Many sequences from the film were dropped, so that several actors never appeared in the final cut, including Ian Hendry as , the agent whose body is briefly seen being disposed of by Vesper , Mona Washbourne and Arthur Mullard.

For the music, Feldman decided to bring in Burt Bacharach , who had done the score for his previous production What's New Pussycat?

Bacharach worked over two years writing for Casino Royale , in the meantime composing the After the Fox score and being forced to decline participation in Luv.

Lyricist Hal David contributed with various songs, many of which appeared in just instrumental versions.

The title theme was Alpert's second number one on the Easy Listening chart where it spent two weeks at the top in June and peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot It is played in the scene of Vesper Lynd recruiting Evelyn Tremble, seen through a man-size aquarium in a seductive walk.

It was heard again in the first Austin Powers film, which was to a degree inspired by Casino Royale.

A clarinet melody would later be featured in a Cracker Jack peanut popcorn commercial. As an in-joke, a brief snippet of John Barry 's song " Born Free " is used in the film.

At the time, Barry was the main composer for the Eon Bond series, and said song had won an Academy Award over Bacharach's own " Alfie ".

The cover art was done by Robert McGinnis , based on the film poster. The soundtrack album became famous among audio purists for the excellence of its recording.

The film soundtrack has since been released by other companies in different configurations including complete score releases.

The highly regarded master tapes were damaged, however, during a s remastering [ citation needed ] so none of the subsequent re-releases is considered to be as fine as the original LP release.

However, during filming the project ran into several problems and the shoot ran months over schedule, with the costs also running well over.

The problems postponed the launch until April Casino Royale had its world premiere in London's Odeon Leicester Square on 13 April , breaking many opening records in the theatre's history.

When domestic box-office receipts are adjusted for inflation, Casino Royale is 20th-largest grossing of all the Bond films. No advance press screenings of Casino Royale were held, leading reviews to only appear after the premiere.

Writing in , Danny Peary noted, "It's hard to believe that in we actually waited in anticipation for this so-called James Bond spoof.

It was a disappointment then; it's a curio today, but just as hard to get through. In fact, I recommend you see it on television when it's in a two-hour including commercials slot.

Then you won't expect it to make any sense. A few recent reviewers have been more impressed by the film. Andrea LeVasseur, in the AllMovie review, called it "the original ultimate spy spoof", and opined that the "nearly impossible to follow" plot made it "a satire to the highest degree".

Further describing it as a "hideous, zany disaster" LeVasseur concluded that it was "a psychedelic, absurd masterpiece". It is the anti-auteur work of all time, a film shaped by the very zeitgeist it took on.

In his review of the film, Leonard Maltin remarked, "Money, money everywhere, but [the] film is terribly uneven — sometimes funny, often not.

The website's critical consensus states: "A goofy, dated parody of spy movie cliches, Casino Royale squanders its all-star cast on a meandering, mostly laugh-free script.

Fox has since been responsible for the debut of the Casino Royale on Blu-ray disc in Danjaq LLC , Eon's holding company, is shown as one of its present copyright owners.

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