Dr. No is a 1962 spy film directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, and Jack Lord, it is the first film in the "James Bond" series, and was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, a partnership that continued until 1975. In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr.
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Dr. No (film)
Dr. No (film) | Introduction
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A number of elements had a real-life background, taken from people whom the author knew or events he was aware of. Some aspects of the character and tastes replicate those of the author himself.
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It was assigned by the author in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I and helped in breaking the German diplomatic code.
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"Dr. No”, "You Only Live Twice”, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service” and "Diamonds Are Forever” are some of them.
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"Dr. No” is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming.
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Dr. No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 31 March 1958. The novel centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile Rider and later Doctor No.
Dr. No (novel) | Introduction
Dr. No (or Doctor No) is a comic book by Norman J. Nodel. It is a loose adaptation of the eponymous James Bond film released in 1962, which in turn is inspired by the novel by Ian Fleming. It was first published in the United Kingdom in "Classics Illustrated" #158A.
Dr. No (comics) | Introduction
In June 1956 the author Ian Fleming began a collaboration with the producer Henry Morgenthau III on a planned television series, "Commander Jamaica", which was to feature the Caribbean-based character James Gunn. When the project foundered, and Fleming could not fashion a new plot for his next Bond novel, he used the idea as the basis for "Dr. No". By January 1957 he had published four Bond novels in successive years from 1953—"Casino Royale", "Live and Let Die", "Moonraker" and "Diamonds Are Forever". A fifth, "From Russia, with Love", was being edited and prepared for production. That month Fleming travelled to his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica to write "Dr.
Dr. No (novel) | Background and writing history
... You don't have to work at Ian Fleming. He does the work for you."
Dr. No (novel) | Reviews
Fleming also used the physical descriptions of people he knew; Quarrel, who previously appeared in the novel "Live and Let Die", was based on a Jamaican fisherman who often took Fleming shark fishing.
Dr. No (novel) | Plot inspirations
Dr. No is a 1962 spy film directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, and Jack Lord, it is the first film in the "James Bond" series, and was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, a partnership that continued until 1975. In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr.
Dr. No (film) | Introduction
No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American space launch from Cape Canaveral with a radio beam weapon. Although it was the first of the Bond books to be made into a film, "Dr. No" was not the first of Fleming's novels. "Casino Royale" was the debut for the character; however, the film makes a few references to threads from earlier books. This film makes reference to later books in the series as well, such as the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which was not introduced until the 1961 novel "Thunderball". Produced on a low budget, "Dr. No" was a financial success.
Dr. No (film) | Introduction
The novel began as a 1956 screenplay for the producer Henry Morgenthau III for a proposed television show entitled "Commander Jamaica". When those plans foundered, Fleming adapted the ideas as the basis for a novel, provisionally titled "The Wound Man". The book's eponymous villain was influenced by Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories. "Dr. No" was the first of Fleming's novels to face widespread negative criticism in Britain; Paul Johnson of the "New Statesman" dismissed the book as one of "Sex, Snobbery and Sadism". When released on the American market it was received more favourably. "Dr. No" was serialised in the "Daily Express", first in an abridged story form and later as a comic strip.
Dr. No (novel) | Introduction
The story was adapted in 1962 as the first film in the Bond series, with Sean Connery in the lead role; in 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a version, with Toby Stephens as Bond.
Dr. No (novel) | Introduction
Terence Young described Harwood as a script doctor who helped put elements more in tune with a British character. Harwood stated in an interview in a "Cinema Retro" special on the making of the film that she had been a screenwriter of several of Harry Saltzman's projects; she claimed both her screenplays for "Dr. No" and her screenplay for "From Russia with Love" had followed Fleming's novels closely. During the series' decades-long history only a few of the films have remained substantially true to their source material; "Dr. No" has many similarities to the novel and follows its basic plot, but there are a few notable omissions.
Dr. No (film) | Writing
In March 1956 Fleming and his friend Ivar Bryce accompanied Robert Cushman Murphy (of the American Museum of Natural History) and Arthur Stannard Vernay (of the Flamingo Protection Society) on a trip to a flamingo colony on Great Inagua in the south of the Bahamas. The colony was of dense mangrove swamp and salt flats, home to flamingos, egrets and roseate spoonbills; the location inspired Crab Key. Much of the travel overland on Great Inagua was by a swamp vehicle, a Land Rover fitted with over-large tyres that became the model for the "dragon" used in the story. Fleming's inspiration for the Doctor No character was Sax Rohmer's villain Dr Fu Manchu, who featured in books Fleming had read and enjoyed in earlier years.
Dr. No (novel) | Plot inspirations
[is] bolted down to some sort of reality, or at least counter-balanced." The journalist and writer Matthew Parker sees the novel as "the most fantastical, gothic and melodramatic; and at times frankly, even knowingly, over the top", while Black considers the fantastic element of Doctor No's underground lair to be a "weak" and "bizarre" part of the story. When the writer Raymond Chandler reviewed the novel, he thought "that the long sensational business which is the heart of the book not only borders on fantasy. It plunges in with both feet. Ian Fleming's impetuous imagination has no rules." Writing in 1963, Fleming acknowledged his plots were "fantastical while often being based in truth.
Dr. No (novel) | Style
Aspects of the plot were influenced by Rohmer's work, and Winder observes that the use of the centipede was "a straight steal" from a Fu Manchu novel; other devices from Rohmer's novels included Doctor No's secret lair and the use of the mad scientist trope. As he had done in his previous novels, Fleming borrowed names from his friends and associates to use in his book; Ivar Bryce's housekeeper, May Maxwell, became Bond's Scottish "treasure" May. One of Fleming's neighbours in Jamaica, and later his lover, was Blanche Blackwell: Fleming named the guano-collecting ship in "Dr. No" as "Blanche". His friend Patricia Wilder found that her nickname of Honey Chile was used for the novel's main female character, and John Fox-Strangways—a friend from the gentlemen's club White's—saw part of his surname being used for the name of the MI6 station chief in Jamaica.
