Casino Royale 1967 'Review/Making Of'
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Ian Fleming's Casino Royale makes its way to the big screen thanks to producer Charles K. Feldman.
Starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress, Barbara Bouchet, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet, Orson Welles. Deborah Kerr and Jacqueline Bisset, the big-budgeted comedy would be released just a few months prior to the official James Bond EON film You Only Live Twice.
With psychedelic images, songs by Burt Bacharach, five directors, a huge budget, an all-star cast, a chaotic production and endless problems I take a look at the 1967 James Bond spoof comedy Casino Royale.
This becomes something of a collection of all the behind the scenes stories and anecdotes I have read or heard about regarding Casino Royale 1967, including new ones I found while researching the film further. I find it all that much more fascinating than the actual final film itself. I'm sure there were plenty more bizarre and outrageous incidents that took place behind this production. I still say a detailed book or docudrama recounting all the madness that took place would be a compelling, crazed story.
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My father was assistant director on this film and has a photograph with David Niven both looking up at a tree. Niven wrote on the photo "Somewhere up there Roy is the script!!" It was legendary chaotic. Incidentally the Tartan used in the castle scenes is the Baird tartan after our surname which Roy arranged. Most of the crew had a blast working on it from what I was told. Thanks for this brilliant review of what must be the worst film ever made!
Now that is a great story!!! It's great to hear Niven had such a great sense of humor about the production.
Wonderful story, but surely not the worst film ever made! It's sort of delightful in its ...inexplicableness .
Grew up on this movie, love it & still put it on every chance I have - because it is so unloved (& copyright neglected?) it used to fill weekend airtime regularly. This & Feldman's other classically chaotic screwball comedy (What's New, Pussycat?) remind me of early Marx Brothers, anything goes anarchy! As with the Bros., the stars are all in on the joke & either play it deadpan or totally over the top - who knew Great Lady Deborah Kerr could be so damned slapstick funny, swinging off a drain pipe in a lacy black negligee while wearing rubber wellies? The all star cast, multiple directors & great Burt Bacharach score (Dusty Springfield introducing The Look of Love over slo. mo. Ursula Andress!) make this a trippy '69's comedy classic, not even Austin Powers can compare & those movies were intentional! Unlike CR, which, like undercooked yet overdone pasta, throws everything @ the wall 2 see if anything stix!
I loved this movie...it was chaotic genius!
Yeah, having worked on quite a few fil sets myself I've found that generally, the more fun the crew are having, the worse the final product.
I loved the film in 1967 as a 15 year old, it was my favorite for many years. I didn't care about it not making sense to everyone, but it did somehow to me.
You have to to grow up in this period to enjoy. As a Baby boomer, our generation of the time have a mindset needed to love the actors. I grew up loving Bond, especially Thunderball.
Fuck the haters this movie is awesomely funny!
Made more money than some James Bond films.
So much going on, and every time you watch it you see something new.
The introduction trailer at the beginning was beautifully put together, much better than the official one. It really shows off the charm and strengths of this hot mess of a movie, which IMO is still very entertaining.
Ursula Andress was sensational in this movie.
Movie is diamond and score is the best of all Bond Movies. The whole thing feels like the battle at the end of Blazing Saddles.
Things I like about this movie:
1. The music
2. It does look good
3. The scene with Q
4. The actual card game with Orson Wells who is actually decent as Le Chiffe
At 11 years old, as a nascent gay man, I thought all movies were supposed to be like this! All your comments are valid and I really appreciate your video! The links with feminine sexualty and death were clear to me ("Casino Royale made me gay" )😉 it also led to me exploring Woody Allen and inculcated a love of World cinema in me. Its relentless "craziness" and opulence can clearly be wearing to "modern" viewers but there remains, for me some wonderful "camp" humour. The morbidity of James Bond vexes me greatly so how fab to turn the whole stupid malarkey into Casino Royale! ! K xxx
It's fun , it's got some very good scenes
Nice work finding that What's My Line clip with Ursula Andress as well as the one with Woody Allen.
