The Utter Disaster of Casino Royale (1967) || From Rewatch with Love Ep06
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2020
- Hands-down the strangest, most haphazard licensed adaptation of a James Bond novel ever, Casino Royale attempts to be a parody and can't even manage to be cohesive.
Episode 06 - Casino Royale (1967)
Graham & Matt are here to talk about the first blockbuster film franchise! It's Bond... James Bond, as we lead up to the release of the 25th Bond movie, with this rewatch podcast full of our thoughts on the series and plenty of trivia!
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Can you imagine this being your first 'Bond' film and not understanding why people like the series for most of a decade? Because my Dad can. He tried to describe it to me as 'Blazing Saddles without the humor'.
Yes, it truly was my first Bond film.
Oh, no.
That definitely scans with their description of it, especially the ending
Your Dad is spot on! It's definitely 'Blazing Saddles without the humor.'
Things I learnt during the run of this podcast: SMERSH was a real Russian counterintelligence agency and not just a funny word.
I mean it still is a funny word.
Smerit Spironam, means, 'Death to Spies' according to Ian Fleming.
Yeah, funny word, killer material!
“Smersh” sounds like something that Kathleen would make up.
Yeah, it's only 2 letters off Snorsh
I do not want to meet SMERSH lady
Is actually a real thing....
Yeah, there is no way that it isn't actually the Snorsh not-so-secret service
Russian " Shmert ' shpionyam ' - " Death to Spies "
Being an auto racing fan, I decided to Google the race car driver that had the "follow that car!" cameo.
Turns out that's Stirling Moss, one of the most famous British drivers of all time.
These producers really had some clout to get these huge names for such a clustercrap of a movie, didn't they?
Did exactly the same thing!
"This is a movie...in theory."
Ooo! I love these types of dissections! *gets popcorn*
Was Mata Bond frozen like Captain America at the end of WW2 and just unfrozen otherways she would be 50+, as Mata Hari was executed in 1917.
Didn’t even realize but your totally right. So much was going on that we didn’t examine the timeline, haha!
Indeed, but Frau Hoffner and Polo knew Mata Hari personally, so they would have to be in their 70s or 80s, and they don't look anything like that old.
You say "The Authority" so often I just imagined it was an old WWE plotline and suddenly the whole movie made sense.
...maybe this is where Vince got the inspiration? O_O
The best thing about the Orson Welles wine advert is that, though he is indeed incredibly drunk, he absolutely has his whole monologue memorised and can slurr his way through the whole thing without stopping.
"Decontenxtualized Dick Joke is my Sex Pistols cover band." I am dead. Matt has slain a human being.
I kind of love this movie. Some of the random humor just tickles me.
Val Guest basically directed most of the movie after the other directors bowed out. He refused the credit of Coordinating Director as he didn't believe the movie was coordinated.
Which is why they say Additional Sequences Directed by Val Guest.
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"Non metaphorical Sea lions" ...I love this phrase. I don't know how I will use it but I will.
okay, they are Non metaphorical, but are they also a non-simile?
Non-metaohorical Sea Lions is my Imagine Dragons cover band.
This is a bit tangential, but regarding Peter Sellers and Rowan Atkinson, comedy titans who aren't generally fun to be around: There's a paragraph from STORY by Robert McKee (my favorite book on screenwriting structure) where he says, paraphrased, "Every up-and-coming Hollywood big-shot hosting their first big party makes the same mistake. 'Let's invite some comedians! They'll really liven up the place!' And then next thing you know, there are broken noses and the police have been called."
Sometimes - a lot of times - people aren't exceptional at comedy because they have joy in their hearts. Often what makes a professional naturally suited to comedy is an ax to grind against the world, a desire to tear its facades apart.
Reminds me of what Neil Gaiman said about Terry Pratchett being filled with rage and fury all the time and using that to power his writing.
octo chan Sir Terry Pratchett has always been my favourite author, but I’d never heard this before, so I went to look it up. I don’t know how to explain how I feel after reading the article Neil Gaiman wrote about it. There are tears in my eyes, but there’s also this indescribable joy, too. Reading about what motivated him sounded so... familiar, so much like some of the things I struggle with. Hearing that my favourite author was the same as me in some ways gives me a sense of hope that I’d never really felt before. I don’t know why I’m saying all this, but I guess I just needed to get the words out.
