond novel, Casino Royale . Ratoff subsequently bowdlerized the novel and presented a drastically altered version as part of the Climax Mystery Theater anthology show in October of 1954. Ratoff was so impressed by his creation that in March 1955 he bought the full screen rights to Casino Royale for the then princely sum of $6,000. Fleming was on something a roll at this time, penning a screenplay based on his then current novel Moonraker for Rank who eventually dithered for so long over whether to commit to the project that it simply never got made. Above: Sean Connery poses for a publicity shot as James Bond.

In 1956, Fleming, produced a 28 page script titled James Gunn - Secret Agent for Henry Morgenthau III, a New York based producer who had entered into a deal with the Jamaican government, hoping to turn the island into a major film production centre. Given that Fleming had fallen in love with Jamaica and set up home there [living in a huge mansion he dubbed Goldeneye], the writer seemed the perfect choice to assist Morgenthau in his frankly rather oddball scheme. Morgenthau saw the Gunn treatment as the springboard for a whole TV show and felt that the cachet attached to Fleming's name would be sure to attract US TV executives and their money and influence. The half-hour pilot would pit secret agent Commander Bond against Oriental super-villain Doctor No who, working with German scientists, was planning to sabotage the West's attempts to reach space by interfering with a launch site based in the Caribbean. By the end of 1956, the project was dead, Morgenthau's grand schemes coming to nothing.

Fleming, never one to waste good material, reworked the script as the basis for his 1957 novel Dr No , resurrecting Bond who, at the climax of the previous novel From Russia With Love , had been left for dead. Almost immediately, interest was piqued in the film industry - one small company made initial inquiries about obtaining the rights to Dr No but was shouldered out of the way when US TV giant CBS lumbered into frame, the company's president Hubell Robinson keen to adapt Bond into the star of a 13-part TV series. Fleming dug out his tattered copy of the James Gunn script, rewrote it for Bond and would once again watch as the project ran aground. Poor Fleming was probably beginning to despair of ever seeing his beloved James Bond reach the big screen by this stage, despite an extraordinary amount of work on his part. The next attempt to film Bond would also fail to come to fruition, but it was at least to have some impact on the future of the suave secret agent's screen career. In 1958, Ivar Bryce, a close friend of Fleming's, introduced the writer to a young Irish film maker named Kevin McClory.

Bryce and McClory had already worked together on the low budget The Boy and the Bridge, a film which Fleming saw in rough cut and enjoyed very much. Above: The leading ladies of "Dr No" - Eunice Gayson played Sylvia Trench (top) and would reprise her role in "From Russia With Love". Ursula Andress played the major female role of Honey Ryder. Fleming decided to throw in his lot with Bryce and McClory and for the next couple of years the threesome, joined by another of Fleming's friends, Ernest Cuneo, worked away on a number of possible screen treatments for Bond. Though relations between Fleming and McClory were often strained, the partnership seemed to have been successful enough for Kinematograph Weekly to announce, on 1 October 1959, that McClory had in fact begun pre-production on James Bond of the Secret Service which would reflect McClory's love of water sports and feature a number of underwater scenes. Shooting would begin, we were assured, some time in February of 1960. February 1960 came and went and there was no sign of James Bond of the Secret Service.

In fact the partnership had failed to find the funding they needed for their ambitious project and it simply faded away. Fleming was to re-use some of the ideas generated by the project in his novel Thunderball which led to a long running legal battle between the author, McClory and the producers that would eventually get the film series off the ground. One of the unsung players in the tortured history of James Bond on the screen has been solicitor Brian Lewis who numbered among his clients Fleming and a Canadian film producer named Harry Saltzman . It was Lewis who arranged for Fleming and Saltzman to meet in 1960 and who, perhaps inadvertently, laid the foundations for one of the longest running and most profitable film series in history. As a result of this meeting, Saltzman bought an option on the Bond novels but, with his six months option about to expire, Saltzman was still finding it difficult to raise capital when, in May 1961, screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz suggested that Saltzman should talk to another producer who was interested in Bond, New Yorker Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli .

