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Date of release:	World Premiere [Gala Screening] 5th October 1962 The London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus, London.
Running Time:	109 minutes
James Bond:	Sean Connery
Plot:	From his undersea base, SPECTRE agent Doctor No uses his ‘Toppling Beam’ to disrupt America’s space programme. (SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence Terrorism Revenge and Extortion.)
Bond’s Women:	Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress) [voice of Nikki van der Zyl] Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson) [voice of Nikki van der Zyl]
Bond’s Enemies:	Doctor Julius No (Joseph Wiseman) Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson) Miss Taro (Zena Marshall) The ‘Three Blind Mice’ (Eric Coverly, Charles Edghill & Henry Lopez) Girl photographer (Marguerite LeWars) [voice of Juliet Nissen] Jones (Reginald Carter) [voice of Frank Singuineau] Sister Rose & Sister Lily (Michel Mok & Yvonne Shima)
Bond’s Allies:	Felix Leiter (Jack Lord) Quarrel (John Kitzmiller) [mis-spelled Kitzmuller in end credits] Pleydell-Smith (Louis Blaazer) [voice of Maxwell Shaw] Duff (William Foster-Davis) [voice of Robert Rietty] M (Bernard Lee) Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) Major Boothroyd [the armourer] (Peter Burton)
Bond’s Car:	Sunbeam Alpine
Bond’s Gadget:	Geiger Counter
Main Title Music:	‘The James Bond Theme’ / ‘Kingston Calypso’ [Three Blind Mice] (vocal) performed by Byron Lee & The Dragonaires [uncredited] [‘The James Bond Theme’ composed by Monty Norman arranged by John Barry] played by John Barry & Orchestra
Vocals featured within the film:	‘Jump Up’ performed by Byron Lee & The Dragonaires [uncredited] ‘Under The Mango Tree’ sung by Diana Coupland [uncredited] (featured in the film on a record that James Bond plays in Miss Taro’s bungalow) ‘Under The Mango Tree’ sung by Monty Norman [uncredited]
End Title Music:	‘The James Bond Theme’
Music Score:	Monty Norman
Production Designer:	Ken Adam
Art Director:	Syd Cain [uncredited]
Action Arranger:	Bob Simmons [uncredited] (also appears as James Bond in the gun barrel sequence)
Main Titles Designer:	Maurice Binder Animation Trevor Bond & Robert Ellis
Costumes:	Tessa Welborn Sean Connery's tailoring by Anthony Sinclair [uncredited]
Editor:	Peter Hunt
Special Effects:	Frank George Assisted by John Stears [uncredited]
Screenplay:	Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood & Berkely Mather
Director of Photography:	Ted Moore
Director:	Terence Young
Producers:	Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for the Western Hemisphere.
End Credit:	No announcement of the next film in the series.
Poster Tag-lines:	“THE FIRST JAMES BOND FILM!” “Now... meet the most extraordinary gentleman spy in all fiction... JAMES BOND Agent 007...!”

James Bond (Sean Connery)

Gunbarrel (Bob Simmons)

Gun barrel (Bob Simmons)

Dr. No title screen

Dr. No title screen

Sunbeam Alpine

Sunbeam Alpine

Geiger Counter

M (Bernard Lee)

Felix Leiter (Jack Lord)

M: Armourer! (to Bond) Take off your jacket! Give me your gun. Yes, I thought so. This damn Beretta again. I’ve told you about this before. (to Boothroyd) You tell him — for the last time!

MAJOR BOOTHROYD: Nice and light — in a lady’s handbag. No stopping power.

M: Any comments Double-O Seven?

JAMES BOND: I disagree sir. I’ve used a Beretta for ten years — I’ve never missed with it yet!

M: Maybe not, but it jammed on your last job and you spent six months in hospital in consequence. If you carry a Double-O number it means you’re licenced to kill not get killed. And another thing. Since I’ve been head of MI7 there’s been a 40 percent drop in Double-O operative casualties, and I want it to stay that way. You’ll carry the Walther — unless of course you’d prefer to go back to standard intelligence duties.

JAMES BOND: No sir. I would not.

M: Then from now on you carry a different gun, show him armourer.

MAJOR BOOTHROYD: Walther PPK 7.65 mil with a delivery like a brick through a plate-glass window. Takes a Brausch silencer with very little reduction in muzzle velocity — the American CIA swear by them.

M: Thank you Major Boothroyd.

MAJOR BOOTHROYD: Thank you sir. (to Bond) Goodnight sir.

M: Any questions Double-O Seven?

JAMES BOND: No sir.

M: Alright then. Best of luck.

JAMES BOND: Thank you sir. (Bond picks up the Walther in its box, hiding the Beretta underneath, and walks to the office door)

M: (without looking up from his desk) Double-O Seven!

JAMES BOND: Sir?

M: Just Leave the Beretta.

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