People who are naturally filled with joy don't go into entertainment.
@@octochan I've always felt a connection with TP as a writer myself, and because of your comment I can finally put it into words.
Some of these gags sound like they were attempting to make a James Bond film as made by Mel Brooks. And now that I verbalize this idea, I think that if executed correctly it could actually be very funny.
Like if it was actually… you know, Mel Brooks
1:25:57 : "Everything is so loose from this point on." A sentence that really didn't need the last four words.
Ermm, regarding Lady Mini's 'not very good' Scottish accent - she was played by Deborah Kerr, one of the great Hollywood stars of the 1950s. Deborah Kerr was Scottish!
I absolutely love this movie, it's so entertaining that you almost forgive how incomprehensible the plot is.
Me too! It was my absolute favorite film as a child.
Agree! It's a total trip.
This is legit one of my favorite movies because it's such an entertaining mess. And it has a fun aesthetic
Graham mentioning that Spaceballs did the VidScreen bit better made me realize they also did the ‘Whacky out-of-place costumed characters scramble in chaos as the base explodes” gag infinitely better than this film did, as well.
I saw this when I was young and remembered exactly 4 bits:
1. The lions on the car
2. Escaping the firing squad
3. The Aspirin bit
4. The 7 James Bonds in heaven.
I had completely forgotten how utterly insane and incomprehensible most of the movie actually is.
I saw it when I was young and remember every detail vividly! Love it.
Grahams dismissal of the Geronimo line...
"You see... As a very funny joke."
The way he deadpan says that line is so amazing. I need to use that in everyday life now.
The best thing about this episode is knowing, deep down in my soul, that Graham describing the Judo Flip scene has better delivery and comic timing than the actual scene.
Mata Hari died 50 years before the film takes place and when David Niven was only 7 years old. Including her as a plot point was such egregious stupidity. Thank you both for enduring what I could not.
I watched this whenever it was on TV when I was small and have a deep love of the sheer madness of it. It's utterly glorious and your review has simply made it more so 😊 Trust me, it stays with you longer than most of the Bonds, like it or not.
These guys just totally missed it! It's an amazing time capsule of the 60s, an LSD trip, a visual extravaganza, has one of the best scores of any film.
My favourite lines of the movie are between Frau Hoffner and Mata Bond:
"You are insane, my child, quite insane."
"I think she's right!"
It oozes the 1960s. Psychedelia. Drugs. Liberated women. When the world was young, having thrown off the WW2 era, and before anyone had heard of eco-catastrophes.
Knowing Orson Wells, what he was doing in this movie was picking up a massive paycheck.
He was getting the paychecks to pay for the movies he tried to make.
The finesttt....frenchhh champagneeee
*Picking up a massive dinner
Aaaand now I want to rewatch Jodorowsky's Dune.
Graham reading off the final big fight scene feels hallucinogenic and I'm sitting here stone cold sober
I'm only 8 minutes into this podcast and I'm already feeling the yikes factor. "A movie in theory" is also gonna go in my top Graham quotes list.
I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep so I flipped to what I thought was the Daniel Craig Casino Royale to watch and instead it was this movie. I fell back asleep after deliriously watching 30 minutes of it and for the last 5 years I honestly thought I may have dreamed up the whole thing. But oh my God this exists!
My condolences.
1:20:09 That guy is actually Sir Sterling Moss, who was one of the greatest drivers of all time. Even though he never won the championship, he was certainly the embodiment of a racing driver. He passed away earlier in this year.
Edit: Tremble quips when Moss runs off after he told him to follow the car, "I should've got Fangio." Who was Mosses team mate and rival. Fangio won 5 World Championships in the 1950's.
This entire episode feels like a warm hug
The 60's Batman show was great because it could be enjoyed on different levels. As a kid in the 60's, I did not understand the concept of "camp," I just though it was a great superhero show. Casino Royal is similar in that as a kid, I loved all comedy and adventure of it (I did not overthink it) but as I got older, I appreciated the artistic quirkiness, nuances and inside jokes. It was like those great subversive 1950's Mad magazine paperbacks. It's all very subjective of course, but all the production issues, forced the makers to be creative in ways which give the movie a complexity and quirkiness that make it more interesting, dream like, and fun. I would highly recommend this rich, fortuitous, quirky work of art.