This movie was the hottest of messes, but god damn was it hilarious!
re: Ben Hecht. He died in 1964. Hecht had been the writer when Feldman intended to do a regular James Bond film. Jeremy Duns reported about it in the early 2010s and he later turned that work into an e-book.
I must say I'm baffled as to how anyone would say this is not an entertaining movie. I have watched this movie since I was a kid and continue to watch it and always love it. It' got the 60s style down pat! Mike Myers used this film as his inspiration for his Austin Powers movies which are nowhere as good as this. I think a lot of people are expecting too literal an approach to the movie. The James Bond motif if you will is only a springboard, it doesn't have to be true to James Bond-isms if you will. And what about the MUSIC! Songs by the great BURT BACHARACH and performed by Dusty Springfield and Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass no less! Recall the scene where Joanna Pettet lifts up a manhole cover looking for an escape route and as she lifts it up, the song WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? blasts out. She grimaces and puts back the lid. That's a reference to an earlier film from 1965 called What's New Pusycat? where Mr. Bacharach also scored THAT film. A funny reverential inside joke, that again, has nothing to do with a Bond film. Which is okay! LOL...And hey, let's not forget that it's got the original Bond girl herself, Ursula Andress only this time turning into a BAD BOND girl! And there are so many funny lines that are MADE funny because they way they're executed. Like Deborah Kerr, claiming her widow's due: DOODLE ME JAMES. On paper...boring..but when you see and hear Ms. Kerr SAY it. Priceless. My wife and I used to say that to each other every once in a while and we'd both chuckle. And of course, and early Woody Allen, playing the real James Bond nephew..."JIMMY BOND". Allen nebbish as ever. And all those psychedelic montages make the film today fun and a visual catalog of the 60s sensibility. Who cares that the plot is paper thin. It's really not about that. This is a SATIRE. Take each scene as it comes and go along for the ride. I always loved the scene with Peter Sellars and Ursula Andress when he arrives at her apartment and as they progress down a foyer like space, where the one wall is not a wall at all but a HUGE fish tank (floor to ceiling) and Dusty Springfield music plays, her singing THE LOOK OF LOVE and the camera slows down to slow motion..I mean, c'mon..what a fun visual treat. And again, there are so many goofy one liners and innuendos that make you chuckle. I bet if you got a bunch of 20 somethings together for a cocktail party and showed this movie..they'd love it. Anyway, I guess I've said my piece as it were. I don't want to be rude but all I keep thinking is: Lighten up folks! Sometimes a movie can just be fun and light and have great music and visuals without it being about the plot! So there! I've protested against the derision I see towards this movie! VIVA LA CASINO ROYALE!!! Thank you. I will now be quiet! Respectfully, Christopher.
Couldn't agree more.
I think this is one of the funniest films ever made and should be regarded among the greatest of all comedy movies. It baffles me that people criticise it- probably because they don't get the humour or are too easily offended.
Absolutely agree. The lack of a coherent plot never bothered me. Sublime art direction. Best musical score of all time. I am a Bacharach fanatic I admit but it is incredible in anyone’s estimation. As a kid my favorite parts were the very realistic building explosions. I still can’t figure out how they did such a convincing job of blowing up Sir James’ Palladian mansion. I can watch any part of it over and over.
This comedy version of Casino Royal is far better then the Daniel Craig 2006 version
yes! FAR BETTER!
I just got the dvd! Love Bond, this spoof is great. Soundtrack is great! What a cast!
ive watched all your reviews and in my opinion this is your best cause like you said the behind the scenes stuff is more interesting than the movie itself.Well done loved it keep up the great work.
Thanks. I do kinda have a soft spot for this review, nothing to do with the film itself, but all the stories that I learned about the production made it so entertaining. Each story and anecdote I learned got funnier and funnier! I still wish someone would do a docudrama about the making of this, I'd be the first in line to see it!
