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    Strangways 

John Strangways

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"That's it. Hundred honours and ninety below."

Played by: Timothy Moxon (on-set actor), Robert Rietty (voice)

He is the first British spy to appear on screen in the franchise. He lives in Jamaica, has a membership in the Queen's Club and investigates Dr. No's activities around Crab Key island. He is shot down (along with his secretary) by the Three Blind Mice at the beginning of the movie and the novel, and all of his files about Dr. No are stolen. His disappearance prompts the MI6 to send James Bond to Jamaica.


  • Abled in the Adaptation: He has an eyepatch in the books.
  • Adapted Out: The books being adapted out of order means that he doesn't appear in Live and Let Die.
  • Card Games: He played cards with fellow members of the Queen's Club just before his assassination.
  • Eyepatch of Power: He's got one eye in the book.
  • He Knows Too Much: He and his secretary are killed by the Three Blind Mice due to the information they gathered about Dr. No's activities on the isle of Crab Key.
  • Hero of Another Story: Strangways was investigating Dr. No's activities in Crab Key island prior to his assassination.
  • Plot-Triggering Death: His murder kicks the plot (not to mention the film series) into motion.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: In the film, he's killed after one minute of screen time, give or take. He holds the dubious distinction of being the first person to die on screen in the James Bond film franchise. Ironically, in the book, he was a supporting character in Live and Let Die, so he's Back for the Dead in this one instead.

    Mary Trueblood 

Mary Trueblood

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Played by: Dolores Keator

"And from what you say of the girl, I'd say it would be much the same with her. Chief Officers W.R.N.S. don't go out of their senses."
James Bond, Dr. No

The secretary to John Strangways, operating the British Secret Service station in Jamaica. Unaware that Strangways has been murdered, she proceeds to make contact with London for their scheduled transmission. Hearing a noise, she proceeds to investigate, only to find Strangways' killers, the Three Blind Mice, who kill her. Afterwards, they carefully remove all the Service's files relating to Crab Key and Dr. No.


  • All There in the Manual: Named Mary Trueblood in the novel, she goes unnamed in the film, and the only reference to her name is that she's credited in the film as "Mary" (only "Mary").
  • He Knows Too Much: She and Strangways are killed by the Three Blind Mice due to their information about Dr. No's activities in Crab Key island.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: She probably has less screen time that even Strangways. She also holds the dubious distinction of being the first woman to die on screen in the franchise.

Bond's Allies

    Honey Ryder 

Honeychile "Honey" Ryder

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"I put a black widow spider underneath his mosquito net... a female, they're the worst. It took him a whole week to die."

Played by: Ursula Andress, Nikki Van der Zyl (voice), Diana Coupland (singing voice)

"Well yes, they are rare. Very. You can get five dollars for a perfect specimen. In Miami. That's where I deal with. They're called Venus elegans-the Elegant Venus."
Dr. No

The first main Bond Girl in the film series. Her iconic first appearance has her coming out of the ocean for beachcombing in Crab Key. She then accompanies Bond and Quarrel during their exploration on the island and Dr. No's facility.


