Casino Royale 1967 Book
An illustration of an open book. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. An illustration of an audio speaker. Casino Royale (1967 movie). Get the best deals for casino royale 1967 at eBay.com. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items! Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, 1953 As part of the James Bond celebrations this week to continue the 60th anniversary of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, it is today announced that Vintage Classics has partnered with Bentley Motors to create a luxury limited edition of the book that introduced Special Agent 007 to the world. Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston. With David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles. In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James.
FLEMING, Ian.
$150,000.00
Item Number: 98575
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953.
First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ralph, We have now both reduced our remainders by one copy! Ian.” With a note of explanation by the recipient underneath, “I having told Ian, from the depths of my publishing experience, that he would be lucky if he made £200 out of this, his first thriller!! R.A.” The recipient Ralph Arnold was a novelist, historical writer and publisher who joined Constable in 1936 and was chairman from 1958 to 1962. Arnold and Fleming studied together at the Tennerhof School in Kitzbühel, Austria, and it was there that both made their first forays into story-writing. Having left Sandhurst without obtaining a commission, Fleming “was sent to ‘sort himself out’ at a quasi-finishing school for men in Kitzbühel … There, while skiing and climbing mountains, he came under the benevolent tutelage of Ernan Forbes Dennis, a former British spy turned educationalist, and his wife, Phyllis Bottome, an established novelist. Forbes Dennis brought out Fleming’s aptitude for languages and introduced him to literature, while his wife encouraged him to write his first stories.” (Oxford DNB). Near fine in a near fine first state dust jacket (without the Sunday Times review on the inner front flap) with the lightest of rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
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Casino Royale was written by Ian Fleming in Jamaica over a period of around two months, largely from his own experiences and imagination; he also devised the artwork for the cover. 'Within the first few pages Fleming had introduced most of Bond's idiosyncrasies and trademarks,' which included his looks, his Bentley and his smoking and drinking habits. The full details of Bond's martini were kept until chapter seven of the book and Bond eventually named it 'The Vesper', after Vesper Lynd' (Andrew Lycett). It has been filmed twice as a feature film, the first being the 1967 spoof starring David Niven, and later as the twenty-first official Bond film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.
In 2006, the Broccoli family responsible for producing the James Bond franchise since “Dr. No” in 1962, was celebrating the critical and box office success of the first entry starring Daniel Craig, “Casino Royale.” The Broccoli family not only hoped to reboot their franchise but also sought to eradicate from memory the debacle of the 1967 version of the literary legend, Ian Fleming’s book, “Casino Royale.” Peter Sellers was cast as the main star of a movie where James Bond was to be played by six different actors in a classic farce.
However, six writers are known to have worked on the script for the movie, and others are rumored to have had a hand in the writing and directing one of the greatest train wrecks in the history of Hollywood. Revisionist history has not been kind to the 1967 version of the movie or to the role Sellers played in the implosion of a star-studded film which has grown to have a cult following.
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Peter Sellers had already built something of a reputation as an actor difficult to work with, but he was now saddled with the tag of being almost impossible to work with. The comedy icon worked alongside Woody Allen to create comedy so broad and tacky to make the graphics on some of today’s leading mobile online slots games seem understated. One of the most amazing scenes in “Casino Royale” features Sellers and was re-created almost shot for shot by Mike Myers for his “Austin Powers” series as the classic live rotating bed scene.
Whether Peter Sellers damaged his cultural reputation with his work on “Casino Royale” is a difficult matter to gauge but it is true his career would take a long time to recover following the release of a series of critically-mauled movies. After the release of “Casino Royale,” Peter Sellers would enter what is often referred to as his period of indifference, regulated with average movies and performances by the comedy icon.
Peter Sellers had seemed destined to become one of the great actors of his generation after beginning a movie career following the success of the radio production, “The Goon Show” alongside Spike Milligan, Sir Harry Secombe, and Michael Bentine. Sellars had worked on some classic movies such as “The Ladykillers” and “I’m Alright, Jack” to start his career but always longed for a reputation similar to that of Sir Alec Guinness and to be a matinee idol.
After working on the film adaptations of the classic books “Lolita” and “Dr. Strangelove” with iconic director Stanley Kubrick, Sellers found himself paired with Hollywood and literature legend, Orson Welles. The pair took an instant dislike to each other made worse by Sellers friend, Princess Margaret ignoring the English actor in favor of the American when visiting the set. Neither Welles nor Sellers would appear together on film despite having several scenes together integral to the plot. After leaving the set for three weeks, Sellers would eventually leave “Casino Royale” early requiring the inclusion of David Niven as James Bond to tie together the various scenes of the movie as Sellers found his gaming made him damaged goods to the majority of Hollywood producers and directors.
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It is difficult to know just how severely damaged the reputation and life of Peter Sellers was by his childish behavior when filming “Casino Royale” as the director Billy Wilder had been unhappy with his choices even after Sellers had suffered heart attacks in 1964. His marriage to actress Britt Eckland was a difficult one, which would come to an end in 1968 which many feels was partly to blame for the erratic behavior of the actor when leaving the unhappy set of “Casino Royale” early.