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1!!Trivia Tropes for the novel
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3* DevelopmentGag: Bond is told that his Beretta is "Nice and light...in a lady's handbag". Major Geoffrey Boothroyd, a reader of the books and the basis for Q, wrote to Creator/IanFleming critcising Bond's choice of firearm, calling it "a lady's gun".
4* DolledUpInstalment: In June 1956, Creator/IanFleming began a collaboration with the producer Henry Morgenthau III on a planned television series, ''Commander Jamaica'', which was to feature the Caribbean-based character James Gunn. The series never got made, but Fleming used this as the basis for his next Bond book.
5* InspirationForTheWork: In March 1956, Fleming and his friend Ivar Bryce accompanied Robert Cushman Murphy (of the American Museum of Natural History) and Arthur Vernay (of the Flamingo Protection Society) on a trip to a flamingo colony on Great Inagua in the south of the Bahamas. The colony was 100 square miles (260 km) of dense mangrove swamp and salt flats, home to flamingos, egrets and roseate spoonbills; the location inspired Crab Key.
6* WorkingTitle: ''The Wound Man''.
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8!!Trivia Tropes for the film
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10* ActingForTwo: Nikki van der Zyl dubbed the voices of Honey Ryder and Sylvia Trench, as well as all of the other female characters besides Creator/LoisMaxwell, Yvonne Shima, Michel Mok and Zena Marshall.
11* AmateurCast: Because of the (relatively) low-budget; many of the supporting players were not professional actors, but local Kingston residents who in some way contributed to the production.
12** Louis Blaazer (Pleydell-Smith) was a local realtor who helped out with location scouting.
13** Timothy Moxon (Strangways) was a cropduster pilot, though he played in repertory theatre before, even founding one in London before moving to Jamaica.
14** Marguerite [=LeWars=] (Annabel Chung) was a beauty queen who at the time was working at the TWA ticket counter in Kingston Airport.
15** Lester Pendergast (Puss-Feller) owned a nightlclub used as a filming location.
16** Dolores Keator (Mary Trueblood) owned the house used as Strangways' residence.
17** Eric Winston Coverley (one of the Three Blind Mice) was Jamaica's then-Official Calligrapher.
18* CastTheRunnerUp:
19** Creator/TerenceYoung, who once had turned Creator/LoisMaxwell down on the grounds that she looked like she "smelled of soap, not sex", offered her either Moneypenny or Sylvia Trench, but she was uncomfortable with a revealing scene in the screenplay. She ended up playing Moneypenny. This paid off down the line as she was childhood friends with Creator/RogerMoore, giving them fantastic chemistry.
20** Marguerite [=LeWars=] was originally considered for the role of Miss Taro, but she thought the part was too risqué, so she was cast as Annabel Chung, the photographer instead.
21* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
22** ''[[BlindIdiotTranslation We Don't Want a Doctor]]''/''Dr. No: 007 Is The Killing Number'' (Japan).
23** ''Licence to Kill''/''Agent 007: Licence to Kill'' (Italy). This one meant that the actual ''Film/LicenceToKill'' was rechristened as ''Vendetta Privata'' (''Private Vendetta'').
24** ''James Bond Versus Dr. No'' (Belgium & France).
25** ''Dr. No: Mission-Killing''/''Agent 007 - Mission: Kill Dr. No'' (Denmark).
26** ''James Bond Chases Dr. No'' (Germany).
27** ''Agent 007 With A Licence To Kill'' (Sweden). Like with the Italian name, ''Film/LicenceToKill'' would instead become ''Tid för hämnd'' (''Time for Revenge'').
28** ''Agent 007 Versus Dr. No'' (Spain).
29** ''James Bond, Agent 007 Against Dr. No'' (Greece).
30** ''007 Seized The Secret Island'' (China).
31** ''007 - The Secret Agent'' (Portugal).
32** ''Secret Agent 007 And Dr. No'' (Finland).
33** ''007 Against The Satanic Dr. No'' (Brazil & Spanish-speaking South America).
34* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/LoisMaxwell was cast after Creator/IanFleming thought she was the perfect fit for Miss Moneypenny.
35* DarkhorseCasting: Creator/UrsulaAndress was cast because she fit Creator/AlbertRBroccoli's description of "an unknown with a new face who wouldn't demand an outrageous salary." Seeing a photograph of her in a wet t-shirt obviously didn't hinder that decision either.
36* DeletedScene:
37** A sequence extracted from the final cut had No forcing Bond to radio Felix Leiter, telling him that he had discovered nothing of any interest on Crab Key in return for a less painful death for both Bond and Ryder.
38** A cut scene featured Honey Ryder waiting in her room in the finale, armed with a bottle of booze. When Bond arrives, she collapses into his arms and Bond catches both her and the bottle. With a manly dash, he pops the cork from the bottle with his teeth, takes a good belt, throws the bottle away and sweeps Ryder into his arms, carrying her to safety.
39* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/SeanConnery is truly terrified of spiders. The arm of a stuntman was used when the tarantula crawled onto Bond. Note the shot when the spider is on his shoulder -- it's walking on a pane of glass. Once you've seen it you can't unsee it.
40* ExecutiveMeddling:
41** Were it not for censorship, we could have seen Creator/UrsulaAndress naked in her first scene, as in the novel.
42** Also, when Bond enters his apartment at the beginning, and finds Sylvia Trench playing golf, she was originally supposed to be nude, but the censors objected to this.
43* FakeBrit:
44** Dolores Keator (Mary Trueblood) was an American expat living in Jamaica. Her dialogue was looped in post-production by German actress Nikki van der Zyl.
45** Creator/LoisMaxwell (Miss Moneypenny) was Canadian.
