Dr. No (1962)

The very first Bond film....
Would you believe I had the Dell/Gold Key comic that was based on this film? Do you have any idea what that sucker'd be worth today? OUCH! Anyway...all hail the maiden voyage of the SS 007-Franchise! It would be one of the few of the series to adhere faithfully to the novel it was named for.

Sean Connery, (it was almost a year before I learned how to pronounce his name correctly, [like everybody else, I thought it was 'Seen Canary']) shows us immediately why he is still the quintessential 007: cool-minded, droll, all-business when needed....he would put his heir, Roger Moore, to shame!

One thing you could always date the 007 movies by was the style of the Bond girls in each movie, at least in the sixties....and Sylvia Trench is obviously being played by a woman whose aesthetic sense is rooted in the late fifties rather than the early sixties. Every OTHER woman in the movie pretty much sticks to a style that could be plopped in ANY post-war decade, but Trench pretty much betrays "Dr. No's" early-sixties origins.

The movie pretty much follows the book almost line for line, except for the way Dr. No himself looks and the very end, when Bond defeats him. I often think that, if they had used the book's ending, this film, before this series had garnered the great reputation it would eventually develop thanks to "Goldfinger", would have been its own self-parody. Cormorant guano, indeed! ;-)

The transfer I have is beautiful: sound, picture quality, etc....all good. And now I have all three of the BEST Bond flicks, the beginning Bonds, on dvd....Talk about hog heaven.

Now all I need to do is get up the bucks to buy the Aston Martin DB-5!

The Beginning Of Bond
This is the first james bond in the entire series of classic films.In this first movie it stars sean connery as james bond 007.He makes a great actor for the first james bond film that he has been in.You are proably thinking since this is such an old movie,that it would be bad and old fashioned.But it is a great movie for the first in the series.It symolizes what james bond's character is and what exactly what he does as an agent.Overall,it is a great movie classic with action,girls,and nail bitting suspense.I loved this movie.

Bond at his best
This is hard-core James Bond for the true fan who appreciates that there is Sean Connery and there is everyone else in this role. Joseph Wiseman is antiseptically frightening as Dr. No, and Jack Lord is a lively, pleasing Felix Leiter. But as always, Connery is superior -- the only Bond who really matters.