Above: Joseph Wiseman took on the titular role of Dr No (top), with his stumbling geologist henchman Professor Dent played by Anthony Dawson. Broccoli had been in the film industry for years and, in 1952, had teamed up with Irving Allen to create Warwick Films which turned out plenty of cheap and now forgotten quota quickies throughout the 1950s, one of which had been the war film The Red Beret [1952], directed by Terence Young and co-written by Richard Maibaum, both of whom would also figure prominently in the Bond story. In fact Broccoli and Maibaum had already considered their own version of Bond in 1958 when the producer asked Maibaum to read the novels and see if he could come up with a workable treatment. That version never made it, finally killed when Warwick Films folded in 1960. As luck would have it, Saltzman was also at a bit of a loose end in 1960 - he still had his option on Bond, but his partnership with John Osborne and Tony Richardson [who together comprised the production company Woodfall] had dissolved.

When Broccoli and Saltzman met, they - reluctantly at first - decided to pool their resources. But time was running out on Saltzman's option and the producers had to move quickly. They formed a new company, Danjaq [formed from an amalgam of their wives names, Dana Broccoli and Jacqueline Saltzman] and used Saltzman's Canadian citizenship to allow them to base their company in Switzerland. The British arm of the operation was called EON Productions - long held to be an acronym for Everything Or Nothing, though Broccoli later denied that this was the case. The race was now on to secure the all important financing that their Bond project would need. Columbia were the first of the studios to express an interest but they backed out when they felt unable to commit to any more than $400,000, a sum that EON felt just wasn't enough. Broccoli then began to pursue United Artists and was told by their chairman, Arthur Krim, that he and Saltzman should talk to fellow UA executive David Picker. On 20 June 1961, the two producers arrived at United Artists' headquarters in New York ready to give their pitch.

Forty minutes later, the deal was done and UA were on board for a six-picture deal. James Bond was finally going to reach the big screen. Above: James Bond makes fast friends with Felix Leiter (played by Jack Lord - top) and Quarrel (played by John Kitzmiller). The beginnings of Bond's film career went virtually unnoticed by the trade press, except for a few brief notices announcing the forthcoming film as one of a slate of productions being readied by Saltzman and Broccoli. But while the rest of the world carried on blissfully unaware of what was coming, the producers had hired writer Richard Maibaum to work on a treatment based on Thunderball. But that messy court case surrounding the novel was to rear its ugly head and frightened Saltzman and Broccoli away, though not before Maibaum had actually finished his first draft screenplay. Instead, they turned their attentions to Dr No which was now being prepared by Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz. But there was one vital element still missing from the production - Saltzman and Broccoli didn't have anyone yet to play Bond.

On 5 October 1961, Kinematograph Weekly announced that production on Dr No would not now take place until the following year, allowing the producers to concentrate on their search for a star. A national newspaper ran a competition looking for the screen Bond and had whittled down more than 1,000 contestants to a more manageable six, all of whom were screen tested by EON at Twickenham studios. Of the six, one man emerged as the clear leader - a young model named Peter Anthony. But he was ultimately deemed unsuitable, though as consolation, he was offered a small part in the film, though he eventually failed to appear. Others who were reportedly being considered for the role at this time included Richard Johnson [who would later play another fictional British secret agent, Bulldog Drummond], Roger Moore , Rex Harrison, Trevor Howard, Max Von Sydow and Patrick McGoohan. The latter was reportedly offered the role but he turned it down, appalled by the character's brutality and wanton behaviour. Broccoli himself, meanwhile, was keen on pursuing Cary Grant for the role.

Fleming favoured either David Niven, Moore or his cousin, Christopher Lee , with his neighbour in Jamaica, Noel Coward, as Dr No, all of whom were deemed unsuitable for one reason or another. In fact Coward himself turned down the part, famously sending a telegraph to the producers which simply read: "Dr. No? No! No! No!" The first time that Sean Connery 's name went into the hat was at a dinner party attended by Saltzman and his wife at the Polish club in London. Also present were producer Benjamin Fisz, and editor Peter Hunt [then finishing off work on a comedy, On The Fiddle, for Fisz and himself a key player in later Bond films]. During dinner, Saltzman mentioned the problems that he and Broccoli had been having in finding the right man to play Bond when Fisz mentioned to Hunt that Connery, who was appearing in the still unfinished On the Fiddle, might fit the bill.

