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James Bond is a character many people know and love. He has led one of the most popular entertainment franchises which included films, novels, and video games. However, one of the least known adaptations was the 1954 version of Casino Royale for the Anthology series Climax!
This version of Casino Royale sees James Bond (Barry Nelson) assigned to a mission in a French casino. He must beat Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre) in a game of baccarat. If Le Chiffre loses his Soviet handlers will ‘retire’ him. But if Bond win then Le Chiffre will kill his ex-romantic partner, Valerie Mathis (Linda Christian.)
Casino Royale (1954) was the bizarro version of Bond. Fans of the franchises will be taken aback by this episode and gives everyone a window to what an American version of the character would have looked like. This version does pale in comparison to what proceeded it.
Casino Royale (1954) was the bizarro version of Bond. Fans of the franchises will be taken aback by this episode and gives everyone a window to what an American version of the character would have looked like. This version does pale in comparison to what proceeded it.
- The one-hour television Casino Royale was screened at 8.30 pm on 21 October 1954 in the series Climax! Mystery Theatre (CBS 1954-8) sponsored by the Chrysler Corporation. It was broadcast in colour, but in that first year of colour TV in the USA very few people would have seen it that way, viewing in black and white instead.
- In 1954, the Columbia Broadcasting System or CBS Television purchased Casino Royale for a one time live presentation on their new anthology program Climax Mystery Theater. They paid Fleming $1000.00. Barry Nelson as Jimmy 'Card-Sense' Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. The $25,000 live production aired on Thursday night October 21, 1954 at 8.
Allowances need to be made for Casino Royale (1954). It was adapted for a TV show that was filmed live, so there were limits on the shots and locations that could be used. As an adaptation, Casino Royale (1954), was a loose one because it had to fit a 50-minute run time – but most of the Bond films treated the novels as a guideline. The biggest changes in this adaptation was combining the characters of Vesper and Mathis into one and not showing the events after Bond and his love interest leave the Casino.
Turning Vesper to Valerie changed the dynamic between Bond and his love interest. Bond and Vesper fall in love during the mission in the book and the 2006 film. In this version of Casino Royale Bond and Valerie used to be in a relationship but had broken up. There was baggage between the pair with Bond being cut up about it.
Turning Vesper to Valerie changed the dynamic between Bond and his love interest. Bond and Vesper fall in love during the mission in the book and the 2006 film. In this version of Casino Royale Bond and Valerie used to be in a relationship but had broken up. There was baggage between the pair with Bond being cut up about it.
This adaptation was co-written by Charles Bennett who wrote numerous screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock. This led to Casino Royale (1954) being more like a Hitchcockian style film. Fraught relationships were often a feature in Hitchcock’s thrillers and many of the situations on display that would have fitted in Hitchcock’s films. An example of this was when one of Le Chiffre’s henchmen threatens Clarence Leiter (Michael Pate) in plain sight and Leiter didn’t give up the money in a rather humorous manner. But William H. Brown, Jr., the director of this episode, was no Alfred Hitchcock. Casino Royale (1954) lacked a sense of tension or adventure that defined Hitchcock’s films.
The very first screen appearance of James Bond 007, made in 1954 for US TV channel CBS. Bond's task is to destroy the evil Le Chiffre, and his plan is to force him to lose a large sum of money at the gambling tables of Casino Royale. Casino clipart diamond heart icons in gold.
Nelson has an unenviable task because he was the first actor to play Bond. It is unfair to an extent to criticise and compare him to other actors to play the character since this episode was rough around the edges. Nelson was the typical all-American hero – he had chiselled good looks but was he was stiff as a board. He lacked the wit, the suave nature, and being cool under pressure that Bond became known for. It was weird to hear James Bond being called Jimmy. It made me think of Jack Wade who called Bond that name during the Bronson era. Pate as the English Leiter would have been a better fit for the role.
The most on-point piece of casting was Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. Lorre was an acclaimed actor during his time and often played villains. So, it was no issue for Lorre to play the sadistic and desperate man with a sadistic streak. He would have been a great villain for the proper series.
