![]() Casino Royale is not a bad film, as some have said in other reviews, it is simply not a typical James Bond film. They are a statement of the times and the changing mores of the sixties, and I would suggest that they may have inspired Mel Brooks to make Blazing Saddles in 1974. This movie is, in my opinion, one of the best satires made in the 1960s, and belongs on the shelf with movies like Barbarella (1968). The 1967 release of Casino Royale is somewhat less than true to the novel. The rights eventually came to Columbia Pictures and it was decided that a satire would be the best way to produce a money maker. In 1955 Fleming sold the film rights for $6,000 to producers Michael Garrison and Gregory Ratoff, and they had a few failed attempts to sell the idea. The rights to the novel were bought by CBS for $1,000 and the "Climax!" offering was presented the next year starring Barry Nelson (1917 - 2007) as the very first James Bond. Ian Fleming wrote the novel in 1953, introducing James Bond to the world. (I still haven't, but I will get around to it!) I recently purchased it because the DVD also includes "Casino Royale" from the TV series "Climax!" and I have never seen that one. I don't think I have seen it in full since that time, when I was just 17 years old. ![]() ![]() I saw Casino Royale (1967) when it first came out, once again at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA.
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