Hunt screened a couple of reels of On the Fiddle featuring Connery for Saltzman, while in the States, Broccoli had already seen Connery's work in the successful Disney comedy-musical Darby O'Gill and the Little People [1958]. Connery, a former naval rating, milkman and labourer, had been toiling away in film and TV since 1957, never really achieving the sort of roles that would best suit his obvious talents. In October 1961, Connery was invited to EON's offices in Mayfair, London, for the first of a series of interviews with Saltzman and Broccoli. The producers were impressed by what they saw - Broccoli liked the young Scot's body language and Saltzman later revealed [on the BBC's Whicker's World in 1967] that they simply "liked the way he moved..." "There's only one other actor who moves as well as he does, and that's Albert Finney. They move like cats...

for a big man to be light on his feet is most unusual." United Artists were initially reluctant to employ Connery, feeling that Saltzman and Broccoli could do rather better if they tried hard enough. But Saltzman and Broccoli stood their ground and Connery was offered a multi-picture deal in late October 1961. The Daily Cinema announced the casting of Connery on 3 November 1961 and Connery was immediately the attention of much press speculation and interest - his best print 'performance' was clearly his interview with Susan Barnes for The Sunday Express published on 31 December 1961 which culminated in Connery and Barnes debating violence towards women and Barnes "beating a rapid retreat" from the rising star's apartment! Above: Sean Connery meets Ian Fleming on the set of Dr No's control room (top), Bond is in a clinch with Miss Taro (played by Zena Marshall). Meanwhile, Saltzman and Broccoli had employed Terence Young to direct Dr No after Bryan Forbes, Guy Green and future Bond director Guy Hamilton had all passed on the project.

The dapper Young took Connery under his wing and immediately took him off to his shirt makers in Paris and London and insisted on being present at all of Connery's wardrobe sessions. Young's attention to detail was to result in an image that has remained constant throughout over 30 years of film-making. By the end of 1961, Saltzman and Broccoli were just about ready to begin shooting. The script was still not ready [it wasn't helped much by the departure of Mankowitz after a series of disagreements with the producers]. In desperation, and with only a few days to go before shooting was due to begin, Broccoli took Young to the Dorchester and installed him in a suite with one of his assistants, Johanna Harwood, to work over the script. By the end of the first week in January they emerged with a workable screenplay and shooting finally began on Tuesday 16 January 1962 in Jamaica.

While Young had been preparing for the shoot, Saltzman and Broccoli had been looking for the first in a long series of Bond girls - the hunt was on for the big screen Honey Ryder whose spectacular entrance in the novel (she emerges naked from the sea) was clearly going to have to be altered to suit 1960s cinematic tastes. It was Young who had first spotted Ursula Andress in late 1961, allegedly spotting a picture of the young Swiss actress wearing a wet T-shirt on office wall of Darryl F. Zanuck, head of Twentieth Century Fox. Zanuck had no plans to use Andress in anything and gave Young the photograph to take back to London with him. In late 1961, after considering Andress for almost a month, Broccoli asked for advice from Columbia's casting chief Max Arno who was suitably impressed by the actress' looks. Arno's word was good enough for Saltzman and Broccoli who had Andress flown from Los Angeles to New York and on to the set in Jamaica at the end of January.

The EON crew arrived in Jamaica on Sunday 14 January 1962 and began shooting two days later, taking in locations at Palisadoes Airport, Kingston, Montego Bay and Oncaros. Much use was made of local talent to play smaller roles: Dolores Keator was cast as Strangways' secretary Mary Prescott because she owned the house that the crew were shooting in; other local amateur actors took the tiny roles of the Chief of Police and the construction worker who watches the car carrying the thugs pursuing Bond as it careens over the edge of the cliff. Keeping it in the family, the bartender seen at Puss-Feller's club was a relative of costume designer Tessa Welborn. When the main unit relocated to Laughing Water to shoot the scene where Honey Ryder memorably emerges from the sea, they found themselves literally just down the beach from Goldeneye and Fleming himself visited the set with friends and neighbours Noel Coward and Stephen Spender and visiting journalist Peter Quennell. Fleming even spent some time with Connery advising him on the best way to play Bond.

