James Bond - Dr. No (1962) 57 Chevy Convertible

[@Glenn1967ful]

Connery's Bond went from a highly effective and very fit killer to a paunchy 007 playing it for laughs in nine years. The contrast between him in Dr No and Diamonds Are Forever is huge.

[@jskypercussion]

Absolutely. Diamonds are forever is laughable. Dr. No and From Russia With Love is by far Connery's best performances as Bond. Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice are still great classic movies, but you can clearly see the slow decline from his serious tone

[@frostylunetta]

He is wonderful in Goldfinger, and he seems darker in Thunderball

[@joshslater2426]

My favourite thing about the scene is the score. I wish more people would talk about it.

[@MrEab2010]

Connery is perfect because he understood that Bond is at heart a killer who lucked into a glamorous job.

[@buffalopatriot]

A very interesting take on Bond and Connery's portrayal.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@buffalopatriot He's a killer who at least is on the right side and always refuses to be bribed into joining organisations like SPECTRE. Whether Bond has any regrets about how many people he has killed, he'd probably say he was doing it to save the world.

[@ringo1029384756]

@@Glenn1967ful Regret would be unprofessional.

[@frostylunetta]

Connery’s voice is so manly with sensuality ❤

[@MrEab2010]

@@frostylunetta the other spies of the era avoided overt sexuality. Connery dived right into it,

[@brettlloyd4446]

Sean Connery was the original and best James bond actor, he worked hard to get his actor career going and ended up being one of the most successful actors in movies last fifty years.

[@Jantv81]

Definitely born to play the part. Bond was to Connery as Moneypenny to Maxwell.

[@scottknode898]

Janna Watson same with Bernard Lee who was considered the best M and was the original.

[@WintersWar]

and when he had enough he played a soldier in The Hill. if helped him ease his break fro, the bond cast a bit

[@ricardocantoral7672]

@@WintersWar I am tempted to call that film the best Sidney Lumet ever directed.

[@brettlloyd4446]

Sean Connery's amazing film debut as James bond. Great movie

[@Mitjitsu]

Nice to see a driving scene that doesn't involve a moving background.

[@jskypercussion]

Yes, because unfortunately his car chase scene would be a movie screen behind him.

[@degenerategambler4830]

I love how he keeps the fedora on the whole time

[@AutoRevLife]

That's Bond for you. Gotta always be classy while on the job 🕵️

[@wpl955g9]

01:14 'Who are you working for? 'Erm... Uber...?'

[@bluemarshall6180]

wpl955g Grab???? 😆

[@Legitcar117]

“I don’t think sho!”

[@goldgeologist5320]

Good one!!

[@Watcher3223]

Well, that cyanide capsule has given the henchman a Lyft, so to speak, to hell...

[@llarzelere]

"Both hands on the wheel." "Now get out."

[@mohammadmostafa9215]

MOVE

[@theflorgeormix]

Great scene. U know u r up against a serious powerful villain. Perfect angles on a fight scene. Beyond most ever filmed.

[@thenobleone-3384]

Scottish accent is hilarious RIP Sean will always watch his films.

[@PierreChristianUlrichSinger]

Sean Connery was a patriot Scot and wanted his country to become independent of the UK. He died where he played often his roles - on the Bahams (I think it was his last Bond Never say Never which also played on the Bahams with gerogeous Kim Basinger and very evil... I forgot his name, an Austrian actor)

[@TheJking85]

"I'm a very nervous passenger". Says the guy holding the gun.

[@Muthwill]

I.E. He has a twitchy trigger finger so no funny business :P

[@ksztyrix]

Still better them most today movie chases when they cut every second so you cant make sense out of it

[@vinesauceobscurities]

There are just so many things about the movie that has carries over 1950s movie tropes and pepper them with a dash of 60s edge, down to the leftovers of 50s cars. What a quaint little member of the Bond series.

[@Glenn1967ful]

The sixties didn't really develop an identity until Beatlemania. The early sixties were like a continuation of the fifties with very formal clothes and hats, similar looking cars and music. Also Jamaica was still a colony when Doctor No was filmed.

