TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE RITZ
Everyone loves the new Bond, especially with QUANTUM OF SOLACE coming up in November, but how many people realize that Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and David Niven all played James Bond? And all in the same movie. And what a movie.
Producer Charles Feldman bought the rights to Ian Fleming's first Bond novel before anybody had even thought about making a movie adaptation, and once the series became a huge hit, Feldman decided to revisit the property. By the time it hit the screen it had the fingerprints of five directors all over it, including John Huston, the budget had ballooned to a then-colossal twelve million dollars, and the whole thing had turned into a colorful comedic hallucination on a scale that had never been seen before.
It's a giant, MAD magazine-style technicolor dream filled with what the ads called "a Bondwagon of the most beautiful and talented girls you ever saw". Along the way, there's a lot of drinking - Niven's Bond quaffs Scotch in the Highlands with M's widow in a scene that drew protests from Scottish groups. Sellers' Bond succumbs to the charms (and the martinis) of Ursula Andress' Vesper Lynd before facing Orson Welles' Le Chiffre over champagne in the titular gambling establishment. Woody Allen (who's hilarious here) even tips back a few.
Featuring a lounge-fan's dream soundtrack by Burt Bacharach and cameos by everyone from Peter O'Toole to Jean Paul Belmondo. See it with someone you love, and a shaker of our patented vesper martinis!
Grab your tickets to CASINO ROYALE right here!
No comments:
Post a Comment