The thing I love about these "old" movies is not just the outstanding actors but the old technology, phone box's, classic cars, clothing styles, they are all a historical snapshot of that age.
@@voodoomotion5855 Yes, you still do not not have to do that today, if you go to Uruguay, I've been there, and it's a fascinating country that has their act together, and values highly their personal freedom.
Worked at Pinewood 89-91. Was great picturing and easily working out where they did some of the Bond car chases around the studios. Only ever be one James Bond and that's Sean Connery. 👍
I was 12 when this came out, and my mother dropped my off at the theater... having no idea the film probably wasn't quite suitable for pre-teens. I loved it!!!
Me too! i loved the gadgets, had no clue at age 7. when I saw "Goldfinger", and the pretty girlies, I was enamored by the appearance of the Ford Mustang! Ahhh....such child innocence!!!
I was born in 62 in the Far East. HA! I'm 62 today. Just realised it. My father used to take me to see the Bond films. My first was Thunderball. As a young bot I was terrified of Sean Connery cos he was no nonsense man and strict. Fast forward 30 years and found myself in America and in motion picture business. I was fired as a PA cos others ganged up on me complaining that I refused a walkie talkie. I hated my English, my accent and embarrased by it so screw walkie talkie. But A KIND 2nd AD somehow rehired me to be an Assistant. To? SEAN CONNERY. Sean specifically stated he did not want a personal costumer, security, publicist or a driver. But somehow I just followed Sean and just be with him for whatever he needed. It was a glorious 4 months. RISING SUN. MrConnery passed away on my birthday. We are in a curious way linked forever Rest In Peace Sir
Great story! Thanks for sharing. My Dad took me to see a double-bill of Bond movies when I was 12-they were the first grown-up, non-Disney films I saw at the cinema. 35 years later, I ended up in the Bond archives, visiting the set, and interviewing the filmmakers to make books about it. Life has a way of surprising you.
What a remarkable experience you had and thanks for sharing it! That zero prima donna factor helps explain much of Connery's on-screen brilliance. And your ability to "just be with him for whatever he needed" and not pester him with superfluities he didn't want makes both of you no-nonsense men which is why you two got along. It's evident you're Connery's kind of guy, and I can't think of a nicer compliment Sir.
a beat up submariner that belonged to one of the camera men, with an ill fitting nato strap as the clasp had broken lol with no date and a 100 meter resistance, and radium on the dial, they did with what they had and made it work, as its the man that makes the man, not the clothes and bond's act and personality was personally based on Terrance Young, who would go on to make this, from russia with love and thunderball with his, Connery's personal favorite being from russia with love, no surprising given how grounded it was and I must wonder if him and Michael Caine talked about their performance and work with Saltzman given his work on the ipcress files, and funeral in berlin which were done in that more grounded serious style the earlier films were known for
@@kavinskysmith4094 it took Sean Connery to carry everything with such elan, including the “ill fitting” nato strap. I like the Ipcress and the Six Million Dollar Brain a lot, but the James Bond movies were real more like fantasy/ spy genre than anything based on reality.
@@KamillGran-ch5sb yeah six million's the one I havent seen as I heard that one was far out, although I have both ipcress and funeral on VHS, the only way I could find them one of which was from a library lol
The three Bond films that started the series are my personal favorites. Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger in that order. After that, the gadgets started taking over and the raw masculine element in the Bond character started taking a back seat to all the toys he had to use.
Jack Lord could have been Felix Leiter in the subsequent Bond films, he could have been a regular character, but Jack Lord demanded equal billing with Sean Connery and equal pay, he also wanted Felix Leiter to have more involvement in the stories, basically he wanted the films to be a double act, Leiter and Bond....Broccoli was already annoyed with Jack Lord for turning up late for the first day of filming , combined with his demands, he dropped him from any future involvement on Bond films..and so the convention of different actors playing Felix came about.
This was a very interesting video. It helped me learn a lot of new things about this scene: - I didn't know that Quarrel was the guy who drove Felix's car - I missed that the photographer was hanging around in the background of some of the other scenes - Similarly, I missed that she had a conversation with Mr. Jones - Never realised that the shots of the plane and control tower shots were stock footage
What's funny, I re-watched the film just a couple weeksd ago, and only just noticed Quarrel was driving the car. I wonder how many tmies I saw the film before that?