Dr. No (novel) | Plot inspirations
Chancellor put the events of "Dr. No" in 1956; Griswold is more precise, and considers the story to have taken place in February and March of that year. As with his previous four novels, Fleming came up with the concept of the front cover design; he considered Honeychile Rider to have a Venus-like quality when introduced in the book and wanted this echoed on the cover. When Fleming commissioned Pat Marriott to illustrate the cover, he instructed that she be shown on a "Venus elegans" shell.
Dr. No (novel) | Background and writing history
Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It was the first Bond film in the Eon Productions series; Sean Connery portrayed Bond, with Joseph Wiseman as Doctor No and Ursula Andress as Honeychile Rider. Although the story follows the same general storyline, there are some changes: the film shows No to be an operative of the fictional crime organisation SPECTRE and his island fortress is nuclear-powered; No is killed not by a surge of guano, but by drowning in reactor coolant. The novel was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in May 2008. The actor Toby Stephens played Bond, while No was played by David Suchet.
Dr. No (novel) | Adaptations
No". He followed his usual practice, which he later outlined in "Books and Bookmen" magazine: "I write for about three hours in the morning ... and I do another hour's work between six and seven in the evening. I never correct anything and I never go back to see what I have written ... By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day." By the time he returned to London in late February, he had completed a 206-page first draft, which he initially titled "The Wound Man". Although Fleming did not date the event within his novels, John Griswold and Henry Chancellor—both of whom wrote books for Ian Fleming Publications—have identified different timelines based on events and situations within the novel series as a whole.
Dr. No (novel) | Background and writing history
Components absent from the novel but added to the film include the introduction of the Bond character in a gambling casino, the introduction of Bond's semi-regular girlfriend Sylvia Trench, a fight scene with an enemy chauffeur, a fight scene to introduce Quarrel, the seduction of Miss Taro, Bond's recurring CIA ally Felix Leiter, Dr. No's partner in crime Professor Dent and Bond's controversial cold-blooded killing of this character. Sometimes episodes in the novel retained in the film's altered narrative introduce elements of absurdity into the plot. Bond's "escape" from his cell via the air shaft, for instance, originally conceived as a ruse of Dr.
Dr. No (film) | Writing
He feels that the "Fleming Sweep briskly propels the plot" of "Dr. No" through chapters that are longer than in previous Bond novels; the cultural historian Jeremy Black also likes "Dr. No"s pacing, despite considering it inconsistent in places. Winder believes that the novel's plotting is chaotic, although he still feels the book "can be read over and over again with immense pleasure". Fleming used known brand names and everyday details to produce a sense of realism, which the writer Kingsley Amis calls "the Fleming effect". Amis describes "the imaginative use of information, whereby the pervading fantastic nature of Bond's world ...
Dr. No (novel) | Style
Fleming for providing a conveniently accessible safety-valve for the boiling sensibility of modern man." This reviewer also conceded that while "the casualties take place on a somewhat narrower front than usual, they are heavy". In April 1958, Fleming wrote to "The Manchester Guardian" in defence of his work, referring to both that paper's review of "Dr. No" and the article in "The Twentieth Century". Fleming partly accepted the criticism concerning the exclusivity of Bond's objects, such as cigarettes and food, but defended it on the basis that "I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props". These included his cocktail, ("The Vesper") and Bond's diet.
Dr. No (novel) | Reviews
Around the time of "Dr. No"s release in October 1962, a comic book adaptation of the screenplay, written by Norman J. Nodel, was published in the United Kingdom as part of the "Classics Illustrated" anthology series. It was later reprinted in the United States by DC Comics as part of its "Showcase" anthology series, in January 1963. This was the first American comic book appearance of James Bond and is noteworthy for being a relatively rare example of a British comic being reprinted in a fairly high-profile American comic. It was also one of the earliest comics to be censored on racial grounds (some skin tones and dialogue were changed for the American market).
Dr. No (film) | Comic book adaptation
In the James Bond novel "Doctor No", Ian Fleming writes of Bond ordering a dinner in the lair of the title character that includes angels on horseback.
Angels on horseback | Cultural references
Fleming called these devices "vulgar foibles" which he was saddled with, although maybe, he suggested, "Bond's luxury meals are simply saying 'no' to toad-in-the-hole and tele-bickies." Writing in "The Times Literary Supplement", Philip Stead was more generous to "Dr. No". Despite thinking that Fleming was offering "too opulent a feast" with the book, Stead argued that Fleming managed to pull this off, where "a less accomplished writer ... would never have got away with this story." Raymond Chandler reviewed the novel for "The Sunday Times" and praised as "masterly" Fleming's depiction of colonial Kingston in the first chapter. Chandler admired Fleming's writing, which had "an acute sense of pace.
Dr. No (novel) | Reviews
In "From Russia, with Love" Fleming experimented with an unusual narrative structure that saw Bond's entry into the story delayed until chapter eleven. For "Dr. No" he returned to the conventional form with which he felt comfortable—that of the thriller writers of the early 20th century. As a result, the story's villain is closer to the intellectual "gentleman crook" of the golden age of detective fiction, and the novel's focus is on action at the expense of character development and depth of plot. Benson describes the "Fleming Sweep" as taking the reader from one chapter to another using "hooks" at the end of chapters to heighten tension and pull the reader onto the next.
Dr. No (novel) | Style
"Dr. No" was released on 31 March 1958 in the UK as a hardcover edition by the publishers Jonathan Cape. A paperback edition was issued by Pan Books in February 1960; over 115,000 copies were sold that year. The first American edition was published in June 1958 by Macmillan under the name "Doctor No". The largest boost in sales of the novel came in 1962 with the release of the film adaptation. In the seven months after the picture's release, 1.5 million copies of the book were sold. In 1964 the novel was serialised in "France-Soir" for the French market, which led to increased sales of Bond works in that country; 480,000 French-language copies of the six Bond novels were sold that year.
