In addition to being seductive as hell and one of the perfect '60s songs, it's an Oscar nominee, the first of four Bond songs to be so honored. An end-credits version that adds inane lyrics - purposefully inane lyrics, I should hasten to point out - is much, much less enjoyable.īetter yet! This film is, weirdly, the only Bond picture of any stripe to put up two Top 40 hits the other is Bacharach's gorgeously smoky 'The Look of Love' as performed by Dusty Springfield in full-on 'give me sex right now' mode.

I cannot imagine the song having too large of a natural fanbase 45 years later, but it did surprisingly well in '67, and I will confess to having a real soft spot for the tune even now it helps that I was exposed to enough Alpert at a young age that I have persuaded myself that I enjoy listening to it now. 'Casino Royale' is a peppy pop instrumental composed by Burt Bacharach and performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, a relic of the fascinating period in music history when poppy jazz performed on the horn could reliably top the charts. So: not funny, pointless, and confusing? There couldn't be a more appropriate opening scene to this grindingly bizarre parody of the EON Bond films, forced into the world through the sheer willpower of producer Charles K. Which, given where the plot goes, also makes it confusing. It's quite weird on its own, and not nearly funny enough to work as a parody of the actual Bond opening sequences, and it turns out to have been snipped from a scene much later in the film for no better reason that 'just because'. Mathis shows his credentials, apparently waggling his dick at Bond, and they agree to find a quieter place to confer.

With no context at all to explain what's happening, British secret agent 007, James Bond (Peter Sellers) meets with an apparently Scottish inspector, Mathis (Duncan Macrae) in a public street urinal in Paris.

With uncredited contributions by Woody Allen, Val Guest, Ben Hecht, Joseph Heller, Peter Sellers, Terry Southern, and Billy Wilder Written by Wolf Mankowitz & John Law & Michael Sayers A previous review of this film can be found here.Ī guide to all things Bond at Alternate Ending.ĭirected by John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Joseph McGrath, and Robert Parrish

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