Dr. No [1962]

[©DURANMANIA Board Team]

Date of Release
World Premiere 5th October 1962 at the London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus, London.

the story

Bond's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where mysterious energy waves are interfering with U.S. missile launches. As he unravels the astonishing truth, 007 must fight deadly assassins, sexy femmes fatales and even a poisonous tarantula. With the help of crack CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jack Lord) and the beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), he searches for the headquarters of Dr. No, a fanatical scientist who is implementing an evil plan of world domination. Only James Bond, with his combination of wit, charm and skill, can confront the madman and save the human race from a horrible fate.

Bond’s Women
Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress)
Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson)

Bond’s Enemies
Doctor No (Joseph Wiseman)
Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson)
Miss Taro (Zena Marshall)
The ‘Three Blind Mice’<br>
Bond’s Allies
Felix Leiter (Jack Lord)
Quarrel (John Kitzmiller)
Pleydell-Smith (Louis Blaazer)
‘M’ (Bernard Lee)
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
Major Boothroyd [the armourer] (Peter Burton)

Bond's Car
Sunbeam Alpine

Bond’s Gadget
Geiger Counter

Main Title Music
‘The James Bond Theme’/’Three Blind Mice’ (vocal)

End Title Music
‘The James Bond Theme’<br>
Music Score
Monty Norman

Production Design
Ken Adam

Art Director
Syd Cain [Un-credited]

Main Titles Designer
Maurice Binder

Screenplay
Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood
& Berkley Mather

Editor
Peter Hunt

Director of Photography
Ted Moore

Director
Terence Young

Producers
*Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli
The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for the Western Hemisphere

Filming Locations
Pinewood Studios, England
Ocho Rios, Jamaica (Miss Taro's Home, Dunn's River Falls, The White River, Reynolds Bauxite Pier)
Trinidad

Budget
$950,000

Worldwide Box Office
$59.5 million

Worldwide Box Office Gross Income 2002 inflation-adjusted
$355 million

Review: The one that started it all. Most of the elements were introduced here: Felix Leiter, M, Moneypenny, and Bond's womanizing. The plot was simple and the movie was very low-key and down to earth; there were no Q gadgets to save the day, only Bond's cunning and intuition. This made it a more realistic film and more like Fleming's novels. Perhaps the best scene was when the tarantula was crawling up Bond's arm. Enhanced by John Barry's stunning score, you could actually see the fear on Bond's face as the spider got closer and closer to his neck. Another aspect of the film that was very well done was Bond's killing of Professor Dent. Even after Dent was obviously dead, Bond still shot another slug into his back which shows his cold-blooded side. This kind of display is lost in future movies as Bond became more of a people's secret agent. As for Connery, this was a very good start, even though he seemed a bit unsure of the character and its possibilities.






Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), James Bond (Sean Connery)


Doctor No (Joseph Wiseman)

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SLIM K