none of them a match for Sean Connery (at least “Never Say Never Again” was able to cast the original Bond). “Casino Royale” compensates for the star’s absence with an impossible-to ...

1967's Casino Royale was a marquee affair ... The film stars David Niven as the "original" Bond, Sir James Bond 007. Forced out of retirement to investigate the deaths and disappearances of ...

However, Ian Fleming’s 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale didn’t wait over 50 years to get its first proper film adaptation. 49 years before Craig’s inaugural 007 outing, there was a star ...

Casino Royale was turned into a spoof spy movie by John Huston in 1967, with David Niven in the lead role. Pierce Brosnan led the past four Bond films but said producers axed him after offering him ...

One particularly interesting fact about Casino Royale is that Ian Fleming’s original book, released back in 1953, had Bond playing baccarat whereas the movie adaptation changed this to Texas ...

In the novel, the casino is located in Royale-les-Eaux, a fictional town in Northern France, while the film set the action in Montenegro. But the original inspiration for the casino was a ...