Shake up a martini because it's time to explore some useless trivia about the first James Bond movie to hit the big screen - Dr. No. From the theme song, to stolen art, to Ursula Andress' bikini... I'm uncovering it all.
One more... when Silvia Trench introduces herself, she says "Trench, Sylvia Trench." Bond copies saying "Bond, James Bond" for the first time and the rest is history.
I remember that, thinking to myself, "That was probably the first time he coined the phrase", which was stupid, as it was his first movie, but we're talking years later...
She is in fact finishing Bond's sentence, so she has to say her last name first, then she completes her answer with her full name, and Bond does the same replying to her: "I admire your courage, Miss... "Trench. Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr... "Bond. James Bond." THAT'S how it all started. 😊
As a young kid watching this with my family for the first time on tv, I was simply blown away by just how cool EVERYTHING ABOUT IT WAS! From the incredibly awesome theme music, to Andres and Connery!
Additional music trivia. The iconic electric guitar lick was played by British studio musician Vic Flick. He played on tons of music hits and soundtracks throughout his career. You can hear virtually that same guitar sound on "Ringo's Theme" (This Boy) in A Hard Days Night.
2:22 "[Fleming objected to Connery because] Connery was Scottish, Bond was English, Connery came from a working-class background while Bond is upper-class, and Connery was rugged and a little rough; Bond was refined and educated. However, after seeing the finished film, Fleming changed his mind...[and] gave Bond a Scottish ancestry." At the end of Fleming's last Bond novel, _The Man with the Golden Gun,_ Bond gets a coded message from M while recovering in Jamaica, informing that him that he is to be knighted, and asking him -- per tradition -- for his acceptance before the Queen puts her seal on it. Bond declines: "EYE BEG YOU PRESENT MY HUMBLE DUTY TO HER MAJESTY AND REQUEST THAT EYE MAY BE PERMITTED COMMA IN ALL HUMILITY COMMA TO DECLINE THE SIGNAL FAVOUR HER MAJESTY IS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO PROPOSE TO CONFER UPON HER HUMBLE AND OBEDIENT SERVANT BRACKET TO MAILEDFIST PLEASE PUT THIS IN THE APPROPRIATE WORDS TO THE PRIME MINISTER STOP EYE AM A SCOTTISH PEASANT AND EYE WILL ALWAYS FEEL AT HOME BEING A SCOTTISH PEASANT AND EYE KNOW COMMA SIR COMMA THAT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND MY PREFERENCE AND THAT EYE CAN COUNT ON YOUR INDULGENCE BRACKET LETTER CONFIRMING FOLLOWS IMMEDIATELY ENDIT OHOHSEVEN."
In my opinion, Ursula Andress is THE quintessential Bond Woman. She's the original and the rest are mere copies! I had NO IDEA that the budget for Dr. No was $1.1 million YET it made $60 million! That's amazing for the time.
It's the first film that I was allowed to see on my own. It's hard to express the thrill I felt when the title sequence flashed across the screen and the Bond theme prowled and thundered. An afternoon never forgotten. PS. The Goya idea was the idea of the female co-writer.
First saw it at a drive in theater upon its release in 1962 at a very young age and have seen every new Bond film in its initial release since at a theater. But I can't get behind a woman taking over the role of James Bond after Daniel Craig leaves the series. Just can't. RIP Sir Sean Connery. James Bond forever.
I'm surprised you didn't note that Nikki van der Zyl re-voiced the performances of both Ursula Andress and Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench). She also re-voiced other actresses in other James Bond films.
I think not mentioning villain Miss Taro portrayed by the late British actress Zena Marshall is a major omission of your review. A minor character in the novel that was considerably expanded for the film...
7:28 This is the first time I hear that Coward didn't want the robotic hands. In everything I have read before, it says that Coward simply sent a letter back saying: "No, no, just no."
Awesome! The Cuban missile crisis helped promote Dr. No. I think the film really didn’t need too much promoting, at least not almost starting a nuclear war.
Hmm... you were born the year Dr. No was released, you say? I know it's a personal question, but were your parents by chance in that drive-in test audience approximately 9 months before you were born? Because there's a non-zero chance you partially owe your existence to this film as well.
Nathan Ash 😅.. ok, ok. It must have been "Goldfinger" (1967?). I remember the guy getting falling through the bridge and getting eaten by the fish!😆 "Russia With Love"? Anyway, it was a BIG DEAL..
One of my favorite dumb facts about this movie is the scene where Bond is following Quarrel and asks a woman who says "He dere" and points, which was unscripted, so she had to be given a credit because of the speaking part.
The swimsuits they offered her weren't sexy enough. So, Ursula Andress with the help of a relative (mother or sister, I can't remember) made that bikini. Also her english wasn't that clear. Her voice was dubbed.
You should make your own youtube video. I thought I knew my James Bond movies but I didn't know Ursula and relatives made that bikini. So she should take the credit of starting that trend, which became very popular with teenage girls at the time.
@@wiseguymaybe Thanks, but I haven't the equipment nor the money for it. But I remember that Andress was interviewed in a magazine article and she spoke about her bikini. Then in a documentary about Dr. No the director or castings agent told about her command of english and how poor it was. But she was gorgeous and they dubbed her. Same thing with Goldfinger. The german actor could not speak in clear english, but he was an excellent antagonist for Bond. So they dubbed his voice too. Goldfinger is my favorite Bond movie, BTW.
It may interest you to know that Fleming based Dr. No on the title character in author Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories, as well as on the screen characters portrayed by Christopher Lee.