Agree!
Just found out today that Casino Royale 67 is Mike Myers' favourite film!
I'm only experiencing this movie secondhand, but when we pierced the veil into the Tartan Dimension I became certain I was having some sort of episode. I've re-watched this episode, and that's really in there.
This movie isn't a garbage spy film, it's a Dadaist masterpiece. I think someone made a cut-up poem from the script, and no one noticed, and they shot it as it was.
It's brilliant if you get into it.
I watched this back in college in the 90s. All I remember is being utterly confused.
Calling this movie a fever dream is a huge compliment.. and an insult to all other fever dreams
"Oh no I've gone Cross-Eyed"
One of the final cameos is George raft famous Warner bros gangster actor who was famous for a scene where he tossed a coin which is what he does here
I think famous French actor Jean Paul belmondo (apologise for the spelling)is also there as a French police man
George Raft's most famous part was possible Spats Colombo in Some Like It Hot.
Graham: "If you desire to see the train wreck, I mean, knock yourself out. I'm not your dad. I can't tell you what you should and shouldn't watch." But what if Penelope decides to watch this specific episode years in the future?
"...unless I am your dad, in which case I'm still not going to tell you what you should and shouldn't watch, because if you're digging up our old podcasts from 2020, you're probably old enough to decide this stuff on your own."
@@MrMcWalrus That's so accurate to the sort of wording Graham would use that I read that in his voice.
That'd be some mild teenage rebellion
This sounds like it reeeally wants to be a Mel Brooks style parody of James Bond but fails at it in every way.
Thank you for being the buffer between me and this movie.
I've had to pause the podcast to avoid laughing uncontrollably at work.
Ah, the Elemental Plane of Scots!
This was a movie, in the sense that it had moving pictures.
Also, your breakdown of it gave me a Ride to Hell: Retribution vibe for some reason
I can understand why it gave you that impression, even though I don't get the same vibe.
Now I want a Zero Punctuation series on Bond films
I kinda like the joke, "That Bond works in television now" as like a jab to the movies
But it also just ends up working for Christopher Lee, with him going into movie career
Works on the character of Bond, and the real life Bond man himself
My BF encouraged me to listen to this episode even though I've only ever seen the new Bond films, and wow, what a fantastic discussion! Kudos to everyone involved for a great episode, and HOO BOY, this sounds like one heck of a movie™™. I do have an interesting aside about Maurice LaMarche:
Even early in his career, Maurice "Mo" LaMarche was well known for his Orsen Welles impression; he used it as his mic warmup during the recording sessions for Tiny Toons. Most of the writing staff went on after that show to work on Animaniacs. Pinky and the Brain's appearances were actually modeled after the producers of Tiny Toons, Eddie Fitzgerald and Tom Minton. But when Mo went in to audition, he looked at the concept art of Brain, believed it was a caricature of Welles, and thought, "Oh, how nice, they've made a character for me!" He said he had never felt more confident doing an audition. Of course, he got the part and the rest is history. Mo also did Welles for The Critic, as Graham mentioned, and he also dubbed over the voice of Vincent D'Onofrio playing Welles in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, because D'Onofrio looked like Welles but didn't sound enough like him.
Aside aside, Mo is Canadian! His father, Guy LaMarche, was a TV newscaster in Timmins, Ontario, and Ottawa, Ontario, where he worked with Peter Jennings and Alex Trebek. Mo's early work included voiceover in animated Canadian TV specials and Toronto's The All-Night Show.
“It’s a bunch of references and cameos in the place of jokes.” So, the further removed we get from its origin point, the worse it gets as a movie, as less and less of these make sense to whoever’s watching?
"Ha ha ha. I recognize that, which for some reason qualifies as a joke now." -- MovieBob, "Pixels"
For just a second, I thought they were talking about Family Guy
Fun fact: in the scene where David Niven's Bond and Moneypenny are confronting Dr. Noah and the guards come and start shooting them, one of the extras is the actress Caroline Munro who would later star as Naomi in: The Spy Who Loved Me.
Your perspectives on these Bond movies are interesting and a bit jarring to someone to someone who grew up in that era. First of all, a historical note about Mata Hari. She was not an Indian dancer, she was an Indonesian dancer. Indonesia, or the Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony, which would have been an exotic fantasy Dutch and European people could relate to.
