In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 4 nominations total
Jean-Paul Belmondo
- French Legionnaire
- (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
- Directors
- Val Guest(scenes with Woody Allen and additional scenes with David Niven)
- Ken Hughes(Berlin scenes)
- John Huston(scenes at Sir James Bond's house and castle in Scotland scenes)
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaPeter Sellers and Orson Welles hated each other so much that the filming of the scene where both of them face each other across a gaming table actually took place on different days with a double standing in for the other actor.
- GoofsIn the "vault" scene towards the end, Bond says, "Careful, it's vaporized lysergic acid, highly explosive". Lysergic acid, used in the synthesis of the hallucinogen LSD, is not explosive at all.
- Quotes
Piper: Excuse me. Are you Richard Burton?
Evelyn Tremble: No, I'm Peter O'Toole!
Piper: Then you're the finest man that ever breathed.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credit animation by Richard Williams parodies illuminated manuscripts with cartoon-style calligraphy. It sets the tone for the film as a psychedelic "knight's tale" of Sir James Bond.
- Alternate versionsIn the Region 2 DVD which has English, German, French, Italian and Spanish audio tracks, the ending is left instrumental in Spanish audio track unlike the others.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Clock (2010)
Featured review
"Too many cooks spoil the broth".
What a mess of the royal proportions - such a great cast (Peter Sellers, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, Deborah Kerr, and Jean-Paul Belmondo), the James Bond's story, plenty of beautiful (and I mean it) girls, the music by Burt Bacharach, most famous sets - but the movie is almost totally unwatchable. It started funny enough - at Sir James Bond's (David Niven) home where he was approached by four international agents that forced him to come out of retirement and head up the operation against the evil organization SMERSH. His mission is to destroy Topple LeChiffre (Orson Welles} at the baccarat tables where he never loses and wins a lot of money to supply SMERSH. Then, the movie becomes silly, stupid, pointless, and (what is the worst) not funny. Only Woody Allen, (as Bond's incompetent nephew, Jimmy Bond) brilliant as usual has appeared in two scenes and made them silly and hilarious. I think that "Casino Royale" (the way it was made) illustrates the fact that bigger is not always better - overlong and overblown, written and directed by five or more writers and directors, it brings to mind an old saying, "Too many cooks spoil the broth".
OT: the abbreviation SMERSH really existed during the WWII. It means "Death to the Spies" in Russian.
OT: the abbreviation SMERSH really existed during the WWII. It means "Death to the Spies" in Russian.
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- Galina_movie_fan
- Oct 4, 2005
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- Казино Рояль
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- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $2,500
- Runtime2 hours 11 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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