Dr. No (novel) | Publication history
No's to test Bond's skill and endurance, becomes an authentic break-out in the film. Features carried over from the novel's obstacle course, however, such as the torrent of water and scalding surface, have no logical justification in the script. Such incongruities recurred in subsequent Bond films.
Dr. No (film) | Writing
There's a slow stretch in the middle and Dr. No could use a decent henchman, but otherwise, the film works marvelously." Describing "Dr. No" as "a different type of film", Peary notes that "Looking back, one can understand why it caused so much excitement." In 1999, it was ranked 41 on the BFI top 100 British films list compiled by the British Film Institute. The 2005 American Film Institute's '100 Years' series also recognised the character of James Bond himself in the film as the third greatest film hero. He was also placed at number eleven on a similar list by "Empire".
Dr. No (film) | Critical response
I know that we are all becoming more broadminded nowadays, but really old chap what "could" you have been thinking of?" Fleming's villain was physically disfigured, similar to many of Bond's later adversaries; No is tall, with steel pincers for hands and has dextrocardia. Bond describes him as "a giant venomous worm wrapped in grey tin-foil". Benson considers that No is "a wickedly successful villain", the best since Hugo Drax in "Moonraker", while "Time" thought No to be "one of the less forgettable characters in modern fiction". Quarrel was Fleming's idealised concept of a black person, and the character was based on his genuine liking for Jamaicans, whom he saw as "full of goodwill and cheerfulness and humour".
Dr. No (novel) | Characters
As in the film, No fits himself with metal manual prostheses, but the book describes them as simple pincers. In physical appearance, Dr. No is tall and very thin. He is described as being at least 6 inches taller than Bond, who is six feet tall, meaning that he's probably around 6 ft 6 inches (198 cm) in height. His head is said to be shaped like a "reverse oil drop", due to his round head, pointed chin and the yellowish tinge of his skin. He also mentions that while in school, he did not make use of his metal hands, replacing them with waxen ones which were less useful but gave himself a more human appearance.
Julius No | Novel biography
In the sixth novel, "Dr. No", the service armourer Major Boothroyd appears for the first time. Fleming named the character after Geoffrey Boothroyd, a firearms expert who lived in Glasgow, who had written to the novelist suggesting that Bond was not using the best firearms available.
Q (James Bond) | Major Boothroyd
Dr. Julius No is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1958 "James Bond" novel and its 1962 film adaptation "Dr. No", the first of the series, in which he was portrayed by actor Joseph Wiseman.
Julius No | Introduction
No", all unhealthy, all thoroughly English: the sadism of a schoolboy bully, the mechanical, two-dimensional sex-longings of a frustrated adolescent, and the crude, snob-cravings of a suburban adult". Johnson saw no positives in "Dr. No", saying that "Mr Fleming has no literary skill, the construction of the book is chaotic, and entire incidents and situations are inserted, and then forgotten, in a haphazard manner." Maurice Richardson, of "The Observer", considered the novel "the usual sado-masochistic free-for-all, plus octopuses". The unnamed critic in "The Manchester Guardian" referred to Johnson's "sex, snobbery and sadism" complaint. They highlighted the "sinister ... cult of luxury for its own sake", with Bond's enjoyment of branded and bespoke products, but disagreed with part of Johnson's summary that the novel was a sign of moral decay; rather, "we should be grateful to Mr.
Dr. No (novel) | Reviews
When he left both Saltzman and Broccoli watched him through the window as he went to his car, both agreeing that he was the right man for Bond. After Connery was chosen, Terence Young took the actor to his tailor and hairdresser, and introduced him to the high life, restaurants, casinos and women of London. In the words of Bond writer Raymond Benson, Young educated the actor "in the ways of being dapper, witty, and above all, cool".
Dr. No (film) | James Bond
By January 1957 Fleming had decided he would write another story, and began work on "Dr. No" in which Bond recovers from his poisoning and is sent to Jamaica.
From Russia, with Love (novel) | Background and writing history
The relationship between Bond and Quarrel was based on a presumption of Bond's superiority. Fleming described the relationship as "that of a Scots laird with his head stalker; authority was unspoken and there was no room for servility". Winder considers the scenes with Quarrel to be "embarrassingly patronising but nonetheless hypnotic".
Dr. No (novel) | Characters
The 32-page comic follows the film script and most of the characters are drawn to resemble their screen counterparts. Some deviations are found, such as Dr. No being electrocuted instead of drowned. The original British cover depicted Dr. No, as well as the scene Bond and Honey Rider meet the tank disguised as a dragon. For the US publishing, the comic was censored, deleting all racial skin colour and dialogue thought to be demeaning. It also received a different cover, by Bob Brown, an inside front cover with photos from the film, and an inside back cover with brief biographies of Bond and Fleming.
Dr. No (comics) | Description
Two main themes run through "Dr. No": the meaning of power; and the concept of friendship and loyalty. Bond talks about the meaning of power with several villains in the series. His conversation with Doctor No reveals that the latter believes it can only be secured through the privacy required to maintain the sovereignty of his island. No quotes Carl von Clausewitz's first principle—about having a secure base from which to operate—in support of his argument. According to Panek, in his examination of 20th century British spy novels, "Dr. No" "shows a shift towards emphasizing the intellect and organizing power of the individual", as opposed to a group or nation.
Dr. No (novel) | Themes
Eon asked several directors—Bryan Forbes, Guy Green, Val Guest and Guy Hamilton—to helm the film, but all declined, before Terence Young agreed. Eon had originally hired Wolf Mankowitz and Richard Maibaum to write "Dr. No"s screenplay, partly because of Mankowitz's help in brokering the deal between Broccoli and Saltzman. An initial draft of the screenplay was rejected because the scriptwriters had made the villain, Dr. No, a monkey, and Mankowitz left the film. Maibaum then undertook a second version, more closely in line with the novel; Johanna Harwood and Berkely Mather then worked on Maibaum's script, with Harwood in particular being described as a script doctor credited with improving the British characterisations.
