My friend, Ian, gave me a DVD of Casino Royale, one of my favorite movies. One of the bonus goodies on it is the original 1954 broadcast of Climax! with Barry Nelson as Jimmy Bond (as an American CIA agent) and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre (as a communist). Other than Bond's naturalization it follows the book rather well, as does the 1967 movie, in spite of it being a parody of parody. Peter Lorre's performance is similar to Orson Welles'.
Posted by jim at February 4, 2003 05:45 PMuncle jazzbeau---whither goest thou? (or whither hast thou goest, if that's more correcter)
anyhow, haven't seen an entry in awhile--hope all is well jc