Dr. No

    Dr. No
    1962

    Synopsis

    In the film that launched the James Bond saga, 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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    Cast

    • Sean ConneryJames Bond
    • Ursula AndressHoney Ryder
    • Joseph WisemanDr. No
    • Jack LordFelix Leiter
    • Anthony DawsonProfessor R. J. Dent
    • Zena MarshallMiss Taro
    • John KitzmillerQuarrel
    • Eunice GaysonSylvia Trench
    • Bernard LeeM
    • Lois MaxwellMiss Moneypenny

    Recommendations

    • 90

      The Guardian

      The other is a scene, improvised on the set, when Bond does a double take on seeing Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington (recently stolen from London's National Gallery) in Dr No's palatial living room. It's the funniest moment in any Bond picture and one of cinema's great art jokes.
    • 80

      Empire

      The beginning of the super-successful franchise, this remains one of the most satisfying Bond films.
    • 80

      Variety

      First screen adventure of Ian Fleming's hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.
    • 80

      Time Out London

      As memorable as anything in the series (the arteries hadn't hardened yet) are modest highlights like Bond's encounter with a tarantula, Honeychile's first appearance as a nymph from the sea, the perils of Dr No's assault course of pain.
    • 80

      Chicago Reader

      All of the elements of the formula are there, but in pleasing moderation.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      There are no gadgets, forcing Bond to rely on his ingenuity (in one scene, when he needs to breathe while submerged, he uses hollowed-out reeds as air tubes). The single car chase is reasonably straightforward. And, for the only time in the series, 007 is unmistakably brutalized, appearing bloody, beaten, and disheveled as a result.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      A solid, surprisingly modest spy thriller, enlivened by Sean Connery's screen charisma and occasional hints of the extravagance to come.
    • 70

      The New York Times

      This lively, amusing picture is not to be taken seriously as realistic fiction or even art, any more than the works of Mr. Fleming are to be taken as long-hair literature. It is strictly a tinseled action-thriller, spiked with a mystery of a sort. And, if you are clever, you will see it as a spoof of science-fiction and sex.

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