Production of the James Bond films | "Dr. No" (1962)
Oh No It Isn't! is a novel published in 1997 by Paul Cornell from the Virgin New Adventures featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a series of novels based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", made by the BBC. They had originally been licensed "Doctor Who" stories, but in the wake of the return of "Doctor Who" to television screens with the 1996 movie, the BBC did not renew publisher Virgin Books' licence. Virgin had for some time planned for a spin-off series based on the characters and settings created in the "Doctor Who" New Adventures.
Oh No It Isn't! | Introduction
"Dr. No" was serialised in "The Daily Express" from 19 March to 1 April 1958. In 1960 the novel was adapted as a daily comic strip in the paper and was syndicated worldwide. The strip, which ran from May to October, was written by Peter O'Donnell and illustrated by John McLusky. It was reprinted in 2005 by Titan Books as part of the "Dr. No" anthology that also includes "Diamonds Are Forever" and "From Russia, with Love". In 1962 the American men's magazine "Stag" serialised the story, renaming it as "Nude Girl of Nightmare Key". The film "Dr. No" was released in 1962, produced by Albert R.
Dr. No (novel) | Adaptations
In "Dr. No", for the first time in the Bond novels, there is friction between Bond and M, brought about because Bond was nearly killed by the SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb in "From Russia, with Love". M orders Bond to use a new gun and sends him on a holiday assignment, which Bond resents. The writer Raymond Benson—who later wrote a series of Bond novels—sees M at his most authoritarian in "Dr. No", punishing Bond in terms of both stripping him of his gun and then sending him on what both Bond and M considered at first to be a "soft" assignment.
Dr. No (novel) | Characters
No, although, by the time Fleming told the producers, they had already chosen Joseph Wiseman for the part. Harry Saltzman picked Wiseman because of his performance in the 1951 film "Detective Story", and the actor had special make-up applied to evoke No's Chinese heritage. Swedish actor Max von Sydow was also offered the role as Dr. No, but decided to turn it down. He would later appear as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the unofficial James Bond film "Never Say Never Again". The role as the first Felix Leiter was given to Jack Lord. This is Bond and Leiter's first time meeting each other on film and Leiter does not appear in the novel.
Dr. No (film) | Secondary cast
Another potential Bond included David Niven, who played the character in the 1967 parody "Casino Royale". There are several apocryphal stories as to whom Ian Fleming personally wanted. Reportedly, Fleming favoured actor Richard Todd. In his autobiography "When the Snow Melts", Cubby Broccoli said Roger Moore had been considered, but had been thought "too young, perhaps a shade too pretty." In his autobiography, "My Word Is My Bond", Moore says he was never approached to play the role of Bond until 1973, for "Live and Let Die". Moore appeared as Simon Templar on the television series "The Saint", airing in the United Kingdom for the first time on 4 October 1962, only one day before the premiere of "Dr.
Dr. No (film) | James Bond
In 1967, he had a role in another film shot in the Caribbean entitled "Come Spy With Me", and in his later years he appeared in local theatre productions, in a documentary film entitled "Inside Dr. No" and at James Bond fan events where he signed autographs.
Timothy Moxon | "Dr. No"
When Harry Saltzman gained the rights for the novel, he initially did not go through with the project. Instead, Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli wanted the rights to the novels and attempted to buy them from Saltzman. Saltzman did not want to sell the rights to Broccoli and instead, they formed a partnership to make the films. A number of Hollywood film studios did not want to fund the films, finding them "too British" or "too blatantly sexual". Eventually the two received authorisation from United Artists to produce "Dr. No", to be released in 1962. Saltzman and Broccoli created two companies: Danjaq, which was to hold the rights to the films, and Eon Productions, which was to produce them.
Dr. No (film) | Production
The character James Bond was introduced towards, but not at, the beginning of the film in a "now-famous nightclub sequence featuring Sylvia Trench", to whom he makes his "immortal introduction". The introduction to the character in "Le Cercle at Les Ambassadeurs", an upmarket gambling club, is derived from Bond's introduction in the first novel, "Casino Royale", which Fleming had used because "skill at gambling and knowledge of how to behave in a casino were seen ... as attributes of a gentleman". After losing a hand of Chemin de Fer to Bond, Trench asks his name. There is the "most important gesture [in] ...
Dr. No (film) | The introduction of James Bond
Major elements from the novel that are missing from the film include Bond's fight with a giant squid, and the escape from Dr. No's complex using the dragon-disguised swamp buggy. Elements of the novel that were significantly changed for the film include the use of a (non-venomous) tarantula spider instead of a centipede; Dr. No's secret complex being disguised as a bauxite mine instead of a guano quarry; Dr. No's plot to disrupt NASA space launches from Cape Canaveral using a radio beam instead of disrupting US missile testing on Turks Island; the method of Dr. No's death by boiling in overheating reactor coolant rather than a burial under a chute of guano, and the introduction of SPECTRE, an organisation absent from the book.
Dr. No (film) | Writing
Ian Fleming's novel was a Cold War thriller but the producers replaced the Soviet undercover agency SMERSH with the crime syndicate SPECTRE so as to avoid controversial political overtones. The SPECTRE training grounds were inspired by the film "Spartacus". The original screenwriter was Len Deighton, who accompanied Harry Saltzman, Syd Cain, and Terence Young to Istanbul but he was replaced because of a lack of progress. Thus, two of "Dr. No"s writers, Johanna Harwood and Richard Maibaum, returned for the second film in the series. Some sources state Harwood was credited for the "adaptation" mostly for her suggestions which were carried over into Maibaum's script.
From Russia with Love (film) | Writing
For the first time in the Bond series, Fleming encountered harsh criticism. The most virulent came from Paul Johnson of the "New Statesman", who opened his review, "Sex, Snobbery and Sadism", with: "I have just finished what is, without doubt, the nastiest book I have ever read". He went on to say that "by the time I was a third of the way through, I had to suppress a strong impulse to throw the thing away". Although he recognised that Bond represented "a social phenomenon of some importance", he saw this as a negative element, as the phenomenon concerned "three basic ingredients in "Dr.
