# Finally, a Bond-Canon Casino Royale! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-bond-canon-casino-royale/319254 "2005-08-30T14:47:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-bond-canon-casino-royale/319254/1 "2005-08-30T14:47:37Z")
[link](http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/30/film.bond.reut/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-bond-canon-casino-royale/319254/2 "2005-08-30T14:54:02Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > [link](http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/30/film.bond.reut/index.html) Non-canon _Casino Royale_ films: [The James Bond Film Festival. Part 21: Casino Royale (1954)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=264712) [The James Bond Film Festival. Part 22: Casino Royale (1967)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=312581) I hope the canon-version will stick to the grittiness of the book. Probably too much to ask, since audiences are accustomed to the Bond gadgets. I prefer the first films where the gadgets were not so outrageous and Bond had to rely on his wits. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-bond-canon-casino-royale/319254/3 "2005-08-30T15:02:11Z")
[DVD version of the 1967 film](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JL0I/qid%3D1125414045/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr_11_1/104-2929823-0437551) also contains the 1954 CBS TV version, live TV bloopers and all. Peter Lorre made one of the more infamous goofs in live TV history: Dead Men Do Walk Off Set. It’s not considered canonical though, because, among other things, Bond is a US CIA agent. But still a lot closer to canon than the 1967 film. Wikipedia [link.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-bond-canon-casino-royale/319254/4 "2005-08-30T15:10:35Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > [DVD version of the 1967 film](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JL0I/qid%3D1125414045/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr_11_1/104-2929823-0437551) also contains the 1954 CBS TV version, live TV bloopers and all. Peter Lorre made one of the more infamous goofs in live TV history: Dead Men Do Walk Off Set. It’s not considered canonical though, because, among other things, Bond is a US CIA agent. But still a lot closer to canon than the 1967 film. > > Wikipedia [link.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond) [Not according to snopes](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/deadman.asp): > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > I’ve got a James Bond legend, this one concerning the 1954 film “Casino Royale.” > > > > The film was originally performed live on television. Rumor has it that after his death scene, Peter Lorre (as the villain Le Chiffre) was unaware that he was in the shot, and promptly rose from the dead and walked out of frame. > > A production of Ian Fleming’s _Casino Royale_, starring Barry Nelson and Peter Lorre, aired on 21 October 1954 as the third production of CBS’s _Climax!_, a Thursday night anthology program which presented a series of live, hour-long dramatic adaptations. The “dead man” glitch occurred in the series’ premiere episode (aired on 7 October 1954) during a production of the Raymond Chandler crime novel, _The Long Goodbye_, as described in a _Los Angeles Times_ article a few days later… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-bond-canon-casino-royale/319254/5 "2005-08-30T15:13:27Z")
Oh – I did check the _Climax!_ episode on my DVD when I heard this UL. Lorre did not get up and walk away.