The Mata Hari intro dance was cool, and the set design of the school was wild.īut most of this movie was a mess. I even enjoyed Ursula Andress and Woody Allen in supporting roles. It's surprising to see Sellers in a semi-serious leading man role and doing pretty well. I was pleasantly reminded about how much I love Welles's mellifluous enunciation. There's certainly a lot of talent here, as it would be hard to argue that David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Orson Welles couldn't act or that John Huston couldn't direct. This was clearly a very big budget movie for the era, shot and edited fairly well. On the plus side, I enjoyed the production design a lot. It's a movie that gets some points just for being so weird. The original "Casino Royale" is by no means essential, but it wasn't a total waste of time. After all these years I've finally seen every James Bond film.
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