History Film / DrNo

* ObviouslyEvil: An organization named "[[FunWithAcronyms SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion]]" is not probably going to be a charity. [[note]] ''Thunderball'' establishes that they ARE a charity- as a cover- but thats not the point[[/note]]

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Goya's "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington" can be seen hanging on the wall in Dr. No's lair; Bond clearly recognises the painting. In RealLife, this had been stolen from the National Gallery in London in August 1961, several months before filming began -- so the clear implication in the film is that ''Dr. No was responsible for the theft'' [[note]] Ken Adam, the film's Production Designer, had the idea to include this little detail and painted the copy ''over a weekend'' after getting a slide of the original from the National Gallery; the copy was later used for publicity for the film but, like the original, it was stolen while on display[[/note]]. The painting was returned in 1965.

** Shortly before the movie was made, Goya's "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington" had been stolen from a museum. It was a very high-profile crime that had recently seen that painting splashed across every newspaper, newsreel, and telecast, so the movie-going audience was quite familiar with it. (The painting would not be recovered for several more years.) In a moment of inspiration, the filmmakers placed a reproduction of the painting very prominently in Dr. No's lair, and had Connery do a brief double-take as he passed it. According to the commentary track, this gag elicited a good thirty seconds of laughter from the theatrical audiences. Modern audiences don't even realize there's a joke there.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Goya's "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington" can be seen hanging on the wall in Dr. No's lair; Bond clearly recognises the painting. In RealLife, this had been stolen from the National Gallery in London in August 1961, several months before filming began -- so the clear implication in the film is that ''Dr. No was responsible for the theft''. The painting was returned in 1965.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Goya's "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington" can be seen hanging on the wall in Dr. No's lair. In RealLife, this had been stolen from the National Gallery in London in August 1961, several months before filming began -- so the clear implication in the film is that ''Dr. No was responsible for the theft''. The painting was returned in 1965.

* AdaptationalJobChange:

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While Honey is still described to be beautiful in [[Literature/DrNo the book]], she also has a busted nose.

* IconicOutfit: Honey Ryder's white bikini.

* HollywoodSilencer: Bond and Professor Dent's handguns with silencers are whisper quiet when fired. But when Dent fires on an empty chamber, the "click" is much louder than the silenced gunshots.

** Q is only called by his name -- Major Boothroyd. He lacks the snarky dynamic with Bond that he would develop in later films. There are no major "gadgets" here, either: Q Branch sends Bond an ordinary Geiger counter and issues him a new pistol. He is also played by Peter Burton here, in his only appearance. In contrast, Creator/DesmondLlewelyn would take over the role starting with ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' and would continue playing it all the way up to ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', appearing in a total of 17 films[[note:]]Absent only from ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''[[/note]].

** Q is only called by his name -- Major Boothroyd. He lacks the snarky dynamic with Bond that he would develop in later films. There are no major "gadgets" here, either: Q Branch sends Bond an ordinary Geiger counter and issues him a new pistol. He is also played by Peter Burton here, in his only appearance. In contrast, Creator/DesmondLlewelyn would take over the role starting with ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' and would continue playing it all the way up to ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', appearing in a total of 17 films[[labelnote:*]]Absent only from ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''[[/labelnote]].

** Q is only called by his name -- Major Boothroyd. He lacks the snarky dynamic with Bond that he would develop in later films. There are no major "gadgets" here, either: Q Branch sends Bond an ordinary Geiger counter and issues him a new pistol.

%%* TheDreaded: Dr. No.

* UnbuiltTrope: The formula is barely there -- only in the next two many mainstays start to appear.

* SameLanguageDub:
** Ursula Andress 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 Diana Coupland. Indeed, van der Zyl dubbed the voices of several of the women, including the original Bond girl, Sylvia Trench; the secretary to Strangways, Mary Trueblood; and CameraFiend Annabelle Chung.
** You can hear the original voice of Creator/EuniceGayson (Sylvia) in one of the original trailers for the film.
** 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 Connery and it was consequently decided to re-dub Pleydell-Smith's lines with a clipped Home Counties voice.

