Casino Royale - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Casino Royale or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Casino Royale

[chad]

According to the book "Spy Television", Michael Garrison once owned the rights to "Casino Royale".

[ella]

CBS purchased the rights to the Ian Fleming novel for one thousand dollars. John Shepridge negotiated the sale of the movie and television rights in 1954.

[ken]

This version appears on one of the American DVD releases of Casino Royale (1967).

[sophie]

According to the book "Martinis, Girls and Guns: 50 Years of 007" by Martin Sterling and Gary Morecambe, the failure of this television movie to garner any big success following its initial broadcast caused utter disappointment for Creator Ian Fleming. James Bond had been much touted with cinematic potential, but the lack of success of this television movie was merely a temporary interruption for the success that would follow in the 1960s and thereafter.

[ethel]

Considered as a pilot for a James Bond television series that was never made.

[mathew]

This was the only television incarnation of James Bond until James Bond, Jr. (1991), which, incidentally, was Bond's nephew. There has never been another dramatic Bond movie made-for-television (not including documentaries), though attempts have been made by at least one studio to make it a television series. Any attempts have always been quashed by EON Production's infamous legal wranglings.

[victoria]

This "Casino Royale" television movie was lost for twenty-seven years until it resurfaced in 1981 when movie collector and airlines executive Jim Shoenberger discovered a 16mm kinescope print of it amongst some old cans of film. The copies were labelled "Casino Royale" and he thought they were the Casino Royale (1967) James Bond parody. When he realized they were black-and-white prints, he played the reels out of curiosity as the 1967 spoof was a color movie. The 1954 television movie was thence rediscovered and it was screened in a theater, shown on TBS, and released on videocassette. It is now available on DVD.

[phyllis]

In the original Ian Fleming novel, in a famous scene, Le Chiffre tortured James Bond on the testicles with a carpet beater while sitting in a bottomless cane chair. In this television movie, Le Chiffre tortured James Bond on the feet, toes, and toenails with pliers in a bathtub.

[michele]

"Le Chiffre" are French words which translate into English as "The Cypher" or "The Number". Other translations in different languages include "Die Nummer", "Herr Ziffer", and "Mr. Number". The first reference to Le Chiffre is by Leiter, when Leiter refers to him first as "Herr Ziffer", when he tells Bond "You know you're here to deal with Herr Ziffer....Le Chiffre, he's the same fellow."

[jamie]

First on-screen appearance of James Bond. The popular Bond was also known as "Jimmy" Bond or "Card Sense" Jimmy Bond or "Card Shark" Jimmy Bond, as well as James Bond. According to this television movie, he got the nickname "Card Sense Jimmy Bond" while playing the Maharajah in Deauville.