Well, done! This is quite a unique look inside the process; much more insider detail of the daily process than any typical "behind the scenes" look. Likely more recognized and appreciated by those of us who work/worked in the industry, but I like that folks that do not get a deeper look. Thanks for this. If you have others, I'd love to see them.
I lived on Long Island back then. My friends and I were astonished after seeing Dr. No, seeing a great cast and an exciting story. When Bond shot the man who had shown up to kill him, nobody I knew expected what happened. After the Goldfinger film, several of us wore suits and tried vodka martinis. A great series and a great Bond actor.
THIS scene was what showed Bond as a HardCore Killer. He shot the guy.. waited a couple seconds and shot him again. He did this thru the whole magazine, however, it made Connery TOO scary and sadistic to the audience, so they only showed the first couple shots.
@@porterhouse_ IMO...1962 was the tail end of the "1950s ethos"...The ensuing years of violence, turmoil, and social turbulence thrust most of the "world" into a future that would be both progressive and regressive, full of social flaws that were going to be addressed, one way or the other. And we "Boomers" were young, and going have our feelings validated!
My dad took me to see several of the Sean Connery Bond films. I was 7 years old when this one came out. It goes without saying that he was the greatest Bond of all. I later had a neighbor who was a retired Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander in naval intelligence who actually knew Ian Fleming, who of course was also in naval intelligence. It’s a small world.
good video….the highlight here is the trailer at the end. Never saw it before, the voice overdubs from Connery were a crack-up. That trailer gave away so much of the movie….crazy!
@@richardmartins1541 When this came out in the early 60's it was only at one outdoor theater in the town I lived in. So myself and three other young boys then, gave an older teenage with a car money to take us to see it. When it was over, he gave all our money back after saying it was the best movie he had ever seen. Thanking us for talking him into going.
Sean still sounded a bit rough in Dr No By the time he starred in Goldfinger (the same year he starred in Hitchcock’s Marnie), he already had become so elegant in his delivery of speech and performance
I disagree. The first time he speaks in Dr. No, his delivery of "Bond, James Bond" is everything one could possibly ask for. He positively oozes masculine charisma, confidence, and power.
Great video really gives a flavour of the nuts and bolts of film making. I got a kick out of the fact that I read years ago the first day’s filming at Pinewood Studios for Dr No was Monday 26th February 1962, which was the day I was born.
Dr. No was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 5. Years later I found 3 Bond novels around the house - LIVE AND LET DIE / OHMSS / and CASINO ROYALE. I was confused because Fleming described Bond as looking somewhat like Hoagy Carmichael. In my mind as I read all 14 novels, though I tried, I had trouble envisioning Connery. Connery was by far the best Bond, but when I saw the Timothy Dalton movies, I thought he was the guy who mostly resembled what my adolescent mind had envisioned. But certainly never Hoagy Carmichael - who strangely looks like Fleming himself.
Thanks for the great video! I was in Jamaica as a 3 year old kid between the 19 - 21st Jan 1962 with my parents. We stayed in Courtleigh Manor Hotel before flying to Belize. Mum told me I fell in the deep end of the pool and was rescued by one of the cast. To this day I don't now if it was a goody or a baddy who saved me.
The first Bond Movie I saw was Thunderball. Born in 1953, I had entered secondary school in 1964. In Trinidad, all movies had to pass a Board of Censors. Dr No was passed for 14 years and over. This was indicated on the Cinema page of the newspapers. All my school friends of my age were chatty about having seen Dr No. My religious Parents who followed the rules precisely, forbade me from going to see the movie. There were 2 cinemas close to where I lived. A movie only spent a few weeks at a cinema before it was moved. Now, every time I wanted to see a Bond movie, it was always beyond my age. Gold finger was passed for 18 years and over. We live in modern times. A youth of today cannot imagine what it was like in those times. 😮
Same here --I wasn't allowed to see it, but I took a bus to the theater. It was summer, so Mom expected me to be outside playing all afternoon. As one of five children, I wasn't missed. As a kid that almost always followed the rules, Mom didn't suspect a thing.
