Oh yes perhaps I should have mentioned that this here is Jimmy Bond all american ‘combined intelligence’ agent leaving Leiter to pick up the role as token brit of the picture in a switcheroo from their usual positions. There isn’t even time for M as instead Bond gets his information, once there, from a Brit called Leiter.

Here there is no Smersh as they simply wouldn’t have time to explain the acronym.

Bond has been tasked to head to the titular casino in order to bankrupt Le Chiffre so that the bad guys who were bank rolling him will become displeased with their agent and “handle him” so that the good guys don’t have to. If he had known what a mess he would be making all for the sake of a one hour made for t.v movie I’m not sure he would have bothered but he didn’t know that then and there was even talk of this thing coming back round for a few more episodes meaning if this had taken off we might never have have got Sean at all and been stuck with Jimmy Bond the t.v super spy.įor those how has read the book, or seen the film, the plot is broadly the same as those. In fact all Ian had done was try to sell his first book for a few quid leading to years of headaches and films that are Bond but not really. Heck this can’t even be seen as a homage to the characters Scottish lineage as Ian hasn’t come up with that yet because they haven’t cast Sean in the role. So there’s no gadgets, no Q, there’s not even a vodka martini, shaken nor stirred, as he here he prefers a simple scotch. Right now we are close to ten years off from the first cinematic Bond movie and we are in fact only two adventurers in to the literary secret agent’s escapades. And if you are only familiar with the secret agent through the movies then you’re going to be very disappointed. Based upon the works of a British author by the name of Ian Fleming this is the first James Bond in….īefore we go any further I should point out that at around fifty minutes in length on a made for t.v budget in the ninety fifties this is hardly going to blow any modern audiences away. So why am I discussing this? Why for episode number three. All in black and white despite the show airing in colour due to simply the copies that people could get hold of. A few more survive on youtube or similar sights around the internet. There are only two episodes on DVD at this time of writing though they had over a hundred and fifty to their name. It’s unlikely many today have heard of it. Climax was a weekly anthology series that ran from 1954 to 1958.

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