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Title: Casino Royale [1967] Format: DVD Condition: New Number Of Discs: 1 Release Date: 23/04/2001 Actors: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet Director: John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Ken Hughes, Richard Talmadge, Robert Parrish Audio Language: English, French Runtime: 2 hours and 6 minutes Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...) Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Certificate: BBFC PG Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Five directors and an all-star cast spoof the James Bond films in this comedy, very loosely based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel. Sir James Bond (David Niven) is about to retire, but is called into battle with the evil organisation S.M.E.R.S.H. after the assassination of 'M' (John Huston). Bond's bungling nephew Jimmy (Woody Allen) becomes involved, and chaos ensues when Bond calls in other 007s to assist (including Peter Sellers, Terence Cooper and Ursula Andress, who starred in the first genuine Bond outing, 'Dr No'). John Huston was only one of five directors on Casino Royale, the expensive, all-star 1967 spoof of Ian Fleming's 007 lore. David Niven is the aging Sir James Bond, called out of retirement to take on the organised threat of SMERSH and pass on the secret-agent mantle to his idiot son (Woody Allen). The amazing cast (Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Deborah Kerr and others) is wonderful to look at, but the film is not as funny as it should be, and the romping even starts to look mannered after a while. The musical score by Burt Bacharach, however, is a keeper. Missing Information?
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