Dr. No - The Cinema Snob

The Cinema Snob reviews James Bond's very first big screen adventure, the 1962 film Dr. No starring Sean Connery!
Writer/Creator: Brad Jones
Title Card: Shaun Millington
End Screen: Nick Michalak, www.ravensfilm.com
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[@JohnHummel502]

I showed my daughter the Wilson’s Coffee commercials. Somebody had a dark roasted sense of humor.

[@rdfox76]

That would be Jim Henson...

[@MaggieOffutt]

Make sure she knows to say “Thank you Jim Henson!”

[@mst3kharris]

rdfox76 As soon as I saw it, I knew that was proto Kermit.

[@Betta66]

"You've had your six" is still one of the most badass moments in the franchise.

[@graemesmith6721]

Except the gun that Prof. Dent is using is not a Smith and Wesson six-shooter. It's an automatic, which would most likely hold seven or eight shots. A silencer would be useless on a revolver.

[@Betta66]

@@graemesmith6721 Dammit, now the movie is ruined

[@TheDixieBassMan]

Graeme Smith They did the same thing in magnum p.i. With a Smith&Wesson model 10 38 special It annoys the hell out of me.

[@Reofenja]

I don't even like coffee, but I need some in order to protect my family.

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

If you never drink it, you’ll never need more

[@boxtank5288]

Fun fact: The pool in the reactor room isn't acid, it's Coolent being RAPIDLY heated due to the overload....So the guy is dying from a horrifying mixture of being boiled alive, irradiated AND drowning simultaneously...One then has to wonder if it was any of that combination or the explosion that got him first....

[@suprememaz]

I’ll take a Wilkins Coffee. Shaken. Not Stirred.

[@richardgadberry8398]

We don't serve that stuff here.

[@victorm152]

Richard Gadberry Wilkins frog proceeds to hurt you terribly

[@linkeffect82]

And shot into my mouth with a tiny little cannon.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

@@victorm152 Remember Bond tied to the chair at the end of Casino Royale? Like that.

[@DavyDredd14]

Honey : "What are you doing here ? Looking for shells ?" Bond : "No, I'm just looking.."

[@pontiusporcius8430]

Nice

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

According to Christopher Lee, his cousin, Ian Flemming, actually asked him to play Dr No originally, but I think the studio went ahead and hired somebody else without telling Flemming and history was made!

[@D.G.M.]

The way he smashes the spider multiple times you can definitely see how scared he was of it.

[@thejamesbondshow9754]

He didn't kill the real spider. It's called acting 😁🍸

[@eldridgecharles1313]

I swear, that jacket is a portal to the obscure references pocket dimension

[@crimsondynamo615]

It’s like the fourth doctor’s pockets

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

@@crimsondynamo615 piece of rocket in his pocket up Doctor No's VHS sleeve Part doctor who reference the other is just my disturbing nature

[@tapests]

There was an Action Max game in that jacket, so why not?

[@grantbowen1018]

Some people might disagree with me, and that’s ok, but Sean Connery will always be the best James Bond!

[@16rumpole]

of course he was

[@DarkLorddReviews]

Of course he's the best Bond, he was born to play him. Also, Ian Fleming made Bond Scottish because of Sean Connery.

[@eseetv9341]

Wrong. Timothy Dalton is the best.

[@DarkLorddReviews]

@@eseetv9341 ah, the underrated James Bond.

[@calql8er]

Daniel Craig a very close 2nd. Yes. Considerably.

[@BulletTooth504]

"James, no!" "Yesh." "No!" "Yesh." "No!" "Yesh!" "...yes..." "Fifty nos and a yesh means yesh."

[@UrskogTrolle]

I do believe someone's been watching Family Guy lol.

[@BulletTooth504]

@@UrskogTrolle Yesh. Edit: Actually, I think it was Robot Chicken.

[@UrskogTrolle]

@@BulletTooth504 You sure? I've seen that sketch but I'm not sure I've ever seen Robot Chicken lol. But I could be wrong.

[@BulletTooth504]

@@UrskogTrolle You're right, it was Family Guy.

[@adamfrisk956]

Shekch

[@toshirodragon]

Brad Jones & Jim Henson, what could make my day MORE perfect? Nothing.

[@RoboBeastWarrior]

"I deshpishe shpidersh." -Sean Connery

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

Holy shite, my everything hurts from trying to read that

[@10191927]

The Wilkins coffee commercials are just the best thing ever, please keep them in all your episodes Snob, they work so well.