  • Adaptational Attractiveness: In the book she's also pretty, but her nose is broken (she even sells her shells to pay for the operation).
  • Adaptational Modesty: In the novel, she's wearing only a diving mask and her knife belt when she emerges from the ocean. In the film, she wears a white bikini that has become associated with her character and the idea of the Bond girl as a symbol of glamour, sophistication, sex appeal, and danger.
  • Adaptational Wimp: In the novel, she is a lot more savvy and capable, managing to rescue herself.
  • Adaptation Name Change: Her full name in the novel is Honeychile Ryder.
  • Always Save the Girl: As Crab Key is about to explode, Bond makes sure to ask where Honey is kept to bring her along.
  • Babies Ever After: In later novels, Bond divulges that she moved to Philadelphia, where she worked as an actress. She married a doctor by the name of Wilder and had two children with him.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Even hiding in swamps or kept captive she remains tidy.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her father was murdered by Dr. No. After that, their landlord let her stay on for a while without paying. Then one night he raped her.
  • Damsel in Distress: By the movie's end. And since Bond goes by Always Save the Girl, why would a Collapsing Lair stop him?
  • Friend to All Living Things: She expresses great value for life, animals, and humans.
  • Girl of the Week: The main Bond Girl for this film, and the first of many Bond Girls with whom Bond ends up with by the end of a film...and also the first of many that do not return in the next film, without a single quote about her fate.
  • High-Class Call Girl: In the book, she tells Bond she plans to become one of these, so she can get the money for her operation. Bond, however, points out why it's a bad idea.
  • Innocent Fanservice Girl: Played With in the book. She casually mentions her ambition to work in New York as an escort girl, and is unaware that society would find this idea objectionable.
  • The Load: Oddly enough, she isn't widely hated among fans, partly because she was the first main Bond Girl, but she really is the single most superfluous Bond girl in the entire film series—yet is consistently ranked as the best, a position clearly earned solely because she's the first and still very attractive. The film makers were usually pretty good in making the Bond girls in the series of at least some nominal importance to the plot of each film (even if, in the case of Mary Goodnight, their only importance is as The Millstone), but Honey is of no importance whatsoever. She shows up late in the film, tags along, and does nothing of any consequence. The film takes the time to give her the same backstory from the novel (Dr. No killed her father, she received all her education by reading the whole encyclopedia, she murdered her rapist, etc.) but again, none of that has any impact on the rest of the film. She exists solely to be the Damsel in Distress (and even that comes across as an afterthought) and for Fanservice. The latter, Ursula Andress does very, very well, which is the third reason she isn't widely hated.
    • Interestingly, the novel has her as much less of a Load-she escapes from Dr. No's planned Death Trap without Bond's help, gives Bond helpful tips so he doesn't kill himself by accident on Crab Key (for example, drinking the island water could give you fever) and acts as a truly fantastic spotter as Bond drives the Dragon tank to safety.
  • Mother Nature, Father Science: A skilled survivalist and incredibly knowledgeable about the local wildlife, especially in the novel. Contrast with nuclear physicist Dr. No's rocket age schemes and damage to the environment.
  • Ms. Fanservice: One of the best-known examples in the franchise's history thanks to her Sexy Surfacing Shot. She's arguably even more so in the book, being fully naked when she meets Bond for the first time.
  • Naked First Impression: When Bond first sees her in the book, she's completely naked except for her knife belt and scuba mask.
  • Rape as Backstory: After her father was made to disappear by Dr. No, their landlord let her stay on for a while without paying. Then one night he raped her. She avenged herself by putting a female black widow spider in his bed, which fatally bit him.
  • Same Language Dub: Given Andress had a thick accent, she was dubbed over. It's a Non-Singing Voice as well, as Monty Norman's wife sung for her.
  • Sexy Flaw: Bond sees her broken nose as this, and secretly hopes that she won't get surgery to fix it as she plans to.
  • Sex Slave: when Bond insults Dr No at the dinner table he punishes him with a beating and by giving Honey to the guards to "amuse" themselves.
  • Troll: Has shades of this in the book, interestingly enough. She hits on Bond repeatedly in Dr. No's lair, after Bond has established that he's reluctant to seduce her.

    Quarrel 

Quarrel

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"You say so, Captain. Bottom part of where my belly used to be tells me different."

Played by: John Kitzmiller

A Cayman Islander who was employed by John Strangways to secretly go to Crab Key to collect rock samples. He also worked with Felix Leiter before Bond's arrival, and goes to explore Crab Key with Bond.


Dr. No's Organization

    Dr. No 

Doctor Julius No

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"East, West. Just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other."

Played by: Joseph Wiseman

"You are right, Mr. Bond. That is just what I am, a maniac. All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania that drives them forward towards their goal. The great scientists, the artists, the philosophers, the religious leaders-all maniacs."
Dr. No note 

The first villain in the film series. He is a half-German/half-Chinese scientific genius working for the villainous SPECTRE organization (SMERSH in the novel). He is using his private nuclear laboratory to knock American rockets out of the sky in the film and sabotage American missile launches in the novel.


