Review By David Fletcher "Casino Royale"
Starring: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Terence Cooper, Joanna Pettet, Deborah Kerr
Casino Royale is a spoof of the James Bond movies with multiple Agent 007's, beautiful women, and crazed international madmen. Retired Sir James Bond (Niven) is coerced out of retirement and travels to Scotland where he is unsuccessfully seduced by Lady Fiona McTarry (Kerr) and her numerous nymph-like daughters who try to assassinate him while hunting grouse. Actually a double agent posing as a widow in mourning, McTarry falls head over heels for Bond but joins a convent when he remains chaste on duty. He is pursued all the way back to London.

Agent Cooper (Cooper) is to be next official 007 and undergoes rigorous training; most of it in the art of romancing women. Miss Moneypenny works overtime schooling him on the nuances of the job! Sir James finds his daughter Mata Bond (Pettet) and she is eventually sent by cab to Germany to spy school. Meanwhile, Evelyn Tremble (Sellers), a baccarat expert and author on the subject, meets Vesper Lynd (Andress) and she recruits him to impersonate Bond and defeat Le Chiffre (Welles) at baccarat at Casino Royale.

Mata is taken in broad daylight by a mounted palace guard riding a horse aboard a flying saucer. All the 007's meet up at the headquarters of SMERSH, an evil criminal empire where they find little Jimmy Bond (Allen), Sir James' nephew, is the mastermind behind all the mayhem. His grand scheme is to kill off all the men in the world taller than he so that he will be able to get girls to love him. Jimmy is tricked into ingesting a tiny bomb disguised as an antacid tablet.


Plot
Comedy, primarily Yes
Time/era of movie: - 1960's-1970's
Kind of comedy
How much humor v. drama - Nearly all humor

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's
Hair color? - brunette (Black)
Hair type - (man) short/standard wavey
Body type - (man) average
Events of movie makes character more... - sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - very athletic

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) average build
Unclothed? - chest
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - British

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - emotionally unstable - obsessed - deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%
Hair color - red
Hair type - (man) short/standard wavey
Body type - (man) skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality - Jewish
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Dumb
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK - Germany
City? Yes
City:
Misc setting

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel... - very happy
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
Non-American film? Yes
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Modern rock/pop
Is this movie based on a - book
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