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      • A lavish, garish and ultimately nightmarish snapshot of creative energies run amok, which Roger Ebert called “a definitive example of what can happen when everybody working on a film goes simultaneously berserk,” “Casino Royale” suggests what we might expect if a Bond villain were ever to get his way, ending with the detonation of an atomic device and most of the characters blown to high heaven.
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  2. When Charles Feldman bought the screen rights for "Casino Royale" from Ian Fleming back in 1953, nobody had heard of James Bond, or Sean Connery for that matter. But by the time Feldman got around to making the movie, Connery was firmly fixed in the public imagination as the redoubtable 007.

  3. Jun 15, 2012 · Even the worst Eon-backed Bond movie has the distinction of being better than Charles K. Feldman’s “Casino Royale,” the first of two unofficial 007 pics (the other being “Never Say Never ...

  4. Casino Royale is a 1967 spy parody film originally distributed by Columbia Pictures featuring an ensemble cast. It is loosely based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, the first novel to feature the character James Bond. The film stars David Niven as the "original" Bond, Sir James Bond 007.

  5. This wacky send-up of James Bond films stars David Niven as the iconic debonair spy, now retired and living a peaceful existence.

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    • Peter Sellers
    • Val Guest
    • Comedy
  6. Casino Royale: Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge. With Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles. In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

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    • Comedy
    • Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston
    • 1967-04-28
  7. Nov 4, 2015 · Sub-Cult. Does 1967's Casino Royale Deserve Cult Status? Sub-Cult is Nathan Rabin’s ongoing exploration of movies that have quietly attracted devoted followings and are on the verge of...

  8. Dec 11, 2018 · But the most way-out spy film of all was Casino Royale (1967), a bizarre concoction that has virtually nothing to do with the first (and arguably the best) of Ian Fleming‘s James Bond novels. Ranging from surreal black comedy to pure slapstick, the movie boasts remarkably little in the way of coherent plotting, a fault that was compensated ...

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