[@tremorsfan]

Fun fact: When the film was released in Japan, the interpreters thought the title was “Dr? No!” So they translated it to “We Don’t Need Doctors”.

[@kenetickups6146]

To be fair that's a good title

[@IsoMacintosh]

Had to check and nope, no mention of such title on IMDB or japanese wikipedia, but the actual japanese title is 007は殺しの番号 which atleast according to google translate means "007 is the killer number", that's not a bad title either.

[@austindolan7182]

never underestimate brad's ability to reference halloween 3 season of the witch.

[@BWMagus]

Some day, he'll either re-review it or upload the quasi-review he did so we can actually see it.

[@Ragnarok8807]

Connery was 32 going on 48, apparently.

[@bellkeliane5601]

And on diamonds are forever he was 41 going on 60.

[@SpaceCattttt]

Yeah. I'm 43 and I still see him as "dad" when I watch this.

[@bobbyhawk8797]

I'm a big fan for the 007 movies and books I can't wait for the next movie

[@tomsmiley126]

While Hollywood is tearing down the patriarchy? It will not be like older films in the franchise.

[@thejamesbondshow9754]

@@tomsmiley126 you were partly right about that!!

[@thejamesbondshow9754]

You'd like my channel then

[@Thegr8MC]

So with this and James Bond Jr a few days ago, is this the unofficial start of James Bond month?

[@ToylandChairman666]

NO TIME TO DIE was supposed to be released this year. Maybe he had a Bond marathon planned out ahead of time. The new movie might come out in November, but I won't be surprised if it's delayed a second time.

[@briankelly130]

If he plans on doing all of them, it's probably going to be Sean Connery Summer, Roger Moore March in September, A Very Timothy Dalton Halloween, Seasons Greetings from Pierce Brosnan and Some New Years pun involving Daniel Craig.

[@JaycRam]

Well, that didn't pan out.

[@melenatorr]

Joesph Wiseman, the actor who played Dr. No, was one of the best. One of my favorite roles for him is as the father of Minsky, in "The Night They Raided Minsky's". He directs a ray of vinegar disappointment at Elliot Gould's Minsky, and quietly steals every scene he's in. I happen to love this movie, though I know the script and direction is a controlled chaos and that a pre-existing enthusiasm for the period and the subject is required to really enjoy it, or even have patience with it. But the cast is amazing: Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, Bert Lahr in his last screen appearance. Norman Wisdom. The setting is evocative, funny, sad and cynical; as a native Brooklynite, I am in tune with this depiction of New York in the early 20th Century.

[@johnpotts8308]

The iconic moment when Honey Rider emerges from the ocean would have been even more memorable if they'd gone with the book version, when all she was wearing was a knife belt.

[@thejamesbondshow9754]

And the sensors would never have loud it on the big screen so we would never have got to see it if they had done it like but I agree in theory 😜🍸

[@diggerfan9319]

Wilkins: Do you like Wilkins Coffee? Wontkins: No, I don't like Wilkins Coffee. (James Bond shoots Wontkins in the style of the James Bond opening through the hole and blood rains down) Wilkins: Bond prefers Wilkins coffee!

[@cjstrikercbr3013]

“It was in my Pants!” 😉 Cause of course it was, This is why you where MADE to Review the Bond series Snob. 😎

[@Tadicuslegion78]

So I’ve read all the original Fleming Novels, and in terms of the novels, Casino Royal, Moonraker, and On Her majesty’s Secret Service are the best in my opinion. yet in many ways Broccoli and Saltzman did just as much as Fleming to make James Bond the cultural icon he is.

[@AC-gb7do]

Tadicuslegion78 What do you think of the later Bond novels post Fleming?

[@Tadicuslegion78]

@@AC-gb7do Honestly....mixed bag. Like John Gardner's first couple were amazing then ran out of Steam. Sebastian Faulks was great. Anthony Horowitz was just meh at most. Haven't really read all of them.

[@chicostephenson]

how could anybody not like James Bond. he's the ultimate male fantasy.

[@16rumpole]

@@chicostephenson feminazis don't

[@Tadicuslegion78]

@@16rumpole Nor apparently does 2020, I strongly doubt Daniel Craig's last Bond movie will come out in November the way things are going.

[@MikePhalin]

8:58 In a deleted scene, it was revealed that Felix was also moonlighting as Dame Edna. How else would he explain those sunglasses?

[@almightycinder]

Makes sense he'd be in the area, since Dame Edna is also a shark.

