Broccoli and Harry Saltzman with financial backing by United Artists created Eon Productions, to make the first of many James Bond films with Terence Young’s DR. Despite these novels great successes it took several years for Fleming to bring his novels to the big screen. Fleming continued with publishing a new Bond book every year until 1966. Interestingly, there was a television production of “Casino Royale” on the CBS show Climax! in 1954 starring Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre and a very Americanized Bond, awkwardly acted by Barry Nelson who is sometimes called Jimmy. This film was released 14 years after the novel was published.
“Casino Royale” was Ian Fleming’s first novel published in the infamous James Bond series in 1953. But reality is a dish not served in this film.Ī Little Background History: Barry Nelson as James Bond in “Casino Royale” (Climax!) 1954 Reality held a different image for many no doubt. I can’t say for certainty because I was just wee babe of six months old when this film was released in April 1967, but to me, this film is a stylish party that projects what many wanted the 60’s to be. This aptly describes the style of the times and of the outrageously fun flick, CASINO ROYALE (1967). The swinging, silly, sexy, psychedelic sixties.
