Dr. No (Special Edition, DVD)

"Underneath the mango tree". Ursula Andress and Sean Connery may have failed to make the charts with their duet, but they launched a 40+ years legacy of films. The first of 22 films so far. MGM have created the ultimate set of DVDs for this the ultimate legacy. The first and possibly best James Bond films. There are a lot of firsts with Dr No; It's the first time we meet Mr Connery as 007 Lois Maxwell,Jack Lord and Bernard Lee make the first of many outings as Moneypenny, Felix & M. We see Bond in a Tux at the casino for the first time. and Connery uses the "Bond,James Bond" introduction at the casino table ...  Read the complete review

Before the film Dr No, the character James Bond was little more than a fictional super spy known only to a few who had an interest in a series of novels by Ian Fleming. Thanks to a relatively unknown Scottish actor going by the name of Sean Connery a new kind of superhero was born. Not the typical loudly dressed tight wearing superhero that seeming to be saturating the 60's TV network. This was a more suave, debonair tuxedo playboy that we all at sometime wished we could be (well the males amongst us anyway!) For out of no-where this new classy hero burst onto cinema screens and wowed audiences internationally giving a slight insight into what was to become ...  Read the complete review

‘Dr. No’ is a film released way back in 1963. This, on the whole, does not make for a very promising DVD release, since fewer promotional items were produced back then, and even fewer are likely to have survived to the present day. Thankfully, however, MGM have pulled out all the stops on this occasion, and the Dr. No Special Edition is a marvellously comprehensive archive, a veritable treat for the James Bond fan. When the format is capable of THIS, why are most other DVDs so second-rate? THE FILM The plot begins as James Bond, British super-spy with a licence to kill, is summoned in the middle of the night to Intelligence HQ. ...  Read the complete review

If ever a film needed to be remade it's "Dr.No".This 1962 introduction to the series of movies made by Eon Productions really looks it's age,more shaking than stirring. Of course DVD has given the film a new lease of life,once again the Jamacian locations used for the film look beautiful,vivid colours ,crisp clear photography and undamaged film help shed a few years off the productions age.But this is not really the Bond we know and love,this is a first breath of life,a painful childbirth that grow to establish a winning formula.But more on this later. If you have "Dr.No" on video it will be the special features that ...  Read the complete review

Knowadays everyone knows Bond, the world's more advertised secret agent. This of the first of what I believe is the long series of films ever made - not counting porn ones ... ;) - with 19 official movies. In this movie, James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to investigate a case in Jamaica, where one of the secret service people, Dr. Strangways, has vanished, in one of the most brilliant murder scenes... the trio of "blind" hitmen. He eventually discovers that Strangways meet his demise at the cold hands of Dr. No, the film's villain, who seems to be beyond rich as he owns his private island. Bond soon pays a visit to Dr. No's island ...  Read the complete review