James Bond - 007 is chasing Dr. No

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Movie
German title James Bond - 007 is chasing Dr. No
Original title Dr. No
Logo dr no de.svg
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1962
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Terence Young
script Richard Maibaum ,
Johanna Harwood ,
Berkely Mather
production Albert R. Broccoli ,
Harry Saltzman
music Monty Norman
camera Ted Moore
cut Peter R. Hunt
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
James Bond 007 - Greetings from Moscow

James Bond - 007 is chasing Dr. No (Original title: Dr. No ) is a British feature film based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming . It is the first film in Eon's James Bond series based on Fleming's works. The two main actors Sean Connery and Ursula Andress each achieved their international breakthrough. The film premiered on October 5, 1962 in London and opened in German cinemas on January 25, 1963.

action

John Strangways, the station chief of MI6 in Jamaica is, along with his secretary murdered. The assassins take files with the label “Dr. No ”and make both bodies disappear. Thereupon the British agent James Bond (code number: 007) is instructed by his boss M to investigate Strangways' disappearance in Jamaica. Strangways was tasked with clarifying the origin of energy waves that distracted US rockets from Cape Canaveral from their course ("toppling"). Before leaving, Bond takes a quick look at his latest conquest, Sylvia Trench, whom he met at the casino. When he arrives in Jamaica, he is picked up by a chauffeur who pretends to have been sent by the British governor's office. When Bond overpowers him and tries to confront him, the latter takes his own life with poison.

Bond survives further assassinations, including killing a tarantula in his bed. With the help of the local fisherman Quarrel and CIA agent Felix Leiter , Bond learns that Strangways has collected radioactive rock. Professor Dent, who is a friend of Strangways, makes himself suspicious when he gives Bond false information. Indeed, Dent is the agent of a mysterious criminal and attempts several attacks on Bond's life. But he gets ahead of him and shoots him. All traces lead to the mine owner Dr. No on Crab Key Island. He goes there with Quarrel and meets the beautiful shell collector Honey Ryder, whom Dr. No blame for the death of their father. Together they advance further into the interior of the island. In a radioactively contaminated swamp, Dr. Nos guards put. Quarrel is killed, Bond and Honey are captured. To their surprise, they are treated like guests rather than prisoners and, ultimately, Dr. No personally introduced. He turns out to be a fanatical scientist who wants to take revenge on the USA for the disregard for his scientific abilities. To do this, he manipulates American rockets launched from Cape Canaveral with the help of energy from his own nuclear reactor .

Impressed by Bond's abilities, Dr. No to him the collaboration in his criminal organization "SPECTER" (translated in the German dubbed version as GOFTER "secret organization for terror, extortion and revenge"). When Bond refuses, he has him beaten up and locked up. Bond escapes from his cell and sabotages the nuclear reactor in a technician's protective suit. As the base begins to explode around them, Dr. No Bond to fight and dies when Bond pushes him into the boiling cooling water of the reactor. Together with Honey, Bond escapes from the island in a small boat at the last second. When Felix Leiter tries to save the two of them, Bond refrains from spending some time with Honey.

synchronization

role actor German voice actor
James Bond Sean Connery Klaus Kindler
Honey Ryder Ursula Andress Uta Hallant
Dr. Julius No. Joseph Wiseman Friedrich Joloff
M. Bernard Lee Siegfried Schürenberg
Felix Head Jack Lord Rainer Brandt
Prof. Dent Anthony Dawson Gerd Martienzen
Miss Taro Zena Marshall Brigitte Grothum
Quarrel John Kitzmiller Gerd Duwner
Sylvia Trench Eunice Gayson Eva Katharina Schultz
Miss Moneypenny Lois Maxwell Beate Hasenau
John Strangways Timothy Moxon Eckart Dux
Puss-Feller Lester Prendergast Arnold Marquis
Jones Reginald Carter Herbert Stass
Wrong reporter Margaret Le Wars Renate Danz

For the German dubbing , some details have been changed compared to the original version. In the original English sound, Dr. No to being the unwanted son of a German missionary and a Chinese girl, while the German language version speaks of a British missionary as the father. The criminal organization becomes "GOFTER" (secret organization for terrorism, extortion and revenge) in German. Called "PHANTOM" in Greetings from Moscow and Fireball , the organization is only called from One Lives Only Twice (1967) as in the English version "SPECTER" (Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion, acronym of English specter 'Ghost' ).

