Dr. No - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Dr. No or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Dr. No

[riley]

James Bond sings "Under the Mango Tree" in this movie, and is notable for being the only time James Bond has ever sung in a Bond movie.

[ava]

Sir Sean Connery is morbidly afraid of spiders. The shot of the spider in his bed was done with a sheet of glass between him and the spider, which can be seen in one shot in the movie. When this didn't look realistic enough, additional close-up scenes were 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".

[kylie]

Although there are persistent rumors that Ursula Andress was naked in the shower scene to clean her of radiation, closer inspection reveals that she is wearing a nude-colored one-piece swimsuit.

[morris]

A sequence extracted from the final cut had Dr. No forcing Bond to radio Felix Leiter, telling him that he had discovered nothing of any interest on Crab Key in return for a less painful death for both Bond and Ryder.

[sandra]

It is long standing misconception that John Barry wrote "The James Bond Theme". It actually originated from a song, "Good Sign, Bad Sign" composed by Monty Norman, from an aborted musical, "The House of Mr. Biswas". Barry arranged and orchestrated Norman's theme to produce the theme as it is known throughout the world.

[ken]

Terence Young decided to inject much humor, as he considered that "a lot of things in this film, the sex and violence and so on, if played straight, a) would be objectionable, and b) we're never gonna go past the censors; but the moment you take the mickey out, put the tongue out in the cheek, it seems to disarm."

[sara]

Ursula Andress' salary for her appearance in this movie was $6,000.

[maureen]

The movie's line "Bond. James Bond." was voted as the number twenty-two movie quote by the American Film Institute, and as number fifty-one of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere.

[victoria]

Ken Adam's sets so impressed Stanley Kubrick that he hired him the following year to be production designer on Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).

[frances]

Connery's suits for this film were made by Saville Row tailor, Anthony Sinclair. Sinclair stated that a truly great "bespoke" suit would be able to stand up to a good deal of abuse - such as grabbing by the lapels - and still look great afterwards. To prove his point, Sean Connery was asked to sleep in his suit. When he woke up the next morning he was stunned to see that it looked fantastic.

[willard]

According to this movie's CD soundtrack sleeve notes, the James Bond theme debuted in the U.K. charts on November 1, 1962, where it peaked at number thirteen. It entered the U.S. charts on July 27, 1963 where it went to number eighty-two. Two pieces of music heard in this movie, are not included on the soundtrack. These are the electronic sound effects music at the very beginning of the movie, and the suspenseful music from the tarantula sequence.

[ray]

Bernard Lee was cast as M because he was a "prototypical father figure".

[toni]

In the original novel, the scene in which Bond escapes "imprisonment" worked a little differently. Dr. No had actually had an obstacle course set up to challenge Bond. At the end of the obstacle course, there was a seaside cage, with a giant squid inside. This movie altered and toned down all of this, and the "obstacle course" idea got lost in the translation from novel to movie. In the following scene, a sequence involving Honey Rider being tied to the ground and attacked by a swarm of crabs was scrapped, because many of the crustaceans arrived frozen, dead, and damaged. In the movie, as shown, water was the threat instead.

[kristen]

After this movie's release in Italy, the Vatican issued a special communiqué expressing its disapproval at the movie's moral standpoint.

[scarlett]

Patrick McGoohan and Roger Moore were among other considered for the part of James Bond while Ian Fleming suggested Trevor Howard and Michael Redgrave.

[kenzi]

The charred trees in the area where Bond confronts the Dragon Tank are part of the sanctuary for rare birds that Dr. No has disrupted. All mention of the sanctuary was deleted from the final cut.