Dr. No (novel) | Reviews
Moxon was working as a crop dusting pilot when he had a chance meeting at the Courtleigh Manor Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, with the director Terence Young, who remembered him as an actor on the London stage. Young offered him a small role at the start of the film, as a British agent who leaves a card game to take a phone call, and is murdered by three assassins posing as blind men. It transpires that the character was killed, because he was investigating the activities of the villainous Dr. No, and revealed this to his friend Professor Dent, who was secretly working for No.
Timothy Moxon | "Dr. No"
Dr. No is a 1984 role-playing game adventure for "James Bond 007" published by Victory Games.
Dr. No (adventure) | Introduction
Written by Andrew Stephenson, a scene breakdown for this four-part story was commissioned on 18 March 1980.
List of unmade Doctor Who serials and films | Farer Nohan
Because No's heart was on the right side of his body, the bullet missed it and he survived.
Dr. No (novel) | Plot
Broccoli had originally hired Richard Maibaum and his friend Wolf Mankowitz to write "Dr. No"s screenplay, partly because of Mankowitz's help in brokering the deal between Broccoli and Saltzman. An initial draft of the screenplay was rejected because the scriptwriters had made the villain, Dr. No, a monkey. Mankowitz left the film, and Maibaum then undertook a second version of the story, more closely in line with the novel. Mankowitz eventually had his name removed from the credits after viewing early rushes, as he feared it would be a disaster. Johanna Harwood and thriller writer Berkely Mather then worked on Maibaum's script.
Dr. No (film) | Writing
The pair met with Bond author Ian Fleming separately in 1957, Cubby from New York where he'd retreated to care for his wife, but in the London meeting with Fleming arranged by Broccoli, Allen all but insulted Fleming, declaring that Fleming's novels weren't even" "good enough for television"." Broccoli mired in his troubles in New York, only knew that no deal had occurred until pre-production meetings with Fleming which resulted in the decision to make the "Dr. No", as the first film project by Eon Productions. In 1959, captivated by the historical importance and a good script Warwick undertook the risky project of producing, funding, and distributing the controversial film "The Trials of Oscar Wilde", which was released in 1960.
Irving Allen | Warwick Films
The partnership between Broccoli and Saltzman lasted until 1975 when tensions during the filming of "The Man with the Golden Gun" led to an acrimonious split and Saltzman sold his shares of Danjaq to United Artists. Initially Broccoli and Saltzman had wanted to produce the eighth Bond novel, 1961's "Thunderball", as the first film, but there was an ongoing legal dispute between the screenplay's co-author, Kevin McClory and Ian Fleming. As a result, Broccoli and Saltzman chose "Dr. No": the timing was apposite, with claims that American rocket testing at Cape Canaveral had problems with rockets going astray. The producers offered "Dr.
Dr. No (film) | Production
In addition to his "Doctor Who" novelisations, Marter wrote adaptations of several 1980s American films such as "Splash" and "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" for Target and its imprint, Star Books. Some of these books were published under the pen name Ian Don. Other novelizations: "Splash" (as Ian Don, Touchstone, Star Books, 1984)
Ian Marter | As author
"Premiere" also listed Bond as the fifth greatest movie character of all time.
Dr. No (film) | Critical response
The book, split in five parts, includes information on "The James Bond Phenomenon", a biography on Ian Fleming the creator of James Bond, a biography on the fictional character James Bond, information on the novels, and finally information on the films. Benson goes into considerable detail for each novel including continuation novels by authors Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham) and John Gardner. Likewise it details information on every film from the first official Bond film "Dr. No", to the then-recent Bond film "Octopussy". Additionally, it discusses the two unofficial adaptations of "Casino Royale" and the remake of "Thunderball" called "Never Say Never Again".
The James Bond Bedside Companion | Content
Composer Monty Norman was selected by producer Albert R. Broccoli after Broccoli backed a musical of Norman's "Belle" or "The Ballad of Dr. Crippen" written by Wolf Mankowitz, a frequent collaborator with Norman and an original screenwriter for "Dr. No". Norman's only previous film score had been "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll" (1960). Norman traveled to Jamaica on the same chartered aircraft as the producers and many of the film's crew arriving on 14 January 1962. He met Chris Blackwell, a location scout and production assistant recommended to the producers by Ian Fleming. Blackwell introduced Norman to Byron Lee and the Dragonaires who performed the Jamaican music in the film.
Dr. No (soundtrack) | Scoring the film
The noted violence of "Dr. No", which also included Bond shooting Dent in cold blood, caused producers to make adaptations to get an "A" rating – allowing minors to enter accompanied by an adult – from the British Board of Film Classification. When he is about to have dinner with Dr. No, Bond is amazed to see Goya's "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington". The painting had been stolen from the National Gallery by a 60-year-old amateur thief in London just before filming began. Ken Adam had contacted the National Gallery in London to obtain a slide of the picture, painting the copy over the course of the weekend, prior to filming commencing on the Monday.
Dr. No (film) | Filming
John Strangways, an MI6 Station Chief based in Jamaica, is murdered by a trio of assassins, along with his secretary, before his home is ransacked. When news reaches M, the head of MI6, that Strangways has vanished, he assigns agent James Bond to investigate the matter and determine if it is related to Strangways' decision to co-operate on a CIA case involving the disruption of rocket launches from Cape Canaveral by radio jamming. When Bond arrives in Jamaica, he is immediately accosted by a man claiming to be a chauffeur sent to collect him, but who is really an enemy agent sent to kill him.
Dr. No (film) | Plot
In "Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe" (Win Scott Eckert, ed., MonkeyBrain Books, 2005), Win Scott Eckert contributes "Who's Going to Take Over the World When I'm Gone?" wherein he posits that No's mother was an agent of Fu Manchu named Madame de Medici, who was in turn the daughter of Fu Xi, from Sax Rohmer's novel "The Golden Scorpion". Likewise in "", No is stated as being a distant relative of Fu Manchu. Later in the book, it is revealed that Bond's mission to stop Dr. No was a fraud, an alibi for Bond to kill a British leader for the Americans — "There was No Doctor." In the alternate history novel "Dracula Cha Cha Cha", Dr.
