Cinematography:
Jack HildyardComposer:
Burt BacharachCast:
Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, John Huston (more)VOD (3)
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Will the real James Bond please stand up? When secret agency chief "M" (John Huston) is killed, Sir James Bond (David Niven) is thrust out of spy retirement to help smash SMERSH, the band of hitmen who are likely responsible. And to protect his real identity, Bond’s name is given to numerous other agents, including Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers) and Bond’s neurotic nephew, Jimmy (Woody Allen). With five directors, a cast of Hollywood icons that also includes Ursula Andress, Charles Boyer, Peter O’Toole, Jacqueline Bisset and Orson Welles, a soundtrack by Burt Bacharach, and a frisky, farcical script, Casino Royale is Bond. Psychedelic Bond. (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
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Oh, my... I liked What's New, Pussycat? better, but it's hard to compare it to Casino Royale, because I have the strong impression that Casino Royale isn't really even a film. Well, certainly not one film. It's like five completely different films, which, by a supernatural coincidence, found themselves on the same screen one beautiful evening. Otherwise, I can't explain the existence of this more than two-hour-long romp full of ace actors, extremely beautiful women, humor of all kinds and basically anything you can think of (including Hitler). Woody Allen made me laugh the most (he definitely wrote his own scenes), and if anything bothered me, it was the lack of Monty Python.
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This is simply madness, which is indeed the first adaptation of "Casino Royale", but primarily it is a mess where everything possible managed to sneak in. What impresses the most is the presence of amazing actors, moreover in an incredibly large number. It is not even possible to say who excels here, even though Ursula Andres is certainly eye-catching, as well as Niven, Sellers or Allen, although in a different way. And of course, I must not forget Orson Welles, who should have been on a diet a little.
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