Klaus Kindler could not establish himself as James Bond's spokesman: Already in the following From Russia With Love was Gert Günther Hoffmann heard in the role, and remained so for all other Bond films with Sean Connery and George Lazenby . With this role Hoffmann was able to establish himself as the standard spokesman for Connery and remained so until his death. Siegfried Schürenberg also spoke the M in greetings from Moscow and You Only Live Twice .

background

Conception

At the beginning, the novel Thunderball was intended as a template for the first James Bond movie . Due to the legal dispute between Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham , the production company Eon Productions , headed by producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, decided on the novel Dr. No . United Artists had already signed a deal for the distribution of six James Bond films before shooting began, and when the success of James Bond followed suit, Dr. No. began to take off, Eon started production of the second film With Love from Moscow .

The film character James Bond from Dr. No is still very much based on Fleming's creation. Many features of the film series can already be found in this film. This includes the James Bond theme composed by Monty Norman and arranged by John Barry , the start of every James Bond film with a pistol barrel, at least one strong and erotic female role (see characters from James Bond films # The Bond Girls ), exotic locations , the use of gadgets and special vehicles and a megalomaniac, handicapped opponent with his henchmen. Compared to the following films in the series, Dr. No directly with the opening credits - only starting with Greetings from Moscow this divides the plot. Although the opening credits are stylistically different from their successors, it was designed here by Maurice Binder - he also created everything else from Fireball to License to Kill .

occupation

The search for a leading actor turned out to be difficult. One even hoped to find a suitable actor through a newspaper competition. From over 1000 applicants, six were selected for test shots and model Peter Anthony emerged as the winner of the selection process. Still, he was not considered suitable for the role. According to reports, were also Richard Johnson , Rex Harrison , Trevor Howard , Max von Sydow and Roger Moore considered - the latter was later the third performer James Bond. Patrick McGoohan turned down the role as too brutal. Producer Broccoli would have liked to see Cary Grant in the role, Bond writer Fleming favored either David Niven , Roger Moore or his cousin Christopher Lee for the role.

Producer Benjamin Fisz finally made his colleagues Broccoli and Saltzman aware of Connery at a party. Thereupon he was invited to London in October 1961 for talks with the two Dr. No producers. They were immediately impressed by Connery's body language and wanted to sign him. But the United Artists remained cautious at first and hoped for a better actor if they continued their search. However, Broccoli and Saltzman offered Connery a contract for several films in late October 1961, which the latter also accepted. With this contract, Connery committed himself to direct a James Bond film every year from 1962 to 1967.

For the film, Ursula Andress ' role name was shortened from Honeychild Ryder to Honey Ryder. Both they - as producers found their pronunciation insufficient - and Timothy Moxon were originally dubbed . The voice of Honey Ryder then took over Nikki van der Zyl , Strangways spoke Robert Rietti . The latter was to lend his voice to other actors in two other Bond films: Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo in Fireball and as Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice . In Her Majesty's Secret finally he got a brief appearance in a casino.

The well-known character Q is played in this film by actor Peter Burton under the role name Major Boothroyd. Desmond Llewelyn then took over the role from the second Bond film from Love from Moscow until his death in 1999. Bernard Lee was already seen in this film as head of the secret service M and Lois Maxwell as its secretary Miss Moneypenny. Both actors stayed true to their roles for decades. Anthony Dawson, who played the treacherous Professor Dent here, was later seen only vaguely as the villain Blofeld in the two Bond films From Love from Moscow and Fireball and was not mentioned in the credits .