Graham saying "She's an Indian dancer?" is a reference to the movie character of Mata Bond, played by Joanna Pettet, not her character's ostensible mother, Mata Hari, who was actually Dutch, and no, not 'Dutch East Indies' or Indonesian nor ANY ethnicity beyond just Dutch - that popular rumour seems to have arisen from her inspirations from Asia for the choreography and costuming in her performances)
That said, the confusion is understandable, given the fugue state that this...'film' imposes on people who even merely discuss it, let alone watch it. :)
Bizarrely, M's widow, with her dreadful Scots accent, is played by Deborah Kerr, born in Helensburgh, just west of Glasgow, Scotland!
Happy to see the series moving right along. I never saw this one back in the day, but I'm happy for your recap. The whole franchise has a special kind of nostalgia for me and every episode of your podcast fills me with such joy. Thank you for all your hard work.
He says he doesn't have time for the stammer/stutter now that he's back. It kind of implies he was doing it while retired as a hobby almost.
My recollection is that he was somewhat traumatized by his history, and loss of his great love Mata Hari, but he had sort of got his mojo back at that point, so the stutter went.
This episode felt like I was listening to Graham explain a shared fever dream after binge watching too many Bond movies. What?
Matt saying the movie hadn't gone off the rails yet an hour and three minutes into the podcast is when I knew this was about to become a time.
Don't tell me this is where I picked up "James Bond is a Work Name attached to the 007 License". That was a good idea and it's attached to this train wreck?!?
The point at which the whole 60s Bond spy craze ( that led to so many film and tv rip offs ) imploded into an inglorious mess
Despite the shambles this film undoubtedly is, there are a few gags which no longer land either because they are too obscure or are dated. But they are there. In the Q sequence, Tremble picks up a pen which releases poison. He remarks "That would be quite good if you wanted to send someone a poison pen letter." Q replies that all the new agents say that, he usually replies "I do not wish to know that, kindly leave MI5". That line was a reference to a famous catchphrase from a British radio show called "It's that Man Again". So it would have resonated with audiences of a certain age - but only from the UK. The skydiving native Americans are a reference to Ian Fleming's wartime unit, The 30 Assault Unit Commandos. Their nickname? The Red Indians. Deborah Kerr's reappearance as a nun was a reference to her role in the John Huston film "Heaven Knows, Mr Allison". The Eisenstein reference in the Mata Bond sequence was right, but the set was inspired not by Gorey but German Expressionism, specifically (though not exclusively) "Nosferatu". The cameo at the end was by George Raft, who appeared in countless gangster movies.
I hadn't consumed any LRR content in probably the better part of a decade but this series is absolutely fantastic. Excellent works chaps, I look forward to listening to the new episodes as they arrive and we count down to no time to die!
Back in the before times, I went to a club that projected movies to the back of the stage whilst you danced to music. This sounds like someone made a bond movie just for doing that.
God, this DOES feel like bits of it would make great Brave New Faves video fodder.
You know, that scene with the remote control cart may have been a Prisoner in-joke. They were going to use a cart on the TV show but could never make it work; IIRC there was an accident where the cart just drove off a pier that sealed the deal. So they switched to weather balloons instead. Thanks for doing all this, BTW! Been a blast remembering these films.
Many, many years ago, I found this in a bargain bin. I thought, wait I have never seen this James Bond movie. Oh it looks like a parody from the back, that sounds fun. (editor's note: this was before the series of not funny epic parody movies) This podcast was therapeutic.
Im watching this just saying "What?" every few minutes more confused each time.
I suppose part of the many problems is that we expect a Bond movie and we get this! It was ‘67 after all, and if you were particularly imbibing the current drug cocktails, then I’m sure it was a real trip! It is also so bad that it’s quite good at that! Oh my “The Look of Love” , this makes the whole film worth it! By the way several of the support actors were well know UK personalities at the time. Great review by the way guys….
Good lord, it's 5am and this has me laughing in tears
haha...i have this movie on my shelf Graham...take that!
It's really weird hearing about how commonly heard the theme song is and never having heard it. Especially since I'm generally a fan of Dusty Springfield. The stuff I learn from LRR podcasts is wild.
Oh wow, it's one her biggest hits! She recorded a couple of versions, and did it live many times on TV. One of her most iconic performances.