HaphazardStuff id go and see that myself
HaphazardStuff I was just thinking that superman 4 would be a good film to use from this perspective as the behind the scenes stuff would be more interesting than the movie itself.
Actually it's the only Bond movie that's not a (stupid) bore. And the Bacharach music is great.
Sellers wanted to play the part straight and he had a problem with Orson Welles wearing purple
It is said that Orson Welles told the director (at the time) that he would not work with that "fucking amateur" (Sellers). I would love to see that enacted on film.
Technicolor, Widescreen, Stellar Cast (including the 60's Sexy Birds!), World Class Soundtrack! The abstract Zaniness just makes this movie.. LOVE IT.
I remember reading somewhere that Terence Cooper was hired as a replacement for when Peter Sellers left or was fired. My guess is that Sellers never filmed his briefing scenes with Niven, and the scene of Niven congratulating Cooper as the new 007 was originally intended for Sellers' character. This might explain why Cooper's character disappears for almost the entirety of the film only to reappear during the final part of the film.
As good an explanation as any. Everybody notices Cooper's dramatic disappearance and nearly magical reappearance at the end of the film
Many of the gaps and unanswered questions are addressed in "The Making of Casino Royale (1967)" on the Mister Peter Sellers channel.
This was Austin Powers before Austin Powers.
That's what I was gonna say.
Debe ser una de las 3 ó 4 películas que más me han hecho reír en mi vida. Está llena de absurdos y desmesuras, como dictaba la época. Para mí, esa no era una debilidad, era lo que caracterizaba a el tipo de humor.
I feel like Terrence Cooper should have been the lead than Peter Sellers
Enjoyable episode, thank you! Keep it up
My favorite Bond film spoof or not!
Ours also
Mine too. I've seen it a million times since childhood in the 70s.
Thanks HaphazardStuff. Very interesting. I wish Christian McKay had played Orson Welles in the Peter Sellers biopic!
Just want to say that this is one of your best videos. You make this subject absolutely fascinating
Good stuff as always!
Brilliant review man. I first saw Casino Royale about 30 years ago and still love it, even though it is an awful film!
I love the theme.
Wait a second... I get it! I FINALLY GET IT!
What is Casino Royale about? A money laundering scheme!
That's the biggest joke of that movie --
THIS MOVIE WAS A GIANT MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME!
Think about it! They got all these giant stars, 5 directors, rights to a Bond novel... and they flopped it.
Ladies and gentlemen! This is the actual real life Springtime for Hitler from The Producers!
Thank you, Mel Brooks.
Still an amazing video
BTW. Weren't there 6 directors? One refused to have his name on it.
Yeah, Val Guest has an "Additional Sequences" credit. What the hell kind of credit is that for a comedy movie?
Will you ever review Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
why is the young generation always expecting "a clear cut story" - it is exactly the joke of this film to NOT have a clear cut story. THAT is in itself a spoof on the Bond movies, which are FULL of inconsistencies....
Connery by that time would ask for a flat fee and a percentage of the box office takings from around the world, he is one of the first actors to do this and that is your missing link by the time he came back to do diamonds are forever he got $2 million and a percentage of the box office fees this is where Connery differs from the rest of the bonds he was a smart business man
It still makes more sense than Zardoz though.
@borusa32, Nice callback, indeed, though I'm not sure I agree with your opinion.
I love this movie, it´s an unintentional classic. I laugh all the time I rewatch ans I love every scene. It makes the same amount os sense as the other 007 movies, with the advantage of not taking itself seriously. PS scrutinizing a movie like - or any comedy - this is like trying to make rational sense os a surreal painting
(6:00) I think THESE days (2020), Americans WOULD be interested to hear that their President COULD actually read.
We need a behind the scenes made for TV movie!
I don't know what's the funnier story: Welles being so overweight and sweat so much he had to shower and change after every take or Sellers being such a nightmare he gave Feldman a heart attack.
Speaking of Feldman, it's hard to believe this dude got an Oscar nomination for "A Streetcar Named Desire".
