Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (1953) Pt2

This is the first ever screen adaption of a Bond novel, made in 1953 for US TV. The hero is played by Barry Nelson (changed to Jimmy Bond of the CIA) and the villain is played by Peter Lorre (better known for the successful 'Mr Moto' movies). Because of this adaption, when Eon productions bought the rights to Fleming's Bond 007 in the 1960s, the couldn't get Casino Royale as part of the deal. This led to the 1967 spoof version being made, starring Peter Sellers and David Niven. Many years later, Kevin McClory had obtained the rights to Casino Royale for Sony Pictures, and intended to make his own version of it separate from Eon. However, after a large lawsuit, the rights finally went to Eon as part of an out of court settlement in 2000. Finally, Eon were able to give the novel the full movie treatment in their own version, starring Daniel Craig, a few years later.

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[Jur4ssicPark]

Le Chiffre is HIDEOUS!

[B4BoomersBlockBoy7]

Hey, This is the Very First James Bond some of you are bad mouthing. Barry played a good James Bond for that time period !

[TheMrleomartin]

@The007sanjeev you have to understand that this is a live TV broadcast so they couldn't do much action in he constraints of the camera, performance and set.

[The007sanjeev]

Old movies are full of conversations...new movies are of actions

[bobeagle007]

this Bond is a cunt..

[kevjev]

this really sucks. This guy is a TERRIBLE Bond

[TheMrBondJamesBond]

This is painfully quiet

[unclesporkums]

It's interesting, the line about Le Chiffre's razor blades was something Fleming introduced in the novel, yet never payed it off. It's interesting that this television adaptation's original ending has Le Chiffre actually attempt to use one of them.

[32newspaper]

Casino Royale, American version is really good.