Filming

The shooting took place from January 16, 1962 to March 30, 1962. Although the producers Broccoli and Saltzman were sure of their cause, they only had a relatively small budget of around one million dollars from the film company United Artists . Despite this low budget, the set designer Ken Adam created a number of futuristic backdrops in the Pinewood Studios and thus made a not inconsiderable contribution to the resounding success at the box office. In Great Britain alone, the movie brought back production costs many times over. For the opening of the film, Maurice Binder filmed the inside of a real pistol barrel with a pinhole camera, creating the first identifying mark of a James Bond film. From Goldeneye onwards, the pistol barrels were generated by computer.

Filming locations:

Film music

The film starts with the James Bond theme by Monty Norman, which was arranged and recorded by John Barry at Norman's request . Years earlier, Norman had written the underlying motif for a stage production. However, it was John Barry's jazz- inspired arrangement of winds and surf guitar that made the subject world famous. The soundtrack also features Norman's various arrangements of the Caribbean folk song Underneath The Mango Tree and Three Blind Mice, known as Kingston Calypso . Norman added another James Bond theme (title 17) to the soundtrack, but this was not used in any later Bond films. The soundtrack was first released in 1962 by United Artists Records as a mono LP - all other Bond film scores were then released in stereo. In the 1980s, a first CD pressing was released by EMI Records. For the 40th anniversary of the film, Capitol Records released a new edited version in 2003.

Track list of the soundtrack CD:

  1. James Bond Theme (01:48)
  2. Kingston Calypso (02:45)
  3. Jamaican Rock (02:05)
  4. Jump Up (02:13)
  5. Audio Bongo (01:33)
  6. Under The Mango Tree (02:25)
  7. Twisting With James (03:12)
  8. Jamaica Jazz (01:08)
  9. Under The Mango Tree (02:46)
  10. Jump Up (01:30)
  11. Dr. No's Fantasy (01:43)
  12. Kingston Calypso (02:31)
  13. The Island Speaks (03:23)
  14. Under The Mango Tree (02:44)
  15. The Boy's Chase (01:34)
  16. Dr. No's Theme (02:02)
  17. James Bond Theme (02:24)
  18. Love At Last (01:53)

publication

The British press could find James Bond 007 chasing Dr. No first seen on October 2, 1962. The film was shown publicly for the first time three days later before it opened in theaters on October 8th. The US premiere took place on March 7, 1963 in the presence of Sean Connery on Broadway . The guests present included Leonard Bernstein , Phyllis Newman, Faye Emerson and Zsa Zsa Gabor . The cinema release in the USA took place on May 8, 1963. James Bond - 007 is chasing Dr. No was a great financial success. With an estimated budget of approximately $ 1.1 million, it grossed nearly $ 60 million worldwide, including about 16 million in the United States. The film had its German television premiere on December 28, 1984 at 8:15 p.m. on Das Erste .

Dr. No was first released on VHS by MGM Home Entertainment in the 1980s . In Germany, Warner Home Video took over this from 1982 as a rental version and from 1984 as a purchase version. The film was last reissued in 1996 as part of a uniform VHS series, which differed considerably from the English version. These new covers shaped the image of the packaging in all Bond film releases up to 2006. The film was first released on DVD as a special edition by 20th Century Fox Entertainment in 2000 . From 2006 to 2012 it was marketed as the Ultimate Edition . Since 2008 the film has also been available on Blu-ray Disc .

reception

At the time of publication, James Bond - 007 Chasing Dr. No mixed reviews. In retrospect, however, it is mostly classified as an above-average contribution to the James Bond series. This is how Dr. No in Entertainment Weekly magazine in 2006, 44 years after the film was released, 7th out of 21 films. In the same year, the staff at the multimedia website IGN rated the Bond films and selected Dr. No in 6. Between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with Dr. No Place 9 reached 22 films. In 2012, the Bond films were also rated by the readers of 007 Magazine . Dr. No took 6th out of 24 places. In a likewise 2012 published list of Rolling Stone takes Dr. No. 6 out of 24 James Bond films.