Julius No | Non-official "James Bond" media
Following the release of "Dr. No", the quote "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase that entered the lexicon of Western popular culture: writers Cork and Scivally said of the introduction in "Dr. No" that the "signature introduction would become the most famous and loved film line ever". In 2001 it was voted as the "best-loved one-liner in cinema" by British cinema goers. In 2005, it was honoured as the 22nd greatest quotation in cinema history by the American Film Institute as part of their 100 Years Series.
Dr. No (film) | The introduction of James Bond
The films were written by Michel Audiard, a crime novelist. In 1960 Hunebelle teamed up with Jean Marais to make several successful swashbucklers. Following the highly successful French release of "Dr No" in 1963, Marais thought of adapting Jean Bruce's spy hero OSS 117 in a series of films starring himself; however, Hunebelle selected the American actor Kerwin Mathews. At the same time as his OSS 117 films, Hunebelle and Marais made a trilogy of Fantômas films.
André Hunebelle | Filmmaker
the way he lights his cigarette before giving her the satisfaction of an answer. 'Bond, James Bond'." Once Connery says his line, Monty Norman's Bond theme plays "and creates an indelible link between music and character." In the short scene introducing Bond, there are portrayed "qualities of strength, action, reaction, violence – and this elegant, slightly brutal gambler with the quizzical sneer we see before us who answers a woman when he's good and ready." Raymond Benson, author of the continuation Bond novels, has stated that as the music fades up on the scene, "we have ourselves a piece of classic cinema".
Dr. No (film) | The introduction of James Bond
Upon release, "Dr. No" received a mixed critical reception. "Time" called Bond a "blithering bounder" and "a great big hairy marshmallow" who "almost always manages to seem slightly silly". Stanley Kauffmann in "The New Republic" said that he felt the film "never decides whether it is suspense or suspense-spoof." He also did not like Connery, or the Fleming novels. The Vatican condemned "Dr. No" describing it as "a dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex", whilst the Kremlin said that Bond was the personification of capitalist evil – both controversies helped increase public awareness of the film and greater cinema attendance.
Dr. No (film) | Critical response
Jack Lord was the first Felix Leiter, appointed into the role for the first Bond film, "Dr. No". Eon Productions started filming the series out of the order written by Fleming (Fleming had started with "Casino Royale", with "Dr. No" being the sixth novel). Leiter was not present in the Fleming novel, but the writers added the character to the film. Bond scholars Smith and Lavington consider Leiter to offer negligible help to Bond, largely because there is no role for him in the novel, a point with which continuation Bond author Raymond Benson agrees, noting that he is "extraneous to the dramatic action".
Felix Leiter | Jack Lord: 1962
However Leonard Mosely in "The Daily Express" said that ""Dr No" is fun all the way, and even the sex is harmless", whilst Penelope Gilliatt in "The Observer" said it was "full of submerged self-parody". "The Guardian"s critic called "Dr. No" "crisp and well-tailored" and "a neat and gripping thriller." In the years that followed its release, it became more popular. Writing in 1986, Danny Peary described "Dr. No" as a "cleverly conceived adaption of Ian Fleming's enjoyable spy thriller ... Picture has sex, violence, wit, terrific action sequences, and colorful atmosphere ... Connery, Andress, and Wiseman all give memorable performances.
Dr. No (film) | Critical response
"Dr. No" – and the "Bond" films in general – also inspired television output, with the NBC series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", which was described as the "first network television imitation" of Bond. The style of the Bond films, largely derived from production designer Ken Adam, is one of the hallmarks of the Bond film series, and the effect of his work on Dr. No's lair can be seen in another film he worked on, "Dr. Strangelove". As the first film in the series, a number of the elements of "Dr. No" were contributors to subsequent films, including Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme" and Maurice Binder's gun barrel sequence, variants of which all appeared in subsequent films.
Dr. No (film) | Legacy
In his novelization of the movie, screenwriter Christopher Wood describes Drax as red-haired and with a face scarred and botched by poor plastic surgery (from a time "before he could afford the best in the world"), much as originally envisioned by Fleming. Although Drax's nationality is not specified, Bond idly wonders to himself which side he fought on during World War II.
Hugo Drax | Novelization
The story was written after the film version of "Dr. No" was released in 1962, and Bond's personality was somewhat skewed towards the screen persona rather than simply to Fleming himself; Sean Connery's filmic depiction of Bond affected the book version, with "You Only Live Twice" giving Bond a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories, although Fleming himself was part Scottish. Correspondence dating back to 1960 shows that Fleming contacted a Scottish nobleman to help develop Bond's family history, in particular seeking a Scottish "Bond" family line. Fleming's first trip to Japan was as part of the "Thrilling Cities" trip undertaken for "The Sunday Times" in 1959, although his visit only lasted for three days.
You Only Live Twice (novel) | Background
As soon as late 1961, United Artists started a marketing campaign to make James Bond a well-known name in North America. Newspapers received a box set of Bond's books, as well as a booklet detailing the Bond character and a picture of Ursula Andress. Eon and United Artists made licensing deals revolving around the character's tastes, having merchandising tie-ins with drink, tobacco, men's clothing and car companies. The campaign also focused on Ian Fleming's name due to the minor success of the books. After "Dr. No" had a successful run in Europe, Sean Connery and Terence Young did a cross-country tour of the US in March 1963, which featured screening previews for the film and press conferences.
Dr. No (film) | Promotion
Monty Norman was invited to write the soundtrack because Broccoli liked his work on the 1961 theatre production "Belle", a musical about murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen. Norman was busy with musicals, and only agreed to do the music for "Dr. No" after Saltzman allowed him to travel along with the crew to Jamaica. The most famous composition in the soundtrack is the "James Bond Theme", which is heard in the gun barrel sequence and in a calypso medley over the title credits, and was written by Norman based on a previous composition of his. John Barry, who would later go on to compose the music for eleven Bond films, arranged the Bond theme but was uncredited—except for the credit of his orchestra playing the final piece.