You can tell it was shot out of order, at "slate 9, take 5, Jack Lord gets a light from the car, when just a few minuets ago, he lit up with his own pocket lighter on the mezzanine in the airport. LOL Great stuff, by far one of the best films of all time, and the series. So hard to believe this was filmed when I was a year old.
I have done that in my book JAMES BOND: DR. NO , published yb TASCHEN. You can watch the unboxing here, where I talk through the making of the film, and show images and documents from the book: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z4iMsmmHiXQ.htmlsi=xuNdd6IyDbhD70PR
Have seen this film numerous times, but only now have I noticed Bond says 'take me for a ride', rather than 'take me for a drive'. Tongue in cheek that I missed.
In early 1962, my 14yo self experienced what we now call "synchronicity"!....I was in the neighborhood library, and was looking for some spy-adventure-type of book to read...I stumbled onto a few books on the shelf, all having been written by some guy named Ian Fleming. I grabbed one book-DR NO-and began to flip through the pages. My 14 year old brain was stimulated to read of some guy named James Bond, in process of seducing a woman!...Tepid stuff now, but stunning to me back then!...I proceeded to check out the book, and showed the few "hot" passages to my friends, who teased me for being too "excited" about the book. A few days later, a couple of thoughts hit me...I formed a general idea as to what this Bond dude would look like...and I also hoped, that someday a movie would be made. Imagine my happy shock, when, less than a year later, DR NO showed up on the silver screen!...I talked my buddies into attending the premiere...my amazement continued, when Sean Connery appeared, blithely saying "Bond, James Bond"...Yikes!...He looked very much like the imagined Bond in my mind....I was in a dream-like state during the whole movie--and so were my now "converted" friends! I still am bewildered, as to the sheer coincidence of my discovering the Bond books, and then later on, having a movie make my dreams come true! The 1960s truly were magical years!
Dr. No was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 5. Years later I found 3 Bond novels around the house - LIVE AND LET DIE / OHMSS / and CASINO ROYALE. I was confused because Fleming described Bond as looking somewhat like Hoagy Carmichael. In my mind as I read all 14 novels, though I tried, I had trouble envisioning Connery. Connery was by far the best Bond, but when I saw the Timothy Dalton movies, I thought he was the guy who mostly resembled what my adolescent mind had envisioned. But certainly never Hoagy Carmichael - who strangely looks like Fleming himself .
Great observation. That's a defining year right there. The most successful British film franchise ever and the most most successful band ever both releasing their debut offerings in the UK. Amazingly 'Dr No' & 'Love Me Do' were released on the SAME day in the UK. 5th October 1962. What are the odds?
I congratulate you "Wordsmith" on a wonderful, comprehensive encapsulation of what we do for a living. Excellent presentation and layout of the process and result. I love the "graded" non-printed takes. I want more from your capable compilation of these days of organic filmmaking. "Love that without video playback they did a take 7!" Keep them coming I am an instant fan.
This is a great video. Amazing to see how it was filmed. Is it just me or did older film cameras like these used here have more atomsphere? Maybe an expert could explain.
First, they used film. Second, there were different types of film, and developing processes. Third, the cinematographer-in this case Ted Moore-decided the amount of light, and how it was captured by the camera.
I’ve seen several of the Bond movies, and Dr. No (for me personally) is the best. Very few special effects which allows the viewer to concentrate on the characters and the story. A bit of trivia: if you look closely at the spider crawling on James Bond’s chest, you ‘ll see that there is a piece of glass between him and the spider.
@@pfcwar5150 Connery was extremely afraid of spiders, and was so anxious during the scene where a tarantula crawls over him in bed, that they had to lay a sheet of glass on him for the spider to crawl up. You can see the glass flattening his skin, in the final version of the movie. For the close ups, stuntman Bob Simmons stepped in. He, too, was scared of spiders, and said it was the most terrifying thing he had ever filmed.