46* FakeMixedRace: Joseph Wiseman, who played the German-Chinese Dr. No, was a Canadian-American of Jewish descent.
47* FakeNationality:
48** Creator/UrsulaAndress (Honey Ryder) is a Swiss playing a white Jamaican descended from an old-established (presumably British) colonial family.
49** Quarrel, a Cayman Islander, is played by the American John Kitzmiller.
50* FountainOfExpies: Dr. No: the first of all Bond villains, though not the most emulated (that distinction goes to Blofeld, followed by Goldfinger).
51* FriendshipOnTheSet: In spite of their abortive romance, Sean Connery and Ursula Andress remained good friends after production, with Andress even naming Connery as her son's godfather.
52* HypotheticalCasting: Creator/IanFleming asked his friend and neighbour Creator/NoelCoward to play Dr. No. His response was, "Dr. No? No, no, no!"
53* IAmNotSpock: Joseph Wiseman preferred to be remembered for his theatre career than for playing Dr. No, [[https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-joseph-wiseman21-2009oct21-story.html according to Wiseman's daughter]]. Alas, that didn't quite happen.
54* LoopingLines:
55** Creator/UrsulaAndress has a very thick accent, so she was dubbed not once but actually twice in the movie. Nikki van der Zyl dubbed all of her dialogue, while the calypso was sung by Creator/DianaCoupland. Indeed, van der Zyl dubbed the voices of the original Bond girl, Sylvia Trench; the secretary to Strangways, Mary Trueblood; and CameraFiend Annabelle Chung.
56** You can hear the original voice of Creator/EuniceGayson (Sylvia) in one of the original trailers for the film.
57** Louis Blaazer, (Pleydell Smith) was also dubbed. Although a resident of Jamaica at the time of filming, he had been brought up in Aberdeen. The producers were concerned about the audiences hearing two Scottish accents during the actor's scenes with Creator/SeanConnery and it was consequently decided to re-dub Pleydell-Smith's lines with a clipped Home Counties voice.
58** Robert Rietti voiced John Strangways and Superintendent Duff.
59** During the initial briefing, M says that he recently was put in charge of [=MI7=]. Creator/BernardLee originally said [=MI6=] during the take, but this has been overdubbed, possibly for fear of offending the real-life organization. In later Bond movies, however, 007 clearly works for [=MI6=].
60** Louis Blaazer (Pleydell-Smith) had a thick Scots accent that producers thought didn't fit his character, so he was re-dubbed with a posher Home Counties accent.
61* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/LoisMaxwell lobbied for the role of Miss Moneypenny because her husband Peter Marriott had suffered and they badly needed the money.
62* NoBudget: People usually think of Film/JamesBond movies as multi-million blockbusters, but it all started pretty... humbly.
63** Creator/UnitedArtists only lent $1 million to make the film (in 2018 dollars, this amounts to about $8.4 million). The art director got some extra cash from the producers' own pockets, and the special effects people convinced UA to give an extra $100,000 to do the CollapsingLair. For comparison, the budget for the allegedly most expensive film in the franchise, ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', was anywhere between ''245 and 300 million'' in 2010s dollars (and ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' also ended up in this ballpark).
64** Due to the low budget, only one sound editor was hired (normally there are two, for sound effects and dialogue). Furthermore, when Art Director Syd Cain found out [[UncreditedRole his name was not in the credits]], Creator/AlbertRBroccoli gave him a golden pen to compensate, saying that he did not want to spend money making the credits again.
65** Also, massive props have to be given to Creator/KenAdam, who succeeded in giving a multimillion-dollar veneer to his cheaply made sets. Many pieces of scenery were made with cheap materials, with M's office featuring cardboard paintings and a door covered in a leather-like plastic, the room where Dent meets Dr. No costing only £745 to build, and the aquarium in Dr. No's base is just magnified stock footage of goldfish.
66** Owing to the limited wardrobe budget, Creator/LoisMaxwell wore her own clothes as Moneypenny, as did other actors in similarly small parts, and the Rolex watch on Connery's wrist was Broccoli's own.
67** There was no financial possibility to ship a luxury car to Jamaica. The Sunbeam Alpine Series II Connery drives in the film was borrowed from a local resident. According to the producers, it was "the only decent sports car on the island".
68* NonSingingVoice: Creator/UrsulaAndress had a singing voice actress, Creator/DianaCoupland, then-wife of composer Monty Norman.
69* OrphanedReference: The charred trees in the area where Bond confronts the Dragon Tank are part of the sanctuary for rare birds that Dr. No has disrupted. All mention of the sanctuary was deleted from the final film.
70* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/UrsulaAndress had an affair during filming. It was called off when his wife Diane Cilento became pregnant.
71* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The idea of Ryder being trapped among crabs was scrapped because the crabs that would attack her weren't moving (being flown frozen from the Caribbean didn't help...).
72* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The 2007 Systems in Blue song "Dr. No" is not intentionally related to the film, but there's a {{fan vid}} [[VideoFullOfFilmClips using clips from the film]].
73** While it may no longer exist, a similar {{fan vid}} is available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3Lag-3j2o with images from James Bond]].
74* StarMakingRole: For Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/UrsulaAndress.
75* StuntDouble: Regular stuntman Bob Simmons played Mr. Jones in the bits where Bond beats him up. Simmons is also the Bond in the gun barrel opening (one with Sean Connery only first appeared in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'').
76* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/JamesBond Enough for its own page]].
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78!!Other Trivia
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80* Creator/SeanConnery came from a working-class background, so Creator/TerenceYoung took Connery to the tailors and restaurants he frequented, so the on-screen Bond's dress sense and tastes were developed from Young's preferences.

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