Very violent novel btw..for those who have never read it.
LOL. Who's the next Bond? And who is the Bond Girl? :)
I remember the song....Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass I believe....
It featured a group of American Indians yelling Geronimo as the jumped out of an airplane with teepee shaped parachutes.
FALSE - Casino Royale was the FIRST filmed Bond story. It was shot for television. Because the rights had been sold before the Dr. No years, other producers owned this work.
They remade it in the late 1960s but were prohibited from using characters and plotlines because some of them had already appeared in the "other" Bond films.
They made a satirical film in an era when there were almost as many spy comedies as there were cloak and dagger suspense spy films.
There was some sort of option on Thunderball for a Bond tv series that never happened. It was how some other filmmakers owned rights to remake Thunderball as Never Say Never Again. They even considered remaking that story AGAIN.
BTW, the original tv Casino Royale can be found on the MGM DVD for the film. The film itself would have been much better if the past his prime Orson Welles had not gotten Peter Sellers fired from the film. Peter Sellers is among the best thing about that film (Ursella Andress is among the other good things, and their scenes together are great).
I thought it was "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
What made the oriuginal Bond films so great, among other things), was that it was cutting edge technology. Thunderball was filmed in 1965 for example with use of underwater jet boats.....real cool and not commercially available for years.
I'm sure there are hundreds of examples but the films always used thins that were real cutting edge for the times and many of these things actually became available to the retail market years later.
For example, perhaps they should use these eye in the sky plans we use in Iraq and elsewhere to see around corners.....etc.