Whilst Casino Royale (1954) was a live recording anyone hoping for a load of mistakes and fluffs will be disappointed. It wasn’t like the live versions of Eastenders where they had some hilarious mistakes.
Whilst Casino Royale (1954) was a live recording anyone hoping for a load of mistakes and fluffs will be disappointed. It wasn’t like the live versions of Eastenders where they had some hilarious mistakes.
Casino Royale (1954) was only worth watching for Bond completists and even for them they only need to see it once. The episode is available on Youtube if you are curious.
LOS ANGELES -- Barry Nelson, a Broadway leading man who launched his career at MGM in the 1940s and earned a niche in show business history as the first actor to play British secret agent James Bond, as an American named Jimmy Bond, in a live television production of 'Casino Royale' in the 1950s, has died. He was 89.
Mr. Nelson died April 7 in a hotel in Bucks County, Pa., his wife, Nansi, said. The cause of death has yet to be determined.
As an MGM contract player in the 1940s, Mr. Nelson appeared in films such as 'Shadow of the Thin Man,' 'Dr. Kildare's Victory,' 'A Yank on the Burma Road,' 'The Human Comedy,' 'Bataan,' and 'A Guy Named Joe.'
He later played opposite Debbie Reynolds in the 1963 movie comedy 'Mary, Mary,' a role he originated on Broadway with costar Barbara Bel Geddes. He also appeared in the films 'Airport,' 'Pete 'n' Tillie' and 'The Shining.'
But Mr. Nelson had some of his greatest successes on Broadway, including appearing in 'Light Up the Sky' and 'The Moon Is Blue' in the 1940s, 'Cactus Flower' opposite Lauren Bacall (in the '60s) and 'The Act' opposite Liza Minnelli (for which he received a Tony Award nomination as best actor in a musical in 1978).
'He was a charming light comedian with a wonderful boyish face and a lovely youthful quality,' Miles Kreuger, president of the Institute of the American Musical in Los Angeles, said yesterday.
On television in the early '50s, Mr. Nelson starred as a globe-trotting businessman involved in international intrigue in 'The Hunter,' a half-hour series that ran on CBS from 1952 to 1954.
He also costarred opposite Joan Caulfield in 'My Favorite Husband,' a situation comedy that ran on CBS from 1953 to 1957.
It was while he was doing that series that he was offered the role of Bond in 'Casino Royale,' the television adaptation of Ian Fleming's first Bond novel, on the CBS dramatic anthology series 'Climax!'
Mr. Nelson had, in fact, just completed the 103d episode of 'My Favorite Husband' and was in need of a break.
'I was burned out,' he recalled in a 2002 interview with the Daily Mirror of London. ' 'My Favorite Husband' was filmed live. It was so tiring and difficult. I took a vacation to Jamaica and told my agent I'd had it for a while.'
But soon after arriving in Jamaica, he recalled, 'My agent called saying there was this part that CBS really wanted me for. . . I had to get the next flight back to America. They were starting rehearsals the next day.'
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He said he had doubts about playing the role until he learned who was playing the villain: Peter Lorre.
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'That,' he said, 'was the clincher.'
With Mr. Nelson 'decked out in a crooked bow tie and cut-rate suit' and playing Bond as 'sexless and glum,' as the Times' Susan King later put it, the 'Casino Royale' segment of 'Climax!' aired live on Oct. 21, 1954.
Although it reportedly was favorably received, Mr. Nelson later said that he had no clue that Fleming's 007 character would ultimately achieve international renown.
'But nobody else did either,' he said in a 1992 interview with the Riverside Press-Enterprise. 'CBS even had an option on the Bond stories; they didn't pick it up.'
Eight years after Mr. Nelson's portrayal of 'Jimmy Bond,' Sean Connery debuted as the dashing 'Bond, James Bond' in the hit film 'Dr. No.'
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He leaves his wife, Nansi.