Filem Casino Royale [1967]

Casino Royale, filem perisik Inggeris-Amerika, yang dirilis pada tahun 1967, adalah parodi novel James Bond pertama Ian Fleming (1953). Diganggu oleh produksi yang huru-hara, filem ini terkenal kerana sebahagian besarnya tidak sesuai.

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Bond (dimainkan oleh David Niven) hidup mewah setelah bersara dari MI6. Namun, setelah pembunuhan ejen misteri dari negara-negara yang berlainan, dia dipaksa kembali oleh bekas bosnya, M (John Huston), dan pegawai perisik antarabangsa yang lain. Bond mengetahui bahawa salah satu sasaran penyiasatan adalah penjudi kaya bernama Le Chiffre (Orson Welles), yang sebenarnya merupakan pegawai atasan dalam sindiket jenayah yang dikenali sebagai SMERSH. Bond memutuskan untuk mengelirukan musuh-musuhnya dengan meminta banyak agen untuk menggunakan nama James Bond. Dia menggunakan khidmat ejen Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress) untuk menggoda Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers), pemain baccarat terhebat di dunia. Tremble bersetuju untuk berpose sebagai James Bond dan mencabar Le Chiffre ke pertandingan bertarung tinggi di Casino Royale yang terkenal, yang merupakan garis depan untuk operasi SMERSH.Gementar memenangkan permainan, menyebabkan Le Chiffre kehilangan sejumlah besar wang sindiket jenayah itu - kesalahan yang mengakibatkan kematian Le Chiffre. Ketika Lynd diculik dari kasino, Tremble bergegas menyelamatkannya. Walau bagaimanapun, dia mendapati terlambat bahawa dia adalah ejen ganda, dan dia membunuhnya.

Meanwhile, the real Bond succeeds in confronting the secret head of SMERSH, Dr. Noah, who is actually his nephew Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen). Jimmy has devised a series of incredible schemes, including the elimination of all men taller than him and the development of a time-release atomic bomb concealed in a pill. A British agent (Daliah Lavi) surreptitiously slips one of the pills into Jimmy’s champagne, turning him into a walking atomic time bomb. Meanwhile, a wild battle ensues in Casino Royale, with MI6 and its allies (including U.S. agents dressed as cowboys and Indians) fighting the forces of SMERSH. No one emerges as a winner, however, because Jimmy’s bomb explodes, killing everyone in the casino.

The film is loosely based on Fleming’s Casino Royale, the only Bond book for which producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman did not hold the rights. Rather than try and compete with the popular Sean Connery movies, the filmmakers decided to shoot the novel as a spoof. However, the production quickly spiraled out of control with five directors working simultaneously but never in conjunction with each other. Eight writers (most uncredited) also worked on the screenplay, including Billy Wilder, Joseph Heller, and Ben Hecht. In addition, there were problems with the performers, most notably Sellers, who reportedly did not get along with Welles and refused to shoot scenes with him. Eventually, Sellers left the production. The resulting film is disjointed and nearly impossible to follow. However, with an all-star cast, an outstanding production design, and a soundtrack that included Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert, Casino Royale was a box-office hit, and it later became a cult classic. A second big-screen adaptation of Casino Royale was released in 2006 to great acclaim; a dramatic version of Fleming’s novel, it starred Daniel Craig.

Production notes and credits

• Studio: Columbia Pictures

• Directors: Val Guest, Joseph McGrath, John Huston, Ken Hughes, and Robert Parrish

• Producers: Charles K. Feldman and Jerry Bresler

• Writers: Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, and Michael Sayers

• Music: Burt Bacharach

• Running time: 131 minutes

Cast

• Peter Sellers (Evelyn Tremble)

• Ursula Andress (Vesper Lynd)

• David Niven (Sir James Bond)

• Woody Allen (Jimmy Bond)

• Orson Welles (Le Chiffre)

Academy Award nomination

• Song (“The Look of Love”)