Casino Royale (Columbia Pictures) (1967)

(Mat 3B) David Niven as Sir James Bond and Barbara Bouchet as Miss Moneypenny, meet the lovely, gun-toting Fang Girls in this scene from Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale,’ Co Bond-Chasers Ever since Ursula Andress, one of the world’s most beautiful women, achieved instant stardom by emerging from the sea clad in the briefest of bikinis in an early vintage James Bond film, other beautiful girls have leapt at the chance to duplicate her surge to screen success. Ursula liked her previous James Bond association so well she is one of the 17 international stars now in the biggest James Bond 007 entertainment extravaganza of them all, Charles K. Feldman’s “Casino Royale,” a Columbia Pictures’ release at Thee ences Theatre in Panavision and Technicolor. Appearing with Ursula also are some 200 beautiful Bond-chasing women including such other stars as Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi and Barbara Bouchet. The girls in “Casino Royale” come from such varied countries as United States, India, Canada, Australia, Ghana and the British Isles. The leader of the Fang girls in “Casino Royale” is Tracy Reed who, several years ago, made considerable impact with her performance in “Dr. Strangelove.” Peter Sellers, who played multiple roles in that film, now plays multiple roles as one of the James Bonds in “Casino Royale.” One of the girls Bond cases, 21-year-old Jackie Bisset, who plays the seductive Giovanna Goodthighs in romantic-comedy scenes with Sellers, left the “‘Ca-sino Royale’ set with an impressive role in a new Audrey Hepburn-Albert Finney film. Angela Scoular, a talented young miss from London just out of drama school, was discovered by Charles Chaplin who recommended her to director John Huston. Result: she becomes happily and hilarously involved with co-star David Niven when he, as Sir James Bond, tries to take a bath. Tracey Crisp, a curvaceous blonde from Walthamstow, London, is another of the 200 lovelies appearing in “Casino Royale.” (Mat 3A; Still No. 56) Shown above, the training school for spies to which David Niven as Sir James Bond sends Joanna Pettet as Mata Bond, his daughter, when she agrees to help him in the Page 18 (Mat IL) Daliah Lavi as "The Detainer'’ and Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond, nephew of Sir James Bond, are among the 17 international stars of Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale." (Mat IK) Ursula Andress, the world's richest spy, gives Peter Sellers a lesson in counter-es pionage in this scene from Charles K. Feldman's ‘Casino Royale," a Columbia release. lumbia Pictures release in Panavision and Technicolor. The 007 spoof has several James Bonds, 17 international stars and 200 international beauties involved in its fanciful fights and flights. Woody Allen Woody Allen is five-foot, three inches, bespectacled, hilariously “beset” by the entire world and, probably, the most unlikely of all personalities to play James Bond. But Allen does play the super-agent or, rather, his nephew Jimmy Bond, in Charles K. Feldman’s “Casino Royale,” the gigantic 007 super-spy spoof suggested by Ian Fleming’s first novel on the super-sleuth. Filmed in Panavision and Technicolor, “Casino Royale” is now at the BAe Gas Theatre with 17 international stars, some 200 beautiful girls and a number of James Bonds — including Jimmy — for them to chase or to escape from. Never at a loss for words and certainly not one to let an opportunity for a bon mot pass, Woody Allen bluntly declares: “In ‘Casino Royale,’ I play James Bond. For the first time, the public is going to have a truly virile James Bond. Women sense in me a willingness to be violent. And if you look at me in the right light, you can’t fail to see I’m sexy.” Self-confidence is a pre-requisite in acting; modesty is a Woody Allen trade-mark. Bond Backers David Niven is Sir James Bond, now a famed grower of black roses, at the start of Charles K. Feldman’s spectacular 007 production, “Casino Royale,” new Columbia Pictures release in Panavision and Technicolor at the Theatre. But there is an epic villainy loose in the world, and Bond is urged to come out of retirement by his old boss, “M’’, head of the British Secret Service, by the head of America’s CIA, the chief of the French Surete and by the chief of Russian Intelligence. In real life, the Bond-backers are, respectively, John Huston, William Holden, Charles Boyer and Kurt Kasznar. eee ne eens course of Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale," Columbia release in Panavision and Technicolor. The 007 spoof has several James Bonds, |7 international stars and 200 international beauties. COLUMN ITEMS According to those who know—the 17 international stars of Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale,'' Columbia Pictures release in Panavision and Technicolor—this new James Bond 007 superspoof was filmed, as David Niven says, "in much the