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Casino Royale DVD TV Climax Mystery Theater Peter Lorre (1954)

In 1954, producer and director Gregory Ratoff of CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 to adapt Casino Royale into a television adventure as part of its Climax! series. Barry Nelson In "Casino Royale"The hour-long Casino Royale episode aired on October 21, 1954 and starred Barry Nelson as secret agent "Card Sense" James 'Jimmy' Bond, with Peter Lorre in the role of Le Chiffre. For this Americanised version of the story, Bond is described as an agent for "Combined Intelligence," while the characters of Felix Leiter and Rene Mathis from the original novel morphed together into "Clarence Leiter," a British agent for Station S. The name "Mathis" passed to the leading lady, christened Valerie Mathis instead of Vesper Lynd.  Casino Royale was the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. His second, Live and Let Die appeared only six months before the broadcast of this first film adaptation of a James Bond novel in 1954. This first film rendition of the first James Bond novel bears nearly none of the characteristics of mood, tone, and theme that would effuse from its ilk of the next fifty years.

The hour long showing itself is split into three acts:
Act I: Opening -- Opening of Baccarat scene
Act II: Opening of Baccarat Scene -- Hotel Room finale Opening
Act III: Hotel Room finale Opening -- Ending

Barry Nelson ...  James Bond / Jimmy Bond 
Eugene Borden ...  Chef DePartre / Chef De Partie
Linda Christian ...  Valerie Mathis
Jean Del Val ...  Croupier (as Jean DeVal)
Kurt Katch ...  Zoltan
Peter Lorre ...  Le Chiffre / Herr Ziffer
William Lundigan ...  Host
Michael Pate ...  Clarence Leiter
Gene Roth ...  Basil 

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