JAMES BOND: CASINO ROYALE

Lobby Card Set of (8) (11" x 14" )
Very Fine-
Columbia, 1967

Besides a chip off the upper left corner of card 1 and tape staining on the left border of card 5, this set is in excellent condition.

With the enormous success of the James Bond film franchise, a parody film was inevitable, and it ultimately hit theaters in 1967. Casino Royale, based on the Ian Fleming novel that introduced the character, had been filmed once before, as a part of the TV anthology series Climax! in 1954, starring Barry Nelson as 007 and Peter Lorre as his nemesis, Le Chiffre. The 1967 version, however, abandoned all of Fleming's story, retaining only the title. Starring David Niven as the "original" 007, who is forced out of retirement by an international crisis regarding the deaths of spies worldwide, the movie introduces many "false" Bonds designed to confuse the villain,

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