  • Adaptational Backstory Change: In the novel, his hands were cut off by the Tongs, who tortured him to find their missing money. The film implies that he lost them due to his work with radiation.
  • Adaptational Dye-Job: Bald of Evil in the novel, short black hair in the film.
  • Adaptational Job Change:
    • In the novel, he works for SMERSH. In the film, he works for SPECTRE. He has just as much disdain for the East and the West, as they both rejected his services.
    • In the novel, he was a medical doctor. In the film, he's a nuclear physicist.
    • In the novel, he dealt in bird guano as his cover story. In the film, he runs a bauxite mine.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: He is far less sadistic and more charming, than his novel counterpart.
  • Affably Evil: He treats James Bond to dinner and shows him around his evil lair!
  • Antagonist Title: His name gives the film (and the novel) its title.
  • Artificial Limbs:
    • Having lost his real hands to radiation damage, he's replaced them with metal prosthetics, which are very strong, but lack dexterity. Their lack of grip costs him his life.
    • In the novel, the Tongs chopped his hands off after he embezzled a million dollars worth of gold when he was their treasurer. In the film he still robbed them but managed to get away with it, and he implies that his hands were an accident during his research.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: His metal hands look intimidating and allow him to crush metal and deliver exceptionally powerful blows but their lack of grip make climbing impossible and lead to his death.
  • Bald of Evil: His physical appearance in the book.
  • Big Bad: The main villain of the film, with his backing organization being behind the scenes.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: Mostly averted. Bond is completely in Doctor No's power for most of the movie. Still, he's the first example in the film series of "Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?".
  • Character Tics: He walks with his hands behind his back. Justified, as he doesn't want to use his artificial hands unless he has to.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: In the film, he boils in the cooling pool of his nuclear reactor.
  • Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Bond argues he could have used his genius for good in the West. He thinks otherwise.
    Bond: But why become criminal? I'm sure the West would welcome a scientist of your... caliber.
    Dr. No: The Americans are fools. I offered my services; they refused. So did the East. Now they can both pay... for their mistake.
  • Diabolical Mastermind: Plans to ruin the American spacecraft/missile launch, no matter what.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novel, Bond uses a crane to bury him under a mountain of guano where he is crushed/suffocated. In the film, Bond knocks him into the boiling water of his reactor pool, and his metal hands make it impossible for him to get a grip on the wet metal of the gantry and he slides beneath the water.
  • Dirty Communist: In the novel only, where he expresses interest in working for Communist China. In the movie he expresses his disgust with both the East and the West, dismissing them as both equally as stupid as the other; although, given the number of Chinese running around his base and the mercenary nature of SPECTRE, it's possible that Communist China are the ultimate backers of his evil scheme.
  • The Dreaded: One assassin he sends commits suicide rather than give any information to Bond, a photographer would rather have her arm broken than admit who she is working for, and Dent is clearly terrified of him. Basically, everyone who works for No is scared to death of crossing or failing him.
  • Elaborate Underground Base: He has an elaborate nuclear facility as shown when he and Bond dine in a glass-windowed room below the waterline and thus presumably underground as well.
  • Enigmatic Minion: In the film, he is a member of SPECTRE.
  • Epic Fail: In the novel, his deathtrap for Honey involves him stringing her up in the way of a seemingly-endless mass of crabs which will very slowly pinch her to death. Except that Honey knows that this particular breed of crab isn't hostile and won't attack unless provoked, so she simply holds still until the crabs disperse. She's not even frightened by them and grows fond of their company as she waits. Once they're gone, she tugs the poles she's tied to out of their cracks and just walks away.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He explains his motive to join SPECTRE, claiming that it's led by geniuses, rudely dismissing 007 as a "stupid policeman", only for Bond to correct him that SPECTRE is actually led by "criminal brains".
  • Evil Cripple: His hands can break solid rock, but they aren't very dexterous, resulting in his death.
  • Evil Genius: With a truly ambitious scheme. In the film, it's to disrupt the Project Mercury launch with an atomic-powered radio beam. In the book, it's to not only disrupt missile launches so he can sell the remains to Soviet Russia, but also to start a jamming war until he can hijack the missiles well enough that they drop on Miami and Kingston.
  • Evil Is Petty:
    • In the book, he torched an entire bird sanctuary and had its staff brutally murdered simply because it was a bit too close to his base.
    • He sabotages American space rockets because they rejected his scientific services.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: He has a chillingly deep voice, especially in his first off screen scene with Dent.
  • Expy: He was modelled on Fu Manchu.
  • Fatal Flaw: His Mad Scientist tendencies, and the fact that he dismisses 007 as a "stupid policeman". As Bond sums it up:
    World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they are Napoleon. Or God.
  • Freudian Excuse: It's implied the reaction to his mixed heritage led to his Face–Heel Turn.
    • The book version shows that he adopted the name Julius No as a symbol of how his father abandoned him as a child.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: He was "the unwanted son of a German missionary and a Chinese girl from a good family" and is now a feared supervillain.
  • A Glass in the Hand: He crushes a golden Buddha statue with his metal hand to intimidate Bond.
  • Handicapped Badass: Deconstructed. Besides being strong enough to crush a metal figurine, his mechanical hands also give him one hell of a punch, as seen in his short fight with Bond at the end of the film. Too bad for him their lack of manual dexterity puts him at a disadvantage while grappling and makes it impossible for him to climb out of a pool of superheated water.
