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Casino Royale
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792853749
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792853741
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language),
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: D1003902D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Running Time: 137 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: April 28, 1967
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Editorial Review:
John Huston was only one of five directors on this expensive, all-star 1967 spoof of Ian Fleming's 007 lore. David Niven is the aging Sir James Bond, called out of retirement to take on the organized threat of SMERSH and pass on the secret-agent mantle to his idiot son (Woody Allen). An amazing cast (Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Deborah Kerr, etc.) is wonderful to look at, but the film is not as funny as it should be, and the romping starts to look mannered after awhile. The musical score by Burt Bacharach, however, is a keeper. --Tom Keogh
Welcome to Casino Royale, the ultimate psychedelic secret agent satire! Packed with girls, guns and gags galore, this "very funny picture" (The New Yorker) delivers "laughs all the way"(Cue)! Starring Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Joanna Pettet, Orson Welles, Daliah Lavi, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, William Holden and others, and with an original score from Oscar® winner* Burt Bacharach, this groovy spy movie is "even farther out" (LA Herald-Examiner) than all other spoofs combined! British Intelligence is waning in every possible way! When the diabolical SMERSH begins killing off Her Majesty's Secret Service, super-agent James Bond (Niven) recruits six more "James Bonds" to confuse and conquer their enemies. But it won't be easy. They'll have to face an army of irresistibly sexy female operatives, exploding robotic fowl, parachuting Indians and a germ that makes all women beautiful but kills all men over 4'6"! *1981: Original Song (with Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross, Peter Allen), Arthur; 1969: Original Song (Lyrics by Hal David), Score, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A mess from those swingin' '60s
"Casino Royale" is one of those films, ala "Cleopatra" and "Heaven's Gate," whose backstory is more interesting than anything that made it to the screen.
Before Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli came calling on Ian Fleming in 1961 to propose the deal that would give birth to the James Bond film series that continues today, the author sold his first 007 novel, "Casino Royale," to CBS-TV. After the network adapted the book for a 1954 episode of "Climax," the film rights passed to Gregory ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the funniest psychedelic movies ever!
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, ... Read More
Rating:  - "Vaporized lysergic acid - highly explosive!"
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 ... Read More
Rating: - A classic spoof which improves with age!
`Casino Royale', the original 1960's version is one of those movies which seems to improve with age. I can recall reviews at the time of its release saying that its primary failing was that it parodied a genre, the James Bond movies, which were themselves a parody of the spy thriller genre, so it was much like taking coals to Newcastle. The movie was done with much of the same talent which contributed to the similar `What's New Pussycat', primarily the superb comic talents of Peter Sellers and Woody Allen. One ... Read More
Rating: - It seemed like a good idea at the time...
Oh, the pain, the pain of the first 45 minutes and the last 25 of the 1967 epic spoof version of Casino Royale, which try too very hard to be wacky and with it and funny to be anything other than execrable. Two or three jokes sort of work, but probably only because you're desperate for something, anything to work - and then suddenly the Peter Sellers-Joanna Pettet sections kick in and suddenly the film seems almost good. It even starts to look like a real movie instead of an over-decorated Christmas tree, with ... Read More
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