Yes, there could be no actual on-camera nudity, let alone full-frontal nudity, in a main-screen 1960s movie. Of course, in the novel Andress' character also had a badly-healed broken nose.
@@dennisrodriguez3689 "play the ROLL"!!! Has! Ha! 🤣Definition of roll transitive verb. 1a : to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a surface. b : to cause to revolve by turning over and over on or as if on an axis. .role /rōl/ Learn to pronounce noun an actor's part in a play, movie, etc. "Dietrich's role as a wife in war-torn Paris" Similar: part character title role bit part walk-on part nonspeaking part the function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation. "she greeted us all in her various roles of mother, friend, and daughter" Similar: capacity position job day job post office task 🙄
@@8-bitsteve500 Not really. The iris and the shutter of the camera could both have that spiral "rifling" effect. That was a new one to me as well, lol. Now I see it!!
At 12 I didn’t have any experience with firearms, but knew about rifling, so watching Goldfinger, my first Bond flick, I immediately knew it was a gun barrel.
Terence young gave me a typewritten paper with words on it and told me I was acting. I protested so he grabbed my shoulders from behind and frog marched me onto a marker. I'm not an actor! I was visible on set though helping keep the camera crew from falling out of the back of a very tiny italian camera car. And I was covered in motor oil. This was in Rome in the late 80s in a film in which the late david carradine starred. By the way he was very nice to me and do was his wife.
You met Terence Young?! He is my favorite director! Incredible... It is said that Young was an extraordinarily elegant man. Did you get the same impression?
Interestingly since the opening sequence is the first time you see James Bond it turns out the first person to play Bond on the movie screen is Bob Simmons, not Sean Connery (discounting the 1954 TV movie). Also, Andress was the only person to play both a Bond girl and James Bond. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cE9q9cp6rH0.html
Eunice Gayson...Hot, Hot, Hot, RIP Eunice. Joseph Wiseman...Great actor. IMHO, the best Bond villain "You are just another stupid policeman...whose luck has run out." The creators of the franchise were not sure if the Bond books would be successful as movies and perhaps Dr. No would be the only film. That was 1962 and here we are.
You left out the Number 15. One of the dancers in the "Jump Up" scene is Chris Blackwell, the owner of Island Records who was hired by the film crew as a fixer. Not a lot of people know that,
A House for Mr. Biswas - one of my favourite novels, read it as an 11 year old during vacation from school. It helps because VS Naipaul was from my island in the Caribbean but preferred to be considered British... One of the reason he's not celebrated in Trinidad as the other Nobel laureates from the region.
While Noel Coward had some great creds for straight dramatic roles as well as some satires, I don't think the audience could see him as a Bond supervillain without expecting him to send up the character. Joseph Wiseman had a wide range of roles in his career that included the Twilight Zone ("The Last Pallbearer") and on stage in the Circle in the Square's production of "Incident at Vichy" by Arthur Miller.
One fact I would have included is that this is film that introduced Felix Leiter as Bond's American liaison. Leiter was played by Jack Lord (looking rather Kennedyesque in his sun glasses when we meet him). Lord was also supposed to reprise the role in subsequent films, but given Lord's own rugged good looks, and the fact that he was an American, the idea was dropped for fear he'd overshadow Connery. Instead, Leiter would be played by a succession of different actors thereafter.
What no comment about Patrick McGoohan ? Danger man was such a hit when it came out in 1960 the James bond film was a no brainer & at one point they offered the part of bond to Patrick & he turned it down
I'd never heard of Danger Man but interesting; I loved Secret Agent. 007 led to a plethora of US spy shows and movies, most of them forgettable, but I Spy and Man From U.N.C.L.E were good
Funny that you say they gave Bond Scottish ancestry in On Her Majesty's Secret Service due to Fleming liking Bond, as it was the first movie with a different actor in the part.
Connery did not have deathly fear or a phobia of spiders, he just didn't feel like having a deadly Tarantula crawling up his bare arm, hence the sheet of glass, don't blame him, and insurance wouldn't allow the lead actor to have a deadly spider crawling on him anyway!!! too risky....
Bob Simmons had body and facial features similar todo Sean Connery, and lived Like James Bond, spending his Monet un a good live, and sharing with friends, died broke, but very loved by everybody around
Either way it was the first movie of EON franchise, because Casino Royale from 1957 (book is from 1953) was only a telemovie for a show called as Climax, and there James Bond was american blonde and a agent of the CIA, I seen it and it was good but not real Bond yet
Yeah... normally I upload my script to get the captioning 100% accurate. Didn't do that with this one, so you'll see some "Dr. Noah" references in there (among other errors). I may go back and fix those later on.
Me I have learned in young years that OK means ALL RIGHT watching the OLD WEST - movie WESTERN UNION ( 1941 ) directed by the immigrated Fritz Lang . " WHAT DOES THIS OK MEANS ? IT IS TELEGRAPH TALK FOR ALL RIGHT ! " a wonderfull line in the movie. - you can watch it complete on RU-vid but me I also have it on DVD. ANOTHER WORD with a much more subern mearning HOLOCAUST ( movie/TV version 1978) - miniseries. Since it came on the screen the expression itself became a synonyme for a German KONZENTRATIONSLAGER ( German concentrationcamp) as the HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL in Berlin. I say GERMAN concentrarion camp here because Neo Nazis like to confuse you by mentioning that the expression for itself was before also used for all kinds of prisoner camps in War Times.
John Barry wrote several of those themes. Not sure how they matched singers to songs though, other than possibly just picking popular singers whose voices fit the style.
