James Bond Part 1- Dr. No -1962- 72 !!install!! -

was a gamble that paid off spectacularly. Released on October 5, 1962 (a date now celebrated as "Global James Bond Day"), the film was a sleeper hit. Critics were mixed— Variety called Connery "adequate"—but audiences were ravenous.

The film is a hybrid: half detective procedural, half sci-fi thriller. There is no Q Branch, no gadget-laden Aston Martin (he drives a Sunbeam Alpine), and only one martini. The villain is a scientist, not a world-conquering megalomaniac with a lair full of sharks (though Dr. No does have a lair full of radiation). James Bond Part 1- Dr. No -1962- 72