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1962
Directed by Terence Young
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood and Berkley Mather
Produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R Broccoli
Director of photography Ted Moore BSC
Editor Peter Hunt
Special effects Frank George
Main title designed by Maurice Binder. Animation by Trevor Bond
James Bond Sean Connery;
Honey Rider Ursula Andress; Dr No Joseph Wiseman; Felix
Leiter Jack Lord; M Bernard Lee; Professor Dent Anthony
Dawson; Miss Taro Zena Marshall; Quarrel John Kitzmuller; Sylvia
Trench Eunice Gayson; Miss Moneypenny Lois Maxwell; Major
Boothroyd Peter Burton; Sister Lily Yvonne Shima; Sister Rose
Michel Mok; Photographer Marguerite Lewars; Superintendent William
Foster-Davies; Mary Trueblood Dolores Keator; Jones Reginald
Cater; Plydell-Smith Louis Blaazer; General Potter Colonel
Burton.
I'm not going to re-hash the plot.
This is the first of the "official" Bond films and one of the best. Connery
plays it straight and the one-liners are kept to a very bare minimum. This is one to rent
if you need a gritty spy thriller. If you want a lighter Bond film, this isn't it.
Some trivia:
Bond meets long-time friend Felix
Leiter (played by Jack Lord, who went on to Hawaii Five-0).
Ursula Andress plays the first
Bond-girl.
The only EON produced Bond film
that doesn't open with the traditional "pre-credits sequence".
Early on in the script writing
process, the producers and writers were thinking about naming the villian's monkey Dr. No,
rather than the villain himself!
Bond creator Ian Fleming thought
Connery was totally wrong for the part of 007, but once he saw the actor in the role, made
the Bond of his novels Scottish rather than English, and gave Bond more of a sense of
humor!
Alternate pick for the role of Bond
for this picture was an actor who the producers thought was a "pretty-boy" and
rejected as they thought he wouldn't be good in the role. That actor was Roger Moore!
The end of Dr. No... but James Bond
will return in
From
Russia With Love
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