"First film of the popular and - despite multiple changes in leading actors - long-lasting series of action films, which since 1962 has processed motifs from novels by the Englishman Ian Fleming (1908–1964) into a spectacular mixture of genres."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Golden Globe Award 1964

Laurel Award 1964

  • 2nd place in the Best Action Drama category
  • 3rd place in the Best Action Actor category for Sean Connery

The British Film Institute chose 007 chasing Dr. No in 1999 ranked 41st best British films of all time .

Remarks

  • In this film, Bond received his iconic pistol, the Walther PPK ; he traded it for his Beretta 418, which had jammed the last time it was out there. The weapon called the Walther PPK in the film is actually a Walther PP .
  • As James Bond is chasing Dr. No was not the first James Bond novel, some elements in the film chronology had to be changed: The earlier novel Live and Let Die is set in Jamaica and thus Bond meets Strangways and Quarrel here as well. But since both died in this film, Strangways was removed from the later film adaptation . Quarrel's role, however, as an integral part of the plot, was taken over by his son Quarrel Jr.
  • In the first James Bond film, Ursula Andress emerged from the sea in a cream-colored cotton bikini . The scene caused the textile item, which had been viewed with moral worries until then, to spread by leaps and bounds (see Dr.-No-Bikini ). In reference to this scene, Halle Berry rose from the sea in the same way in the 2002 Bond film Die Another Day and James Bond himself ( Daniel Craig ) in the following Casino Royale .
  • The film company EON celebrated October 5th, 2012, the 50th anniversary of the film's premiere, as Global James Bond Day .
  • The label Europa released the revised soundtrack of the film as a radio play on music cassette. The narrator that does not exist in the film is spoken by Norbert Langer .

Additional information

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: James Bond Chases Dr. No  - quotes

swell

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for James Bond - 007 chasing Dr. No . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 29 206 V / DVD).
  2. ^ Tesche, page 425
  3. ↑ Definition of terms toppling
  4. ↑ James Bond - 007 is chasing Dr. No. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 17, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Münstersche Zeitung : 007 - On behalf of the censors: “Skyfall” falls victim to the scissors in China, front page, Ilka Bärwald, 23 January 2013
  6. ↑ a b c d e Production Notes. On: mi6-hq.com (English). Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  7. ^ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 77.
  8. ↑ a b Box office / business for Dr. No on: imdb.com (English). Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  9. ^ Siegfried Tesche: The great James Bond atlas. Wissen Media Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07305-9 , pp. 114/115
  10. ↑ The James Bond Theme Story . ( Memento of March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: montynorman.com
  11. ↑ List of the various editions of the soundtrack album In: soundtrackcollector.com
  12. ↑ YEAR 1980–2000. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
  13. ↑ http://007homevideo.com/vtape_de_precert.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 007homevideo.com  
  14. ↑ Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films on ew.com (English), accessed on November 10, 2015.
  15. ↑ James Bond's Top 20 - Ranking 007's films from worst to best. On: ign.com (English). Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  16. ↑ Best Bond Film Results. from: mi6-hq.com (English), accessed November 10, 2015.
  17. ↑ 007 MAGAZINE readers vote On Her Majesty's Secret Service as greatest ever Bond film! at: 007magazine.co.uk , accessed December 26, 2012.
  18. ↑ James Bond's Best and Worst: Peter Travers Ranks All 24 Movies on rollingstone.com (English), accessed on November 10, 2015.
  19. ^ Internet Movie Firearms Database
  20. ↑ http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/eon-announces-a-global-james-bond-day-on-october-5th-this-year/
  21. ↑ James Bond chases Dr. No. James Bond radio plays. In: jamesbondfilme.de. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
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