the names bond

[daveduke007]

Its NOT an official Bond Film KL

Casino Royale is a 1967 surreal comedy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring Peter Sellers and David Niven. Ostensibly a spoof of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, it is very lightly based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel, which was published in 1953. It features Orson Welles as the villain Le Chiffre, battling James Bond in the guises of Sir James Bond (David Niven) and six other James Bonds: Terence Cooper (nick-named Coop), Woody Allen (as Bond's nephew Jimmy Bond), Joanna Pettet (as Mata Bond, the illegitimate daughter of Mata Hari and James Bond), Daliah Lavi (as The Detainer), Ursula Andress (as Vesper Lynd) and Peter Sellers (as card sharp Evelyn Tremble, impersonating Bond at Casino Royale to play baccarat against Le Chiffre).

Prior to the release, producer Charles K. Feldman had acquired the film rights and attempted to get Casino Royale made as an official James Bond movie (i.e. one made by EON Productions); however, the producers of the official series, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, turned him down. Believing he couldn't compete with the official series, Feldman then adapted the novel as a spoof of not only James Bond, but also the entire spy fiction genre; the Sellers€“Welles segment is the only portion based upon the novel.

Casino Royale was the first of two non-EON Bond films produced (the second was 1983's Never Say Never Again). Despite being based (albeit loosely) upon a Fleming novel, and the fact that the film's distribution rights had recently reverted to MGM (the company that is partially responsible for the official Bond series), and now once again distributed by Columbia Pictures (via the Sony/Comcast consortium's acquisition of MGM), Casino Royale is not considered an official James Bond film based on (a) the fact it was not produced by EON Productions and (b) this film is openly a parody, featuring a plot that is not even consistent with itself.

[andre459]

Didn't Sellers walk out on that film.

As KL said there is only one Bond - Connery.

[rob69in]

(daveduke007 @ Feb. 28 2007,16:31) You mean this fella rob

The Transexual Bond Girl
For Your Eyes Only was the twelfth James Bond movie and marked the fifth appearance of Roger Moore as secret agent 007. Like all Bond offerings, the non-stop action was sprinkled with bodacious babes, about one of whom questions subsequently surfaced.

Caroline Cossey, one of the "Bond girls" appearing in that film was a transexual, a man who had undergone a sex change. Ms. Cossey began life in 1954 as Barry Cossey but later decided to live as a woman. She changed her name to Caroline in 1972, began taking hormone tablets, had breast augmentation surgery, and in 1974 underwent the final sex reassignment surgery (SRS) to transform her into a woman. From about 1979 to 1986 Caroline worked as a fashion model and actress under the name Tula, and she caught a break in 1980 when she was cast in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. Shortly after the film's release in 1981, however, the UK tabloid News of the World "outed" her as a transsexual and disrupted her modeling and acting career.

Caroline's first attempt at marriage, to Count Glauco, an Italian national, was blocked in 1983 by legal complications (under English law she was still considered male). In 1989 she married Elias Fattal in London, but her husband left her shortly after the honeymoon and the marriage was annulled by the High Court (under a ruling that the bride and groom had not been female and male, respectively). Caroline told her story in the 1982 book, Tula: I Am a Woman and published an autobiography, My Story, in 1991; she has resumed her modelling career and is now married to David Finch, a Canadian.

But Caroline Cossey was a 'Bond girl' in only the most fleeting of ways: She appeared but briefly on screen in For Your Eyes Only, and film credits describe her as "girl at pool," a designation she shared with ten other actresses.

Rumors about the real transexual Bond girl have morphed over time, with later versions asserting the woman in question had been one of the primary love interests in For Your Eyes Only. (That role was filled by French actress Carole Bouquet, appearing as the vengeful daughter of the scientist the villain had done away with.) Though it makes for a more satisfying rumor to have Roger Moore recoiling in horror at having discovered he'd just performed a love scene with an actress who'd been born male, it just didn't happen.

I'm impressed

I guess you like the James Bond films & character, I'm not that clued up on the Jedi!

[Tomcat]

A lot of bar talk revolves around the guys that never got the job. remember the "Professionals"... how come Lewis Collins never got the role, he was in the frame at one time, now he would have been the real deal...

anyway
I voted Connery, the best by far.

[dhz]

I had hear a rumour that Angelina Jolie would like to be the next BOND - and be the first female BOND.

[Guest]

(Tomcat @ Feb. 28 2007,18:16) A lot of bar talk revolves around the guys that never got the job. remember the "Professionals"... how come Lewis Collins never got the role, he was in the frame at one time, now he would have been the real deal...

Bodie wasn't it ? He could certainly do the 'mean pout'

Whatever happened to him ? Never saw him after that.

[daveduke007]

Ended up doing Pantomine in my home town of Stockport

[rob69in]

I must admit I have enjoyed watching the Bond films over the years, but i prefer science fiction, i thought the Star Wars stuff was brilliant.... may the LB Force be with you......


The last time I took a LB & her friend to watch a film they spent at least half the time wanking me off & playing with themselves, never again!

[daveduke007]

Must admit it was hard for me to concentrate on the film too rob when I knew my guest was carrying a concealed weapon under her short skirt
And as I found out on numerous nights before, it didnt fire "blanks" either
Fortunately her "safety catch" was on and we continued with our target practice after the film

[Guest]

(daveduke007 @ Feb. 28 2007,20:31)  Ended up doing Pantomine  in my home town of Stockport
I think Roger Moore was the best Bond because of his smooth , suave , English stiff upper style portrayal of Bond, and captured the famous Bond one-liners the best helped a lot by his trademark raised eyebrow

Oh dear

on Roger Moore. A Class Act all the way for mine

[Snick]

Sean Connery is the Best Bond.

And using him as a model for "tough guy turned into polished gentlman", Daniel Craig would be #2

Moore was good in the beginning, but the last few of his films were so lame ('View to a Kill', 'Moonraker') that it pushes him down on the list

I liked Brosnen, especially in Golden Eye. Dalton and Lazenby -- couldn't care less

And David Niven is a "Bond" - he played James Bond in a movie adaption of an Ian Fleming novel. Thats my definition.

[rob69in]

(daveduke007 @ Feb. 28 2007,21:40)

Must admit it was hard for me to concentrate on the film too rob when I knew my guest was carrying a concealed weapon under her short skirt
And as I found out on numerous nights before, it didnt fire "blanks" either
Fortunately her "safety catch" was on and we continued with our target practice after the film  

Only in the LOS.

[daveduke007]

The Six "Official" Portrayers of James Bond

[rob69in]

(daveduke007 @ Feb. 28 2007,23:29) The twenty-one Bond films have grossed over $4 billion worldwide, being the second most succesful film series ever (behind Star Wars).

...  May the LB Force be with us all........    

[daveduke007]

In addition, Barry Nelson portrayed Bond in an Americanised television episode adaptation of Casino Royale in 1954. Bob Holness portrayed James Bond in a 1956 South African radio adaptation of Moonraker. David Niven played the role in a non-EON production of Casino Royale in 1967, and Connery reprised the character in another non-EON film, Never Say Never Again in 1983. Since none of these films was produced by EON, they are not considered official.

I'll have a "P" Please BOB