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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792853749
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792853741
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Running Time: 137 minutes
Sales Rank: 11078
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: April 28, 1967
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Welcome to Casino Royale, the ultimate psychedelic secret agent satire! Packed with girls, guns and gags galore, this 'very funny picture' (The New Yorker) delivers 'laughs all the way'(Cue)! Starring Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Joanna Pettet, Orson Welles, Daliah Lavi, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, William Holden and others, and with an original score from Oscar® winner* Burt Bacharach, this groovy spy movie is 'even farther out' (LA Herald-Examiner) than all other spoofs combined! British Intelligence is waning in every possible way! When the diabolical SMERSH begins killing off Her Majesty's Secret Service, super-agent James Bond (Niven) recruits six more 'James Bonds' to confuse and conquer their enemies. But it won't be easy. They'll have to face an army of irresistibly sexy female operatives, exploding robotic fowl, parachuting Indians and a germ that makes all women beautiful but kills all men over 4'6'! *1981: Original Song (with Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross, Peter Allen), Arthur; 1969: Original Song (Lyrics by Hal David), Score, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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John Huston was only one of five directors on this 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 organized threat of SMERSH and pass on the secret-agent mantle to his idiot son (Woody Allen). An amazing cast (Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Deborah Kerr, etc.) is wonderful to look at, but the film is not as funny as it should be, and the romping starts to look mannered after awhile. The musical score by Burt Bacharach, however, is a keeper. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - One of my favorite
This is in many ways not a very good movie. You have probably heard about how the movie was an absurd thing to begin with (five directors?) and how it blew up in production, and was pretty much thrown together.
Nonetheless, it's one of my favorite movies ever. I rarely watch a movie more than once, and I'm drawn to watch this from time to time. It's absurd, silly, and serious all at the same time. The first time you see it, your reaction is going to be more "Huh?" than "Wow!" but it sticks with you. A week later you'll laugh at something you remember. A month later, you'll remember something and grin. The next time you see a "serious" Bond movie, you'll think of some twist in it that was done much better in Casino Royale. After you've safely forgotten it, you'll be reminded of it and -have- to see it again.
It's both truly mediocre and one of the best movies ever made. I have no idea why it's so compelling, but it is.
Rating:  - Another fun 60's flick
I think you had to be a late teenager or early 20's and have gone to drive in movies to appreciate these types of movies. They were fun. Not to be academy awards winners. Just silly fun. Music is great and worth getting the movie just for the music
Rating:  - A Royale with Cheese
"Casino Royale" from the '60s bears little resemblance to the sexy 007 movie that was released recently with the hot Daniel Craig. It's quite psychedelic,with its vast cast ranging from the comedian Woody Allen to the famous Bond girl Ursula Andress. The visuals (for its time) are stunningly psychedelic. Despite its "international cast",it's confusing,unfunny,and unwatchable. When Samuel L. Jackson ordered a "Royale with cheese" in "Pulp Fiction",he may well have been referencing this cheesy,campy,out there film.
"Casino Royale" has more than one James Bond,some of whom are women (gender confusion! how timely!) David Niven is an uptight English lord,while Woody Allen is a nebbish. There are numerous renowned sirens of the '60s,but their sex appeal doesn't add any spice to this strangely bland "thriller." The finale has everything exploding,a massive fight for no reason,a really awful song... and Peter O'Toole making a barely recognizable cameo as a Scottish bagpiper. The story ends in **SPOILER AHEAD** Heaven,but the movie isn't heavenly.
The '60s "Casino Royale" is one bad trip.
Rating: - A mess from those swingin' '60s
"Casino Royale" is one of those films, ala "Cleopatra" and "Heaven's Gate," whose backstory is more interesting than anything that made it to the screen.
Before Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli came calling on Ian Fleming in 1961 to propose the deal that would give birth to the James Bond film series that continues today, the author sold his first 007 novel, "Casino Royale," to CBS-TV. After the network adapted the book for a 1954 episode of "Climax," the film rights passed to Gregory Ratoff. Once the Saltzman-Broccoli films gathered box-office momentum, producer Charles K. Feldman, a former associate of Broccoli's, bought the rights from Ratoff's widow in the hope of cashing in on his friend's success. So much for loyalty. Believing he could not compete directly with the "official" Bond films, Feldman turned "Casino Royale" into a spoof. "Bondmania" which reached its peak with the 1965 release of "Thunderball" was winding down by then, but "Casino Royale" sold enough tickets to become the third biggest box-office hit of 1967 ("You Only Live Twice," that year's real Bond film, took second place behind "The Dirty Dozen"). But the bloated budget meant it could never qualify as a success.
The screenplay, to which "Catch 22" author Joseph Heller, Terry Southern, and Billy Wilder are said to have made contributions, shows signs of too many chefs at work in the kitchen, which was clearly the case behind the camera. No less than five directors are credited, so it's not surprising ... Read More
Rating: - 60's cool at its finest
While technically a comedy, what sets this film apart is its inherent coolness - its beautiful cinematography, crazy set-pieces, and wonderful moments all work together to...
Well, okay, it's a mess. But it's a beautiful mess. And it stands as one of the finest examples of 1960's cool. When Peter Sellers walks into Ursula Andress's apartment to the strains of Dusty Springfield singing "The Look Of Love," we know we're not in our own world any more; we're in a better one. One that doesn't make sense a lot of the time, but better nevertheless.
This is one of my favorite films, despite its flaws. Again, it's not that the film as a whole stands as a masterpiece of cinema (what do you expect from a spy-film spoof with three or four different directors), but because it's full of so many cool, funny, and great-looking scenes.
(It also has some of the most gorgeous women ever to appear together in one movie. Yowza!)
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