Casino Royale: Book vs. Movie
The 1967 film Casino Royale loosely adapts Ian Fleming's book as a spy comedy. David Niven plays a retired James Bond, while Peter Sellers is a baccarat player recruited into an operation with multiple agents using Bond's name.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Ian Fleming
- Year
- 1953
- Pages
- 224Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 5 hr 44 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Richard Armitage
- Series
- James Bond, book 1
British agent James Bond travels to Royale-les-Eaux to ruin Le Chiffre at the baccarat table, hoping a gambling defeat will make the Soviet operative answer to his own employers. Vesper Lynd joins the mission as Bond commits government money to a contest he cannot afford to lose. Away from the casino, intimidation and his growing attachment to Vesper make professional detachment increasingly difficult.
- Director
- John Huston, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath
- Writer
- Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, Michael Sayers
- Year
- 1967
- Runtime
- 2 hr 11 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles
- Genre
- action, adventure, comedy, spy
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Retired spy Sir James Bond is persuaded to confront SMERSH after agents begin disappearing. His solution involves giving multiple operatives the name James Bond and the number 007, while baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble prepares to challenge Le Chiffre at the casino. Seductions, impersonations and rival schemes turn an intelligence operation into a scramble in which almost everyone has a secret identity.
Other adaptations of this book
- 1
Casino RoyaleMovie · 2006Details
- Director
- Martin Campbell
- Writer
- Neal Purvis, Paul Haggis, Robert Wade
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 2 hr 24 min
- Cast
- Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini
Newly promoted to 00 status, James Bond pursues a financier who handles money for terrorists. The trail leads to a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where Treasury official Vesper Lynd must keep watch over the government's stake and its unpredictable agent. Bond needs to beat Le Chiffre at the table while surviving opponents who have no intention of letting the cards settle matters.
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