Casino Royale (1967)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope(70mm) 130m
Director: John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, Richard Talmadge
Cast: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress
Synopsis:
Bond comes out of retirement to save the day when SMERSH threatens the survival of the free world, his plan: to give every agent 007's name and number the better to confuse their enemy.
Review:
The archetypal 60s folly: six directors, 70mm, a huge cast, and a production that lasted so long just about everyone in Britain at the time could queue up for a part in it. There was not even a single script, but each director and cast members worked on their own segment, the result being a loosely assembled sequence of sketches on the idea of Bond. It's all crazily engaging and absurdly indulgent at the same time, the production design and Bacharach's music offering up their own sophisticated pleasures.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope(70mm) 130m
Director: John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, Richard Talmadge
Cast: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress
Synopsis:
Bond comes out of retirement to save the day when SMERSH threatens the survival of the free world, his plan: to give every agent 007's name and number the better to confuse their enemy.
Review:
The archetypal 60s folly: six directors, 70mm, a huge cast, and a production that lasted so long just about everyone in Britain at the time could queue up for a part in it. There was not even a single script, but each director and cast members worked on their own segment, the result being a loosely assembled sequence of sketches on the idea of Bond. It's all crazily engaging and absurdly indulgent at the same time, the production design and Bacharach's music offering up their own sophisticated pleasures.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope(70mm) 130m
Director: John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, Richard Talmadge
Cast: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress
Synopsis:
Bond comes out of retirement to save the day when SMERSH threatens the survival of the free world, his plan: to give every agent 007's name and number the better to confuse their enemy.
Review:
The archetypal 60s folly: six directors, 70mm, a huge cast, and a production that lasted so long just about everyone in Britain at the time could queue up for a part in it. There was not even a single script, but each director and cast members worked on their own segment, the result being a loosely assembled sequence of sketches on the idea of Bond. It's all crazily engaging and absurdly indulgent at the same time, the production design and Bacharach's music offering up their own sophisticated pleasures.