Fleming returned to the set on 17 February when the crew had moved on to Falmouth to watch the crew staging the scene wherein Bond and Honey hide behind a sand bank after being shot at by No's guards aboard a boat. The sequence had to be reshot after a detachment of American sailors, alerted by the sound of gunfire, rushed to the scene to see what was going on! Jamaican location work finally came to an end on 21 February with some material still left unfilmed due to a change in the weather. He was able to pick up a few scenes later, but for now the production was heading back to the UK and Pinewood Studios where production designer Ken Adam had been constructing his vast, awesome sets. At Pinewood, one of the enduring icons of the Bond series was about to make her debut after a rather strange introduction to Saltzman and Broccoli. Canadian actress Lois Maxwell had taken to calling round various directors and producers touting for work after her husband had suffered a double coronary on her son's second birthday. Maxwell was becoming increasingly worried about her finances and was calling on people who had employed her in the past on the off-chance that they might have something to offer her.

In fact, Young offered her a choice - she could either play Sylvia Trench , Bond's first on-screen conquest, or Miss Moneypenny, the ever-adoring secretary to Bond's superior, M . Maxwell was concerned about the scene in which Bond finds Trench in his room wearing only one of his shirts and opted to take the role of Moneypenny. For this she received £200 for two days work and had to supply her own wardrobe. No doubt at the time she was grateful for the money and she was certainly grateful for the increased exposure the role was to bring her in later years. Above: Dr No in his control room (top), Moneypenny and Bond outside M's office. On 25 February, with only one more day to go before studio filming began, Connery and Maxwell were joined by Bernard Lee who was signed to play M, head of the 00 section. Young later claimed that Lee only got the job "because everyone else was away" but he proved to be an inspired choice who, like Maxwell, was to become a regular fixture throughout the first part of the Bond series.

On Friday 30 March, the main shooting schedule came to an end and the all-important post-production period began. While Peter Hunt pieced together Young's footage, Broccoli commissioned Monty Norman to write the soundtrack. The men had worked together before, on the ill-fated stage musical Belle which had died a nasty death. This didn't put Broccoli off, however, and he had offered Norman the chance to fly out to Jamaica to get a feel for the place and for the production. Back in the UK, Norman began work on his calypso-flavoured score and work was proceeding nicely when someone suggested that the film should begin with a distinctive theme tune. Rifling through his back catalogue, Norman came across a song that he had composed for an un-produced stage musical of the satirical novel A House For Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul. The distinctively strident little tune was just what he was looking for. But Norman's contribution to the finished film was to be somewhat less than he had expected. Though the tune was felt to be almost right, something was missing.

Noel Rodgers, then head of music at United Artists, called in composer John Barry and his ensembles The John Barry Seven and The John Barry Orchestra to overhaul the piece. Barry's masterstroke was to let his guitarist, Vic Flick, loose on the main riff before his brass section kicked in to awesome effect. Exactly how much of Norman's original still remained is unclear as there are clear precedents to the theme tune in Barry's own work. But whatever it's parentage the distinctive twangy guitar into has been heard in every one of the 'official' Bond films made since and has become an integral part of the Bond mythos. By July 1962 Dr No was in sufficient shape for Young to hold a private screening at the Traveller's Club in London attended by Ian Fleming and his wife Anne, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Lord and Lady Beesborough, John Sutro and Peter Quennell. The event was far from the success that Young might have hoped. Anne Fleming, in a letter to Evelyn Waugh, noted that "it was an abominable occasion" and was appalled at the gales of laughter that greeted the scene of the tarantula crawling up Bond's body.

Fleming himself hated what he saw. Following another preview in Leicester Square he took his research assistant Peter Garnham to a pub and dismissed the film as "Dreadful. Simply dreadful." By October that same year, Fleming's attitude had softened slightly: he told Time that fans of the books would be disappointed that those who had never read Bond's adventures in print would "find it a wonderful movie." Dr No was unveiled to the British press at the London Pavilion on 2 October 1962 and it opened to the public there three days later before going on general release on the 8th. The press were divided, but the public adored the film and Dr No was a huge success. The film had its US premiere on Thursday 7 March 1963, a star-studded event on Broadway [Connery was in attendance as were Leonard Bernstein, Phyllis Newman, Faye Emerson, Patrice Munsel, Zsa Zsa Gabor and many others] followed by an equally glamorous supper party at the Tower Suite. Despite a generally positive reception, United Artists were still unsure of what they had on their hands, however, and delayed its release in the States until 8 May 1963.

