Run-of-the-mill Euro-spy rip-off movie with usual ingredients : wonderful girls with mini-skirts , pursuits , fights , fantastic gadgets , luxurious cars and a complete mess . Silly spoof , resulting to be the product of five filmmakers : Val Guest , Joseph McGrath , Robert Parrish , Ken Hughes and John Huston who played a brief role too and with a motley cast of dozens , as well as three credited writers : John Law , Mankowitz , Michael Sayers and uncredited : Billy Wilder , Ben Hecht , Joseph Heller, Terry Southern , Val Guest , Woody Allen and Peter Sellers himself . It deals with an elderly and retired James Bond : David Niven , who's assigned a new mission . As Bond comes of retirement and he proposes that the agents all around the world to be considered as agents James Bond . That's why you'll find that there are various James Bond and 007s in the movie including Peter Sellers , David Niven , Woody Allen, among others .
This virtually failed film can stand as one of the low-water marks for 1960s comedy. It has lots of flaws and gaps , as it does tend to get a bit old , but it has big fun , so it cares . Adding a catching and agreeable musical leitmotif by composer Burt Bacharach . In spite of the strange combination of talents of this star-studded cast ensemble , the movie resulted to be a total flop , being the black sheep of the James Bond family of movies , though displays some diverting sketches . And yet there are some attractive bits within , scenes of bizarre hilarity . Suggested by the novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming and really influenced by Sean Connery's James Bond series , Euro-spy movies and maybe ¨Get Smart¨ writer watched this film before making their series . It is a colorful lark , though very dated in its shiny Sixties pop-art way . Still , the all-star-cast is fun and standing out Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond and Barbara Bouchet as a gorgeous Moneypenny . As the main enjoyment is to guess who's the beautiful girl appearing here and there , including the following ones : Ursula Andress , Joanna Pettet , Dalilah Davi , Barbara Bouchet , Gabriella Licudi , Alexandra Bastedo , Tracy Reed , Mireille Darc , Veronica Carlson , Geraldine Chaplin , Caroline Munro and the veteran Deborah Kerr . While Orson Welles and Sellers literally coudn't stand the sight of one another and their scenes together were shot separately with stand-ins . And the rights to Casino Royale weren't part of the Ian Fleming package .
It packs a colorful and shimmering cinematography by Jack Hildyard. The picture was lousily directed by Ken Hughes , John Huston , Joseph McGrath and Val Guest . Not wanting to compete with the Sean Connery vehicles , this movie was intented to be a stylish spoof but it was wrong . Rating : 4.5/10 . It is only sporadically funny . For the most , it's an overlong failure and overblown bore .
This virtually failed film can stand as one of the low-water marks for 1960s comedy. It has lots of flaws and gaps , as it does tend to get a bit old , but it has big fun , so it cares . Adding a catching and agreeable musical leitmotif by composer Burt Bacharach . In spite of the strange combination of talents of this star-studded cast ensemble , the movie resulted to be a total flop , being the black sheep of the James Bond family of movies , though displays some diverting sketches . And yet there are some attractive bits within , scenes of bizarre hilarity . Suggested by the novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming and really influenced by Sean Connery's James Bond series , Euro-spy movies and maybe ¨Get Smart¨ writer watched this film before making their series . It is a colorful lark , though very dated in its shiny Sixties pop-art way . Still , the all-star-cast is fun and standing out Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond and Barbara Bouchet as a gorgeous Moneypenny . As the main enjoyment is to guess who's the beautiful girl appearing here and there , including the following ones : Ursula Andress , Joanna Pettet , Dalilah Davi , Barbara Bouchet , Gabriella Licudi , Alexandra Bastedo , Tracy Reed , Mireille Darc , Veronica Carlson , Geraldine Chaplin , Caroline Munro and the veteran Deborah Kerr . While Orson Welles and Sellers literally coudn't stand the sight of one another and their scenes together were shot separately with stand-ins . And the rights to Casino Royale weren't part of the Ian Fleming package .
It packs a colorful and shimmering cinematography by Jack Hildyard. The picture was lousily directed by Ken Hughes , John Huston , Joseph McGrath and Val Guest . Not wanting to compete with the Sean Connery vehicles , this movie was intented to be a stylish spoof but it was wrong . Rating : 4.5/10 . It is only sporadically funny . For the most , it's an overlong failure and overblown bore .