In this, the first film of the series, Sean Connery portrays James Bond, Agent 007 for Her Majestys Secret Service; A role originally offered to Roger Moore. In this adventure, Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the death of a British operative named Strangways. Along the way he meets up with Honey Rider, (Ursula Andress) and with the help of Quarrel, a local fisherman/guide and Felix Leiter from CIA, they uncover a plot involving the destruction of US Missiles and the death of Strangways devised by the infamous Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman).
This film is one of my favourites and, like On Her Majesty's Secret Service it depicts the Fleming novel quite well despite the ending. This movie is an appealing one because it has good performances all around, especially from Connery and Wiseman, properly justified action, a great local, Honey Rider, one of the greatest Bong Girls, and most importantly, it introduces SPECTRE to the James Bond character. Dr. No was the basis for all of the other SPECTRE related movies in the series.
Dr.No's Overconfidence (Thanks to Sakke)
Connery's performance was good, but not as good as it was in 1967's You
Only Live Twice (Grantit, one could not expect it to be seeing how it was the
first Bond film ever created). All in all, a fun film, with all the trimmings which
did a great job creating the atmousephere for the 17 films following suite.
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