Dr. No (film) | Soundtrack
Dr. No is a brilliant scientist with an implied Napoleon complex, and an example of the mad scientist trope. He is a self-described "unwanted child of a German missionary and a Chinese girl of a good family". He later "became treasurer of the most powerful criminal society in China"; in this case, the Tongs. He then "escaped to America with $10,000,000" of Tong gold bullion. He specialized in radiation, which cost him both of his hands; they were replaced with crude bionic metal ones. No's hands have great strength (he can crush a metal figurine with them) but are lacking in manual dexterity which leads to his demise.
Julius No | Film biography
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was written in Jamaica at Fleming's Goldeneye estate in January and February 1962, whilst the first Bond film, "Dr. No", was being filmed nearby. The first draft of the novel was 196 pages long and called "The Belles of Hell". Fleming later changed the title after being told of a nineteenth-century sailing novel called "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", seen by Fleming's friend Nicholas Henderson in Portobello Road Market. As with all his Bond books, Fleming used events or names from his life in his writing. In the 1930s, Fleming often visited Kitzbühel in Austria to ski; he once deliberately set off down a slope that had been closed because of the danger of an avalanche.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) | Background
"Dr. No" is set in London, Jamaica and Crab Key, a fictional island off Jamaica. Filming began on location in Jamaica on 16 January 1962. The primary scenes there were the exterior shots of Crab Key and Kingston, where an uncredited Syd Cain acted as art director and also designed the Dragon Tank. Shooting took place a few yards from Fleming's Goldeneye estate, and the author regularly visited the filming with friends. Location filming was largely in Oracabessa, with additional scenes on the Palisadoes strip and Port Royal in St Andrew. On 21 February, production left Jamaica with footage still unfilmed due to a change of weather.
Dr. No (film) | Filming
No" to Guy Green, Guy Hamilton, Val Guest and Ken Hughes to direct, but all of them turned it down. They finally signed Terence Young who had a long background with Broccoli's Warwick Films as the director. Broccoli and Saltzman felt that Young would be able to make a real impression of James Bond and transfer the essence of the character from book to film. Young imposed many stylistic choices for the character which continued throughout the film series. Young also decided to inject much humour, as he considered that "a lot of things in this film, the sex, and violence, and so on if played straight, a) would be objectionable, and b) we're never gonna go past the censors; but the moment you take the mickey out, put the tongue out in the cheek, it seems to disarm."
Dr. No (film) | Production
The novel ends when Bond collapses to the floor; Fleming had intended to end the series at that point with Bond's death. In the next novel, "Dr. No", M reveals that Bond survived as a result of Mathis' timely intervention. He mentions that Klebb is dead, without providing any details.
Rosa Klebb | Novel biography
While the film received a mixed critical reaction upon release, it has gained a reputation over time as one of the series' best instalments. "Dr. No" also launched a genre of "secret agent" films that flourished in the 1960s. The film also spawned a comic book adaptation and soundtrack album as part of its promotion and marketing.
Dr. No (film) | Introduction
The Room With No Doors is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Seventh Doctor and Chris. A missing scene, "Room With No Doors - Cutaway" appears in the charity anthology "Shelf Life". The novel features a Victorian time traveller, Penelope Gate. Later books in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, such as "Unnatural History" (which Orman co-wrote) and "The Gallifrey Chronicles", imply that she is the Doctor's human mother, whose existence is implied in the 1996 telemovie.
The Room with No Doors | Introduction
Todd was the first choice of author Ian Fleming to play James Bond in "Dr. No", but a scheduling conflict gave the role to Sean Connery. In the 1960s, Todd unsuccessfully attempted to produce a film of Ian Fleming's "The Diamond Smugglers" and a television series based on true accounts of the Queen's Messengers. He was also announced for a proposed film about William Shakespeare. In his book "British Film Character Actors" (1982), Terence Pettigrew described Todd as "an actor who made the most of what he had, which could be summed up as an inability to sit still while there was a horse to leap astride, a swollen river to swim or a tree to vanish into."
Richard Todd | Unmade projects
Ian Fleming (1908–1964) was a British author, creator of James Bond. Ian Fleming may also refer to:
Ian Fleming (disambiguation) | Introduction
On August 14, 2016, Refn announced via his Twitter page that his next project would be titled "The Avenging Silence", calling it "Ian Fleming + William Burroughs + NWR = The Avenging Silence" and posted images for Fleming's novel, "Dr. No" and for Burroughs's novel "The Soft Machine". Variety reported that producer Lene Borglum described the purported plot as following: "[A] former European spy [accepts] a mission from a Japanese businessman to take down the head of a Yakuza boss in Japan".
Nicolas Winding Refn | Future projects
The new edition would also include discussions of the Kingsley Amis and John Gardner continuation novels, and the film series, which had been touched on only incidentally in the 1964 edition. In 1980, he wrote “Apropos Double O Seven” a preface to Double O Seven: James Bond Under the Microscope, but the revised, updated, and re-titled book went unpublished until 2007, when Ronald Payne, his literary executor, published it online; it includes a collection of Snelling–Payne correspondence. In the preface and the writer–executor correspondence, Snelling stresses his preference for the literary 007, because he felt the film series’ interpretation, especially Roger Moore’s entries, abandoned the "adult" secret agent character Ian Fleming created; ultimately, O.
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report | Revised edition
Benson sees no racial discrimination in the relationship between the two men and acknowledges that Bond feels genuine remorse and sadness at Quarrel's death.