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* SameLanguageDub: Ursula Andress 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 Diana Coupland. Indeed, van der Zyl dubbed the voices of several of the women, including the original Bond girl, Sylvia Trench; the secretary to Strangways, Mary Trueblood; and CameraFiend Annabelle Chung.

* ArtImitatesArt: Both fans and critics have likened Honey Rider's emergence from the sea in a white bikini to ''Botticelli's Venus'', a painting which depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving naked at the sea-shore.

%%* ClickHello: Done several times

** The opening in particular is weird compared to the later formula. There is no ColdOpen. The BondGunBarrel is scored with a weird space-age ditty, with the Bond theme starting after the shot, but this film's particular arrangement makes it sound out of order compared to the ones in later films. Then the circle becomes part of the still colourful and artistic credits. And given there's no theme song per se, at a certain point the music changes to a calypso rendition of "Three Blind Mice", culminating in the eponymous assassins changing from silhouettes to the movie characters. Also no silhouettes of naked women; instead we have silhouettes of fully clothed female - and male - dancers, as well as the three actors portraying the aforementioned assassins.
** The Bond theme is not reserved for dramatic action sequences as it would be in later films; it is used in scenes such as Bond arriving at the airport.

** Q is only called by his name -- Major Boothroyd. There are no major "gadgets" here, either: Q Branch sends Bond an ordinary Geiger counter and issues him a new pistol.

** Bond does possess a glow-in-the-dark watch; these were relatively uncommon at the time, as the only glow-in-the-dark pigment then available involved radium, which is both expensive (accounting for rarity) and radioactive (accounting for its ability to trigger a Geiger counter).

** The opening in particular is weird compared to the later formula. There is no ColdOpen. The BondGunBarrel is scored with a weird space-age ditty, with the Bond theme starting after the shot, but this film's particular arrangement makes it sound out of order compared to the ones in later films. Then the circle becomes part of the still colourful and artistic credits. And given there's no theme song per se, at a certain point the music changes to a calypso rendition of "Three Blind Mice", culminating in the eponymous assassins changing from silhouettes to the movie characters. Also no silhouettes of naked women; instead we have silhouettes of fully clothed female - and male - dancers, as well as the three actors portraying the aforementioned assassins.

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: They had just $1 million to spend, so the film is rather subdued (it helps that the franchise loves SequelEscalation). Also, Q is only called by his name -- Major Boothroyd. There are no major "gadgets" here, either: Q Branch sends Bond an ordinary Geiger counter and issues him a new pistol.

* AdaptationalModesty: Occurs during the iconic scene where Honey Ryder [[SexySurfacingShot comes up out of the sea and walks up the beach]]. As generations of short-changed Bond fans have pointed out, in [[Literature/DrNo the novel]], Honey Ryder is [[SkinnyDipping only wearing a diving mask and her knife belt]] when she emerges from the ocean. In the film, Creator/UrsulaAndress wore a white bikini that has become associated with her character and the idea of the Bond girl as a symbol of glamor, sophistication, sex appeal, and danger.
* AdaptationalSelfDefense: The original script called for Dent to get shot right off the bat, but execs chewed them out and the scene was changed so that Dent actually fires a gun's worth of missed bullets into a decoy before Bond interrogates him and picks him off. One snafu with this is that they took a line verbatim from the book for the new version of the scene, even though it made no sense anymore (in the book, the scene relied on Dent using a six-shot revolver; in the movie, he now has an automatic that should have held at least one more bullet).

* [[AdaptationalSelfDefense Adaptational Self Defence]]: The original script called for Dent to get shot right off the bat, but execs chewed them out and the scene was changed so that Dent actually fires a gun's worth of missed bullets into a decoy before Bond interrogates him and picks him off. One snafu with this is that they took a line verbatim from the book for the new version of the scene, even though it made no sense anymore (in the book, the scene relied on Dent using a six-shot revolver; in the movie, he now has an automatic that should have held at least one more bullet).