History Trivia / CasinoRoyale1967

* CastingGag: Among the many inside jokes in the movie is Stirling Moss' cameo as a man who is instructed to "follow that car" and runs after it on foot. Moss is one of the greatest racing drivers of all time.
** A more conspicuous example is casting Ursula Andress - the inaugural "Bond girl" - as one of the James Bond proxies.

* AllStarCast: A pretty big amount of household names here: Creator/DavidNiven, Creator/PeterSellers, Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/DeborahKerr, Creator/JohnHuston, Creator/WilliamHolden, Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo, Creator/CharlesBoyer, Jacqueline Bisset... And that's not even mentioning the cameos by the likes of Creator/PeterOToole or Geraldine Chaplin.

* BillingDisplacement: Creator/PeterSellers signed on back when the film was serious. At that point, it was intended to be a vehicle for Creator/DavidNiven. Much rewriting and scene-stealing later, Sellers actually ends up with top billing alongside Ursula Andress. This wouldn't be [[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 the first time Sellers entirely stole what was intended to be a vehicle for Niven.]]

* DeletedRole: Ian Hendry was cut out of this project. All that remains of his role is a dead body being removed.

* BillingDisplacement: Creator/PeterSellers signed on back when the film was serious. At that point, it was intended to be a vehicle for [[spoiler:Creator/DavidNiven]]. Much rewriting and scene-stealing later, Sellers actually ends up with top billing alongside Ursula Andress. This wouldn't be [[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 the first time Sellers entirely stole what was intended to be a vehicle for Niven.]]

** Nearly 50 years later, Music/DustySpringfield's "The Look of Love" still gets airplay on light rock stations, while Royale wallows in well deserved obscurity, known primarily only by Bond fanatics.

* DuelingMovies: It was released in the same year as an official Bond, ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. This duel affected the official release to the point where it became one of the factors in the long and bitter Broccoli/[=McClory=] legal feud that started a decade later and only fully ended in 2013, 7 years after [=McClory's=] death and nearly 5 decades from when ''You Only Live Twice'' and ''Casino Royale 1967'' hit theaters.

* TroubledProduction: Not only did an obscene number of directors and screenwriters get involved, but the actors fought with them, and [[HostilityOnTheSet with each other]] -- the reason that Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are not seen in the same shot during the Baccarat scene is that when they tried to get Creator/PeterSellers and Creator/OrsonWelles in the same studio, Sellers balked. He felt that Welles was not taking the scene seriously (remember that Sellers had wanted the movie to be the straight adaptation he was promised and was increasingly [[BerserkButton enraged]] over the continual slide into wacky parody the script was taking). Sellers was also an extremely superstitious man and took exception to Welles performing magic tricks during shooting, and finally refused to appear at the same time with Welles, forcing their lines to be shot at separate times.

** The producer had intended to cast Creator/SeanConnery as Bond, but balked at the star's paycheck demands ($1 million, which wasn't cheap back then). It is assumed that had Connery been cast, it would have been a straight 007 film rather than the parody it would eventually become. Years later, Connery ran into the producer and told him [[{{Understatement}} it would have been much better if he had agreed]] to the million-dollar paycheck.

* BreakawayPopHit: "The Look of Love", due to severe MoodWhiplash (see the main page).
* TheCastShowoff: Creator/OrsonWelles insisted that he be allowed to do magic tricks on-camera.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Burt Kwouk, Creator/PeterSellers' costar in ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' series, makes a cameo as a Chinese General.
* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: It went from straightforward Bond film to farcical parody.
* NotScreenedForCritics: No advance press screenings of ''Casino Royale'' were held, leading reviews to appear only after the film's premiere.

* StarDerailingRole: Proved to be this for Creator/PeterSellers, starting a downward trajectory for his career that lasted eight years before a CareerResurrection.

** A less lethal instance happened to all of the film's directors except for Creator/JohnHuston. All of them had fairly distinguished careers prior to working on this film, but none of them had anywhere near the same success afterwards. Probably the worst affected was Val Guest; after word got out that he had taken over as the primary director late in production, he got unfairly blamed for the resulting mess and was reduced to directing [[AwfulBritishSexComedy Awful British Sex Comedies]] for the rest of his career.

* AllStarCast: A pretty big amount of household names here: Creator/DavidNiven, Creator/PeterSellers, Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/DeborahKerr, Creator/JohnHuston, Creator/WilliamHolden, Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo, Charles Boyer, Jacqueline Bisset... And that's not even mentioning the cameos by the likes of Creator/PeterOToole or Geraldine Chaplin.

* TheCastShowOff: Creator/OrsonWelles insisted that he be allowed to do magic tricks on-camera.

* TroubledProduction: Not only an obscene number of directors and screenwriters got involved, but the actors fought with them. And [[HostilityOnTheSet with each other]] -- the reason that Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are not seen in the same shot during the Baccarat scene is that when they tried to get Creator/PeterSellers and Creator/OrsonWelles in the same studio, Sellers balked. He felt that Welles was not taking the scene seriously (remember that Sellers had wanted the movie to be the straight adaptation he was promised and was increasingly [[BerserkButton enraged]] over the continual slide into wacky parody the script was taking). Sellers was also an extremely superstitious man and took exception to Welles performing magic tricks during shooting, and finally refused to appear at the same time with Welles, forcing their lines to be shot at separate times.

