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James Bond: Casino Royale (1967)

John Clark of HaphazardStuff.com
June 27, 2015
Columns, HaphazardStuff’s Superhero Film Series

The year was 1967. The whole world has fallen in love with Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Each of his movie adventures have became increasingly popular. 1964s Goldfinger would become an international blockbuster making Sean Connery and 007 icons of the 1960s.With the release of 1965s Thunderball the excitment for James Bond would reach higher levels and again make the film a huge hit.

While Bond was sipping his own vodka martinis, other spies began to spring out of the woodwork. The 1960s ‘spy craze’ was born. Countless wannabes, imitators and knockoffs tried to get in on the spy mania 007 created. There was no shortage of seeing a well-dressed hero in a foreign country kissing girls and shooting bad guys.

Meanwhile, the film rights to Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel Casino Royale was owned by producer Charles K. Feldman completely out of reach from the hands of Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, the producers of the official series.

With the name James Bond being the hottest commodity to own in the 1960s, Feldman went about making his own cinematic version of Casino Royale. It would not be a drama, but a trippy comedic spoof of James Bond. With a staggering budget, a hit parade of stars and five directors, after a chaotic production Casino Royale would make its way to movie screens in the spring of 1967.

I take a look at Charles K. Feldman mammoth 1967 comedy – Casino Royale. Starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Barbara Bouchet, Joanna Pettet, Deborah Kerr, Jacqueline Bisset, Terence Cooper and Daliah Lavi, with music by Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, directed by Ken Hughes, Josepeh McGrath, Robert Parish,
Val Guest and John Huston.

Wow. There certainly seems like there’s a lot to look at here.


To read more content by John, visit his blog.

007Barbara BouchetDavid NivenDeborah KerrJacqueline BissetJames BondJoanna PettetOrson WellesPeter SellersTerence CooperUrsula AndressWoody Allen

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John Clark is a lifelong movie fan who uses his writing and video editing talents as a creative outlet on various projects. Mainly specializing in movie review projects such as his Superhero and James Bond series of reviews, John also manages a blog containing written movie reviews, thoughts, observations and a wide range of topics that might pass through his mind at any given moment – hence his website name Haphazard Stuff.

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