Date of Release World Premiere 5th October 1962 at the London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus, London
Running Time 105 minutes
Starring Sean Connery as Ian Fleming’s James Bond
Plot From his undersea base, *SPECTRE agent Doctor No uses his ‘Toppling Beam’ to disrupt America’s space programme. (*SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence Terrorism Revenge and Extortion.)
Bond’s Women
- Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress)
- Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson)
Bond’s Enemies
- Doctor No (Joseph Wiseman)
- Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson)
- Miss Taro (Zena Marshall)
- The ‘Three Blind Mice’
Bond’s Allies
- Felix Leiter (Jack Lord)
- Quarrel (John Kitzmiller)
- Pleydell-Smith (Louis Blaazer)
- ‘M’ (Bernard Lee)
- Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
- Major Boothroyd [the armourer] (Peter Burton)
Bond’s Car Sunbeam Alpine
Bond’s Gadget Geiger Counter
Main Title Music ‘The James Bond Theme’/’Three Blind Mice’ (vocal)
End Title Music ‘The James Bond Theme’
Music Score Monty Norman
Production Design Ken Adam
Art Director Syd Cain [Un-credited]
Main Titles Designer Maurice Binder
Screenplay
- Richard Maibaum
- Johanna Harwood
- Berkley Mather
Editor Peter Hunt
Director of Photography Ted Moore
Director Terence Young
Producers *Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli
The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for the Western Hemisphere
Filming Locations
- Pinewood Studios, England
- Ocho Rios
- Jamaica (Miss Taro’s Home, Dunn’s River Falls, The White River, Reynolds Bauxite Pier)
- Trinidad
Budget $950,000
Worldwide Box Office $59.5 million
Worldwide Box Office Gross Income 2002 inflation-adjusted $355 million
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