This might have been the first Bond movie I ever saw, age... 6? It was on TV. I probably didn't notice the plot holes and narrative jumps. On one level this movie works - that level being that it's a good summary of large parts of the zeitgeist of 1967.
I loved this film as a child, and I have it on DVD and the soundtrack too. I love the 60s.
Agree!
I remember watching this when I was younger. This has brought those memories back, much like PTSD, as I was fairly sure that none of this actually happened until Graham described it beat for beat....
14 min in and I'm already fully on board for this train wreck
It's absolutely great if you can appreciate camp humour and surrealism.
The "what's new pussycat" manhole cover scene was a reference to the 1965 movie of the same name. Charles K Feldman also produced that film which also features Woody Allen, Peter Sellers, and Ursula Andress. Burt Bacharach made the music for that movie as well, including the title song. Peter O'Toole was also one of the stars of that film. He appears in "casino royale" in a cameo during the bagpipes scene with Sellers. His dialogue in that scene is also referencing the previous film. And one more thing, Allen wrote the screenplay for that movie as well.
We figured out most of that all too late, in a future episode :D
Thank you so much for going through this - about half way through I realised I had actually seen this on TV as a child while home with a fever, and honestly thought I'd hallucinated the whole thing!! What an astonishing disaster of hubris and money this is! Loving this series thank you so much for doing it!
Casino Royale is a great film.
How many other comedies from the 60s are so much fun 50 years later?
It's a real time capsule.
1.36.03 'I don't understand who these people are.' George Raft! Scarface's best buddy, the original American gangster and an actual bootleg beer driver back in the 20s, as well as one hell of a dancer. His best films are long gone and he could see Broke without needing binoculars. He was working as a casino host in London when this film was made.
I've never watched this movie, and I'll give you all the benefit of the doubt on how terrible it is, but hot damn do you make it sound like it'd be worth watching by the way you describe each scene.
It's a delight if you take it the right way.
Holy cow, I have never even heard of this movie before. I am so interested to hear you guys talk about this apparent dumpster fire.
The Herb Alpert theme song is the best of all the 007 themes, and clearly the best part of this movie. It was iconic in the era.
The Look Of Love with Dusty Springfield is an iconic song brilliantly performed. The whole score to the film is amazing. It has stuck in my head for over 50 years now.
I first saw this movie aged 5 and despite several rewatches to prove the contrary I still recall it with fond memories...
Same here, it's awesome!
I haven't seen this since I was a kid, and never all the way through -- I usually caught it on TV about 2/3rds of the way through, where everything started getting colorful and psychedelic.
The film never made much sense to me, but then at that age I didn't need things to make sense. All I needed was for it to show me new, weird things. And this film is full of them.
Again, it's been decades since I've seen the movie, but my favorite part is in the last 20-ish minutes before the final fight scene breaks out. The set designs are a visual treat. The costumes worn by the henchwomen are quite striking. The detention of The Detainer has some elements going for it, along with more amazing set designs (who designed that piano?). The sheer amount of imagination on display is truly amazing. And despite his problematic status today, I still enjoy Woody Allen's early clowning and self-conscious bumbling.
Note: I'm not arguing the movie is good. As a singular, cohesive piece of narrative structure, it utterly fails. But if you break it up into its component parts and consider them individually, I personally find plenty to like here.
Nice comment. It's a really fun movie if you can appreciate the visuals, the score, the campness and surrealism.
My progression on this movie
"I've seen all the bond movies loads of times on tv"
"There was an earlier casino royale? No way, I'm sure I would remember it"
"What"
"So yeah, they actually just never showed this on tv. Ever."
It used to get shown a lot on BBC along with Never Say Never Again as ITV had the screening rights to the proper Bond Movies which were a staple of Bank Holiday Monday schedules
I saw it on TV many times, starting in the early 1970s. A wonderful film if you take it for what it is - gorgeous, camp surrealism.
I saw this on tv sometime in the late 60’s... I was sick with one of those nameless childhood illnesses and was running a high fever. For years I thought that this insanity was due to the fever ... glad to know it wasn’t so! This movie was the perfect compliment to my delerium.
You guys are GREAT! My intro to Bond. Methinks you need to take some pot & rewatch the rewatch. ; - ) Then watch some Monty Python. Don't think so hard
Pot or LSD! yes, they are taking it WAY too seriously!
