JAMES BOND | Dr. No (1962) | FILM REACTION
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You'll find that one of the hallmarks of the Bond films is that they take place in multiple countries. He'll maybe start off in London and then be off to one or more far-off locations.
Also as an interesting side note for you. Jon Pertwee worked with Ian Fleming (Author of the Bond novels) in military intelligence in WWII. (He also served on a ship with Patrick Troughton for a while, as well! - All of these stories are told In Pertwee's great autobiographical show "An Evening with Jon Pertwee." Available on audio and well worth tracking down.)
You mentioned Mission Impossible. The original Mission Impossible TV series is classic 1960's television and is something I think you'd really enjoy. It's much more of an ensemble piece than the films are. Give it a watch sometime!
You've got to watch the next 2 Bond films with Sean Connery: From Russia with Love and Goldfinger! By the time you get to Goldfinger you will be obsessed with Sean Connery! Please don't miss that film! It will blow your mind!
And, after that, THUNDERBALL (which some consider a step back with dull sections) and the more lively YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. By that time, you might as well press on for DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, and you're on your way. George Lazenby's HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE is pretty outstanding but I came believe every Bond-Actor's First Film is outstanding.
Marie-Clare, you will find that Bond was a globetrotter in all of his movies.
So if you want a more UK based spy thriller, I highly recommend The Ipcress File, starring Michael Caine.
Love Bond. Will definitely follow your reactions
Yes, carry on please. I loved this reaction
Great reaction! It's a delight to see somebody getting into Bond for the first time. I hope we get to see you continue your journey as you work through the good and the not-so-good of Bond, the classic moments and those that haven't aged so well. Hang in there for the London scenes.... all the movies have a glimpse of London, and it's only another 22 to movies to Skyfall that has plenty of London scenes.
Welcome! I am so happy to see film fans start at the beginning of the series. This answers so many questions and, more importantly, sets the foundation for so many future references. Hopefully, you'll have the chance to watch the first CASINO ROYALE (1967) with David Niven, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, etc. Eventually, film students realize this film is stocked with those classic actors and several more: Deborah Kerr, William Holden, George Raft, John Huston, Charles Boyer). It's such a fun film.
By the way, the height of men's hip fashion was The Nehru Jacket, which wasn't uncommon in London with it's Hindu population. But worn by Westerners? Ewww-!! But when the Beatles showed up in them, well - they were not the first Westerners, but they were so incredibly popular that soon, everyone "just had to have them" to be considered hip, cool, etc. in London's Swingin' Sixties.
London scenes are actually pretty rare in James Bond, mostly because they're kind of like a glossy magazine advertising holiday destinations, motorcars, watches, men's fashion and Ladies. London is a bit too ordinary for Bond. However - the same people made The Ipcress File, which was a much more down-to-earth spy movie starring Michael Caine. The Ipcress File has lots and lots of 1960s London scenes...
Indeed. Only in Skyfall and Spectre do we get to see action in London
After all the bond films that have been made, Sean Connery is still the best bond.
One difference that I notice is that every man, in his inner heart, wants to think of himself as being Sean Connery, at least in potential, while no one seems to want to be Daniel Craig.
It's interesting you've moved onto the Bond films . Dr No is one of my favourites, maybe because it was simple to watch. Enjoy!
You are the ideal reactor to appreciate this film (especially) and the other early Connery ones - a lot of people find them too 'British Sixties filmmaking style' in pacing, but you've already shown you've got an appreciation for other works from that era. Have you considered looking into "The Saint"?
Bond films from the 60s and 70s will always remind me of Christmas Day as a kid. Watching the Bond film on ITV with the family.
Looking forward to seeing you watch all the bonds, especially as you go from From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and then progressing forwards
To answer some of your questions.
MI6 deals with external matters so not many London/UK scenes. These will change with Brosnan and Craig. (MI5 deals with internal UK matters.)
Dr No was expensive. Money was recouped by hiring relatively unknowns. Cubby Broccoli wife arranged lunch. This was cheaper but also added the family dimension that's still there today.
Bond IS a womaniser. But he treats Honey with respect until the last scene. Note how he doesn't try to seduce her when they're both only in towelling robes.