It repeated its success Stateside and the impressive return on the film's $1 million outlay virtually ensured that a sequel was to follow. Dr. No: Blu-ray - DVD Movie Central Release Date: October 21, 2008 ï¿½I admire your luck, Misterï¿½ ï¿½Bondï¿½James Bond.ï¿½ Film *** Dr. No was the movie that said ï¿½yesï¿½ to James Bond, and nearly five decades later, our favorite British super spy is still going strong. Iï¿½ve seen many Bond films over the years, but somehow, I never saw the one that started it all. I guess a part of me was always afraid to go back to the beginning having been well-versed in the vocabulary of the moviesï¿½maybe it would be awkward to see the character and the style in an early developmental stage, without the established earmarks that made the series what it was. In a sense, that was the case. Dr. No in hindsight looks a little less like classic Bond than a film ripe to be spoofed by Austin Powers.

The campy opening (no title song, but the theme is in play) is very dated, as is the whole plot about SPECTRE and their attempts to destroy the U.S. space program while still in its infancy. But while those aspects seem more like cultural curiosities, thereï¿½s still plenty here to establish the character and concept of James Bond, starting with Sean Connery in the role. For many, his Bond is THE Bond, and itï¿½s easy to understand why. He had made some films before, but hadnï¿½t become a household name. Dr. No would permanently correct that oversight. His Bond is suave, cool, witty and charming. He hadnï¿½t yet become the Bond of the kiss-off line or the quip for every occasion, but one could sense that aspect in him, even in this early stage. Conneryï¿½s presence gave weight to the character, and in a franchise where it would often be noted that the villains were more impressive than the heroes, made sure audiences had a protagonist that was easy to identify with and root for. Dr.

No launched the series by being the easiest of Ian Flemingï¿½s stories to translate to the screen, at least in the eyes of producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. The plot is simple enough: when an agent ends up missing in Jamaica, Bond is sent to unravel the mystery, and the path leads to a half German half Asian mastermind on a secure island with plans to blow up the latest American Mercury rocket. Not only was it easy to outline, but it got the franchise off to a good start by using exotic Caribbean locales. The ladies were and are an integral part of the Bond movies, and was there ever one so iconic as Ursula Andress in her white space-age looking bikini strolling out onto the beach in front of Bond? Before the movie would end, Bond would have both the bad guy and the girl. The pattern was set, and the future looked bright. Broccoli always intended Dr. No to be the first in a series, and he and director Terence Young did an admirable job at establishing the foundation that would build a franchise.

The movie is basic, straightforward and unpretentious, and thanks in large part to Conneryï¿½s star making turn, the character and the series were grounded enough to keep it all going for decades. Many would take turns in Bondï¿½s shoes, and many directors offer their own twists and ideas up to and including the reboot film Casino Royale. But Dr. No and Sean Connery showed all the way, and the seeds they planted in 1962 are still bearing fruit in the new millennium. Video **** This is one of the most spectacular looking classic films Iï¿½ve seen on Blu-ray, and points well to the future of such movies in the high definition format. With extensive restoration work and a gorgeously rendered Technicolor transfer, Dr. No is as vivid and detailed as many modern movies. Shot after shot is beautifully constructed and brings out the best in your system. I noticed one brief night sequence that was a little murky, as well as one bit of stock footage of an airplane that kind of stood out, but really, so much of this transfer is better than it needed to be that I canï¿½t dock any points for such tiny malfeasances.