[@BenOnBass]

I've been on a Bond binge lately so these reviews are just perfect! This is awesome, thanks Brad!

[@TheMocholoco]

HIs interpretation of these movies has gotten me hooked. I love his commentary, hilarious...

[@michaelryall5752]

"Bond. James Bond."

[@RabbitShirak]

Michael Ryall Junior.

[@whenthemusicsover6028]

"I should've mailed it to the Marksh Brothersh!"

[@nickloschen2717]

Rest in Peace Sean Connery

[@AngelofMusic04]

To be fair, Syrup Reversecowgirl isn't the worst Bond girl name out there.

[@jonathanleiman4471]

Dr. Christmas Jones in TWiNE gave us the worst Bond double entendre, tho.

[@tskmaster3837]

@@jonathanleiman4471 Not Holly Goodhead? Now that is shameful. The problem with Christmas Jones is that "Christmas Early" is a Dick Tracy character. Yup, the family comic strip did a "Christmas comes early" joke first. They also killed a lot of their iconic villains, mostly shot by their iconic hero, Tracy. Dick Tracy. Now, where did Bond get all their ideas?

[@JonathanRodd]

I think Octopussy is probably one of the worst. :P

[@dpalmerama]

Nope, Diamonds are Forever takes it: "I'm Plenty." Bond: "But of course you are"

[@jonathanleiman4471]

@@dpalmerama "Plenty O'Toole." "Named after your father, perhaps."

[@grapeshot]

No means No, Dr No

[@TheReviewingNetwork]

Dr. No Means No

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Dr. No means No, baby. 😘👍

[@pentelegomenon1175]

That's why Bond fought Dr. No, he wanted the word "no" to take physical form so he could destroy it.

[@CrazyFoo501]

I am expecting Brad to cover every Bond Film now, including the 1967 parody. Every. Last. One.

[@195511SM]

'Thunderball' was the first 007 film I saw. I think I was around 9 years old....& my father took me to see it. My mother saved a lot of my old report cards & 'artwork' from back then. After she passed away, it came back to me. Drawings of underwater battles & notes from a teacher, scrawled on the back of my report card to my parents. Complaints that I was too obsessed with James Bond & not obsessed enough with my school work...LOL.

[@TheJohno95]

Just watched this movie again for the first time in years during quarantine time! It was awesome! Pretty good commentary track, too. When I was younger, I would have Roger Moore was the best Bond. But after seeing the Connery films again, I have to agree with the majority. Sean nailed it! Roger was cool in his own way, too, though.

[@bryedtan]

Holy Cinemasnob reviewing a good movie. Haven't seen that in a while hopefully he reviews the rest of the Bond Series.

[@kennethconklin4140]

Snob's Top 3 Best impressions are as follows: 3. Crispin Glover 2. Charles Bronson 1. Sean Connery

[@AngelofMusic04]

Don't forget his James Mason.

[@evanhanley6437]

Highly approve of this review. Massive fan of Bond. I own the 2007 DVD boxset, all the PS2 games and a few Bond Cars too.

[@JohnnyBurnes]

My favorite Bond flick. He didn't need gadgets. Just a stylish hat, and a goofy title sequence.

[@Nickr3000]

My favorite Bond flick checks 2/3 boxes. For Your Eyes Only is exactly that way save for the stylish hat.

[@TheAskTrixieChannel]

As I'm sure dozens of comments I'm not scrolling through have pointed out, that IS Q - same Q in fact, played by a different actor.

[@lilg8017]

Whenever you can squeeze in a MST3K movie reference

[@saidi7975]

I love this novel AND this movie ! Though Book Bond in my mind is a grumpier Dalton Bond...

[@crimsondynamo615]

A Heartbeeps reference, now that’s old Snob lore

[@Rando1975]

Snob has some deep pockets to hold all those VHS tapes.

[@Juicewski2]

This is what i need after spending my weekend to move into a new place and using my monday cleaning the old one. Thanks Snob.

[@jwffilms229]

RIP Sean Connery

[@leannerose6181]

Thanks for posting this on my birthday!!

[@IAmNotWilson87]

3:48 Great. Now I'm picturing Bonzo from "Going Bananas" being Dr. No. (And yes, I know Bonzo is an ape, not a monkey.)

[@geoffreysorkin5774]

Apes (including humans) are monkeys. We're a specific evolutionary line from Old World Monkeys. It's just when people say monkey they tend to think of New World Monkeys.

