Release Date - October 5, 1962
Plot - A British agent and his secretary have gone missing and the secret service sends in James Bond to investigate. With several attempts against his life OO7 discovers a mysterious man by the name of Doctor No, who lives on an isolated island and is disrupting Cape Canaveral rocket launches.
Villains - Doctor No is a brilliant scientist who is also a member of SPECTRE. He has created an island lair equipped with a nuclear reactor and radio toppling to disrupt Cape Canaveral.
Bond-Girls - Honey Ryder, is a beautiful blond island girl who makes a living selling sea shells. She arrives onto Dr. No's island "Crab Key' a day later after Bond and Quarrel arrives.
Sylvia Trench, is Bond's first conquest in the film series. She meets Bond while playing cards.
Miss Taro, is a double agent working for Dr. No. She tries to lure Bond to his doom by having assassins run him off the mountainous roads of Jamaica.
Henchmen - Professor Dent, is Dr. No's main henchman in Jamaica as well as a trio of hit-men known as The Three Blind Mice. Another assassin is a young man known as Mr. Jones.
Bond's Friend - Felix Leiter, is a CIA agent and Bond's closest friend. This is the first time Bond meets him.
Quarrel is an undercover agent for the CIA and a native of Jamaica. He helps Bond get to Crab Key.
Puss Feller, is the owner of the night club Bond, Leiter and Quarrel meet. He also helps Quarrel and Bond out with any potential dangerous customers.
Minor Characters - M, Miss Moneypenny, Major Boothroyd, Pleydell-Smith, General Potter, John Strangways,
Highlights - The introduction of James Bond (Sean Connery), is legendary and set up the tone of the film series. The car chase between Bond and the Three Blind Mice. Ursula Andress' rising out of the ocean as she makes her entrance in the film. Dr. No's underground lair designed by Ken Adam is still unique compared to other films in the series.
Most Memorable Dialogue - "Bond, James Bond."
Trivia - An earlier draft of the shooting script had the villain Dr. No, not as a man, but as a spider-monkey. Ian Fleming's friend and neighbor, Noel Coward, was asked if he wanted to play Dr. No. His response was, "No, No, No, No."
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Personal Comment About This Film - This is the film that started it all and made Sean Connery into a world-renowned superstar. This film was made for approximately one million dollars and even by today's standards is filled with eye candy detail and action. It also has a nostalgic feel to it, somewhat similar to watching an old Humphrey Bogart film.
Director Terence Young and producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry
Saltzman successfully translate this literary Fleming classic onto the silver
screen with iconographic moments such as Bond's famous introduction and Dr. No's
eerie omnipotent spider chamber. Ursula Andress makes one of the best entrances
of a Bond girl with her bikini clad body rising out of the ocean. Great music by
Monty Norman and John Barry and his orchestra. Maurice Binder's famous gun
barrel title segment and Ken Adam's claustophobic set designs make this film
every bit the classic it has become.
On A Scale From 1 to 10 - I give this film an OO9
U. S. Style A Poster
The End Of Dr. No
But James Bond Will Return In