@ryanporzl1990, There IS a documentary about the making of the movie (I believe linked to upthread), which explains the reason for Welles needing to shower off during those scenes was because the specific lighting director involved, insisted on using fixtures which made the set as hot as blazes.
This is the most messed up movie ever made in 1967. It's like one big cinematic acid trip.
i seem to recall a scene where roger moore was being solicited in this one, making his morning coffe witha lapavoni espresso machine...
Fascinating insights, great documentary - well done! Director Joseph McGrath has just recorded a fascinating interview with James Bond Radio sharing more of his memories from working on Casino Royale '67 and the chaos that surrounded it all! Thought I'd add a link to it here as it really compliments your excellent review: th-cam.com/video/g6gvkTcb-N4/w-d-xo.html
It's an excellent interview!
Different choices, I love this movie, I loved everything about it as stupid as it seemed to be, it's good you at least credited the soundtrack but not everyone is on it being openly trashed by another opinion, as for Ian Fleming (and indeed Cubby Broccoli) they will be turning in their graves more likely with what's to come.
This sounds like it was created by the federal government. Congressmen are great at spending a lot of money and not doing anything!
I think maybe the directors after a while told sellers to do stuff but not tell him they were filming
david niven... a james bond witha stutter...too funny...
As odd as the movie was, I had to keep re-watching it because I kept falling asleep. I bought it because I like what Sellers does in some of his roles, but his biography movie staring Rush, shows how interesting but kind of unhinged Sellers was. Specially around the filming of this movie. The want to be more of an actor than just a funny man seemed to make him nutty. The rest of the film is just so odd. An anthology would've made it more interesting. Some actors seemed to try but as far as comedy goes, should've just let Woody Allen write most of it.
Top notch
Yeah we really showed the bees who's boss! Oops. May be we shouldn't have done that.
Besides Casino Royale, Id like to see docudramas of "DR. NO" (THE Beginning) and The battle of the Bonds.
i remember as a kid watching a movie also called casino royale, which started out as a normal cowboys vs indians movie, and progressively got weirder & weirder as people kept walking through this random revolving door, culminating in a huge nuclear explosion. is this the same movie??
Yes, sounds like it, although the cowboys and Indians are at the end of the film.
Where did you get that interview with Val Guest from?
Jarrah White The segments with Val were from the DVD. Here is a link to the full supplement - th-cam.com/video/HQZjyhQnmdE/w-d-xo.html
was waayy better than others...
Great review .... Casino Royale, Modesty Blaise , in like flint , Matt Helm , some Man from uncle ... they all tried to be camp and surreal and failed miserably ...
@TheJlook2000, The Flint movies DIDN'T fail miserably, although I'll grant the second one was inferior. They established Coburn as a major actor, going forward.
I was watching this film yesterday. Loved the music, loved some of the sequences, but what a horrible mess. Nothing goes together. Did you miss Darth Vader in this? (He was playing Frankie)
Still this is one my favorite movies ever. I loved it. I laughed so hard. Despite its technical issues - it is a cult film that is pifered in many many movies.
not bad for having THREE directors
I always thought it was a satire on a lot of popular styles linked to bond and the world of spys and supper warriors.
4:41 we were so close having a Disney own Bond Film
You’re right about the movie. A big budget, lot of beautiful women , but no logical sequences.
I liked the Woody Allen "execution" scene and the Mata Bond scenes and a few others. Does the movie make sense? Barely, and I'm being generous, but it's a hoot.
oops FIVE directors
Hey man great vide for a boring day ,just good fun listening to this. Did you see the Peter Sellers documentary from earlier this year, if not, check it out, it's been said he could've been schizophrenic. It would be great if they made a film about filming this in the style of Lost in la mancha. Also Herp Albert would go on to do the Never say never again song.
The Ghost of Peter Sellers doc? I haven't seen it yet. I am very curious about it! It looked like a fascinating look at a messy production and the odd behavior Sellers could unleash.
