James Bond - Dr. No (1962) 57 Chevy Convertible, the speedometer is definitely not from a 57 Chevy, if anyone knows what car thats from please let me know.
Connery's Bond went from a highly effective and very fit killer to a paunchy 007 playing it for laughs in nine years. The contrast between him in Dr No and Diamonds Are Forever is huge.
Absolutely. Diamonds are forever is laughable. Dr. No and From Russia With Love is by far Connery's best performances as Bond. Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice are still great classic movies, but you can clearly see the slow decline from his serious tone
@@buffalopatriot He's a killer who at least is on the right side and always refuses to be bribed into joining organisations like SPECTRE. Whether Bond has any regrets about how many people he has killed, he'd probably say he was doing it to save the world.
Sean Connery was the original and best James bond actor, he worked hard to get his actor career going and ended up being one of the most successful actors in movies last fifty years.
@The Tusk Force Well Q (or Major Boothroyd as he was known initially) was actually introduced in this film, but was played by Peter Burton. From Russia with Love was where he was recast to Desmond Llewelyn, who of course would go on to become the Q we all know and love. And yes, From Russia with Love is indeed where they started bringing in the gadgets more.
@The Tusk Force Yes, M refers to to him as armourer at first. Then after Bond's given his PPK, M then says "Thank you, Major Boothroyd.". You're welcome. :)
The sequence showing a Bond driving '57 Ford Fairlane in 'Die Another Day' is clearly a homage to this scene. It includes a side shot of the interior (inc speedo), approx. 25mins into the film. Why was a different speedo used here? My guess is the shot was added in post production to emphaise speed.
A different speedometer was apparently used because the speedometer on the 57 Fairlane was larger, thus easier to capture on film than that of the 57 Bel Air.
There are just so many things about the movie that has carries over 1950s movie tropes and pepper them with a dash of 60s edge, down to the leftovers of 50s cars. What a quaint little member of the Bond series.
The sixties didn't really develop an identity until Beatlemania. The early sixties were like a continuation of the fifties with very formal clothes and hats, similar looking cars and music. Also Jamaica was still a colony when Doctor No was filmed.
I agree. In this film Bond, at least in the field, acted more like a private dick from the 1950's than a cool 60's spy. He was more like an investigator and the events unfold like a Charlie Chan or Mr. Moto film.
@@Glenn1967ful the Fleming Bond novels were intended as guilty pleasures for elite VIPs like Sen. John F. Kennedy and the British PM at the time. The early movies were designed for similar upper crust people like Leonard Bernstein, etc. It was a complete surprise to the producers that 007 became popular with Joe Sixpack.
Sean Connery was a patriot Scot and wanted his country to become independent of the UK. He died where he played often his roles - on the Bahams (I think it was his last Bond Never say Never which also played on the Bahams with gerogeous Kim Basinger and very evil... I forgot his name, an Austrian actor)
the speedometer might be from a 57' Ford Fairlane.The rear quarter panel might be from the ford also. You'll notice it when there's a shot of the rear end once the car has parked.
57 Chevrolet has just about the same design on the speedometer as the 57 Ford but it is a Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible and the grill on the Chevrolet is not rectangular like a 57 Ford I ought to know I had a 57 Ford Fairlane 500.
@ 0:20, that '57 Chey's speedometer is from a '57 Ford, @ 0:11 that '61 Chevy 4-door sedan changes to a 4-door hardtop @ 0:42 then back again to a 4-door sedan @ 1:01
The speedometer scene is the dash from a 1957 or 1958 Ford and NOT a Chevy. Furthermore the car is turned off as the temperature and fuel gauges are off as well.
Agreed. Everything changed after JFK's assassination (Nov. '63) and the U.S. arrival of the Beatles (Feb. '64). Mens fashion went from code to casual to slob. Even working class dress went to hell.
+Peter Grun Back in the 80s and 90s we started to dress nice again and I was so glad because I've always liked early 60s men's fashion and before. I was born in 1964 and caught the earlier 007 movies on ABC Network Television back in the 70s.The earlier James Bond movies were then and are now my favorites of the franchise especially the first three. Young men today dress like they're hoards of seaweed. They look terrible.
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 He tells Bond "to hell with you." But as the henchman is the bad guy and is the one who's dying from suicide, it's the henchman who's going to hell and not Bond. That's what was meant when I asked a rhetorical question, based on logic rather than grammar, if he had it backwards.
correct, it was Leiter. Apparently it was the first time they met in the film series. At first he was unsure if Bond was friend or foe when he saw 007 drive off with the enemy.
@@MrEab2010Exactly! Later Leiter tells Bond together with Quarrel, that he was unsure if he was the right man because he drove with "the opposite side". Quarrel seemed to have a son, because in Live and Let die there is a Quarrel Junior. I do not understand why they say Live and Let die is racist. Some could also claim this here because nearly all "evils" expect the one doctor are either Asian or Black. Dr. No is half German, half Chinese. But in Live and Let die Leiter was black and also Quarrel Junior. And the actors of Kananga and Solitaire Yaphet Kotto (Alien) and the georgeous woman I forget her name (she played also in the mini series War and Remembrance a Jewish girl sent to Auschwitz) both Jewish. So no, I do not think Bond movies are racist.
