One of the things I got from a viewing of Casino Royale at a later stage of life: now I can see the sheer number of cameos and bit parts played by British actors and performers who were household faces, if not names, when I was growing up. I find it hard to fully accept, because the pre titles scene, which is shown in the trailer, has Evelyn Tremble/James Bond (Sellers) and Inspector Mathis (Duncan ) meeting in an old fashioned French street pissoir the way Bond checks out Mathis’ credentials can’t be anything other than a sight gag. ![]() Peter Sellers, allegedly, kept rewriting his scenes to make them play less comedically. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence of the cast thinking Casino Royale was going to be a straight up spy film rather than a spoof/pastiche/parody. So this exercise was a chance to learn a bit more about it and give it another watch. ![]() My memory of Casino Royale was that it was all a bit silly and very dated, but I have to admit I was probably about twelve when I saw it. Download the RunPee app for free: Read more about the RunPee app.īut then I started thinking and I vaguely remembered watching both of those films some years ago.
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