@@HaphazardStuff I was referring to the one called Peter Sellers: A state of comic ecstasy, I haven't heard of the one you're talking about, I'll give it a look. Also, is becoming Bond any good, as a Bond fan I ordered it this week, I couldn't believe I hadn't heard of it til now.
So many interesting ideas that had they focused on just one or two and tried to make them funny.... this could have been a funny film. I'm not a fan of Woody Allen, but his stuff was was okay in this movie. (Compared to the rest I guess?) I thought the idea that James Bond was some sort of puritan and he needed to be corrupted was a funny 'idea' but the execution was horrible. Making all agents "James Bond 007" is crazy and might have worked in your idea for an anthology film. They didn't do that either.
It's a big ole mess where the funniest joke I remember was that cameo by Peter O'Toole.
Oh, and where's that older Peter Sellers stuff from? Where he seems to be making fun of himself for this movie... or other movies?
Gary V yeh I was wondering that too! Looks like a dramatised spoof of the making of the film!! Would love to know Haphazard Stuff
IMovie Makers Its a film called The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Never saw this James Bond flick. I'm confused now, having seen this review. Should I see it or not? Some scenes really do look shiny. But I guess without a real story and the movie being a mess as you explained, it isn't much worth it. Perhaps I should just watch it to see those gorgeous 60's chicks :).
Some things you gotta see just once... even if they're horrible... just to have seen them. Like a train wreck.
I was thinking the same thing. I only saw clips of this movie. Even the trailer for it. But then when I saw what happened near the end, I was like, "Nope!"
Soo what's the status on the skyfall review?
Gradual progress, all the holiday stuff have eaten up most of my free time this month, now that it's nearly over hopefully I can spend more time working on it.
HaphazardStuff that's cool, can't wait. I'm sure you'll make it as insightful and funny as your quantum review
This curiosity of a James Bond movie was a fabulous disaster but it was definitely entertaining. I would disagree with your sentiment that it wasn't funny. When the British are on screen the way they are, it's difficult to really tell if they knew they were in a satire or a serious film. Which made it funny. Woody Allen obviously knew better and played his part more over the top. Obviously, the original intent was thrown out the window but as a parody of Spy Films, I think it worked thanks to the cast. It wasn't Mel Brooks level but it was 1967. Feldman should've had Sean Connery do a bit part in the end. Maybe walking in as the casino exploded.
Will you do a review of Bond knock offs?
Hitting some STRONG ACID
I remember trying to make sense of this creation as a teenager in the 1970's when it was shown on TV. The thing was basically boring as well as incomprehensible. Still, the excellent music stuck with me. What a waste of talent & time.
What keeps people wanting to take this film seriously is all its underused stars and its theme music. Remove them and it's an expensive disaster. In fact, it is anyway.
Is this part of the actual bond story or did they rip off 007 franchise
There are people that think this movie is better than the 2006 official 007 film. Those people are on some serious drugs.
This movie wasnt better no, but the women in it were awesone...unsurpassed
Different strokes for different folks. I thought it was hilarious and a great swinging London late 1960s time piece.
You'd think that Hollywood producers would've taken one look at this clusterfunk and the end result, and learned something from it. NOPE! Personally, I took note of CR as having been the beginning of my love affair with absolutely awful films that bore amazing soundtracks. And if you think about it, every decade had several notable film debacles, (SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, anyone?)
@Survivor2002, Well, as noted, it did gross quite a bit of money, over $40 million versus the $12 million budget, so there's that.
This was funny. There simply wasn't any plot.
Mi6
Watched this movie with my friend while hungover. I was just confused and bored. David Niven and the very Mel Brooks-style finale are the only good things about it.
I think LeChiffre was a big fat dude in the novel. So Orson was well cast in this movie.
Worst Bond film ever. Music was the only thing good
Someone has to make a movie on the making of this turd
I found the film very entertaining and it was very successful. Everything you just said is nonsense. It's all make believe, get over it.