@@PierreChristianUlrichSinger I have to disagree. Although I am a fan of the 60s Bond films for other reasons, the blatant racism (and often sexism) throughout the series is not one of them. Bond films were originally the most popular in southern theaters precisely b/c he was the epitome of the western white man with a license to do basically anything he wants, including at times abusing other non-white or ethnic men and women. Connery's Bond especially is one of the reasons today's GOP believes in MAGA, or a return to unbridled white male supremacy; it is a big reason why the character has become an anachronism, permanently a relic of the pre-1970s. Dr. No is probably the most racist of the earliest films, but there are elements in every film too numerous to mention here (Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice could also be videos on this topic unto themselves). As for Live And Let Die, the black villains were far classier than the ones in the novel but still 70s blaxploitation stereotypes. What raised most white eyebrows was the depiction of a dominant black man controlling a submissive white woman (Jane Seymour) which induces fear in whites of the threatening black man in and out of film going back to Birth of a Nation. (Apparently none of them ever saw or read Othello.) James Bond films are the epitome of elegant fantasy entertainment but seldom examples of cultural enlightenment and political and economic realities.
the actor who played the chauffeur here was him self a stuntman he was the brother in law of zena marshall played miss taro in dr no and became the first of many of the stuntmen who found themselves having minor roles in all the films others such as bob Simonds VIC Armstrong joe robinson
They're driving British style, on left side of road, with American autos that have steering wheel on the left also. When you drive down the road, you're hugging the left side of road ! It takes getting used to !
Jamaica drove on the left and for all most cars would have been imported from Britain then, a few from America would have appeared as it was closer to Jamaica. Also Jamaica uses imperial measurements like Britain( not so sure if they've gone metric now).
@@MrEab2010 The movie itself came out 1 month after the independence of Jamaica from United Kingdom. Very interesting history i think for a great movie
@@MrEab2010 Damn straight! Sean Connery was a brave man, but he was afraid of the tarantula in Dr. No. His stunt double did that scene, too. His stunt double also took the cyanide cigarette.
Connery's Bond did everything he could to subdue the driver's threat. He wasn't going to put up with his BS. And he defended himself to the fullest. Right until the idiot took cyanide and killed himself. Awesome scene, Bond at his best!! 😎🔫👍
The formal yet stoic mannerism and fashion on display here makes me wonder- did the softening down of American men since the 60s help American culture or slowed down its progress? Or perhaps neither?
Connery Bond's brutal yet elegant machismo was completely new to movies in 1962. It made 007 THE role model to all men and THE sex symbol to many women. It was also offensive to some women and was a major cataylst of the feminist movement which began in the mid-1960s. It may have had detrimental effects on some men in that the false standard for courage was having a gun and not being afraid to use it like Bond.
@@MrEab2010 Oh, interesting. I would think that Marlon Brando was THE image of masculinity and THE male sex symbol '50s onwards. But I get what you mean-Brando, while being macho, was still pretty much always portraying the role of an outsider. Here, Connery was a ruthless gentleman. So he could as well be an advertising executive but ready to kill, and fatally attractive to women. Do let me know if I have any chunks in my interpretation. Thanks for sharing your insight!
@@Carl-LaFong1618 Yep, them too. But then again, I think it's immature men pleasing women as they're some kind of deities to be worshiped, is the real problem. It's men that have given women this undeserved power.
@@vinayseth1114 you are half right. There were 2 male archetypes in the 1950s: earthy blue-collar, which was Marlon Brando, and refined white-collar, which was Cary Grant. Sean Connery's genius was to splice both icons together, and make a new hybrid: James Bond 007. The way Connery played him, Bond was an upper class assassin, a brutish and debonair company man with an unlimited expense account and no ethics other than to get the job done, albeit for Queen and country, and sometimes for revenge. In his world your only sin would be a poorly tailored suit or not knowing that red wine does not go with fish. It's that type of situational ethics that has come back to bite us in the 2020s.
Jolly Spotter there was a cyanide capsule in the cigarette which killed Mr Jones and he worked for Dr No as a hired killer he killed himself rather then face James Bond any further or be killed by Spectre who were known to kill their own men if failed.
it's really mostly John Barry's. He re-scored most of the movie, including the legendary theme song, as the producers were dissatisfied with Norman. The calypso song Jump Up was one of my father's favorites, he played it at high volume and sang to it in our house for like 20 years.
@@michaelschramm1064 not true, Barry re-scored Norman's theme along the lines of one of Barry's old works called Bee's Knees. The producers gave Norman the credit anyway. Look it up.
@@MrEab2010 Yes, I know that “Bee’s Knees” served as a template for his theme, along with his drawing inspiration from Mancini’s “Peter Gunn” and Nelson Riddle’s “The Untouchables” to emulate a similar propulsive rhythm. I read two books on the music of Barry so am well acquainted with the background. What I was implying is that the producers knew they couldn’t use what Norman wrote but in order to giver him the composer credit promised, Barry was stuck with, as a minimum using a couple of bars from Norman’s self plagiarized “Bad Sign, Good Sign” from his failed musical “A House for Mr. Bigwas”. But of course the theme is 90% Barry, corroborated by guitarist Vic Flick and “From Russia With Love” title theme composer Lionel Bart. As for the dramatic underscore, NOTHING that one hears in the banal composition is the work of John Barry but rather old library cues and music by Monty Norman. You stated in an earlier post that John Barry rescored “Dr. No”, which never actually happened.