  • Hazmat Suit: His radiation suit.
  • Heart in the Wrong Place: In the book, he tells Bond how he survived reprisal from the Tong after embezzling funds - after hours of prison torture, they chopped off his hands and shot him through the heart, or thought they did. As it turned out, he was a rare case with his heart on the right side of his body.
  • The Heavy: The is the main antagonist of both the book and the film. However he works for SMERSH in the book, and SPECTRE in the film.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: His metal hands do not have enough grip to allow him to climb out of the superheated pool of water.
  • Iconic Outfit: His white Nehru suit.
  • Island Base: His base is on Crab Key, albeit more of an Elaborate Underground Base.
  • Just Between You and Me: A not too blatant example, since the US had worked out before the events of the film that their rockets were being toppled; they just didn't know who the culprit was, and Bond works out by himself that Dr. No is responsible. However, Dr. No also freely gives away the existence of SPECTRE, who Bond and, presumably, MI6 had been totally ignorant of until that point. In fairness, he only told him because he was trying to recruit him, and Russia and China definitely know because they keep doing business with them (No is on a mission for SPECTRE, but it is strongly implied that they were hired by Red China; No even has an army of Chinese henchmen), so its not so bad if half the world knows anyway.
  • Karmic Death: Falls into a bunch of boiling radioactive water in the movie and gets crushed by a crane load of guano in the book.
  • Kick the Dog: In the book, he had an entire bird sanctuary burned to the ground and its staff murdered just because it was a bit too close to his base.
  • Last Grasp at Life: The last we see of him is his hand trying to grasp a metal support beam as he drowns in the cooling tank of a nuclear reactor.
  • Lean and Mean: He's tall, thin and the main villain of the film.
  • Logical Weakness: Dr. No's mechanical hands are strong enough to crush a metal figurine, but have trouble gripping something a lot more slippery and mobile, like another man. In their brief fight No easily outpunches Bond, but Bond easily outgrapples No.
  • Mad Scientist: He's a genius in nuclear physics working for an evil organization, who uses his knowledge to ruin the American spacecraft program and when he's not wearing Nehru suits he wears lab coats. Yes, he qualifies.
  • Man of Wealth and Taste: Wears a Nehru suit, and his lair has respectable decoration and bar.
  • Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He's very evil and, as seen above, a mad scientist to boot.
  • Not That Kind of Doctor: He's a scientist, not a medical doctor.
  • Organ Dodge: In the book, he tells Bond how he survived reprisal from the Tong after embezzling funds - after hours of prison torture, they chopped off his hands and shot him through the heart, or thought they did. As it turned out, he was a rare case with his heart on the right side of his body.
  • Red Right Hand:
    • In the film, he has mechanical hands.
    • In the book, he has no eyelashes, eyebrows, or any hair on top of his head. Instead of hands, he has a pair of steel pincers, and he has situs inversus - his organs are flipped, so his heart is on his right side.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: His voice is calm and polite when talking to Bond.
  • Starter Villain: Of the film series. His defeat kicks off Bond's long standing rivalry with SPECTRE.
  • Straw Nihilist: Particularly in the book, as he thinks it's fine for him to just do anything he wants (including horribly torturing people to death.) When James Bond tells him he's nuts, his response is essentially "you say that like it's a bad thing."
  • The Stoic: To the point where the only time he loses his cool is when he falls into the boiling radioactive water.
  • Supervillain Lair: In the book, it is highlighted this is very irregular. Becomes a Collapsing Lair.
  • Tank Goodness: His lair is guarded by an armored car with a flamethrower that is painted with teeth, and is appropriately referred to as "The Dragon".
  • Team Member in the Adaptation: Goes from being a member of SMERSH in the novel to SPECTRE in the film.
  • Thin Chin of Sin: The novel describes his face as being shaped almost like an upside-down raindrop.
  • Undignified Death: Being buried under a mountain of shit isn't on anyone's way to go, but that is Dr. No's fate in the book.
  • Vague Age: More so in the novel, where Bond notes that it's hard to determine how old he is due to the absence of any lines on his face.
  • Villainous Breakdown: He loses his temper after Bond foils his plans to sabotage American missile tests and desperately tries to kill 007, but falls into a vat of boiling radioactive water.
  • Villainous Valor: After his entire workforce decides Screw This, I'm Outta Here when Bond overloads the nuclear reactor, No himself rushes in by himself to fight Bond mano-a-mano.
  • We Can Rule Together: Doctor No offers Bond the chance to join SPECTRE... or intended to until Bond spent their dinner mocking him.
  • Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: An Unbuilt Trope and the first classic example. Doctor No could have saved himself a lot of trouble this way, but he was Justified since he wanted to recruit Bond into SPECTRE and, finding out this was not possible, seemingly planned to torture him for information before killing him but had to deal with toppling the latest American missile first.
  • Wicked Cultured: Many, many James Bond villains have taste and class, but Dr. No spent one million dollars on an underground fish tank, and Bond is amazed to see Francisco de Goya's Portrait Of The Duke Of Wellington (see it here).note  He's no slouch either in the book, with a vast knowledge of philosophy and stamp collecting.
  • Yellow Peril: A low-key example given he's a half-Chinese man working for a white-run organization. His introduction theme does have a Asian-esque sound to it, however, and the majority of his base staff seem to be Asian (though his outside operatives are from a number of different races). The character was intended to be a tribute to Fu Manchu. Indeed, one of the actors considered to play him was Christopher Lee, who portrayed Fu Manchu in the most number of films of any actor.