My family vacationed in the Caribbean for 3 summers. I still remember sitting inside a long airport building that was bright and sunny because the whole right wall was made of windows. I suppose I remember that moment because my Dad had just bought me a small, metal British airplane toy, a white Constellation, the one with the triple tail. I had watched this film several times before it dawned on me that THAT was the airport. I was sitting below and to the left of where Jack Lord is standing @12:18. I knew we had been to Jamaca, but I never put the two together. Because of your video, I now know that it was our last vacation trip in the summer of 1961. That was the one where we moved from Maracaibo back to Huntington Beach. Thank you for that information.
In 1963, I worked in the middle of nowhere at a test site learning Radiation Safety (a contradiction in terms). The whole place was highly contaminated and dangerous. The work environment was scary enough, but if someone had the foresight to build a sign that flashed, “ABANDON AREA,” everybody would have quit.
Sean for me was my ‘bond’. Not because he was the first but I still ❤everything about the 60’s as a decade(I was born in 1965) I have enjoyed watching this video and to learn more about ‘behind the scenes’. In a number of interviews Sean gave back in the day he mentioned how long filming ran over on each one, saying 6 months spent on YOLT. That meant he could not give first call to other films. I read a book a few years ago written by Robert Sellers about Broccoli and Saltzman and I feel at the end it was not WHAT THEY KNEW about making films BUT WHO THEY KnEW Like Ken Adam Would be interested in watching similar on the other 4 films 👍 👍 😍😍❤️❤️🏴🏴
Happy to hear that you enjoyed the video. Sean Connery was contracted to work on the movies for a number of years, and could work on other movies between Bonds, and he fulfilled his contract to the letter. The producers had many years of experience behind them, and they cast the crew and the actors very well, as well as shaping both the scripts and the final cuts of the movies, so it is unfair to think of them as being observers to the process. Also, they both put their own money into the film-a huge financial risk.
@@wordsmithpd thinking about the huge amount of money made even back then and the money invested it was such a gamble. My late parents met and married in 1963 and were in their mid teens during WW2 and by the early 50’s rationing was still at its height. They went out to the cinema (my parents did not have a TV - not many did) or the Theatre At the Cinema and also at the Theatre every film was drab, black and white and ‘kitchen sink’ living out their own lives. They wanted colour and escapism When they went to see Dr.No they got ESCAPISM and SOOO much more. Fast cars Great food Great fashion And someone who was licensed to kill for his government 👍 👍 🏴🏴
August 1962, we lowered the Union Jack n became an Independent nation with our own BLACK, GREEN n GOLD flag….Jamaica, we likkle but we tallawah…Ian Fleming’s home is still there in Jamaica….he wrote the books there…
And theres never been any movie series where it starts with some guy walking out, turning and shooting straight at you within the first few seconds. Sets the tone up perfectly
If you watch to the end, notice how the original trailer gives away so many big moments in the film - I mistakenly thought this was more of a modern trend in trailers.
Thanks for that, never seen a video analysis of Dr No before, its one of my fave Bond films, not least cos its the original. I dont think it gets enough love, everyone just goes straight to Goldfinger which I found too over the top personally and nonsensical in parts. Dr No is as much a 60s spy thriller as it is a Bond film.
must have been early 60s, I was working for Shell BP in Hemel Hempstead and ran the social club. Every month had a movie night and i hired Dr No. had to show it in a few reels with time to change between reels as only one projector. Great movie..
I watched this vid never thinking I'd really like it all that much. I was wrong. This is interesting to me even though Dr. No is a middling JB movie for me (I like it but it's not anywhere near my favorite). Hoping there'll be more like this.
Truth on Bond. I was born the year before this movie's filming, my father (who spoke 6 languages fluently) was the son of one of the handful of people Bond was based on. He ran MI6 in Norway, he married a local girl in Bergen and was awarded the CMG and OBE, I have photos and can prove all this beyond any doubt. I held a vial of heavy water when I was a boy. My grandfather was very well connected, a chemist, a Naval Commander (I still have his hat and cut throat razor) he drank and smoked a bit too much and was very good with women. He was born in 1897 and died c1955 from heart failure. I spent my whole career filming my TV commercial ideas around the world, mostly for car brands. PS He didn't get on with my grandmother, she also had polio, I remember her well, she died c1974.
What I notice in the Bond/chauffeur scene was the 1960 Cadillac in the background with collapsed air bag suspension in the rear with the front end hiked up. Pity those poor buyers of those cars!
