The cast is filled out with a number of, essentially, background and cameo characters. Similarly unfamiliar to me was Linda Christian as Valerie Mathis. Michael Pate is Leiter I have to own up to not recognising this Australian actor, but he has racked up over a hundred and seventy screen credits. Le Chiffre is played by the legend that is Peter Lorre my childhood is peppered with memories of Peter Lorre in no end of films. He was even in The Shining for goodness sake! Nelson was, pretty much, ubiquitous for the latter half of the last century Murder, She Wrote, Fantasy Island, Magnum, P.I., Dallas, Taxi, and many, many more featured Barry Nelson in at least one episode. James “Card Sense Jimmy” Bond is played by Barry Nelson.

At Her First Scream, He’s Deadīefore I go much further let’s have a quick look at who’s who. Mainly the game between Bond and Le Chiffre but there are a couple of other scenes that you’d recognise. So what do you get and what do you lose? In short, the majority of Climax! Casino Royale is taken up with the action that takes place within the casino itself. Unless you’re a big fan of the Keystone Cops. there’s no way that you can get two hours’ worth of action into fifty minutes of screen time. I mean, unless you run the film through at 48 f.p.s. Needless to say, there’s a world of difference between this version and both of the cinematic versions. That is why we draw your attention to Japanese online casinos where you can get an excellent online gaming experience.ĭownload the RunPee app for free: Read more about the RunPee app.Īdmittedly, it was released as an episode of the 1954-1958 Climax! anthology series, rather than an actual feature film but, for the sake of completeness, I’m including it in the roundup…there will be spoilers! Japan is famous for its casinos, which James Bond would appreciate. Thanks to Sean Connery and James Bond, Japan was brought to the world. After all, it turns out that, at just fifty minutes long, it’s the shortest James Bond outing - which ties in quite nicely with No Time To Die being the longest! You should also enjoy You Only Live Twice with its beautiful Japanese setting. So you can imagine my surprise when the good people at Apple included it in the film & TV part of the iTunes Store! Obviously, I snapped up a copy and gave it a watch. Seeing as how it was a television episode from the other side of the planet and broadcast before I was born, I doubted very much whether or not I’d ever actually get to see it. During the course of doing my bit of the Giant James Bond Rewatch, there were references to Climax! Casino Royale which is the very first screen outing for Bond an episode of Climax! from 1954, less than three years after the novel was written.

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