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Date of broadcast: |
21st October 1954 CBS-TV |
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Running Time: |
52 minutes |
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James Bond: |
Barry Nelson |
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Plot: |
American CIA agent
‘card-sense’ Jimmy Bond joins forces with Clarence Leiter of the British Secret
Service to outwit Soviet Agent Le Chiffre, who is using party funds
to raise money at the Baccarat tables of Casino Royale. |
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Bond’s Women: |
Valerie Mathis (Linda Christian) |
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Bond’s Enemies: |
Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre)
Zoltan (Kurt
Katch)
Basil (Gene Roth) |
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Bond’s Allies: |
Clarence Leiter (Michael Pate) |
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Art Directors: |
Robert Tyler Lee & James D. Vance |
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Screenplay: |
Antony Ellis & Charles Bennett |
Host for
CLIMAX! |
William Lundigan |
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Director: |
William H. Brown |
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Producer: |
Bretaigne Windust |
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Music: |
Jerry Goldsmith [uncredited] |
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Casino Royale was originally
broadcast live on Thursday, October 21st 1954 as the third show in
the first season of the anthology drama series CLIMAX!. Casino
Royale was long thought
to be lost but surfaced from obscurity when film and TV historian
Jim Schoenberger discovered an old kinescope of the production in
Chicago in the early 1980s*. |
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