[@geoffreysorkin5774]

ted dymski primates are one of the last extant old world monkey lines. There’s one other, hence my usage of the term old world monkey

[@MrCjosue24]

The crotch part got me laughing a lot. 😂

[@stephen7185]

Brad reviewing James Bond? What a time to be alive.

[@nicklager1666]

Nothing but sex snobbery and sadism. So i reckon E. L. James took some inspiration from this feature for her future fifty shades of grey book series. I see the hijinks of the three stooges of Jamaica has caused some eye injuries already. You shouldnt have poked each other so hard in the eyes. That is a pretty sweet Sean Connery impression.

[@Luke.S2099]

So cool to see you review the Bond movies. I'm from the U.K, and growing up in the 90's I used to watch the old Bond films a lot. Also kinda funny that they removed the giant Squid/Octopus. Reminds me of Watchmen, lol.

[@chibikim77]

That poster. "Danger! Death Ray!" Bop bopa bop ba ba baaaa! At least I know what it was originally called. Also wasnt the song at the end "Operation 00 007" A Parody that starred Sean Connery's brother? It was also riffed by Joel and the bots of MST3k.

[@Jarumo76]

Well spotted ! ( Compliments from a fellow MiSTie )

[@dylanlewis5113]

RIP Sir Sean Connery

[@peterkrug2327]

Brad Jones really loves those Wilkens coffee commercials, apparently.

[@danieljones361]

Linkara has a magic gun; Snob has a magic jacket.

[@annvictor9627]

Where did they get those?

[@efan2012]

Love this! Dr No gets hated on by some snobs I know but I love this one; it's a great sit down and watch when you are bored movie. They couldn't have done a first movie for the series any better. It was right for the time. It's in my top 10. Hope you do get around to all of them eventually; seeing OHMSS since I know you love George, and LALD because of how crazy it is will be super fun.

[@AndyJay1985]

Terence Young took Sean under his wing and crafted him into the epitome of class. The color palette is beautiful, Dr. No set the standard of the calm, diabolical baddie. It's not action packed like later films, but you are watching something very special.

[@MrEab2010]

this was said to be President Kennedy's favorite movie. It is also the first modern action adventure film, the prototype for every movie in its genre made over the past 58 years.

[@MrLouis-of3yl]

I like where this is going. You better do more Bond films, Brad.

[@maxman1602]

There's a scene where Bond passes by a painting of the Duke of Wellington which had audiences laughing for a full 30 seconds in 1962, because the same painting was famously stolen not long before filming started.

[@markabboud8564]

In an interview after this came out, Connery talked about how he thought Asian women weren’t attractive, and that showing interest in the Bond Girl in Dr No was a huge stretch for him to pull off. Tell us how you really feel Sean 🤣

[@LucyLioness100]

Just watch his infamous Barbara Walters interview from the ‘80s about his views on domestic abuse

[@joeblaster8770]

15:02 that flame thrower tank looks like a prototype H.I.S.S Tank from GI Joe.

[@ZeroXMachina1]

Nice DP callback with the Wilkins Coffee joke 👉😏👉

[@fpp9183]

The "operation kid brother" theme song in the end tho... hahahah

[@dahliazaylinsage]

Much thanks and safety to ya Snob, Cinema Snob!!

[@CaladonianQueen]

I am more than willing to believe that Brad's pants are a hammer space dimension for old VHS tapes.

[@IgnatiusThorogood]

3:31 Thank you for that Village of the Giants reference.

[@WalrusMan9]

Ah, so you're doing the whole series! I am on board!

[@RevanRagnarok]

Thanks for this review. I needed the laughs.

[@AdamaGeist]

'It was in my pants.' Should not have made me smile that much, but it did. Kudos!

[@joshslater2426]

Dr. No is part of my top 10. It’s primitive, but does a lot to use its limitations to its advantage. I might make July my unofficial James Bond month. It’d be the perfect month to marathon the 007 film roster.

[@dpalmerama]

Me and my brother played that James Bond board game when we used to visit our grandma, and my god was it confusing! Looking forward to Snob's take on the series!

[@OneJamalWonder]

This is probably the only Bond movie I haven't seen. I never thought to completely watch this out of all of them.

[@Kingofcorrect]

Dr. No definitely has my favorite Bond Girls, the rich socialite, the traitor, and Honey Ryder.

[@xyamuchax]

Really digging these episodes on the James Bond series!

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

Can you do a review next on The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?

[@unclepatrick2]

And Follow with the Towering Inferno please.