[@geraldjohnson4013]

+Peter Grun The Beatles weren't that great. You would be surprised how many British citizens didn't care for them and young and old back then.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

I agree. In this film Bond, at least in the field, acted more like a private dick from the 1950's than a cool 60's spy. He was more like an investigator and the events unfold like a Charlie Chan or Mr. Moto film.

[@MrEab2010]

@@ricardocantoral7672 Ian Fleming's inspiration for Bond was actually Mickey Spillane detectives like Mike Hammer.

[@MrEab2010]

@@Glenn1967ful the Fleming Bond novels were intended as guilty pleasures for elite VIPs like Sen. John F. Kennedy and the British PM at the time. The early movies were designed for similar upper crust people like Leonard Bernstein, etc. It was a complete surprise to the producers that 007 became popular with Joe Sixpack.

[@frostylunetta]

Am I the only one who is madly in love with Connery’s voice? And his image and performance in Dr No? This man is simply exquisite ❤

[@Yoshi1478]

2:06 Raises his right, hits with his left. :-D

[@William_Sk]

The ol' switcharoo!

[@FoodForThought356]

Well spotted 😂

[@WintersWar]

captain kirk got that from him.

[@Glenn1967ful]

The early Bonds were the best, no gadgets and Bond doing his job as a secret agent.

[@OfficialAnarchyz]

Really.. Charging a right hand fist and hitting with the left... the best!!

[@AndrewChapman]

@The Tusk Force Well Q (or Major Boothroyd as he was known initially) was actually introduced in this film, but was played by Peter Burton. From Russia with Love was where he was recast to Desmond Llewelyn, who of course would go on to become the Q we all know and love. And yes, From Russia with Love is indeed where they started bringing in the gadgets more.

[@AndrewChapman]

@The Tusk Force Yes, M refers to to him as armourer at first. Then after Bond's given his PPK, M then says "Thank you, Major Boothroyd.". You're welcome. :)

[@Goldmember1208]

@@OfficialAnarchyz I have never noticed that before ahah

[@josephdanieljirehdimacali4418]

Desmond was credited as Boothroyd in FRWL. That is actually the real name of Q.

[@davidmg1925]

0:50 Brave man who corners a soft top like that. If you roll it you're a dead man.

[@EliteKozarcan]

don't worry these american cars weighed a ton

[@magnusgrant4146]

2:35 the way he says 'to hell with you' is hilarious

[@cemonkey1]

It's "go ahead and shoot."

[@sheltv100]

That 2-land highway they were driving on is the Norman Manley Highway in Jamaica on the Pallisades Point going to the Norman Manley Airport.

[@taotoo2]

Coming from...

[@bluemarshall6180]

taotoo2 going to..... 😆

[@rarevhsuploads4995]

The sequence showing a Bond driving '57 Ford Fairlane in 'Die Another Day' is clearly a homage to this scene. It includes a side shot of the interior (inc speedo), approx. 25mins into the film. Why was a different speedo used here? My guess is the shot was added in post production to emphaise speed.

[@Watcher3223]

A different speedometer was apparently used because the speedometer on the 57 Fairlane was larger, thus easier to capture on film than that of the 57 Bel Air.

[@sudiptoaichbhowmik]

Those memories good memories

[@12345682900]

@ 0:20, that '57 Chey's speedometer is from a '57 Ford, @ 0:11 that '61 Chevy 4-door sedan changes to a 4-door hardtop @ 0:42 then back again to a 4-door sedan @ 1:01

[@naeehmas]

the speedometer might be from a 57' Ford Fairlane.The rear quarter panel might be from the ford also. You'll notice it when there's a shot of the rear end once the car has parked.

[@garyquail2347]

57 Chevrolet has just about the same design on the speedometer as the 57 Ford but it is a Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible and the grill on the Chevrolet is not rectangular like a 57 Ford I ought to know I had a 57 Ford Fairlane 500.

