Casino Royale (1967)
45%RT Audience Score: 34%
Awards & Nominations: Won 1 BAFTA Award
27 wins & 44 nominations total
A goofy, dated parody of spy movie clichés, Casino Royale squanders its all-star cast on a meandering, mostly laugh-free script
Casino Royale is like a bad blind date that you can’t wait to end. The only saving grace is Woody Allen’s performance, but even he can’t save this tone-deaf spoof. The film tries to be a James Bond parody, but it falls flat on its face. The only thing that’s eye-popping about this movie is the amount of bared midriffs. It’s insulting to moviegoers, it’s insulting to Bond, and it’s insulting to anyone who has to sit through it. Save yourself the trouble and watch a real Bond film instead.
Production Company(ies)
Channel Four Films, Figment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company,
Distributor
MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., RCA/Columbia, Columbia Pictures
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Villa La Gaeta, Lake Como, Lombardia, Italy
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violent action, a scene of torture, sexual content and nudity
Year of Release
1967
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital SDDS DTS
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:2h 11m
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Language(s):English, Serbian, German, Italian, French
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Apr 19, 1967 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 15, 2002
Genre(s)
Comedy
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $616,502,912
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $909,130,379
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 114
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 99,141,808
US/Canada gross: $167,445,960
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $246,925,369
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 259
US/Canada opening weekend: $40,833,156
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $60,214,902
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 173
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $150,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $221,198,561
Production budget ranking: 66
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $119,115,425
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $568,816,393
ROI to date (est.): 167%
ROI ranking: 718
Ursula Andress – Vesper Lynd, 007
David Niven – Sir James Bond
Orson Welles – Le Chiffre
Joanna Pettet – Mata Bond
Woody Allen – Dr. Noah, Jimmy Bond
Director(s)
Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joe McGrath, Robert Parrish
Writer(s)
Ian Fleming, Wolf Mankowitz, Michael Sayers
Producer(s)
Jerry Bresler, Charles K. Feldman
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 BAFTA Award
27 wins & 44 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (41) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (30)
Things pick up a little bit when Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen stumble into the scene, but the total experience remains boringly incoherent.
March 30, 2018
Andrew Sarris
Village Voice
TOP CRITIC
Despite being not officially a Bond film this is good solid, entertaining action.
October 13, 2008 | Rating: 4/5
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Peter Sellers has some amusing gags as the gambler, the chance of dressing up in various guises and a neat near-seduction scene with Ursula Andress.
August 15, 2007
Variety Staff
Variety
TOP CRITIC
Out of five directors — only McGrath manages to connect with this brontosaurian James Bond parody.
August 15, 2007
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
The few good aspects of this farce are vastly outweighed by the bad.
November 5, 2006 | Rating: 2/4
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
TOP CRITIC
Even less amusing than the more ‘serious’ Bond films.
February 9, 2006
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
many a Sunday afternoon television viewer has tried to puzzle out the strange, compromised, parallel narrative here, with barely a scene in which the various stars actually interact
April 24, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
Eddie Harrison
film-authority.com
A tone-deaf spoof. Woody Allen steals the show.
September 25, 2021 | Rating: 2/4
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
A few innovative sets, a wealth of eye-popping colors, and oodles of bared midriffs can’t redeem this juvenile experiment in adolescent fantasy.
August 24, 2020 | Rating: 2/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
I cannot even recommend the film in any half-hearted manner. It’s insulting to moviegoers, it’s insulting to me, and it’s insulting to Bond.
July 7, 2020
Jake Tropila
Film Inquiry
If Casino Royale has what passes for its heart set on dealing the final death-blow to an over-worked legend, how sad that it didn’t perform the necessary obsequies with style.
January 29, 2019
Penelope Houston
The Spectator
The melodrama has been staged on a lavish scale and everybody quite literally acts out the window.
December 30, 2017
W. Ward Marsh
Cleveland Plain Dealer…
Plot
James Bond (Daniel Craig) goes on his first mission as a 00. Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) is a banker to the world’s terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe amongst the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as “M” (Dame Judi Dench) sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd Eva Green) to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), Rene Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini), and having Vesper pose as his partner, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. But if Bond defeats Le Chiffre, will he and Vesper Lynd remain safe?
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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