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By Richard T. Jameson
Special to MSN Movies
Spy Sidebar: Amateur Branch
See also: Bond Moments, The History of James Bond, Bond Villains, Best Bond Girls, James Bond Quiz
James Bond embarked on his double-0, license-to-kill career in "Casino
Royale," a short novel written by Ian Fleming in the early 1950s. He was a
mere spy then, not yet super; the closest thing to a gadget was a stacked deck
at a baccarat table where Bond aimed to beat a SMERSH agent known as Le Chiffre;
and the most striking twist was the outcome of 007's romance with fetching
damsel Vesper Lynd. Who could foresee that, a few years hence, our first
speed-reading president, John F. Kennedy, would name Fleming among his favorite
authors? Within a twinkling, the Bond books sparked a series of initially modest
British films that soon evolved into the mightiest ongoing franchise in cinema
history and set off an international craze for spy movies. (Story Continues On Next Page...) |
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