The books are of their time. The 1960s films are recognisable to their book versions, but updated. They are Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. All the other films/ books are unrecognisable to each other. But be prepared for 1960s attitudes to women and minorities.
Excellent! I'm glad you're watching them all 🙂🙂🙂
I am a big james bond fan.watched all these movies countless times,decided to read the novels ,totally different but still great.hope you enjoy
LOL. Marie cringing at the 8.50 mark. This is the lady that loved "Planet of the Spiders.
yeah, it was a true Reaction, and I liked it.
So thrilled that you're watching the older Bond movies. And yes, Sean Connery was an absurdly beautiful man.
The sets were the work of Ken Adam who was an absolute pioneer in movie design. It's worth watching the movies for his work alone. The Bond movies are escapism pure and simple. If you loved Jon Pertwee in Dr Who, you'll love Bond.
Marie-Clare, funny you should mention The Prisoner, as Patrick McGoohan was considered for the role of James Bond. :)
He turned it down because there were to many love scenes
Ian Fleming was living in Jamaica when he wrote the Bond books.
Bond Trivia For Marie-Clare: The beautiful Swiss actress Ursula Andress, who plays Honey Ryder in Dr. No, had her dialogue dubbed by German actress Nikki van der Zyl.
Really glad to see you tackling the Bond films, and this was a great first reaction. Dr No is an excellent introduction to the franchise, a gritty, stripped down film with no fancy gadgets or overelaborate action sequences, which successfully conveys Bond’s toughness and ruthlessness, as well as his aptitude for spycraft. The film establishes a lot of the Bond iconography and soundscape, including the famous gun barrel opening titles and theme music, the Walther PPK, the sinister but impeccably polite foreign villain hiding out in some fantastic lair, and the fabulously beautiful girls. I think it is fair to call Honey the first of the main Bond girls, and she makes an unforgettable entrance, but strictly speaking Sylvia Trench counts as the first Bond girl of any kind because she is the first we meet.
Jamaica was used for location filming, though interiors were shot back in England at Pinewood Studios; as others have noted, the Bond films were essentially intended to be glamorous travelogues, escapism for a population that in those days didn’t travel abroad much, so you won’t be seeing too much of 60s London. Sean Connery, who was in his early 30s at the time, was not the first choice to play Bond - others, including Cary Grant and a certain Roger Moore, were considered ahead of him - but he came to embody the role and many today would still regard him as the best. As for the books, I would definitely recommend reading them once you have seen the films, though a lot of them don’t have much in common with the films, which increasingly went their own way. Dr No does actually adhere quite closely to the book (which was the sixth one Ian Fleming wrote), though one difference is that in the book Honey emerges from the sea wearing nothing on her top half at all…
Yes, it's part of the books - in the books, he's practically a misogynistic sadistic functional alcoholic - and while the films were (initially) made in the sixties, the character is right out of the 1940's - when the author - Ian Fleming - worked in Naval Intelligence during WW2. Bond somewhat mirrors Flemmings attitudes - which are exactly those you might expect from a weakthy upper-class while British officer brought up during the colonial period. Doesn't mean the films aren't great though.
Book Bond can also be a lot more vulnerable than film Bond, however.
I'm please to see you reacting to James Bond. It gives me a reason to keep watching...
yeah, liked your Reactions. hope you get to see another 'spy thriller' "Spy Game" with Brad Pitt and Robert Redford! it is a love story and I cry every time I see it.
Bond is an agent of MI6 (or at least a fictional version of that department) who's brief is to tackle problems abroad so Bond rarely works in the UK, though he is based and briefed there. He does a bit if investigating in the UK occasionally but mostly he's outside the country.
I was surprised to be reminded in this one that they explicitly say he's in 'MI7' (which didn't exist in that form at the time, but is probably meant to be a stand-in for MI6). Considering that over 10 years after this was made, Harold Wilson was still officially practically denying the Secret Service existed at all.
Welcome to Bond. James Bond.
Sean Connery was 31 at the time of filming, the Bond films were very much on high on budget.
