Dr. No

1962
PG
1h 50m

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Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in Dr. No (1962)

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

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A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

183K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,335

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 4 nominations

Quarrel
(as John Kitzmuller)

Eunice Gayson

Sylvia Trench

Lois Maxwell

Miss Moneypenny

Peter Burton

Major Boothroyd

Yvonne Shima

Sister Lily

Michel Mok

Sister Rose

Marguerite LeWars

Annabel Chung - Photographer
(as Margaret Le Wars, Marguerite Lewars: end credits)

William Foster-Davis

Superintendent Duff
(as Wm. Foster-Davis)

Dolores Keator

Mary Trueblood

Reggie Carter

Mr. Jones
(as Reginald Carter)

Louis Blaazer

Pleydell-Smith

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Trivia
Contrary to popular belief, Sir Sean Connery was not wearing a hairpiece in his first two outings as James Bond. Although he was already balding by the time Dr. No was in production, he still had a decent amount of hair and the filmmakers used varying techniques to make the most of what was left. By the time of Goldfinger (1964), Connery's hair was too thin and so various toupees were used for his last Bond outings.

Goofs
When the patrol boat is firing at Bond and Honey, the bullets have ricochet sounds even though they are firing into sand.

Quotes
[James Bond's first scene, winning a game of chemin-de-fer]
James Bond: I admire your courage, Miss...?
Sylvia Trench: Trench. Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr...?
James Bond: Bond. James Bond.

Crazy credits
The title sequence is a sequence of flashing lights (set to the James Bond track), dancing people (set to Caribbean calypso music) and finally the Three Blind Muce walking around (set to the "Three Blind Mice" nursery song).

Alternate versions
For the UK cinema version the BBFC made cuts to reduce the number of gunshots fired by Bond at Dent from 6 to 2, to remove blows and a knee kick during Bond's fight with the chauffeur, and to replace Dr No's line "I'm sure she will amuse the guards" with "The guards will amuse her." Most releases feature the edited print, except for a considered-legendary 1982 VHS/Betamax release, which was confirmed in 2019 to contain the uncut version of the film

Connections
Edited into We Are the Robots (2010)

Soundtracks
Under the Mango Tree
Music by Monty Norman
Lyrics by Monty Norman
Performed by Byron Lee, Diana Coupland and Sean Connery

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one of the best

Yes, most of Dr. No is cheesier than an Afghani shepherd's lunch. But this is one of my favorite Bonds anyway. I like the music, the "underneath the mango tree" thing. Doing the intro with just the regular theme song is a nice contrast to all the following films. The introduction to Bond is without comparison in the series. It's perfect.

Maybe I'm simply enraptured by her tropical innocence combined with her encyclopedia reading, but Ursula Andress is not only my favorite Bond girl, but the ideal woman, except for maybe Viveca Lindfors in Stargate. I fully realize that that should make me an object of scorn or pity. But her lines about seeing a praying mantis, blah, blah, is so rewind-worthy. And the look on her face when Bond kills the guy in the river is so hilarious/alluring/acted that I can't help but love it.

Then of course they have to kill off Quarrel, the ultimate non-white sidekick since Tonto, who believed in the "dragon." But despite all that, it remains a great example of a human action film. Action is such a de-humanized genre now. Oh for the days of yore, when secret agents actually ran out of breath and had to do little things like place a hair on the closet door to see if anyone opened it. Now they'd just have a laser sensor that would kill any intruder. Sigh. And the spider, and especially the spider music.....