Dr. No 4K 1962 Ultra HD 2160p

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Bond is given the task to find out what is the source of electronic interference in the computers of the American launch mines at Cape Canaveral. According to intelligence reports, the enemy forces' think tank is in Jamaica. Bond immediately moves there. In the process of investigation he will have to face the powerful structure of SPECTRE and its representative Dr. No, ready to do anything to keep the whole world in his metal hands. And only Bond and his faithful Walter PPK can stop the evil forces on the sultry ocean coast.

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The series of novels about the adventures of “Agent 007” James Bond is a characteristic phenomenon of “mass culture”: melodrama and absurd fantasy plots are combined with a preaching of cruelty and cynicism.
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The beginning.

Jamaica. Sun. The beach.
A cheerful song plays in the background. Only later will it become clear that this is the work of Monty Norman and John Barry, well-known composers and creators of the immortal James Bond Theme, although one of them is often completely and unjustly forgotten. For now, Kingston Kalypso plays, perfectly suited to the Jamaican beach atmosphere.

A walk of three suspicious but amusing characters through a coastal town and the unexpected murder of an MI6 agent—all this is the prologue to the first film about the adventures of the indestructible Agent 007, a lover of women, classic style, intelligent manners, expensive cars, and quality spirits.

Background.

This film can be called the first, albeit somewhat conditionally, in the context of the saga created by Albert Broccoli and his company, because the first attempt to bring the adventures of Ian Fleming's famous character to the screen was the television production Casino Royale, way back in 1954. It was not particularly successful, except among the most ardent fans, so it is generally accepted that the very first real Bond film was made in 1962 by Terence Young under the watchful eye of producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli. Young would later direct several more films about Agent 007 with Sean Connery, and the inseparable pair of producers would continue to grow their franchise until Broccoli's daughter took over her father's position.

In fact, the filming of this movie was also fraught with surprising events: the authors did not believe in the film's success at all, which was not surprising, because many critics considered the film to be nothing more than an indecent mixture of snobbery, sex, and incredible cruelty; Fleming himself, who immortalized his name as the creator of the world's most famous spy, did not consider Sean Connery suitable for the role of Bond, because, in his opinion, a hairy-chested Scotsman with a face like a potato was not well suited to the role of an intelligent English spy. The writer initially suggested his friend David Niven for the role, and, according to rumors, he did indeed look very similar to Bond on the covers of Fleming's books. But Niven did end up playing Bond, albeit in a parody called Casino Royale in 1967. Christopher Lee (who played Count Dooku in the “new” Star Wars and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings) could have easily landed the role of Dr. No, although that didn't happen, but he would later play a colorful villain named Scaramanga in the Bond film with Roger Moore. Moore himself could have been the first Bond and not had to wait his turn. That's the irony of fate.

Sean Connery.

He is magnificent as Bond and an incredible actor in general. It's best to avoid any comparisons, because it's simply impossible to imagine anyone else as the first Bond. And no matter how offended Sir Connery may be that many ignoramuses attribute him only to this role, which he considers cursed, the fact is that it was his launching pad into cinema, a launching pad for a real actor. It was Sean Connery, along with Terence Young, who endowed his character with cynicism, an excessive amount of black humor and rudeness, the things that went with Agent 007 in all subsequent films, and the timid Fleming himself was so impressed with the actor's work that he forgave him all his nitpicking and gave Bond a Scottish accent in the book On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

The result.

Mind-boggling box office receipts for the time, an army of inexhaustible fans to this day, and successful sequels to the new adventures of the famous agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. And even though the film doesn't yet have all of Bond's “quirks,” some things are missing, there is, as always, an amazing walk through the crosshairs, but there are no meaningful opening credits, no title song in these credits — all of that will come later. Turn off your dissatisfied smile at the chase scenes, at the sounds of silenced gunshots, at the fact that Bond can easily punch the villain in the jaw over the boiling cooling water of a nuclear reactor and still not glow in the dark, and just enjoy Bond's first fundamental steps to this day... James Bond in cinema. It's already a classic, and classics, like diamonds, are eternal.