Review of Dr. No (1962) by Lord N — 24 Aug 2010
There's not too much to say about this film. It's a Bond film. there is nothing here that is unpredictable or new to me. Granted, I have seen other Bond films. Also, this film would have been new and exciting, because this is the first one. They didn't have 20 other bond films to compare it to. I will say that Sean Connery is now my favorite Bond. I have only seen him, Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan was in the Nightfire video game I have. Out of those three, Connery is the best. But yeah, there is nothing really to say about this one. I like it. But, It was a stereotypical Bond film.
TRIVIA TIME: 1. Sean Connery is morbidly afraid of spiders. The shot of the spider in his bed was originally done with a sheet of glass between him and the spider, but when this didn't look realistic enough, the scene was re-shot with stuntman Bob Simmons. Simmons reported that the tarantula crawling over Bond was the scariest stunt he had ever performed. According to Steven Jay Rubin's 1981 book "The James Bond Films", this tarantula was named Rosie.
2. The famous pose of Sean Connery holding a gun across his chest had to be redone at the last second. The Walther PPK was left at the studio, but the photographer had an old air pistol in his car. The gun in the picture is the air pistol.
3. When James Bond sings "Under The Mango Tree" in this movie, it is the only ever time that James Bond has sung in a Bond movie.
This review of Dr. No (1962) was written by Lord N on 24 Aug 2010.
Dr. No has generally received very positive reviews.
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