I rented it and watched it and really have had no lasting recollection of it beyond the presence of Peter Lorre and Bond hiding a check behind the number plate of his hotel room door. I believe I first encountered this episode when I saw a VHS copy of it on the shelf of the video section in the local Lewis Drug Store in my home town. What follows is my own response to the “Casino Royale” television episode. ![]() Of course, there are several differences between the novel and the TV special, the most glaring of which is the decision to make James Bond an American, known to (now British) fellow secret agent (Clarence) Leiter as “Card Sense” Jimmy Bond. ![]() It was the first time James Bond was ever seen in action on a screen of any size. A year and a half later, CBS televison’s Climax Mystery Theater broadcast a live, one-hour adaptation of the novel. ![]() Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in April of 1953. Jimmy Bond offers a useless description of how to play baccarat. “It’s like any game, you win or you lose.”
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