[@driewiel]

Great acting by the car that played the Chevy!

[@mohammadmostafa9215]

One of the golden Bond movies

[@razorshark9320]

Connery, Moore, Dalton and Brosnan are my favorite Bonds. Any cigarette will kill you.

[@kaddanki096]

the bond theme through the car chase is awesome

[@Watcher3223]

2:35 _"To hell with you."_ Doesn't he have that backwards?

[@Watcher3223]

@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 He tells Bond "to hell with you." But as the henchman is the bad guy and is the one who's dying from suicide, it's the henchman who's going to hell and not Bond. That's what was meant when I asked a rhetorical question, based on logic rather than grammar, if he had it backwards.

[@stephenm6100]

rip sir sean🙏🏻

[@lescobrandon3047]

This is the real James Bond. Most of his replacements were clowns.

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

@Jay_McGill94 Dalton - possible. Definitely not Craig. His Bond it something totally different. Good but not James Bond as Fleming wrote him.

[@RSN2277]

@@Hithere-ek4qt highly disagree. Dalton was one more similar to Fleming.

[@Moviesrockmusicandmore]

Pierce Brosnan was the last bond of the classics IMO

[@MrDgwphotos]

Pretty sure the vehicle following them is Felix Leiter of the CIA.

[@MrEab2010]

correct, it was Leiter. Apparently it was the first time they met in the film series. At first he was unsure if Bond was friend or foe when he saw 007 drive off with the enemy.

[@PierreChristianUlrichSinger]

​@@MrEab2010Exactly! Later Leiter tells Bond together with Quarrel, that he was unsure if he was the right man because he drove with "the opposite side". Quarrel seemed to have a son, because in Live and Let die there is a Quarrel Junior. I do not understand why they say Live and Let die is racist. Some could also claim this here because nearly all "evils" expect the one doctor are either Asian or Black. Dr. No is half German, half Chinese. But in Live and Let die Leiter was black and also Quarrel Junior. And the actors of Kananga and Solitaire Yaphet Kotto (Alien) and the georgeous woman I forget her name (she played also in the mini series War and Remembrance a Jewish girl sent to Auschwitz) both Jewish. So no, I do not think Bond movies are racist.

[@MrEab2010]

@@PierreChristianUlrichSinger I have to disagree. Although I am a fan of the 60s Bond films for other reasons, the blatant racism (and often sexism) throughout the series is not one of them. Bond films were originally the most popular in southern theaters precisely b/c he was the epitome of the western white man with a license to do basically anything he wants, including at times abusing other non-white or ethnic men and women. Connery's Bond especially is one of the reasons today's GOP believes in MAGA, or a return to unbridled white male supremacy; it is a big reason why the character has become an anachronism, permanently a relic of the pre-1970s. Dr. No is probably the most racist of the earliest films, but there are elements in every film too numerous to mention here (Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice could also be videos on this topic unto themselves). As for Live And Let Die, the black villains were far classier than the ones in the novel but still 70s blaxploitation stereotypes. What raised most white eyebrows was the depiction of a dominant black man controlling a submissive white woman (Jane Seymour) which induces fear in whites of the threatening black man in and out of film going back to Birth of a Nation. (Apparently none of them ever saw or read Othello.) James Bond films are the epitome of elegant fantasy entertainment but seldom examples of cultural enlightenment and political and economic realities.

[@charlesooko8842]

This movie started the triology , Bond, James Bond,I like that.

[@MrEab2010]

until this film no one on film or real life introduced themselves this way. Afterward EVERYONE did.

[@alienlv426ify]

This Bond was a badass. In this scene he dominated almost effortless the other guy.

[@MrEab2010]

when Connery knocked you down, you STAYED down.

[@Adam-pu6jg]

One thing that hasn't changed in six decades: cigarettes kill 😂

[@leftcoaster67]

Love how his jacket pockets take both pistols and look perfect.

[@rondoletti64]

And Sean Connery's hat and toupe never moved an inch.

