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Buy This Item Dr. No  Available from Amazon  $4.99  on 11-16-2008     Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best, and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he won the role of Agent 007. In his first adventure James Bond is called to Jamaica where a colleague and secretary have been mysteriously killed. With an American CIA agent (Jack Lord, pre-<i>Hawaii Five-O</i>), they discover that the nefarious Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) is scheming to blackmail the U.S. government with a device capable of deflecting and destroying U.S. rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. Of course, Bond takes time off from his exploits to enjoy the company of a few gorgeous women, including the bikini-clad Ursula Andress. She gloriously kicks off the long-standing tradition of Bond women who know how to please their favorite secret agent. A sexist anachronism? Maybe, but this is Bond at his purest, kicking off a series of movies that shows no sign of slowing down. <i>--Jeff Shannon</i> Reader Reviews 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!

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