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

@@unclepatrick2 Yes. Towering Inferno has more spectacle, but lacks the relatable characters which the Poseidon Adventure had

[@LucyLioness100]

Both those reviews would be great. Especially after 2020’s madness

[@nicocancilla8386]

Even though this not the one of better ones, I do appreciate it that it was the first of its kind

[@iansmith8132]

"Luckily Bond isn't a Red Stripe man"... No, it's worse, he's now a Heineken man.

[@TalosParoxi]

I actually really like when you talk about good movies on snob

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

I like this, actual good movie and resolution that is more than 240p makes this a winning entry for the Snob.

[@oriole21bird]

Hilarious review! I enjoyed it.

[@austinwoods466]

This is great!

[@Dr.Gold-Dry-Bowser]

Another Cinema Snob episode to look forward to.

[@DarkLorddReviews]

Agreed.

[@PaulKyriazi]

In Japan, posters for Dr. No were translated and printed as: "We Don't Need a Doctor". The error was discovered a day before the posters were shipped to the theaters. A TRUE story. I wonder how they would have mis-translated Thunderball.

[@MrU4theChillWind]

There is only one man who can review this movie. And that man is OOSnob.

[@cuttingbored4195]

Love that Operation Double 007 music at the end!

[@PapaTaurean]

I suddenly want some Wilkinson's Coffee and a not- Martini

[@graemesmith6721]

19:21 Le Rayon Infernal. I'm guessing that's Danger: Death Ray!!, a '60s European Bond knock-off that ended up being spoofed on MST3K, with the infamous final shot of a watch being dropped into a pool by the hand of a stage hand that they couldn't even be bothered editing out.

[@davidradich9342]

Miss Cash Nickle...PRICELESS!

[@blackcatbooks64]

I will never be as cool as James Bond.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

In the novel, Doctor No was 6 foot 6, he had mechanical pincers instead of hands, wore a kimono, and there wasn't a single hair on his head.

[@conradojavier7547]

Roger Moore = Too Young for this, even do He's Older than Sean Connery.

[@chicostephenson]

more proof that the words "logic" and "Hollywood" do not belong in the same sentence.

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

Sean Connery is still my favorite Bond. Moore is my second favorite

[@unclepatrick2]

Moore was the first actor I saw as Bond . My Father took me to "The Spy who Love Me" .

[@JarJarBinks4ever]

Moore looked younger, even when he actually took the role 10 years later lol.

[@TemmiePlays]

What, no Timothy Dalton love?

[@Kashanta]

It's funny because in the novels Quarrel (or however it's spelled) is a character that sticks around for a bit and shows up in another story--a story that would become one of the later Bond films. Because they killed him off in Dr. No, though, they had to re-write some stuff for the movie for it to make sense.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

He first appeared in Live and Let Die and was killed off in Dr. No. Ditto Strangways.

[@WTFG78]

Yesh!

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

Dr. No and the entire James Bond franchise is officially 60 years old!!! I think my dad was a teenager when it first started At first the American representatives at United Artists had no faith the late Sean Connery could pull it off but the rest is history He only did one Disney film featuring leprechauns Quite the gamble bringing the first Ian Fleming novel to the screen This forever changed the genre of action movies and gave us one of the most long lasting signature lines in cinema The novel's already sold big in the UK Turns out in the book the character of Bond is arguably somewhat underdeveloped, which is perfect for the reader to imagine themselves in the role But for a film, James Bond had to become more defined, and crucially, relatable Can't really write the books in todays climate considering all the machismo and omnipresent sexism plus smoking is a no-no considering the many health risks involved and not wearing seatbelts or having airbags At the time Jamaica was already a British crown colony too The movie rights to James Bond eventually were snatched up by producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli The movie opened under the radar in the states at a drive in in Texas and Oklahoma but the reactions were ecstatic Joseph Wiseman makes for a great first villain being the basis for all 25 films and Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder would set the standard for Bond girls to come redefining the femme fatale I’m so grateful my late father was a fan because if not I wouldn’t be either And this put Sean Connery on the map

[@KonElKent]

Holy shit!! Someone get me some Wilkins Coffee!!

[@ShadeMeadows]

*YES.*

[@docsnake]

How is this man only three years from his 20s?

[@adrienfourniercom]

4:25 I like the use of silencers on guns, while they brake glass window and let the victim shout first. Very discreet assassins indeed.

[@malbeth8700]

Really nice Sean Connery impersonation from Brad!

[@thekingofcinema]

8:28 How many awards did that commercial win because I GUARANTEE YOU, whatever the number is, it's not enough