[@Glenn1967ful]

It also makes him look really old. These early sixties men's fashions always made anyone who wore them look 20 years older than they really were.

[@blizzy6392]

Agreed. Everything changed after JFK's assassination (Nov. '63) and the U.S. arrival of the Beatles (Feb. '64). Mens fashion went from code to casual to slob. Even working class dress went to hell.

[@geraldjohnson4013]

+Peter Grun Back in the 80s and 90s we started to dress nice again and I was so glad because I've always liked early 60s men's fashion and before. I was born in 1964 and caught the earlier 007 movies on ABC Network Television back in the 70s.The earlier James Bond movies were then and are now my favorites of the franchise especially the first three. Young men today dress like they're hoards of seaweed. They look terrible.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@blizzy6392 We've had a plague of tracksuits, hoodies and baseball caps in Britain for at least 20 years.

[@WintersWar]

@@blizzy6392 JFK put the fedora out of business.

[@Filegt]

1:34 does anyone know what song this is?

[@mikeo5556]

speedo is from 57-58 ford

[@rollydoucet8909]

The speedometer (instrument panel) is from a 1957 Ford.

[@robertkincaid]

the actor who played the chauffeur here was him self a stuntman he was the brother in law of zena marshall played miss taro in dr no and became the first of many of the stuntmen who found themselves having minor roles in all the films others such as bob Simonds VIC Armstrong joe robinson

[@philipcross8121]

Reggie Carter wasn't a stuntman. The fight, apart from close-up, was actually between Connery and Bob Simmons, who often doubled for Connery himself. Reggie Carter is the brother (or cousin) of Marguerite LeWars, who plays the young photographer, Annabel Chung.

[@TheJking85]

2:35 _"To hell with you!"_

[@黃柏瑋-f8p]

Thank you for answering me my 30 years question! I used to think he said :”your asshole” lol

[@muffs55mercury61]

The speedometer scene is the dash from a 1957 or 1958 Ford and NOT a Chevy. Furthermore the car is turned off as the temperature and fuel gauges are off as well.

[@penchant1972]

That brand of cigarettes will definitely kill you.

[@derekcrymble9085]

0:22 a black steering wheel when the rest of the scene is a red steering wheel

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

Correct, and the black dash is from a 57 Ford, not a Chevy.

[@rollydoucet8909]

The black steering wheel and the speedometer are in a 1957 Ford.

[@thenobleone-3384]

Dr No I have this movie on DVD I liked how the film was shot in the Carribean. It's really old but I like the Technology in this film like the Gadgets

[@049Mikey]

'57 Fairlane would be my guess.

[@Slimjim260]

Wonder whatever happened to that beautiful 57

[@williampalchak7574]

Now that's commitment.

[@lescobrandon3047]

I cannot envision later Bond characters being so tough.

[@highstepperARF]

Steve McGarrett and his Hawaii 5.0 hair. I need some me hair like that…

[@Dremeli]

"I'm a very nervous passenger."

[@weinerschnitzelrock1]

They're driving British style, on left side of road, with American autos that have steering wheel on the left also. When you drive down the road, you're hugging the left side of road ! It takes getting used to !

[@Glenn1967ful]

Jamaica drove on the left and for all most cars would have been imported from Britain then, a few from America would have appeared as it was closer to Jamaica. Also Jamaica uses imperial measurements like Britain( not so sure if they've gone metric now).

[@MrEab2010]

Jamaica was still a British colony in 1962. It didn't achieve independence until 1974.

[@matthewdarby9290]

@@MrEab2010 thats not true

[@matrix91234]

@@MrEab2010 The movie itself came out 1 month after the independence of Jamaica from United Kingdom. Very interesting history i think for a great movie

[@jgrimmy1]

Thanks!

[@joshuameg8119]

The first villain to be dispatched by Bond

[@rogergoudy6440]

Looks like a 1957 Ford speedometer.

[@Darkhonor21]

What does the driver say at 2:35 when he bites the cigarette?