same way that General Groves made the atom bomb." No one was allowed to see any more of the script than concerned him alone, and no one knew what the others were doing or how they related to each other. Niven, as Sir James Bond, is the link for the action and the other James Bonds in "Casino Royale" which, claims the distinguished actor, one of the screen's most sophisticated comedians, is "the only spy film | know that was actually made by spies." * Peter Sellers, as one of the several James Bonds in Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale," Columbia Pictures release in Panavision and Technicolor, actually appears in the super-spy superspoof as an unbeatable gambler who is invited to impersonate Bond. To impress Ursula Andress, who does the inviting, Sellers impersonates Napoleon, Hitler and Toulouse-Lautrec . . . and he also speaks in a faintly Glaswegian intonation that could only belong to an actor named Sean Connery! Incidentally, with 200 beautiful girls in "Casino Royale," the James Bond so hilariously played by Sellers just doesn't make out. * * * His role as Sir James Bond, one of the several James Bonds in Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale," in Panavision and Technicolor at Te 2... jc. Theatre, marks David Niven's 8Ist starring role. During filming of the Columbia Pictures’ release, Niven was asked how he had managed to remain as one of the screen's top international stars. "One doesn't remain a star by the films one makes," he said, "but by the films one doesn't do.” * * * The powerful impact registered by Terence Cooper, who plays one of the several James Bonds in Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale,"' the 007 entertainment in Panavision and Technicolor for Columbia Pictures’ release, is illustrated by the following anecdote about him: After Feldman tested Cooper for the part of 007 and signed him to a seven-year contract, he summoned the actor for a test with a young actress being considered for scenes with Peter Sellers who also been signed to play one of the James Bond roles in "Casino Royale." The test was for the girl but Feldman wanted Cooper to work with her, feeding her lines and, incidentally, rehearsing his own role. The test was made and shown to Sellers in the projection room the next day. Sellers immediately called the producer, who interpreted the quick reaction as the approval he wanted. "Never mind the girl,’ said Sellers. ''Tell me, who is that young actor? He's like a young Gregory Peck!" * * * Angelica Huston stepped into the breach and helped out her famous father, John Huston, during filming in Ireland of Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale," the James Bond 007 extravaganza for Columbia Pictures’ release. Huston needed a shot of Deborah Kerr's hands for a key scene, but Deborah wasn't on call that day. Rather than have the star make a long journey for the one scene, director Huston persuaded his teen-age daughter, on holiday from school, to let her own hands "stand-in" for Deborah's. * * * George Raft, long-celebrated as the screen's most durable tough guy, is back again as a gangster in the all-star James Bond 007 extravaganza, Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale.’ The Columbia Pictures’ release at the Theatre, filmed in Panavision and Technicolor, has 17 international stars, 200 inter national beauties and several James Bonds. * * * Songwriter Burt Bacharach, who produced a best-selling soundtrack album with his first motion picture assignment, What's New, Pussycat?"' seems to be duplicating his success in his third film, Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale," now at the ............ Theatre with I7 international stars. Bacharach composed and conducted the music for the Columbia Pictures’ release of the James Bond 007 extravaganza. * * * Woody Allen, the diminutive, be-spectacled comedian who plays Sir James Bond's nephew Jimmy, a would-be super-sleuth, in Charles K. Feldman's "Casino Royale,’ was writing jokes and sketches for television comics while still in school, until he decided they weren't using his funniest lines. Allen decided to turn comic himself and he opened at a New York night club with a young girl singer; the two performers were cancelled out after three very unimpressve nights. The girl, Allen points out, was Barbra Streisand, which shows what kind of company he keeps. In "Casino Royale," Allen is one of |7 international stars, and one of several James Bonds. * oe * Deborah Kerr is red-headed and beautiful, as almost every movie-goer knows. In Charles K. Feldman's ''Casino Royale," the Columbia Pictures release in Panavision and Technicolor, Miss Kerr also is seen as an apparently-bereaved widow surrounded by eleven beautiful, red-headed daughters, all teen-agers and all as determined as she is to destroy David Niven, who plays Sir James Bond. Naturally, she falls in love with him, instead. Naturally, too, so do the daughters.