Casino Royale

1967

Action / Comedy

31
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 34% · 42 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 34% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 34569 34.6K

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Plot summary

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

Director

John Huston Photo
John Huston

Top cast

Ronnie Corbett Photo
Ronnie Corbett as Polo
John Le Mesurier Photo
John Le Mesurier as M's Driver
Bernard Cribbins Photo
Bernard Cribbins as Taxi Driver
George Claydon Photo
George Claydon as Harrod's Security Man
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1.08 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 5
2.08 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 61

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bakchu 6 / 10

Incoherent, but quite amusing

During the first 30-45 minutes, you might be worried by the incomprehensible plot consisting of not very amusing scenes. If you endure this, it's getting better - not plot-wise, but there is a nice handful of insanely funny ideas. All loosely put together; I suppose having five directors hasn't helped much - still, it can be quite amusing, especially if you are slightly intoxicated.Yes, this is a film for drunken people. Made by drunken people as well, one could think. The good actors are wasted. Towards the end the putting-together of random things gets that utterly licentious that it nearly reaches a Monty-Pythonesque quality, which I like, so I rate the movie still 6 out of 10 for this state of brash freedom in its second half.
Reviewed by Galina_movie_fan 4 / 10

"Too many cooks spoil the broth".

What a mess of the royal proportions - such a great cast (Peter Sellers, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, Deborah Kerr, and Jean-Paul Belmondo), the James Bond's story, plenty of beautiful (and I mean it) girls, the music by Burt Bacharach, most famous sets - but the movie is almost totally unwatchable. It started funny enough - at Sir James Bond's (David Niven) home where he was approached by four international agents that forced him to come out of retirement and head up the operation against the evil organization SMERSH. His mission is to destroy Topple LeChiffre (Orson Welles} at the baccarat tables where he never loses and wins a lot of money to supply SMERSH. Then, the movie becomes silly, stupid, pointless, and (what is the worst) not funny. Only Woody Allen, (as Bond's incompetent nephew, Jimmy Bond) brilliant as usual has appeared in two scenes and made them silly and hilarious. I think that "Casino Royale" (the way it was made) illustrates the fact that bigger is not always better - overlong and overblown, written and directed by five or more writers and directors, it brings to mind an old saying, "Too many cooks spoil the broth".OT: the abbreviation SMERSH really existed during the WWII. It means "Death to the Spies" in Russian.
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