[@lilboxon60fps66]

He says “To hell with you”

[@militaryspecialforces_01]

What the name of this video soundtrack

[@mohammadmostafa9215]

Death of Mr Jones unreleased soundtrack

[@tomking1890]

OK, Why did they show you a 57 Ford dashboard.? This is a 57 Chevy.

[@onlyweknow2]

How would you like to find a 57' like that put away someplace.

[@grossograndissimo]

smoking kills, don't you know?

[@thomasjordan5578]

Was that Speedo a Chevy ?

[@frankgarrett242]

Press 3 for how I make turns in my car.

[@underzog]

Sean Connery fights his stunt double.

[@underzog]

Gis stunt double also doubled for Sean Connery in the tarantula scene.

[@MrEab2010]

Connery also never did the gun barrel openings until Thunderball in 1965. That was his stunt double Bob Simmons in the first 3 films.

[@underzog]

@@MrEab2010 Damn straight! Sean Connery was a brave man, but he was afraid of the tarantula in Dr. No. His stunt double did that scene, too. His stunt double also took the cyanide cigarette.

[@philipcross8121]

Bob Simmons also played Jacques Bouvar in Thunderball and they fought there! Simmons also performed the dating stunt, getting onboard the Disco Volante before the climactic fight between Bond and Largo!

[@richardcutt727]

Brutal. He exuded brutality. Being an amateur boxer before his acting career was beneficial.

[@speakfreeley4473]

Forget that the other car is a 1961 Impala.

[@jordanhenderson4992]

Nice …. I hear you. Abfab Impala, smooth rear fenders/lights and that wicked rear window visor. Four door no worries, still looking ace.

[@johnknott6539]

Jordan Henderson Its a 61 Chevy Biscayne - a lower trim level. Not postless and has the strange rear roof treatment.

[@garyquail2347]

@@johnknott6539 that 61 roofline and rear window almost reminds me of a 1960 bubble top.

[@thatsmallcessna8300]

Cool movie but Monty Norman's soundtrack was really bizarre.

[@MrEab2010]

it's really mostly John Barry's. He re-scored most of the movie, including the legendary theme song, as the producers were dissatisfied with Norman. The calypso song Jump Up was one of my father's favorites, he played it at high volume and sang to it in our house for like 20 years.

[@historybuff66]

@@MrEab2010 John Barry had nothing whatsoever to do with the film’s underscore. All he was commissioned for was to compose the James Bond theme.

[@historybuff66]

Norman’s music is truly awful and is more befitting of a low budget spy movie from the 1950s.

[@MrEab2010]

@@historybuff66 not true, Barry re-scored Norman's theme along the lines of one of Barry's old works called Bee's Knees. The producers gave Norman the credit anyway. Look it up.

[@historybuff66]

@@MrEab2010 Yes, I know that “Bee’s Knees” served as a template for his theme, along with his drawing inspiration from Mancini’s “Peter Gunn” and Nelson Riddle’s “The Untouchables” to emulate a similar propulsive rhythm. I read two books on the music of Barry so am well acquainted with the background. What I was implying is that the producers knew they couldn’t use what Norman wrote but in order to giver him the composer credit promised, Barry was stuck with, as a minimum using a couple of bars from Norman’s self plagiarized “Bad Sign, Good Sign” from his failed musical “A House for Mr. Bigwas”. But of course the theme is 90% Barry, corroborated by guitarist Vic Flick and “From Russia With Love” title theme composer Lionel Bart. As for the dramatic underscore, NOTHING that one hears in the banal composition is the work of John Barry but rather old library cues and music by Monty Norman. You stated in an earlier post that John Barry rescored “Dr. No”, which never actually happened.

[@bluemarshall6180]

Bond doesn't know anthing about suicide pills? 😆

[@OurTexasForty]

speedometer is from a '57 ford

[@charlesfrancis6925]

Talk fast before your friend double back!

[@gregj831]

He was so afraid of Dr. No making him die horribly he took poison.

