Dr. no's filming tidbits

1965 Thunder should be the first 007 film, but it was later replaced by this one.

The original author ian fleming had hoped that his cousin christopher lee would play Dr. Noh, and he also invited Noel Coward. As a result, Noel Coward's telegram reply was: "Dr. No? Don't! Don't! No! "

Max von sydow was invited to play Dr. No, but he declined because of his role in 1965 "A Fairy Tale".

Producer Albert Broquerie once said in his autobiography "Melting Snow" that ian fleming was optimistic about roger moore because of his performance in the TV series "Saints".

Although it was decided that sean connery should play 007, in order to meet the public's expectation, the crew organized a 007 draft, and the final six contestants were judged by Albert Broquerie, Harry Saltzman and ian fleming, while the 28-year-old male model Peter Anthony who finally won had no performance experience.

Eunice Gayson, who plays Sylvia in the film, was a candidate to play Penny.

Dr no actually comes from the sixth 007 novel.

The investment of this film is 6,543,800+000, but graphic designer ken adam only got 6,543,800+04,000.

The biggest problem encountered by the crew in the filming process is the humid climate in Jamaica.

Ursula andress was actually wearing a flesh-colored bathing suit when filming Bath.

The original title of the theme song 007 is Bea's knee.

Producers Albert Broquerie and Harry Salzman insisted that film directors must be British.

Two weeks before the film started, the candidate for Bond girl Hani Ryder disappeared. The producer later saw the photo of ursula andress, the wife of the actor John Derek, and decided to play her without meeting her. It is reported that Ursula in the photo was wearing a wet T-shirt. She was not interested in the performance at that time, so she decided to take action under the persuasion of her friend.

Margaret Lovas, the girl who plays the photographer, is a flight attendant. Director Terence Young took a fancy to her on the plane.

In all James Bond movies starring sean connery, he always wears a wig.

The film started shooting on February 26th in Pine Forest Studio, UK. 1962.

According to the documentary in Dr. No in 2000, the shooting method of 007 introduced in this film borrowed from the shooting method in Juarez directed by William Dieterle in 1939, that is, shooting a series of close-ups of characters to be described without showing their faces, then crossing other characters and gambling tables, and finally focusing on faces.

Director Terrence Young wants richard johnson to play 007.

The producer wanted Gay Hamilton, guy green and Ken Hughes to direct the film, but they all refused.

When the filming exceeded the budget, the United States had planned to withdraw funds.

It is said that in the first draft of the script of this film, Dr. Noh was a monkey, and the writers Wolff markowitz and richard maibaum made drastic changes to the original. The story becomes that the shipping giant decides to blow up the Panama Canal. Dr. Noh is a revered monkey on the island, and this villain also has a capuchin monkey pet. Later, the producer asked the screenwriter to revise it and try to be close to the original. Wolff markowitz was very dissatisfied with this and took the initiative to delete his name from the staff list.

At the beginning of the film, the ordnance division who handed the Walter PPK pistol to 007 was Major Boothroyd, who also appeared in the novel Dr.No. Starting from the golden finger of 1964, the ordnance division was named "Q" (quartermaster quartermaster quartermaster). Boothroyd comes from a reader named Jeffrey Boothroyd. He wrote to ian fleming, the novelist, complaining that 007 should use Walter PPK instead of Bei Leita pistol. In addition, the real prototype of Q is Charles Fraser-Smith of MI-6, a British intelligence agency, who designed many hidden weapons Jr called "Q-Devices".

Dr no's story was originally written for a TV series.

The classic line "Bond. James Bond in this film ranks 22nd in the "Top 100 Movie Lines" selected by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Japanese employees in the United States once named the film "Dr? No! " We don't want doctors. Fortunately, this mistake was discovered in time.

Producers Albert Broquerie and Harry Salzman used Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" as a model for this film and the subsequent 007 films, and hoped that gary grant, who played "North by Northwest", would play in 007, but gary grant only promised to play in one 007 film, and the producers hoped that the actors they were looking for could play in several films in succession. Later, the producer found Steve Reeves, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Howard, Rex Harrison, richard johnson, William Franklin, Ian Hendry and richard burton, but none of them were found.

Dr. Noh, played by Joseph Wiseman in the film, is the only villain in the early James Bond films who has no other actors to voice him.

After the film was released in Italy, the Vatican was very dissatisfied with the moral views in the film.

Sean connery was very afraid of spiders, so he isolated the direct contact between spiders and Connery with a piece of glass in the filming of spiders climbing into bed, but the effect was greatly reduced. Finally, the stuntman Bob Simmons had to do it for him. The stuntman later called this close contact with the tarantula the most frightening stunt he had accomplished.

In the title of 007 of this film, stuntman Bob Simmons plays 007, and sean connery didn't appear in the title until Thunder of 1965.

Sylvia in the film is the only Bond girl who has appeared in two Bond films in a row.

As a model of British people's efficient work, Penny, M's secretary, is played by Canadian actor lois maxwell.

Sean connery's classic posture with a gun on his chest later needed to be retaken, but Walter PPK was accidentally lost on the set, and the photographer had to find the air pistol in his car to replace it.

In fact, the theme song of 007 was not written by john barry, but composed by Monty Norman and adapted by john barry. Later, a lawsuit was triggered, and Monty Norman finally won the lawsuit.

The iconic opening title of 007 once again appears at the end of this film, which is the only time in 007 movies.

After the film is completed, it will be screened for the upper class in the United States. As a result, after the movie, the venue was silent. The director of the European Department said that the United States should not give up the film because of low investment. The producer couldn't help shuddering at this statement.

At first, ian fleming didn't want sean connery to play 007, because 007 is British, while Connery is Scottish. 007 was born in the upper class, while Connery was born in the working class. 007 received a good education, while Connery was quite elegant. With the success of 007 film, ian fleming gradually changed his view.

The titles of this film outside the UK include: Killing License (Italy), Dr. James Bond VRSNO (Belgium, France), Agent 007: Task: Killing Dr. NO (Denmark), James Bond Chasing Dr. NO (Germany), 007 VRS the killing number: Dr. NO (Japan), Agent 007 (Sweden) with a killing license, and Agent 007.