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CASINO ROYALE
U.K., 1967
Directed by John Huston, Ken Hughes, Joseph McGrath, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge
Loosely based on Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel of the same name
Starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Woody Allen
Music by Burt Bacharach
Approx. 131 min. 35mm.
Six (count ‘em!) directors; seven 007s including David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, and the even-more-unlikely Woody Allen; and an all-star-cast-to-end-all-all-star casts, including Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, Jean-Paul Belmondo, William Holden, John Huston, and, as the biggest of all the Bond supervillains (literally), Orson Welles.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Premise that is cheerfully cheeky.”
– TIME Magazine
“Definitive example of what can happen when everybody working on a film goes simultaneously berserk.”
– Roger Ebert