![]() ![]() ![]() All this, and Woody Allen as Sir James’ nephew, Jimmy Bond. Plus Niven’s still there as the original, and his daughter Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet). We have martial arts expert Terence Cooper as “Cooper”, also dubbed James Bond, 007. We have Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd, also given the code name 007. ![]() So now we have Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble, a baccarat expert who has been recruited and renamed James Bond in an effort to take down Le Chiffe (Orson Welles) in a card game at the titular casino. His first decree as boss is to name all agents James Bond 007, and train them to resist the feminine wiles of the dolly birds they will inevitably face in the field. Get it? Anywho, he’s eventually convinced to get back into the spy game and has so much success, he’s made head of MI6. That’s a joke, ‘coz in the other Bond movies, he’s always on the job. You see, in this version, James Bond is a prude. But when the heads of MI6, the CIA and the KGB realise they’re losing too many spies to sexcapades and general promiscuity, they beg the chaste Bond to return to the field. David Niven is Sir James Bond, a long retired spy with no interest in abandoning that retirement. ![]()
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