History Film / DrNo

* CoolGuns:
** Bond uses an FN Model 1910 pistol to assassinate Professor Dent after "he's had his six". It is worth to note that the props department was unable to find a suppressor for Bond's PPK, so they had to use a Model 1910 with a fake suppressor that simply slid into the barrel instead. They were able to find an appropriate suppressor for the PPK in time for ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.
** Quarrel takes a Colt Police Revolver to Crab Key.
** A henchman uses a Bren Gun to fire at Bond, Honey and Quarrel as they take cover behind a sand bank.

* ArtisticLicenceNuclearPhysics: A lesser example of this trope, since the [[ExplosiveOverclocking overloading of Dr. No's reactor]] doesn't produce a ''nuclear'' explosion (which Bond and Honey would never have had a prayer of surviving in a speedboat), but it does produce a big enough explosion to total No's complex and the surrounding area, something that wouldn't happen with even the most catastrophic meltdown (for comparison, the RealLife Chernobyl Disaster blew a big hole out of the roof out of Reactor No. 4, but left most of the building intact).

** Bond drags off the receptionist who he forces to show him where the guards took Honey this way.
* TankGoodness: The "Dragon".

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Honey when picking out clothes from the dressed shortly after waking up after being drugged. When Bond walks in on her, she [[HandOrObjectUnderwear clutches the dress to her chest to cover herself]].

* NewspaperThinDisguise: When Bond arrives at the airport in Jamaica, the henchman surveilling the airport is hiding behind a newspaper.

* EvilPlan: Dr. No's plan is to topple American rockets from his island base as part of a mission from SPECTRE, probably with a hostile foreign power as a client.

* GreaterScopeVillain: SPECTRE receives its first mention here; an organisation of criminal masterminds whom Dr No implies are downing the American missiles as a show of power (presumably so they can [[AuctionOfEvil sell toppling technology to either side of the Cold War]], or be [[{{blackmail}} paid not to use it]]).

* NebulousEvilOrganization: The first on-screen appearance of SPECTRE. Doctor No explains what the organization is about. The writers figured having the DirtyCommunists behind it all as in the novel had become a DeadHorseTrope.

* DangerousClifftopRoad: A SPECTRE mook pursues Bond up a mountaintop road. Bond escapes by driving his convertible under a crane whose arm is across the road. The mook isn't brave enough, swerves to try and miss the crane, and goes over the side of the embankment [[EveryCarIsAPinto and explodes]].

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Dr. No 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".

* GreaterScopeVillain: SPECTRE receives its first mention here as a nebulous criminal organization which Dr. No is a part of.

** 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 it's not so bad if half the world knows anyway.

* NotMyDriver: Subverted when Bond checks on the driver (he's supposed to be arriving quietly and unannounced) and finds out he's a phony, then deals with him.

** Photographer Annabelle Chung doesn't show much resistance once she is grabbed by her arm.

** The messenger M sends to get James Bond in the club asks the attendant to give Bond his card.

* NebulousEvilOrganization: The first on-screen appearance of SPECTRE. Doctor No explains what the organization is about.

* SpyShip: This goes back to this: Quarrel runs a simple fishing boat, but he helps out secret agents all the time.

** Oddly enough, she isn't widely hated among James Bond 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 TheMillstone), 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 DistressedDamsel (and even that comes across as an afterthought) and for {{Fanservice}}. The latter, Creator/UrsulaAndress does very, very well, which is the third reason she isn't widely hated.

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* ArtisticLicenceNuclearPhysics: A lesser example of this trope, since the [[ExplosiveOverclocking overloading of Dr. No's reactor]] doesn't produce a ''nuclear'' explosion (which Bond and Honey would never have had a prayer of surviving in a speedboat), but it does produce a big enough explosion to total No's complex and the surrounding area, something that wouldn't happen with even the most catastrophic meltdown.

* OnlyOneName: Q is identified by the last name Boothroyd, which will also be used to identify him in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. His first name would never be revealed on screen.

* NoNameGiven: The three black assassins are only known as "Three Blind Mice" after the song that plays in their introduction.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Played straight with Honey. Averted with Bond, who ends up in a bad shape after getting beat up by No's guards.
** Not employed in the novel, where her broken nose (from her rape) is a key identifier.

* AirVentPassageway: Double-subverted. When Bond tries to escape his cell through the vent, he gets shocked when he touches the grill. However, he tries again by using his shoe to push it out and succeeds in escaping. As a nice touch, he experimentally taps the grill at the other end with his feet to make sure it isn't electrified.
** Also justified in [[Literature/DrNo the novel]]. It's designed to be a part of a DeathCourse.
** And the reason it's so wide? It's not an air vent; it's a ''water'' vent, as Bond learns to his dismay.

** As ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' pointed out, it would have been more effective to put a guy in there. With a gun, although Dr. No was at least ''attempting'' to be discreet, as he also sends someone to poison a basket of fruit delivered to the same room earlier on.
*** Except a man with a gun ''is'' used in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', and is no more effective against Bond.

* RedRightHand: Dr. No's mechanical metal hands. Although they're moderately maneuverable and {{super str|ength}}ong in the film, they're little more than crude pincers in the novel.
** Their explanation differs between book and film. In the book, his hands were cut off by the Tong; in the film, they were damaged in his radiation experiments.

* PragmaticAdaptation: A major reason why this was the first Bond story to be adapted is that many of the stories have Bond travelling all over the world, which would either require expensive location shooting or trying to stage the location in UK, which easily ends up looking cheap and unconvincing. The production company went with the former option, and ''Dr. No'' was deemed a relatively inexpensive story because Jamaica is the only location involved outside of UK.

* MuggedForDisguise: How Bond gets the radiation suit he needs to infiltrate the reactor room.