One thing that can’t be denied about Casino Royale is that, narratively speaking, it’s a mess! Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, and Barbra Streisand were all mooted for similar cameos but they never came to pass. Jean-Paul Belmondo appears about ten minutes before the end and has two lines. Stirling Moss has a two second gag appearance chasing a car… on foot. David McCallum was deep in his role as Illya Kuryakin in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and he doesn’t actually say a word he just listens to George Raft. Ian Hendry’s role was cut and he only appears as a corpse. Anjelica Huston was a hand double for Deborah Kerr. Milton Reid played his usual strong silent role. He was, allegedly, paid a case of champagne for reciting those two sentences and engaging in a little, light sporran fondling. “Then you’re the finest man that ever breathed.” “No, I’m Peter O’Toole!” O’Toole answers. Are you Richard Burton?” Peter Sellers replies. In a time when a lot of people complain that the whole story is given away in the trailer, I wonder what they’d make of big stars who’s whole role is shown in the trailer/opening titles? Excuse Me.

International stars, with similarly small parts, include Anjelica Huston, Vladek Sheybal, Barbara Bouchet, Jean-Paul Belmondo, George Raft, and Charles Boyer. Uncredited parts are played by Eric Chitty, Valentine Dyall, Ian Hendry, John Le Mesurier, Stirling Moss, Caroline Munro, Peter O’Toole (Yes! That one!), Burt Kwouk, Dave Prowse (his cinema debut), Milton Reid, and David McCallum in “blink and you’ll miss it” roles. One of the things I got from a viewing of Casino Royale at a later stage of life: now I can see the sheer number of cameos and bit parts played by British actors and performers who were household faces, if not names, when I was growing up. I find it hard to fully accept, because the pre titles scene, which is shown in the trailer, has Evelyn Tremble/James Bond (Sellers) and Inspector Mathis (Duncan ) meeting in an old fashioned French street pissoir the way Bond checks out Mathis’ credentials can’t be anything other than a sight gag. Peter Sellers, allegedly, kept rewriting his scenes to make them play less comedically. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence of the cast thinking Casino Royale was going to be a straight up spy film rather than a spoof/pastiche/parody. So this exercise was a chance to learn a bit more about it and give it another watch. My memory of Casino Royale was that it was all a bit silly and very dated, but I have to admit I was probably about twelve when I saw it. Download the RunPee app for free: Read more about the RunPee app.īut then I started thinking and I vaguely remembered watching both of those films some years ago.

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