Dr. No
October 7, 1962 in theaters
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
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"Shaken, not stirred."
DID YOU KNOW?
Dr. No's underground lair set cost more than the rest of the film combined -- it became the blueprint for villain headquarters in cinema.
THE VERDICT
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The film that created the template and has never fully been surpassed as an act of franchise-building. Connery's Bond arrived fully formed -- cool, amused, and faintly dangerous -- and the Jamaican locations give the film a textural quality that later entries in the series rarely matched. It is modest by the franchise's later standards, but its confidence in its own tone is total. A film that invented a genre almost accidentally.
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