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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 244073" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Monday (15th August).</p><p></p><p>Dr No, ITV4, 9pm.</p><p></p><p>First ever James Bond film. Who could have forseen they would still be making them?</p><p></p><p>The Iam Fleming books had been popular bestellers, with a mix of fantasy adventure, sadism, and much sexual folklore!</p><p></p><p>The search for an actor took a while. Connery was a respected actor who had the "right animal-grace qualities" and we now know what an excellent choice he was (some would say there's never been another Bond, not really!).</p><p></p><p>Fleming was reportedly at first unhappy with Connery, but then relented and admitted that he was the right man for the job! (bond was originally English, but had a Scottish housekeeper, who isn't in the films).</p><p></p><p>This film established many Bond traditions: the theme music, Connery saying "the name's Bond, James Bond" (which here doesn't happen for some way into the film, and we first see him at a casino table, another tradition!), Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell), M (Bernard Lee), the Walther PPK, Ken Adam's fantastic sets (which got ever more fantastic), etc ..... (although there's nuch sci fi type fantasy, right from the start, Bernard Llewelyen's "Q" character isn't in this first film, and it's purely adventure with no gadgets, closest to the Flemming books!).</p><p></p><p>Interesting moments:</p><p></p><p>Dr No opens with a quite interesting scene, a spy making a shortwave radio transmission (then we see the London Station shortwave reeption station, where diplomatic traffic is received form all over the world). State of the art telecoms, at the time!</p><p></p><p>The first appearence of Sean Connery ("the name's Bond .....").</p><p></p><p>Ursula Andress rising from the sea, in a bikini. In the book, Honeychile Rider (gedditt??? !!!) is completely naked!</p><p></p><p>The appearence of Dr No. Orignally, Fleming had wanted Noel Coward to play this part, which would have been interesting, but Joseph Wiseman does it very well. (for quite a time into the film we only hear his voice, another Bond tradition ....).</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No</a> .</p><p><a href="http://www.universalexports.net/" target="_blank">http://www.universalexports.net/</a> .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 244073, member: 192438"] Monday (15th August). Dr No, ITV4, 9pm. First ever James Bond film. Who could have forseen they would still be making them? The Iam Fleming books had been popular bestellers, with a mix of fantasy adventure, sadism, and much sexual folklore! The search for an actor took a while. Connery was a respected actor who had the "right animal-grace qualities" and we now know what an excellent choice he was (some would say there's never been another Bond, not really!). Fleming was reportedly at first unhappy with Connery, but then relented and admitted that he was the right man for the job! (bond was originally English, but had a Scottish housekeeper, who isn't in the films). This film established many Bond traditions: the theme music, Connery saying "the name's Bond, James Bond" (which here doesn't happen for some way into the film, and we first see him at a casino table, another tradition!), Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell), M (Bernard Lee), the Walther PPK, Ken Adam's fantastic sets (which got ever more fantastic), etc ..... (although there's nuch sci fi type fantasy, right from the start, Bernard Llewelyen's "Q" character isn't in this first film, and it's purely adventure with no gadgets, closest to the Flemming books!). Interesting moments: Dr No opens with a quite interesting scene, a spy making a shortwave radio transmission (then we see the London Station shortwave reeption station, where diplomatic traffic is received form all over the world). State of the art telecoms, at the time! The first appearence of Sean Connery ("the name's Bond ....."). Ursula Andress rising from the sea, in a bikini. In the book, Honeychile Rider (gedditt??? !!!) is completely naked! The appearence of Dr No. Orignally, Fleming had wanted Noel Coward to play this part, which would have been interesting, but Joseph Wiseman does it very well. (for quite a time into the film we only hear his voice, another Bond tradition ....). [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No[/url] . [url]http://www.universalexports.net/[/url] . [/QUOTE]
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