Dr. No (novel) | Themes
In 1964 during his annual winter stay at Goldeneye in Jamaica, James Bond and his wife visited Fleming unexpectedly. Also in his novel "Dr. No" Fleming referenced Bond's work by basing a large ornithological sanctuary on Dr. No's island in the Bahamas. In 1964, Fleming gave Bond a first edition copy of "You Only Live Twice" signed, "To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity". In December 2008 the book was put up for auction, eventually fetching $84,000 (£56,000). James Bond's wife told Fleming that her husband saw the use of his name for the character as a good joke, to which Fleming replied "I can only offer your James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming...Perhaps one day he will discover some particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion." In the 2002 Bond film "Die Another Day", the fictional Bond, played by Pierce Brosnan, can be seen examining "Birds of the West Indies" in an early scene that takes place in Havana, Cuba.
James Bond (ornithologist) | Fictional namesake
Joan Margaret Fleming (27 March 1908 – 15 November 1980) was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. Her novel "The Deeds of Dr Deadcert" was made into the film "Rx Murder" (1958), and she won the Gold Dagger award twice, for "When I Grow Rich" (1962) and "Young Man I Think You're Dying" (1970).
Joan Fleming | Introduction
No Future is an original novel written by Paul Cornell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Cornell, appeared in "Doctor Who Magazine" #209. This novel is the conclusion to the "Alternate Universe cycle". The title is a reference to the Sex Pistols song "God Save The Queen". The book is noteworthy for being the first Doctor Who product to suggest that the character played by Peter Butterworth in The Time Meddler is not The Master. This was part of a policy taken by Virgin Books to differentiate the New Adventures line from the television series.
No Future (novel) | Introduction
Since its initial publication the book has been issued in numerous hardback and paperback editions, translated into several languages and has never been out of print.
Dr. No (novel) | Publication history
He offered to introduce the two men, and arranged a meeting for the next morning. Saltzman and Broccoli formed a partnership in 1962 to create the holding company Danjaq, LLC and the production company Eon Productions, and almost immediately began recruiting personnel such as production designer Ken Adam, and teaming writers including Richard Maibaum and Mankowitz. With the rights to "Casino Royale" having gone to an early television adaptation, the team began considering the best novel to adapt for introducing the character. After meeting with United Artists and having received a million dollars in financing, the filmmakers chose "Dr. No".
Harry Saltzman | James Bond
Zero Minus Ten, published in 1997, is the first novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond following John Gardner's departure in 1996. Published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in America by Putnam, the book is set in Hong Kong, China, Jamaica, England, and some parts of Western Australia. Benson's working title for the novel was "No Tears for Hong Kong"; this was eventually used as the title for the last chapter in the novel.
Zero Minus Ten | Introduction
Fleming was aware of this tension between the two countries, but did not focus on it strongly. Kingsley Amis, in his exploration of Bond in "The James Bond Dossier", pointed out that "Leiter, such a nonentity as a piece of characterization ... he, the American, takes orders from Bond, the Britisher, and that Bond is constantly doing better than he". For three of the novels, "Goldfinger", "Live and Let Die" and "Dr. No", it is Bond the British agent who has to sort out what turns out to be an American problem, and Black points out that although it is American assets that are under threat in "Dr.
Ian Fleming | Anglo-American relations
Dr. No is the original soundtrack for the first "James Bond" film of the same name.
Dr. No (soundtrack) | Introduction
Bond and Rider are captured by No's men after Quarrel is burned to death by the doctor's "dragon"—a flamethrowing, armoured swamp buggy designed to keep away trespassers. Bond and Rider are taken to a luxurious facility carved into the mountain. No tells Bond that he is working with the Russians and has built an elaborate underground facility from which he can sabotage US test missiles launched from Cape Canaveral. He had previously been a member of a Chinese tong, but after he stole a large amount of money from their treasury, he was captured by the organisation. The tong's leaders had No's hands cut off as a warning to others, and then shot him.
Dr. No (novel) | Plot
The license for this reverted to the BBC before the film neared production. The book "The Nth Doctor" by Jean-Marc Lofficier (Virgin Publishing, 1997) includes synopses of several proposed film story treatments, including those by Byrne.
Doctor Who spin-offs | Cinema
The spoonbills are protected by the American National Audubon Society, two of whose representatives died when their plane crashed on No's airstrip. On his arrival in Jamaica, Bond soon realises that he is being watched. His hotel room is searched, a basket of poisoned fruit is delivered to the room—supposedly a gift from the colonial governor—and a deadly centipede is placed in his bed while he is sleeping. With the help of an old friend, Quarrel, Bond surreptitiously visits Crab Key to establish whether there is a connection between No and the disappearance of the MI6 personnel. Bond and Quarrel meet Honeychile Rider, who is there to collect valuable shells.
Dr. No (novel) | Plot
After being led to some private quarters set up for them, the pair are rendered unconscious with drugged coffee.
Dr. No (film) | Plot
Working at Goldeneye between January and March 1960, Fleming wrote the novel "Thunderball", based on the screenplay written by himself, Whittingham and McClory. In March 1961 McClory read an advance copy, and he and Whittingham immediately petitioned the High Court in London for an injunction to stop publication. After two court actions, the second in November 1961, Fleming offered McClory a deal, settling out of court. McClory gained the literary and film rights for the screenplay, while Fleming was given the rights to the novel, provided it was acknowledged as "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the Author".
Ian Fleming | 1960s
The theme was arranged by John Barry, who was uncredited for the arrangement but credited for his performance.
Production of the James Bond films | "Dr. No" (1962)
Lee was chosen because of being a "prototypical father figure", and Maxwell after Fleming thought she was the perfect fit for his description of the character. Maxwell was initially offered a choice between the roles of Moneypenny or Sylvia Trench and opted for Moneypenny as she thought the Trench role, which included appearing in immodest dress, was too sexual. Eunice Gayson was cast as Sylvia Trench and it was planned that she would be a recurring girlfriend for Bond throughout six films, although she appeared only in "Dr. No" and "From Russia with Love". She had been given the part by director Terence Young, who had worked with her in "Zarak" and invited Gayson saying "You always bring me luck in my films", although she was also cast due to her voluptuous figure.
Dr. No (film) | Secondary cast