Dr No

Dr No

The first Bond film. So classic, so good! Sean Connery is unforgettable as James Bond. 1962. Director: Terence Young.

The handsome MI6 agent Strangways (Timothy Moxon) is investigating at Jamaica but is suddenly murdered. Back in London, M (Bernard Lee) wants James Bond (Sean Connery) to go to Jamaica and find out what happened to Strangways and if he where up to something.

Bond arrives at the airport, and is immediately shadowed by a mysterious man in sunglasses. A man offers him to drive him to the Government house, and says that they sent him. Bond suspects something and finds out that the man is lying. After confronting him, and trying to force him to say who really sent him, the man kills himself. He would rather die then tell Bond who his boss is, something is very suspicious.

With the help from a local man called Quarrel (John Kitzmiller), who was employed by Strangways to take him with a boat to the dangerous island Crab Key, Bond finds out that Strangways had found something odd at Crab Key. After meeting the mysterious man from the airport, who reviles himself as the CIA-agent Felix Leiter (Jack Lord), Bond decides to go to Crab Key to take a look of the island.

But there's not much to see from a distance, and Quarrel doesn't want to go any closer at the time. Bond goes back and meet the good looking Miss Taro (Zena Marshall) who doesn't seem like a girl to trust. He then finds radioactive samples in Quarrel's boat which Strangways brought with him from Crab Key.

The unpleasant Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson) lies about the radioactive samples aren't radioactive but worthless stuff. Bond suspects him as an agent for the mysterious Dr No (Joseph Wiseman) who owns Crab Key and is up to something very bad there in his secret laboratory. Bond is getting closer to the answer of it all, but is there time to stop what Dr No is about to do?

This is the first Bond film, and it's really good. Sean Connery is unbelievable cool and the perfect actor to play Bond. The famous scene where the beautiful Ursula Andress shows up on the beach is maybe not that amazing as some people seems to think, but it's nothing wrong about it at all. Picture: Fun at the set.

This wasn't a film with a huge budget, just a million dollars (which was a lot then, but still a pretty cheap film). Now, you can laugh at the fact that in the end where a nuclear reactor explodes, it seems like nothing in the film. What they didn't know then was that it would have been much worse and not exactly something without any consequences... But if you don't think of that, this is a great Bond film.