It's debatable who the first Bond girl actually is if you want to go by the recurring or the main but if you want to go by the main Bond girl then yes Honey Ryder as played by the beautiful Ursula Andress is considered the first despite Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson) being the first girl to be seen with Bond, Honey walking out of the ocean with her white bikini and knife is one the most famous iconic scenes of the Bond films.
Sean Connery is considered the definitive iconic James Bond just like Tom Baker is considered the definitive iconic Dr. Who.
Ian Fleming the author of the Bond books originally wanted David Niven for the role of James Bond who wasn't impressed with Sean Connery's casting at the time but when he saw the film he became very impressed and excepted Connery.
I hope you enjoy the Bond films going forward your in for a fun ride.
If you want to see lots of amazing footage of vintage London, check out the 6-part Thames TV series “The Tyrant King” from 1968. Stars Murray Melvin from Torchwood as the baddie.
Oh Marie Clare, a fellow Brit and only just properly beginning your Bond journey 😋 I hope you enjoy, and you have a new subscriber to watch, love. You mentioned seeing some of the Daniel Craig films, i know this is an unpopular opinion, but i'm not a fan. For me personally the best Bond films were from Goldfinger to Die Another Day, but obviously you soon get to decide for yourself on that. Just enjoy!😀
I would have love to have been born in the year of 1962 or even born earlier than 1962.
Glad you enjoyed it, Marie-Clare.
Things you wanted to know. London (or England) doesn’t figure a lot in the pre Brosnan/Craig Bond films. Some have a bit more location work than others, but the majority are set in M’s office solely for M to give Bond his mission. Yes, they did actually film in Jamaica. Ian Fleming had a bungalow there, called Goldeneye, where he wrote every Bond book every year between 1952 - 1964 (before his death!)
When Dr. No was released, it had only been 17 years since the Second World War had ended, and people around the world (but especially in the UK), were ready to see foreign locales that they couldn’t ever dream (or afford) to visit at that time, so the travel aspect in the Bond films gave audiences a flavour of what life could be like abroad. The budget for the film, in 1962 was $1M (equivalent to about $10.3M today), which wasn’t a lot for a film company like United Artists (who were funding the film), but it was a slight risk on their part that they might not see any profit from that expenditure.
Fleming wasn’t initially happy with the choice of Connery as Bond (he favoured someone more debonair like David Niven), but upon seeing the finished film, and the next one in the series, From Russia with Love, he came around to the idea that Connery was the right actor after all. So sad Fleming didn’t get to see the finished 3rd Bond film, Goldfinger, released in September 1964, having succumbed to a fatal heart attack, one month before on August 12th.
Dr. No was the 6th Bond novel, published in 1958, but wasn’t the original 1st choice to be the 1st James Bond film. That was meant to be the 9th novel, Thunderball, published in 1961, but that story got tied up in a court battle as to who truly owned the rights to the screenplay, so Dr. No was chosen instead.
Interesting that you like the music. You’re probably referring to the Jamaican Calypso music, as the original score by Monty Norman is not a fan favourite. Norman did give us The James Bond Theme, which was reworked by John Barry into a powerhouse guitar and horns piece that truly captured the essence of who James Bond was, and how dangerous his missions could be. John Barry would score the next film, From Russia with Love, and a further 10 more Bond films over the next 24 years and he is regarded as the best ever Bond composer.
Dr. No doesn’t, as the 1st film, completely nail down the ‘Bond formula’ (which would add to the series as a whole and which would allow the series to go on as a worldwide cinematic phenomenon), but there are elements in it that would carry on into the 2nd film and beyond: Bond bedding three, sometimes four girls in each film, the globetrotting, the gadgets, the touches of sadism, the humour (most of which was missing from the books), the wonderful main Bond girls, dripping with beauty and sexuality, the Bond villains with their bonkers plots of controlling or destroying the world (or for their own personal gain), and not forgetting the amazing set designs, courtesy in the 1960’s and 1970’s by production designer Ken Adam. All of these elements were usually wrapped up in wonderful witty and suspenseful screenplays, many of which were written by the American screenwriter, Richard Mailabum, who wrote (or co-wrote) 13 Bond screenplays (starting with Dr. No.)
