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Joanna Pettet in Casino Royale, dir­ec­ted by John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath and Val Guest, 1967

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15 Comments

  • haice says:
    February 14, 2012 at 12:27 am

    Jam packed clas­sic. Feldman money well spent. The ulti­mate guilty pleas­ure swim­ming in one of the 5 best ori­gin­al soundtracks of 60s.

  • Dan Coyle says:
    February 14, 2012 at 1:50 am

    What a movie!

  • John Merrill says:
    February 14, 2012 at 6:31 am

    I loved her. Damn, she’s prob­ably as old as I am now. (60+) The Night of the Generals!

  • bill says:
    February 14, 2012 at 10:12 am

    “They said Einstein was insane.”
    “No they didn’t.”
    “Well…they would have, if he’d car­ried on like this.”

  • David Ehrenstein says:
    February 14, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    So much bet­ter than the recent sober-sided version.
    Jackie Bissett tells me that Peter Sellers was­n’t present when she did a scene that was sup­posed to be with her. At this point in his career he much pre­ferred work­ing alone. So Val Guest cued he by read­ing Sellers’ lines. Not very enjoy­able – but it was work in a Big Big movie.

  • dan says:
    February 14, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    Bill, I always find it int­rest­ing that this quote, in a dif­fer­ent vari­ation, was included in anoth­er great com­edy from 1967 – Bedazzled. it’s prac­tic­ally the same joke – and in both films the deliv­ery is pure bliss.

  • bill says:
    February 14, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    Dan – Really? I saw BEDAZZLED a year or so ago and I did­n’t even notice it. The line being my single favor­ite thing from CASINO ROYALE, I’m sur­prised it sailed right by me.

  • lipranzer says:
    February 14, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    I wish I could join in the guilty pleas­ure love (or oth­er­wise) in this movie, but I can­’t. To me, this just seems like anoth­er example of movies that sound a lot cool­er and enter­tain­ing than they actu­ally turn out to be. The only scenes I found con­sist­ently funny were any­thing with Woody Allen in it (I like the Einstein line, but my favor­ite is “My doc­tor says I can­’t have bul­lets enter my body at any time”).

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    February 14, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    I don’t actu­ally con­sider it a guilty pleasure—I don’t actu­ally even believe in the cat­egory, as I’ve said more than once—but I do admit that large chunks of it could be slat­ted in the “acquired taste” cat­egory. I think it’s kind of beau­ti­ful in its point­less­ness, fas­cin­at­ing in the way it sim­ul­tan­eously catches and misses its spe­cif­ic cul­tur­al moment. And the our-day-is-over indol­ence of the older cast mem­bers. And the women in it ARE gorgeous.

  • David Ehrenstein says:
    February 15, 2012 at 8:58 am

    Yes, Woody has the best line in the movie. When they’re put­ting him before a fir­ing squad he sasy “You real­ize this means an angry let­ter to the Times.”

  • David Ehrenstein says:
    February 15, 2012 at 9:00 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW_kMtut25M
    Dusty and Ursula!

  • Stephen Winer says:
    February 15, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Oksy, let’s hit all Woody Allen’s lines from the film. My favor­ite is:“Come with me. We’ll run amok. If you’re too tired, we can walk amok”.And the fir­ing squad gag is per­fect – a pre­curs­or to “Bananas”.
    Still, Woody Allen’s seg­ments are very short and I can­’t say much for the rest of the film. Apparently, Peter Sellers did­n’t want to be funny because he felt at that time he should be play­ing James Bond for real.

  • BobSolo says:
    February 16, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    “And the women in it ARE gorgeous.”
    So, Glenn, are you say­ing that we should … ahem …
    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK AT HER
    ?

  • Charles says:
    February 16, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    I was very young. My sis­ter dragged me to it with no explan­a­tion. I remem­ber read­ing the cred­its and think­ing, “where’s Sean Connery?”
    Watched the video a couple of years ago, bored to death, then sud­denly choked with laughter when the char­ac­ters slipped through the Berlin Wall. I did­n’t get the German Expressionism joke the first time. In 1967, it was just anoth­er weird look­ing scene.

  • Peter Swanson says:
    February 17, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    My vote for most beau­ti­ful female cast ever assembled. I can­’t even think of a close runner-up. A few of my screen­shots here: http://armchairaudience.blogspot.com/2011/05/casino-royale-1966.html