Colors in Technicolor arenï¿½t always natural looking, but they arenï¿½t meant to beï¿½theyï¿½re actually designed to enhance rather than portray realistically, and as such, the style of Bond has never been better suited. Audio *** You can opt for the original mono, but the DTS HD soundtrack is well-mixed and startlingly dynamic. The music adds punch, and the explosiveness of the ending actually made me grab for my remote to bring the levels down. Dialogue is clear throughout, but the mix tends to move spoken words around various channels when the speaker is not on screenï¿½unnecessary and slightly distracting, but a minor criticism in an otherwise solid 5.1 remix of a classic film. Features **** The disc starts off with a commentary spliced together from various interviews with cast and crew members including Ursula Andress. It's all brought together by a modern host, who throws in extra bits of information here and there. It's a well-put together listen. There are plenty of featurettes here, one on the restoration efforts, one on the guns of the series, one on the premiere, one on director Terence Young, and a 1963 promotional one.

There is an interactive guide to the world of the movie, including looks at the women and villains. ï¿½Inside Dr. Noï¿½ looks at the film that began the franchise, with interviews from Young, Connery, Andress and others. Rounding out is an image database and trailers, TV and radio spots. Summary: As the box cover boasts, Blu-ray may indeed be made for Bond. If the first movie in the entire series, as old as it is, can look and sound this terrific in high definition, one can eagerly anticipate the future of the franchise on Blu-ray. Dr. No (novel) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Goldfinger Dr. No (sometimes published as Doctor No) is the sixth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming , originally published in 1958. The novel was adapted as the first official Bond film in 1962, the success of which would lead to a popular, long, and continuing series of films made by EON Productions . Contents [ show ] The novel The novel marks the first time a number of James Bond signature elements are used.

It is the first novel in which Bond uses his signature Walther PPK handgun and also the first time Major Boothroyd (also known as Q, the armourer) appears, although Bond's first gadget was in the previous novel, From Russia with Love . The plot of the novel and the film are very similar, only differing when elements from the previous novels are referenced, primarily From Russia with Love and Live and Let Die . Summary From Russia with Love ended in a cliffhanger with the status of James Bond unknown. Bond was poisoned by SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb and collapsed at the end of the novel. In Dr. No, M learns from the firm's neurologist that the poison was tetrodotoxin, which is obtained from the sex organs of the Japanese fish fugu. Tetrodotoxin paralyses the muscles of the victim while they stay fully conscious until eventually they die from asphyxiation. Bond is given first aid treatment by his friend, René Mathis , whilst a doctor is summoned. The doctor had spent time in Africa and had dealt with various poisons. He diagnoses curare poisoning and treats Bond accordingly.

Even to date, there is no current antidote and the chances of survival are very slim. Nonetheless, Bond survives. When he returns to duty, he is sent by M on a "rest cure" to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of Strangways , the head of station in Kingston, who had previously appeared in Live and Let Die. Bond learns that Strangways had been investigating the activities of Dr. Julius No , a Chinese-German who lives on an island called "Crab Key" that is said to be the home of a vicious dragon. Bond and Honey fleeing from the Dragon. With help of Quarrel (previously in Live and Let Die), as well as the beautiful Honeychile Rider , who visits the island to collect valuable shells, Bond discovers that Dr. No, who ostensibly operates a business harvesting and exporting guano, is in fact working with the Russians. They have supplied him with several million dollars worth of equipment to sabotage nearby American missile tests. Bond and Honeychile are captured by Dr. No, but Quarrel is burned to death by the (mechanical) dragon. Doctor No's speciality is torture and he tortures Bond to discover and record his powers of endurance. Bond discovers that Dr.

No is also working with the Russians and has built an elaborate underground facility from which he can sabotage American missile tests at nearby Cape Canaveral. No had previously been a member of a Chinese Tong, but after he stole a large amount of money from their treasury, he was captured by the organisation, whose leaders had his hands cut off as a sign of punishment for theft, and then ordered him shot. The Tong thought they shot him through the heart. However, because No's heart was on the right-hand side of his body (as a sufferer of dextrocardia), the bullet missed his heart and he survived. Interested in the ability of the human body to withstand and survive pain, No forces Bond to navigate his way through an obstacle course constructed in the facility's ventilation system. He is kept under regular observation, suffering electric shocks, burns and an encounter with large poisonous spiders along the way. The ordeal ends in a fight against a captive giant squid, which Bond defeats by using improvised and stolen objects made into weapons. After his escape he encounters Honey from her ordeal where she had been pegged out to be eaten by crabs; the crabs ignored her and she had managed to make good her own escape. Bond kills Dr.

