Adaptation Expansion: The film actually plays out the original novel's story, after a fashion, but that only took up about a tenth of the running time, the rest of it going off in several bizarre tangents.

Ursula Andress was the first Bond girl in Dr.

Bernard Cribbins was previously in another 007 spoof - Carry On Spying.

Jimmy Bond ( Woody Allen): Sir James's 'disappointing' American nephew.Įon Productions (owners of the main James Bond franchise) acquired the rights to the novel in 1999, and eventually produced a serious, Truer to the Text (and expanded) adaptation in 2006, which should not be confused with the 1967 spoof.

The Detainer (Daliah Lavi): 'The new secret weapon' of the group.

Cooper, aka 'Coop' (Terrence Cooper): His specialty is resisting the advances of women, a vital skill given that the dead agents were all seduced to their dooms by SMERSH's roster of female spies.

She's sent behind the Iron Curtain to investigate a SMERSH fundraising auction.

Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet): Sir James's swinging daughter, the product of his tragic affair with Mata Hari.

Vesper Lynd ( Ursula Andress): A former colleague of Sir James Bond who's gone into high finance.

Evelyn Tremble ( Peter Sellers): A baccarat expert sent to challenge SMERSH operative Le Chiffre ( Orson Welles) at the titular casino, in the one plot thread that is derived from the original book.

The film proceeds to jump back and forth between the misadventures of the faux-007s before most of them are brought together for the climax. Organizing the recruitment of a new team of agents, he also plans to confuse SMERSH by naming all of them 'James Bond' - even the women. Sir James Bond ( David Niven) is forced out of retirement to investigate the deaths and disappearances of various British Secret Service agents, which turn out to be the work of the spy organization SMERSH. Unfortunately, a Troubled Production ensued.

It was originally planned to be a straight adaptation of the one novel that Eon Productions (at the time) didn't have the rights to, but producer Charles Feldman instead decided to mount it as spoof of James Bond and spy films in general. The second adaptation (after the 1954 Climax! episode) of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, released in 1967.

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