Dr. No (1962)

Directed by

Terence Young

Written by

Terence Young, Johanna Harwood, Wolf Mankowitz, Berkely Mather

Cast

Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, John Kitzmiller, Bernard Lee, Anthony Dawson, Eunice Gayson

Genre

action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 4,097 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British secret agent is sent to Jamaica to find out what happened to a missing colleague. His investigation leads him to a villain living in a hidden island base who plans to sabotage an American rocket launch.

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What happens

Dr. No is a 1962 spy film and the first film in the James Bond series, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Co-starring Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord, it was directed by Terence Young and adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather from the 1958 novel by Ian Fleming. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli of Eon Productions, a partnership that continued until 1975. In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American space launch from Cape Canaveral with a radio beam weapon. Although it was the first of the Bond books to be made into a film, Dr. No was the sixth of Fleming's series, beginning with Casino Royale. The film makes a few references to threads from earlier books, and later books in the series as well, such as the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which was not introduced until the 1961 novel Thunderball. Produced on a low budget, Dr. No was released by United Artists on 5 October 1962 and was a financial success. While the film received a mixed critical reaction upon release, it has gained a reputation over time as one of the series' best instalments. Dr. No also launched a genre of secret agent films that flourished in the 1960s. The film spawned a comic book adaptation and soundtrack album as part of its promotion and marketing. Many aspects of a typical James Bond film were established in Dr. No. The film begins with an introduction to the character through the view of a gun barrel and a highly stylised main title sequence, both of which were created by Maurice Binder. It also introduced the iconic theme music written by the film's score composer Monty Norman. Production designer Ken Adam established an elaborate visual style that is one of the hallmarks of the film series. Dr. No was followed by From Russia with Love in 1963. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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