In fact, the success of the early Bond films were down to a core number of people behind the camera. Dr. No’s Director, Terence Young (who acted like Bond off set and gave pointers to Connery in how to be suave and sophisticated), John Barry and Richard Maibaum (both of whom I’ve already mentioned) and last, but not least, the film editor Peter Hunt, who’s fast cut editing (especially in the fight and action scenes) was new and original in 1962, and helped make British made films like the Bond series more palatable to American and other foreign audiences who had been used to long, master shots of scenes in films that held on for too long and slowed the pace of the film down enormously. All of these people, and their talents would only get better as the Bond series progressed and much of the action, humour and foreign locale adventure that is common place now with series like the Mission Impossible films, owe their debt and thanks to the 1st film that started it all: Dr. No.
Great reaction
Loving that you're starting Bond...but where's Space: 1999? Did you forget to post it again? I'm going into withdrawal here...
I envy you Marie-Clare discovering these wonderful films for the first time. Enjoy the ride! I think the Connery films are the best. Roger Moore played the role a little too lightly for my tastes, although his films were hugely popular. The books are okay, a little dull in places because of Fleming's liking of detail for even the most mundane of things.
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It’s a bit like Doctor Who as I understand it the 007 designation and agent name James Bond is passed on to other agents once that agent leaves. Different faces, same name, kind of like who (although who IS the same person). Claim to fame I’ve met at least two Bond girls, maybe a third.
SPECTRE = Special Executive for Crime, Teacakes, Revenge and Extortion.
(I'm not sure about the "Teacakes" bit)
London, unfortunately, is not heavily featured in Bond films. He tends to get sent to exotic locations on missions. The womanising is part of his male power-fantasy character, blokes want to be him, women want, well, anyway...
The films got progressively bigger budgets after the success of Doctor No. If you liked this outing, you ain't seen nothing yet!
The books are generally not as OTT as the films and they are a little dated, in terms of cultural attitudes, which is not to say that they aren't good reads, but you might find yourself wincing occasionally...
If you want a different, and more down to earth, take on 1960's spying, try 'The Ipcress File' and 'Funeral in Berlin' starring Michael Caine. He is practically the anti-Bond..
Remember when Tom Baker hid underwater using a straw to breathe in The Deadly Assassin. Wonder whether it was copied from this film?
There's a spoiler for the book of Dr No in Cthulhu1970's comment.
Please react to the next one “from Russia with love”
If you want a more London or ground based realistic story then "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People" are for you. The TV series that is, not the film. The first story has 7 episodes, the 2nd has 6. They are not action based: it's all intrigue and character. Given how much you miss out, they would also suit your format. As a bonus, the main actor is one of the Star Wars actors, but I'm not saying who. The film of Tinker Tailor cut a lot of the story and merged characters but is still fairly good considering the limitations. However the TV series ( circa 1980 ) were among the best the BBC ever did
Agree on those. I like both the "Tuxedo & Martini" and "Stale Beer and Cigarettes" schools of British spy fiction, Bond being the former and Smiley being the latter.
In the book, Bond dispatches Dr No by dropping about 20 tons of bird crap on him. :D
I think we're going to see Sixties London - great.
Oh, dear. Cut to Jamaica...
There’s an awful lot of revoicing in these early Bond films. That’s not how Ursula Andress sounds in interviews. In fact, Monica van der Zyl is voicing almost all the female characters. Keep an eye (or an ear) out for this in the next half-dozen or so movies.
Unfortunately the sexism was quite typical in media of this era, especially with a protag like James Bond. Even quite forward looking shows and films sometimes fell short of the mark when it came to the treatment of women on screen.
The books haven't stood the test of time well and seriously suffer from the attitudes prevailing at the time (racism, homophobia, etc) in places. They're interesting (and often differ greatly from the later films which often only used the titles and had a totally new plot), but you do have to go in with your eyes open when going through them (although the recent re-releases do seem to have been bowdlerised to ease the sensibilities of the Snowflakes).
Love your reactions but I do feel your movie reactions are too short as most movie reactions are usually about 30-40 on CZcams.
15 -20 minutes is fine for doctor who but not for movies.
Where is Sarah Jane gone mc