* WagTheDirector: Creator/PeterSellers caused many problems onset. He had actor John Bernthal (who was to play multiple roles) sacked, ordered a set torn down because he had a dream where his mother visited the set and told him she didn't like it, caused delays by leaving the set for days at a time, refused to be onset with Creator/OrsonWelles and hired Terry Southern to write his dialogue (and not the rest of the script) to "outshine" his costars.

* ProductionPosse: Creator/PeterSellers, Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/WoodyAllen, Ursula Andress and Music/BurtBacharach all previously worked on ''Film/WhatsNewPussycat, also produced by Charles K. Feldman.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers / ChannelHop: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit by MGM/UA and Eon Productions (they wanted to make a rival Bond series, holding already the rights to ''Casino Royale'' and allying with Kevin [=McClory=], who helped with ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''), trading them and the book rights for the ones MGM held to Franchise/SpiderMan (which then [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy became]] Columbia's own CashCowFranchise before it stalled in 2014 and prompted them to integrate it into Creator/{{Disney}}/Creator/{{Marvel}}'s [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]]).

* TroubledProduction: Not only an obscene number of directors and screenwriters got involved, but the actors fought with them. And with each other -- the reason that Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are not seen in the same shot during the Baccarat scene is that when they tried to get Creator/PeterSellers and Creator/OrsonWelles in the same studio, Sellers balked. He felt that Welles was not taking the scene seriously (remember that Sellers had wanted the movie to be the straight adaptation he was promised and was increasingly [[BerserkButton enraged]] over the continual slide into wacky parody the script was taking). Sellers was also an extremely superstitious man and took exception to Welles performing magic tricks during shooting, and finally refused to appear at the same time with Welles, forcing their lines to be shot at separate times.

** Also got one from star Peter Sellers, who wanted a serious Bond film but wound up with another comedy that he was ejected from.

* OldShame: For the actual Bond copyright holder EON and for the movie's cast.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The producer had intended to cast SeanConnery as Bond, but balked at the star's paycheck demands ($1 million, which wasn't cheap back then). It is assumed that had Connery been cast, it would have been a straight 007 film rather than the parody it would eventually become. Years later, Connery ran into the producer and told him [[{{Understatement}} it would have been much better if he had agreed]] to the million-dollar paycheck.

* AllStarCast: A ridiculously huge amount of household names here: Creator/DavidNiven, Creator/PeterSellers, Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/DeborahKerr, Creator/JohnHuston, Creator/WilliamHolden, Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo, Charles Boyer, Jacqueline Bisset... And that's not even mentioning the cameos by the likes of Creator/PeterOToole or Geraldine Chaplin.

** Got a DEFCON-1 level backlash from EON, who became hell-bent on preventing any other Bond production not authorized by them from taking place, setting the stage for their feud with [=McClory=] later.

* BillingDisplacement: Creator/PeterSellers signed on back when the film was serious. At that point, it was intended to be a vehicle for [[spoiler:Creator/DavidNiven]]. Much rewriting and scene-stealing later, Sellers actually ends up with top billing alongside Ursula Andress. This wouldn't be [[Film/ThePinkPanther the first time Sellers entirely stole what was intended to be a vehicle for Niven.]]

* FranchiseKiller: This one Bond spoof's critical and popular thrashing and [[MisBlamed EON getting the blame for it]] [[ScrewedByTheLawyers convinced them to go hard after anything even remotely resembling James Bond,]] which became a HUGE problem with Kevin [=McClory=] 10 years later. Only Creator/MikeMyers's ''Film/AustinPowers'' series has been able to skirt by this.

* CreatorBacklash: Got a DEFCON-1 level backlash from EON, who became hell-bent on preventing any other Bond production not authorized by them from taking place, setting the stage for their feud with [=McClory=] later.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Bernard "[[Series/DoctorWho Wilf]]" Cribbins is the cab driver.
** In addition to Ursula Andress & Burt Kwouk, another MGM Bond movie alum is in the cast; "Le Chiffre's Representative" is played by the late Vladek Shybal, who also played SPECTRE [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] Kronsteen in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.
* McLeaned: [[spoiler:Evelyn Tremble's death, because Peter Sellers quit/was fired from the film.]]

* FranchiseKiller: This one Bond spoof's critical and popular thrashing and [[MisBlamed EON getting the blame for it]] [[ScrewedByTheLawyers convinced them to go hard after anything even remotely resembling James Bond,]] which became a HUGH problem with Kevin [=McClory=] 10 years later. Only Creator/MikeMyers's ''Film/AustinPowers'' series has been able to skirt by this.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The producer had intended to cast SeanConnery as Bond, but balked at the star's paycheck demands ($1 million, which wasn't cheap back then). It is assumed that had Connery been cast, it would have been a straight 007 film rather than the parody it would eventually become. Years later, Connery ran into the producer and told him [[Understatement it would have been much better if he had agreed]] to the million-dollar paycheck.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The producer had intended to cast SeanConnery as Bond, but balked at the star's paycheck demands ($1 million, which wasn't cheap back then). It is assumed that had Connery been cast, it would have been a straight 007 film rather than the parody it would eventually become. Years later, Connery ran into the producer and told him it would have been much better if he had agreed to the million-dollar paycheck.

* DuelingMovies: It was released in the same year as an official Bond, ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. This duel affected the official release to the point where it became one of the factors in the long and bitter Broccoli/[=McClory=] legal feud that started a decade later and only fully ended in 2013, 7 years after [=McClory's=] death.