Oh, I needed this this evening!
Phew, I'm really glad you guys synopsized this movie. I watched it years ago, back before we had the internet and I didn't know what I was getting into. I'm really glad to finally get confirmation I had not hallucinated the whole thing.
Me: "The worst Bond film is either Die Another Day, Quantum of Solace or Spectre."
Casino Royale (1967): "I'm about to end this man's whole career."
[G] I haven’t seen any of those in a while, but my inclination, based on memory, is that Die Another Day is the worst EON film. But we shall see!
I always give Die Another Day a pass because to me "dueling Bond cars" is just too awesome to condemn.
No Diamonds are Forever in your bottom three? I'm extremely curious what Graham and Matt think of that one (two weeks away!) Both my wife and I ranked it as our least favorite when we watched all the Bond movies five years ago. I don't think Spectre is great, but personally I'd call it more middling then actively bad like Die Another Day and Quantum of Solace.
@@Guvnorium I totally love Diamonds are Forever, so I'm living in a glass house.
@@hfar_in_the_sky that's a major reason why it's not my least favorite. (For now. My wife and I are re-ranking as we rewatch along with the podcast) I also have a soft spot for all of the Brosnan movies, so I am admittedly quite biased. Still rank it as one of the worst though. Fifth from the bottom on my five year old list.
The meeting point at the opening is indeed a public communal urinal. They're common in France, or certainly were in the 60's. They are open like that, despite being a toilet. And the only thing hiding a man's junk being the railing. The French are just more relaxed about bodily functions.
I was watching this movie last night with my brother and our dad. They quit after about an hour. I had to take multiple breaks.
Would you ever look at OK Connery, the James Bond knockoff that not only starred actors that appeared in the Eon Bond films but starred Sean Connery's actual brother?
We talked about it in Ep02. Maybe?
"Contextualized D joke is my Sex Pistols cover band" was worth the price of admission. :D
Thank you for taking one for the team, as it were, and watching this all the way through (again) in order to include it in Rewatch.
Your attempts to describe just what the FUCK is going on in this film are INFINITELY more enjoyable than actually watching it ever again. Your palpable dismay is a DELIGHT. My most profound thanks. (And for the rest of the series, which is also a hoot.)
One thing I noticed that bears mentioning: how old is Mata Bond supposed to be? Mata Hari died in 1917. If this film is set in 1967, when it was released, that would make Mata Bond at least 50. Yet she looks like she's in her 20s. In other words, this makes no freaking sense.
Edit: I just looked it up; Joanna Pettet was 25 when this film released. So I have to double down on this making no sense.
Right, and James Bond isn't old enough to have been Mata Hari's lover, and Frau Hoffner and Polo aren't old enough to have been around with Mata Hari either.
Doesn't matter at all, because the film is meant to be surreal, not logical.
thanks for taking the hit on this one.
I've seen this once and I don't think I shall spend the time again.
Approx 1:20:21 - the famous race car driver is Sir Stirling Moss, who just recently passed away I'm afraid.
The 'cowboys' scene at the end is referenced in the 2006 Casino Royale movie.
The Nelson thing is a call back to Dr. No where Bond notices a recently stolen Goya in Dr. No's lair.
I seen this movie multiple times and even own this movie. Of course I first saw this movie as a kid.
Gosh, this one felt like such a trip compared to the other podcasts. I guess I shouldn't have bothered adding that antidote to my drink.
When I saw they were doing this one, I was thinking “is this the one with Woody Allen in it? He’s the bad guy?” Which was all I could remember of this “movie.” Then half the stuff they described caused me to remember scenes.
Also, the weirdest and most incoherent use of Dutch angles before Battlefield Earth
I really love the opening theme by Burt Baccarat. Good with the trumpet.
That is Herb Alpert.
I hope that was a joke! It's Burt Bacharach, but baccarat is the card game James Bond plays with Le Chiffre.
Bacharach's score for the entire film is brilliant.
Joanna Pettet is a great actress, retired early. She is 81 now! Always in my prayers JP❤🙏
This "film" is exactly as rambling and incomprehensible as you made it out to be.
It seems like Mel Brooks reused several of these bits in his movies (Blazing Saddles specifically) - but did it so much better that it defies comparison.
Best part of my week