Rico says that would be
Casino Royale, in the first of its incarnations. (There was no
Sean Connery version.) It stars
David Niven (as
Sir James Bond),
Peter Sellers (as
James Bond),
Ursula Andress (as
James Bond),
Orson Welles (as
Le Chiffre),
Vladek Sheybal (as
Le Chiffre's auctioneer), Woody Allen (as
Jimmy Bond),
Barbara Bouchet (as
Moneypenny), Deborah Kerr (as
Agent Mimi, M's 'widow'),
Jacqueline Bisset (as
Giovanna Goodthighs),
Joanna Pettet (as
James Bond),
Daliah Lavi (as
James Bond),
Terence Cooper (as
James Bond),
Bernard Cribbins (as a taxi driver), Ronnie Corbett,
Geoffrey Bayldon (as
Q),
Derek Nimmo,
Chic Murray,
William Holden (as
Ransom, a
CIA agent),
Charles Boyer (as
Le Grand, a
Deuxiême Bureau agent),
Kurt Kasznar (as
Smernov, a
KGB agent),
George Raft (as himself),
Geraldine Chaplin (uncredited as a
Keystone Kop),
John Huston (as
M),
Angelica Huston (uncredited as
Agent Mimi's hands),
Sterling Moss (uncredited as, what else, a driver),
Peter O'Toole (uncredited as a piper) and
Jean-Paul Belmondo (as a
Legionnaire).
With that cast, you can imagine some confusion results... (
Rico says he saw this version first run, back in 1967, when he was but a boy, and it didn't hold up; he turned it off only part-way through and sent it back to
Netflix.)
The second incarnation of
Casino Royale, with
Daniel Craig (as
James Bond),
Mads Mikkelsen (as
Le Chiffre,
Judi Dench (as
M),
Jeffrey Wright (as
Felix Leiter),
Giancarlo Giannini (as
Rene Mathis), and
Eva Green (as
Vesper Lynd), shot in
Montenegro, is, of course, a far more
serious Bond movie, even without, alas,
Sean Connery...
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