    Professor Dent 

Professor R. J. Dent

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"Nicely done, Strangways. I have to give it to you."

Played by: Anthony Dawson

A geologist with a practice in Kingston, he is also a member of the Queen's Club. He secretly works for Dr. No, has Strangways killed and tries to kill Bond on two occasions.


  • Animal Assassin: Dr. No orders him to put a tarantula in Bond's bed.
  • Bad Liar: Bond sees through his lies about Strangways' mineral samples from Crab Key pretty quickly.
  • The Dragon: He is Dr. No's main agent in mainland Jamaica, and the most prominent named henchman Bond has to deal with before going to Crab Key.
  • Genre Blindness: Bond has a particularly memorable Pre-Mortem One-Liner about this:
    Bond: That's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six.
  • The Heavy: The most prominent threat before Bond meets No.
  • The Mole: He is Dr. No's mole at the Queen's Club.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: He empties his entire magazine into the dummy in bed that he thinks is Bond. This quickly bites him in the ass, as he has no bullets left to defend himself when the real Bond gets the drop on him.
  • Smug Snake: Denies anything when Bond tries to extract info from him. And then goes for murder attempts, the second of which gets him caught in a trap by Bond, who shoots him.
  • Undignified Death: Shot once by Bond in the agent's own hotel room, but then he goes the extra step to make sure Dent gets his just desserts, leaving the dying man reeling in sharp agony from two lethal bullet wounds. He then gets left on the floor without another word to focus on Dr. No. Notably some broadcasts cut the second shot because it was considered too cruel and violent for the time, and footage left on the cutting room floor originally had Bond empty his entire magazine.

    Miss Taro 

Miss Taro

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"What should I say to a suggestion from a strange gentleman?"

Played by: Zena Marshall

"Can't say, sir. The covers are there but there's nothing inside of them."
Dr. No

Dr. No's spy posing as a secretary at the Government House in Jamaica. She tries to lure Bond into a trap in her house.


