Yes, Daniel Craig makes a superb Bond: Leaner, more taciturn, less sex-obsessed, able to be hurt in body and soul, not giving a damn if his martini is shaken or stirred. That doesn't make him the 'best' Bond, because I've long since given up playing that pointless ranking game; Sean Connery was first to plant the flag, and that's that. But Daniel Craig is bloody damned great as Bond, in a movie that creates a new reality for the character.
Sean was the first actor to play bond in a 'theatrical' movie. But in 1954, 8 years before Dr. No hit the screens, 007 was introduced for the first time on Television broadcast. The movie was called Casino Royale, based on the first novel by Ian Fleming. For another, Casino Royale, like a lot of '50s television, was broadcast live; and it's such a far remove from anything we have in our culture now that it's almost like watching some kind of conceptual art piece rather than a dramatic narrative. This was done cheap and fast and they had one shot, and a lot of mistakes were made: little ones, like Nelson pronouncing the 't' in baccarat, and a few great huge ones, like a moment were we hear a very, very loud crash in the background of one. Male Bonding on the MHM Podcast Network reviews the James Bond 007 Climax TV show 1954's Casino Royale starring Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, Linda Christian. MHM's Film Reviews are now exclusively on YouTube. The 1954 version of Casino Royale was the most obscure adaptation in the Bond franchise and it was an example of what an American Bond could have looked like. As an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel,Casino Royale was a fairly faithful adaptation of the first half. This episode wanted to be a Hitchcockian style thriller and there were moments I liked such as when Leiter was threatened and the. 'Casino Royale' has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of. It's not that I didn't love some of the earlier films, like some, dislike others and so on, as that I was becoming less convinced that I ever had to see another one.
Year after year, attending the new Bond was like observing a ritual. There was the opening stunt sequence that served little purpose, except to lead into the titles; the title song; Miss Moneypenny; M with an assignment of great urgency to the Crown; Q with some new gadgets; an archvillain; a series of babes, some treacherous, some doomed, all frequently in stages of undress; the villain's master-plan; Bond's certain death, and a lot of chases. It could be terrific, it could be routine, but you always knew about where you were in the formula.
With 'Casino Royale,' we get to the obligatory concluding lovey-dovey on the tropical sands, and then the movie pulls a screeching U-turn and starts up again with the most sensational scene I have ever seen set in Venice, or most other places. It's a movie that keeps on giving.
Casino Royale 1954 Reviewed
Casino Royale 1954 Cast
Yes, Daniel Craig makes a superb Bond: Leaner, more taciturn, less sex-obsessed, able to be hurt in body and soul, not giving a damn if his martini is shaken or stirred. That doesn't make him the 'best' Bond, because I've long since given up playing that pointless ranking game; Sean Connery was first to plant the flag, and that's that. But Daniel Craig is bloody damned great as Bond, in a movie that creates a new reality for the character.
Sean was the first actor to play bond in a 'theatrical' movie. But in 1954, 8 years before Dr. No hit the screens, 007 was introduced for the first time on Television broadcast. The movie was called Casino Royale, based on the first novel by Ian Fleming. For another, Casino Royale, like a lot of '50s television, was broadcast live; and it's such a far remove from anything we have in our culture now that it's almost like watching some kind of conceptual art piece rather than a dramatic narrative. This was done cheap and fast and they had one shot, and a lot of mistakes were made: little ones, like Nelson pronouncing the 't' in baccarat, and a few great huge ones, like a moment were we hear a very, very loud crash in the background of one. Male Bonding on the MHM Podcast Network reviews the James Bond 007 Climax TV show 1954's Casino Royale starring Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, Linda Christian. MHM's Film Reviews are now exclusively on YouTube. The 1954 version of Casino Royale was the most obscure adaptation in the Bond franchise and it was an example of what an American Bond could have looked like. As an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel,Casino Royale was a fairly faithful adaptation of the first half. This episode wanted to be a Hitchcockian style thriller and there were moments I liked such as when Leiter was threatened and the. 'Casino Royale' has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of. It's not that I didn't love some of the earlier films, like some, dislike others and so on, as that I was becoming less convinced that I ever had to see another one.
Year after year, attending the new Bond was like observing a ritual. There was the opening stunt sequence that served little purpose, except to lead into the titles; the title song; Miss Moneypenny; M with an assignment of great urgency to the Crown; Q with some new gadgets; an archvillain; a series of babes, some treacherous, some doomed, all frequently in stages of undress; the villain's master-plan; Bond's certain death, and a lot of chases. It could be terrific, it could be routine, but you always knew about where you were in the formula.
With 'Casino Royale,' we get to the obligatory concluding lovey-dovey on the tropical sands, and then the movie pulls a screeching U-turn and starts up again with the most sensational scene I have ever seen set in Venice, or most other places. It's a movie that keeps on giving.
Casino Royale 1954 Reviewed
Casino Royale 1954 Cast
This time, no Moneypenny, no Q and Judi Dench is unleashed as M, given a larger role, and allowed to seem hard-eyed and disapproving to the reckless Bond. This time, no dream of world domination, but just a bleeding-eyed rat who channels money to terrorists. This time a poker game that is interrupted by the weirdest trip to the parking lot I've ever seen. This time, no laser beam inching up on Bond's netherlands, but a nasty knotted rope actually whacking his hopes of heirs.
And this time, no Monte Carlo, but Montenegro, a fictional casino resort, where Bond checks into the 'Hotel Splendid,' which is in fact, yes, the very same Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary where Queen Latifah had her culinary vacation in 'Last Holiday.' That gives me another opportunity to display my expertise on the Czech Republic by informing you that 'Pupp' is pronounced 'poop,' so no wonder it's the Splendid.
Casino Royale 1954 Reviews
I never thought I would see a Bond movie where I cared, actually cared, about the people. But I care about Bond, and about Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), even though I know that (here it comes) a Martini Vesper is shaken, not stirred. Vesper Lynd, however, is definitely stirring, as she was in Bertolucci's wonderful 'The Dreamers.' Sometimes shaken, too. Vesper and James have a shower scene that answers, at last, why nobody in a Bond movie ever seems to have any real emotions.
