"You're going to nothing me to death?"
The 60s produced a lot of bizarre films, but none as wild, random, trippy, or downright bizarre and incoherent as the first spy spoof, "Casino Royale." "Inspired" by the Ian Fleming novel (and originally inteneded for s straight adaptation with Eon Productions which didn't happen until 2006), we have five directors who each did their own segments (and all were kept incommunicado): John Huston, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, and Joe McGrath. We have nine screenwriters (six of whom went uncredited). You had a boatload of star power (with a few being in there for a small fraction of the running time): David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Barbara Bouchet, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, George Raft, Deboarah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, John Huston, Jean Paul Belmondo, and Terence Cooper, among others.
How could it all go so incredibly wrong? Well, producer Charles K. Feldman believed that a "psychedelic" movie didn't have to make sense or have any coherence. The result ws a "comedy" with no laughs because you didn't understand the punchlines to many of the gags. However, it's a movie I reccomend seeing just once in your lives, just so you can say you saw it.
The score from Burt Bacharach is what many people say is the finest thing about the movie. With a memorable main title theme (played by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass), the wounderful make-out song "The Look of Love" sung by Dusty Springfield, and the rest consisting of campy spy-spoofery music, it's a nice, lighthearted listen. Enjoy!
And also, here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_xrWEzciSs
Tracks:
1. Casino Royale Theme (Main Title) (performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass)
2. The Look of Love (performed by Dusty Springfield)
3. Moneypenny Goes for Broke
4. Le Chiffre's Torture of the Mind
5. Home, James, Don't Spare the Horses
6. Sir James' Trip to Find Mata
7. The Look of Love (Instrumental)
8. Hi There, Miss Goodthighs
9. Little French Boy
10. Flying Saucer/First Stop, Berlin
11. The Venerable Sir James Bond
12. Dream On, James, You're Winning
13. The Big Cowboys and Indians Fight at Casino Royale
14. Casino Royale Theme (Reprise with Vocals) (performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YWG70ZB0
How could it all go so incredibly wrong? Well, producer Charles K. Feldman believed that a "psychedelic" movie didn't have to make sense or have any coherence. The result ws a "comedy" with no laughs because you didn't understand the punchlines to many of the gags. However, it's a movie I reccomend seeing just once in your lives, just so you can say you saw it.
The score from Burt Bacharach is what many people say is the finest thing about the movie. With a memorable main title theme (played by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass), the wounderful make-out song "The Look of Love" sung by Dusty Springfield, and the rest consisting of campy spy-spoofery music, it's a nice, lighthearted listen. Enjoy!
And also, here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_xrWEzciSs
Tracks:
1. Casino Royale Theme (Main Title) (performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass)
2. The Look of Love (performed by Dusty Springfield)
3. Moneypenny Goes for Broke
4. Le Chiffre's Torture of the Mind
5. Home, James, Don't Spare the Horses
6. Sir James' Trip to Find Mata
7. The Look of Love (Instrumental)
8. Hi There, Miss Goodthighs
9. Little French Boy
10. Flying Saucer/First Stop, Berlin
11. The Venerable Sir James Bond
12. Dream On, James, You're Winning
13. The Big Cowboys and Indians Fight at Casino Royale
14. Casino Royale Theme (Reprise with Vocals) (performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YWG70ZB0
posted by Detective Mitchell @ 9:19 PM
3 Comments:
Outstanding! Thank you.
Don't forget that this film was one of the first views of Jacqueline Bisset (credited as Jacky Bisset) as Miss Goodthighs. While we all saw her thighs however, we did not hear her voice, as she was dubbed.
Why, I do not know.
Keep up the goo work
Hi there, do you know why the link isn't working any more? I'm looking for the Sir James Trip to find Mata track, if you could send it to me, or something, it'd be much appreciated.
darker77@gmail.com, thanks!
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