I've been reading up on, and watching, the 1967 version of 'Casino Royale' for Gag Reels at the end of the month. I'm hoping I've made the right choice. There is definitely some comic mileage in it, especially when contrasted with the novel, and the story of its genesis is fairly amusing.
Plus there's the odd apocryphal tale from the making of it that may or may not be true but are funny all the same.
Watching it though it interested me to note (I'd not watched it for ages) that despite it being made to discredit and ruin the official Bond franchise by being utterly and completely ridiculous, it sticks closer to the source novel than, say, the film of 'You Only Live Twice' does to Fleming's novel of that name. This oddity starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, Woody Allen AND BERNARD CRIBBINS is arguably a more faithful adaptation than 'You Only Live Twice', 'Diamonds Are Forever', 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Moonraker' or 'Octopussy'.
And that's even taking into account the flying saucer and Frankenstein's Monster.
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