No by taking over the guano-loading machine at the docks and diverting the guano flow from it to bury the villain alive. Bond and Honey then escape from No's complex in the dragon buggy. Back in Jamaica, Bond tidies up his official affairs with Pleydell Smith , colonial secretary, arranging to have Honey's surgery to mend her broken nose. He then has a nighttime dinner at the remains of Honey's family estate alone with her. Characters Dr No Dr No Certificate: pg Synopsis Sean Connery effortlessly stepped into the bespoke shoes of novelist Ian Fleming's James Bond in the first film of what would become the world's most successful cinema franchise. Pitted against pincer-handed megalomaniac Dr Julius No (Joseph Wiseman), Connery established 007 as a ruthless womaniser, ice-cool killer and sardonic cynic while the movie cast a template - Ursula Andress's bikinied Bond girl, Wiseman's over-ambitious villain and Monty Norman's Bond theme - which has held up for decades. Director "I admire your luck, Mr...? "Bond.

James Bond." These immortal lines uttered during a game of chemin-de-fer (which he won, naturally) established both Sean Connery and the character of 007 at the beginning of a world-beating sequence of cinema successes that would see Bond reinvented by no less than six actors. Connery, a onetime coffin polisher, milkman and sailor, had enjoyed limited big screen success as a deckhand on the Titanic in A Night To Remember, a squaddie in The Longest Day and the hardman role of Johnny Kates in Hell Drivers. At the time - 1961 - the Bond novels did not enjoy mainstream popularity so the film's producers originally opted for a big name - Cary Grant turned them down - before settling on the untested Connery. They made the right choice. Despite his Scottish working class background, Connery slid easily into the role of the suave, sophisticated spy who was quite happy to kill in cold blood if the situation demanded it. Or even if it didn't. His first cinematic mission saw him despatched by MI6 chief M (Bernard Lee) to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British agent.

Hardly had the superspy-in-waiting touched down when he claimed his first victim - a henchman of Dr No (Wiseman) posing as a government chauffeur - bites into a strychnine-laced cigarette when Bond finds him out. Hooking up with CIA agent Felix Leiter (Hawaii's Five-O's Jack Lord), Bond becomes suspicious about the goings-on at the mysterious Crab Key, an island feared by the locals and home of the reclusive Dr No. However, it seems that Dr No is also interested in 007. He sends his henchman Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson) to kill the inquisitive spy...and Bond narrowly escapes death-by-tarantula-bite. During a second attempt, Dent is caught out by Bond who has counted the number of slugs pumped into a pile of pillows 007 has used as a decoy. "That's a Smith & Wesson and you've had your six," Bond observes...and executes him with a shot to the chest. Landing on Crab Key, Bond beholds the now iconic scene of Ursula's Andress's conch-collector Honey Ryder emerging from the sea.

(her singing voice for Underneath The Mango Tree was dubbed by British actress Diana Coupland, who is most famous for the TV comedy Bless This House). Captured by Dr No, Honey and Bond as imprisoned in his lair where - over dinner - the villain reveals himself to be a member of SPECTRE - SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) and has plans to disrupt the US rocket launches at Cape Canaveral. All the ingredients that would make the Bond franchise a going concern are present and (politically in-)correct. Apart from the perfect casting of Connery, there's the gun-barrel opening sequence, the concept of "The Bond Girl", the Ken Adam-designed super-sets and even 007's predeliction for a vodka martini "shaken, not stirred." There's also the first mention of SPECTRE and Wiseman's villain - who lost both his hands in a radiation accident and had them replaced with statuette-crushing steel talons - was a chilling blueprint for that most enticing of roles: the Bond villain.

Of course, it's dated - a Sunbeam Alpine isn't exactly cutting edge transport - but the elegant playboy spy with just a whiff of danger was clearly here to stay. As Bond says "World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Naploeon. Or God." For the next half century he was about to find out. Tim Evans

Question: James Bond is sent to which island at the beginning of the film ‘Dr No’?
Answer: Jamaica