![]() How modest of Welles to bypass his own emergence from the dizzying Viennese shadows in The Third Man, which is actually the best reveal. ** Omar Sharif’s rising from the desert in Laurence of Arabia was Welles’ other choice. Guy Hamilton told interviewer Adrian Turner that he’d had “a noisy war.” Young had been with the tank corps at Operation Market Garden photographer Ted Moore and production designer Ken Adam were in the RAF. *So many of the Bond series originators were vets. For the next six decades, the conception of Bond will oscillate between Young’s saturnine assassin and Guy Hamilton’s single-entendre quipping playboy. Bond is human, yet cold -note that Jane Fonda got an Oscar in Klute for repeating a bit about checking a wristwatch in the midst of sex, originated by Connery here. At this point in the series, the only gadgets are a reed cut into a snorkel, and a spit-pasted strand of hair as a burglar alarm. No is what Young does to form the character of Bond before he became a super-agent. No urges Bond to leave the cold war behind and join the team of tomorrow: “East, west, just points in a compass.” Refusing the generous offer, he is called out as “a stupid policeman whose luck has run out,” beaten up good, and left in a cell for further attention.Īfter this, one of the first cinematic escapes through a heating duct, and one of the last interesting ones. Over a headhunting dinner with candelabra and champagne, Dr. No is silky and tinged with disappointment. ![]() The solicitous doctor (NYC actor Joseph Wiseman) is in what might be called half-yellowface. And it explains why so many Disney-sotted kids graduated to 007. This phrase sums up the mask of Bond, and the atmosphere of these movies, where fine old hotels and railway dining cars meet death satellites and jet packs. Richard Schickel wrote in The Disney Version that Walt Disney himself was a sort of Nemo, “in love with vanished graces and futuristic technology”. No’s aquatic lair and the very good Disney/Robert Stevenson movie of 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), some critics tended to compare Dr. Ultimately, production designer Ken Adam made the Bond villain plausible through the expressionism of his sets it was a trick he’d repeat in six other Bond films.īecause of Dr. There had been a variety of thoughts on how to make the villain stand out these including casting Noel Coward and (in Wolf Mankowicz’s script draft) having him be a talking super-intelligent chimp. We don’t see his face until an hour and a half in the film he’s just elongated shadows slinking through a cell in the ‘mink lined prison’ where an unconscious Bond and Honey are kept. The hard part is her Rima the Shell Girl dialogue about how well she knows the natural world director Terence Young had a great faith in dubbing accent-heavy actors.ĭoctor Julius No is first introduced off screen, the voice coming through an intercom in a questioning room with a spiderweb lattice on its roof. ‘ Andress has a certain lithic glamor, like Half Dome at sunrise, this Aphrodite bringing her own sea shells. On the beach, he meets a partner in what Orson Welles claimed was one of the two best reveals he’d ever seen of a character in the movies.** Casino Royale had been printed almost a decade previously.Īfter he arrives in Kingston, Bond figures out that a forbidden island called Crab Key is where the culprit is lurking. 007 has been carrying a gun for the government for 10 years, or so M says. First, Bond, chafing under his grouchy superior, has elements of the then-popular Angry Young Man of the British theater.Īlso, we learn that this is not his first rodeo. Reporting in the wee hours to his boss’s office, he suffers the gibes of M (Bernard Lee):Īs the agent exchanges his Beretta for a Walther PPK, we get two bits of information. Connery, with a Cary Grant level tan, acts around a cigarette, displaying a blissful harmony between the gentleman and ruffian sides. Bond is introduced during a 2AM game of chemin-de-fer at a private London club. The call goes out to a British ministry of defense room where it looks as if the war never ended*. ![]() Within 2 minutes of this opening, the entire British secret service staff in Jamaica is shot to death by a trio of assassins. The music is ruthless, too, credited to Monty Norman but arranged by John Barry, working from the model of Henry Mancini’s theme for Peter Gunn. No, and the flat colors and abstract titles suggest the ruthlessness of the adventure to come. “This is an unnatural piece of work,” editor Peter Hunt said on the Criterion narration track for Dr. The shootist vanishes into what looks like an animated Lite Brite set, dots dancing around the film’s snub nosed title. Here is the introduction of the “gun barrel logo,” of the figure whirling, shooting, and being eclipsed a sheet of blood. Maurice Binder’s op art commences this, accompanied by spacey electronic tones wrought by an uncredited Daphne Oram.
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