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 enlarge | Directors: John Huston, Don Medford, John Frankenheimer, Joseph Mcgrath, Ken Hughes
Actors: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  157 reviews
Sales Rank: 7329
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 137 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D1003902D
ISBN: 0792853741
UPC: 027616880208
EAN: 9780792853749
ASIN: B00005JL0I
Theatrical Release Date: April 28, 1967
Release Date: October 15, 2002
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 One of the funniest psychedelic movies ever! June 8, 2008
Adrienne Austin (Rutherfordton, NC United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are expecting this to be a simple spy vs spy plot, forget about it. Oh yes, it has spies galore, but this hilarious sendup of all things "Spy" must have inspired comedic authors galore. Every time I watch it I catch another sly pun or comment that cracks me up. This movie is very clever and every actor is hilarious in this all-star cast, from David Niven (as the Original, retired James Bond) to his wily and troublesome nephew, Jimmy Bond, played to perfection by Woody Allen. Deborah Kerr plays Mimi, villainess turned nun for her love of Sir James. ("Doodle me, Jamey!") Peter Sellers has fun with many costume changes but does not play the bumbler; rather, he is an expert in Bacarat standing in for 007 to help beat one of the bad guys (played hilariously by Orson Wells) and assisted by the fabulously beaded and feathered Ursula Andress!
The sets are those of dreams and nightmares, with plenty of the mod patterns of the 60's when this movie was produced. If you love off the wall comedy, this one is a keeper. But watch it closely; the jokes range from subtle and dry to outright silly puns and the confusion created is deliberate and fun. Watch for cameos by Peter O'Toole, Humphrey Bogart and many more.
 Casino Un-Royale "Delux" version May 11, 2008
Rich Shivers (South Jersey, USA)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had owned an older version.
The movie is not full length. How is this version any better?
It is 7 minutes SHORTER than the older version which had incomplete scenes? Duh!
I loved the original version. It is a funny spoof on James Bond! I grew up with these very funny actors! Anyone not realizing who all the actors are may not appreciate this movie. This Movie is done in British and Period style-humor.
Without the complete scenes this movie is not as effective!
 Bloated Mess of 60s Excess April 28, 2008
The JuRK (Our Vast, Cultural Desert)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
They're obviously releasing a 40th anniversary of this disaster to cash in on the latest James Bond film scheduled to be released in November.
Will it work? Who knows.
The 1967 spoof of CASINO ROYALE was an expensive trainwreck of the highest order. Most of the time, it functions on the level of a bad Frankie & Annette Beach movie. The only funny parts belong to Woody Allen as Little Jimmy Bond and his mad plot to kill all men taller than him.
Want to make this interesting? Address the utter chaos of the making of the film. Four or five directors, the ever-evolving script reaching for complete mediocrity, etc.
This is the movie where Peter Sellers (who was insane) walked off the set and never came back...and the producers didn't care. They merely gave the rest of the film to David Niven as a stuttering, older Bond. One biography said Sellers left after Orson Welles mistook Sellers for Woody Allen in an elevator and another said it was just Sellers losing it and wrecking another movie (check out THE LIFE & DEATH OF PETER SELLERS film or the excellent biography, MR. STRANGELOVE).
But, please, don't try and trick people into thinking this was a 1960s classic.
(If you do like this for its 60s look and feel, then also check out WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? It also has a big cast and actually delivers some laughs.)
 "Vaporized lysergic acid - highly explosive!" March 29, 2008
C. Rocklein
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I must be in the class that loves it, because this is a funny movie - lots of chuckles from the understated performances of David Niven as Bond, especially in the Scottish castles with the 19 daughters.
Enter Woody Allen as Bond's long lost son, Jimmy Bond: "I have a very low threshhold of death. My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time." If you don't find this quote amusing or funny, that's because it's not! And neither is Woody - as usual! Quite fortunately, his first slot only lasts a minute. His second appearance, later in the movie is much better, largely due to the fact that he doesn't speak much. But back to main characters.
In order to confuse his enemies, the original Bond (Niven) has a new 'James Bond' trained - this time one that can resist beautiful women, as threats to the life of Bond usually come in the guise of beautiful women. Some great scenes of these gorgeous girls coming out to kiss the new Bond, only to have him Judo throw them to the ground - hilarious!
There are as many funny scenes in this film as there are beautiful girls. It reaches levels of absurdity that are almost profound! Of course you know not to expect a real Bond movie. Look at the cover of the zone 2 Casino Royale - here's a test. If you think there's something humorous just looking at this guy's face (and remember - he's Bond!), then you'll probably like this movie. There is one scene however where Sellers suddenly becomes Bond - like out of the blue - I didn't quite catch the logic there first time around.. First he's Evelyn Tremble trying to reach some unknown objective and next thing he's Bond! What?! HOLD ON JUST A SECOND. I went back and watched it again! ---- Evelyn Tremble (Sellars) wrote a book on winning at gambling. After being seduced (and given $100,000 to gamble with), he agrees to take on evil SMERSH representitive Le Chiffre (Orson Welles) at the Baccarat table - under the guise of *James Bond* (so as not to be recognized as the famous author Evelyn Tremble!). His chance of putting LeChiffre out of commission comes in winning against LeChiffre at high stakes Baccarrat.
Later, the daughter of the David Niven James Bond and Mata Hari, is brought into play. Her job is to stop LeChiffre's art auction from being able to raise enough enough money to help him cover gambling debts, thus forcing him back to the table (where Evelyn Tremble, aka James Bond, will play against him).
Thumbing their noses to "What's New Pussycat?" (1965, which I saw recently and loathed), young Mata Hari is escaping her mother's East German headquarters where she'd been sent to foil the auction and as she and her taxi driver are running away, she considers going down a sewer grate in the road - as she opens the man-hole cover, the theme song from "What's New Pussycat?" comes wafting out! "Better not go down there!" says her cab driver. Fortunately, this movie never does, though both movies were made around the same time.
Actually, I thought this movie was great even when I was getting lost in the story the first time - that much more reason to watch it the second time - you notice a lot more jokes, and start catching the twisted logic in the plot.
At one point later in the movie, a certain Miss Goodthighs puts some 'LSD' in the form of alka-seltzer in Sellar's drink and a mock Beatles song comes on as they sink into a fantasy.
When things start getting even more splicy and psychedelic later on (and they do!), don't give up! Consider it a challenge! Or just 'go with the flow'.. It's pure audacity. And rest assured, after the flying saucer comes, things start to resume the thread of logic again - logic, that is, for this wacked out 1967 made James Bond spoof... ;)
 How Such Things Came to Be March 18, 2008
L. Cabos (planet earth)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
After a mercifully unviewed version appeared on CBS in the early 1950's, Ian Fleming sold the film rights to actor/director/producer Gregory Ratoff. Nothing ever came of it and Ratoff died owning the rights. It later passed to former agent Charlie Feldman. When Feldman could not obtain the services of Sean Connery (still under contract to Cubby Broccoli & Harry Saltzman), he decided to make a spoof instead. His instructions to Terry Southern and the other writers was to "throw out the plot" -- inwhich they thoroughly succeeded. Large cast of well known actors, several different directors and an imprehensible waste of time -- even with Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Orson Welles. For a completist only. If you want a spoof watch Derek Flint, Matt Helm or Austin Powers.
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