  • Ascended Extra: In the novel, she's mentioned in passing. Her role was greatly expanded and embellished for this film.
  • Bad Liar: She comes with flimsy excuses when trying to keep Bond at her home until assassins arrive to kill him.
  • Honey Trap: After Bond hits on her, she feigns reluctance but later invites him up to her house so he can be murdered on the way. She gets a shock when Bond turns up alive, so she sleeps with Bond to give Dent time to get up there for a second assassination attempt.
  • The Mole: A secretary at the Government House in Jamaica who also is one of Dr. No's spies.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Is even wearing only a towel at a certain point.
  • Put on a Prison Bus: Bond deals with her by calling the local police to take her away.
  • Sexy Secretary: Making it even easier for Bond to consider getting info outta her.
  • Spiteful Spit: To Bond when he has her arrested.
  • The Vamp: Seduces Bond and the two sleep together in order to keep him at her home until assassins arrive to kill him. It doesn't work.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Downplayed. Taro survives and is merely arrested; however, when Dent shows up to her house to kill Bond, he just shoots whoever is lying in the bed, meaning that he was likely trying to kill both of them (in the case of Taro, likely just trying to tie up loose ends).
  • Yellowface: Ms Taro is a Chinese Jamaican, played by an Anglo-French actress. It's not as noticeable as some, because Terence Young wanted her to be somewhat ethnically ambiguous, but her house is decorated in an Asian style.

    Three Blind Mice 

The Three Blind Mice

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Played by: Eric Coverly, Charles Edghill and Henry Lopez

"Go man, go!"
Dr. No

Three Jamaican hitmen working for Dr. No. They move around in a hearse and pretend to be blind beggars as a ruse to deflect attention when approaching their target. They were the very first characters to appear on screen in the Bond films, right after the opening.


  • All There in the Manual: They're never referred to as "Three Blind Mice" in the film. See No Name Given below.
  • Blind Black Guy: What they pretend to be.
  • Blind People Wear Sunglasses: The Three Blind Mice wear sunglasses and have canes so they appear blind. In reality, they are assassins for Dr. No.
  • Disney Villain Death: Bond outsmarts them during the Car Chase, and they drive over a cliff to their deaths. Their hearse catches fire and explodes for no reason while falling.
  • Every Car Is a Pinto: Their hearse catches fire for no apparent reason when they fall down after Bond outmaneuvers them.
  • Hollywood Silencer: Complete with soft "fwip" noises when they shoot Strangways.
  • In the Back: They attack Strangways in the back.
  • Ironic Nursery Tune: A calypso version of "Three Blind Mice" accompanies their appearance.
  • No Name Given: Their names are not mentioned in the film. They are nicknamed "The Three Blind Mice" because a calypso song of the same name plays when they appear on screen for the first time. Plus, they're a trio and pretend to be blind.
  • Obfuscating Disability: They pretend to be blind for cover.
  • Pants-Positive Safety: After shooting Strangways' secretary, one of the Mice shoves his pistol down the front of his trousers while he searches her body for the keys.
  • Professional Killer: All three are professional killers on Dr. No's payroll.
  • Sinister Shades: As part of the blind disguise.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance: They have become known as "The Three Blind Mice" because of the calypso song that accompanies them during the film's opening sequence. Said song doesn't sound particularly evil.
  • Terrible Trio: And they use their number to ensure their chances, see below.
  • There Is No Kill Like Over Kill:
    • They all shoot Strangways at the same time with several bullets, leaving him no chance.
    • This also applies to their own deaths. When Bond is able to maneuver their hearse off the road, it explodes for no reason just to let the viewer know they made it to "their funeral".

    Jones 

Jones

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"To hell with you!"

Played by: Reginald Carter

Dubbed by: Serge Sauvion (European French)

A henchman of Dr. No. He is ordered to intercept Bond at the airport in Kingston and passes as a driver sent by the governor.


  • Better to Die than Be Killed: Once discovered by Bond, he commits suicide by a Cyanide Pill cigarette rather than face interrogation.
  • Mooks: He is the first henchman that Bond encounters in the entire film franchise. Bond gets the jump on him first, but Jones tricks Bond into giving him his cyanide-filled cigarette, which he promptly bites down on, saying, "To hell with you" as his last words.
  • Mr. Smith: Bond clearly doesn't believe that Jones is his real name any more than he's a government chauffeur.
  • Not My Driver: Bond gets suspicious of Jones pretty quickly; he calls the British governor of Jamaica and finds out nobody has been sent to pick him up at the airport.

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