[@MCO18]

0:53

[@vinayseth1114]

The formal yet stoic mannerism and fashion on display here makes me wonder- did the softening down of American men since the 60s help American culture or slowed down its progress? Or perhaps neither?

[@Carl-LaFong1618]

I blame it on the broads.

[@MrEab2010]

Connery Bond's brutal yet elegant machismo was completely new to movies in 1962. It made 007 THE role model to all men and THE sex symbol to many women. It was also offensive to some women and was a major cataylst of the feminist movement which began in the mid-1960s. It may have had detrimental effects on some men in that the false standard for courage was having a gun and not being afraid to use it like Bond.

[@vinayseth1114]

@@MrEab2010 Oh, interesting. I would think that Marlon Brando was THE image of masculinity and THE male sex symbol '50s onwards. But I get what you mean-Brando, while being macho, was still pretty much always portraying the role of an outsider. Here, Connery was a ruthless gentleman. So he could as well be an advertising executive but ready to kill, and fatally attractive to women. Do let me know if I have any chunks in my interpretation. Thanks for sharing your insight!

[@vinayseth1114]

@@Carl-LaFong1618 Yep, them too. But then again, I think it's immature men pleasing women as they're some kind of deities to be worshiped, is the real problem. It's men that have given women this undeserved power.

[@MrEab2010]

@@vinayseth1114 you are half right. There were 2 male archetypes in the 1950s: earthy blue-collar, which was Marlon Brando, and refined white-collar, which was Cary Grant. Sean Connery's genius was to splice both icons together, and make a new hybrid: James Bond 007. The way Connery played him, Bond was an upper class assassin, a brutish and debonair company man with an unlimited expense account and no ethics other than to get the job done, albeit for Queen and country, and sometimes for revenge. In his world your only sin would be a poorly tailored suit or not knowing that red wine does not go with fish. It's that type of situational ethics that has come back to bite us in the 2020s.

[@toyman9642]

Poison wouldn't work that quickly.

[@degenerategambler4830]

Rob Tro yeah well this is a bond movie

[@scottknode898]

Rob Tro its a movie not always known for its realism.

[@matrix91234]

Isnt it a Cyanide pill though?

[@dima.jiharev]

Did he dieded??

[@thearmyoflight7392]

Connery's Bond did everything he could to subdue the driver's threat. He wasn't going to put up with his BS. And he defended himself to the fullest. Right until the idiot took cyanide and killed himself. Awesome scene, Bond at his best!! 😎🔫👍

[@pushpindermann4139]

Spark or...

[@OptimusWombat]

That was extremely clumsy of Bond to allow the man to kill himself.

[@georgealvarado9084]

Anyone know the name of the song when they are stopped?

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

Nope, no one. LOL

[@panzerriff]

It's the movie soundtrack music...

[@mohammadmostafa9215]

Death of Mr Jones unreleased soundtrack

[@joeritchie7286]

Im a straight man but Sean was so sexy back then 🥰😘

[@andreashellwig9863]

Hauptsache der Hut sitzt...

[@JosephJJolly]

How does the driver here die?

[@panzerriff]

He bit into a cyanide capsule hidden in his pack of cigarettes.

[@scottknode898]

Jolly Spotter there was a cyanide capsule in the cigarette which killed Mr Jones and he worked for Dr No as a hired killer he killed himself rather then face James Bond any further or be killed by Spectre who were known to kill their own men if failed.

[@walterharp1773]

Goof!!! Thats a 57 Ford Speedometer!!!

[@leftcoaster67]

Is Connery left handed?

[@alienlv426ify]

Well he is fast with his fists.

[@Carl-LaFong1618]

which hand does he use to smack broads around with? kzbin.info/www/bejne/paCTlWSwiaZ5gaM

[@rampageclover9788]

1:56 that's Benny Hill type shit...just pathetic. Bonds first ever opponent was for sure the lousiest.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Heavy Chevy!

[@billthestinker]

He knew Bond was going to goose his hinney better dead

[@garyv2196]

smoking is not good for you.

[@ทองอ่อนเขาไผ่]

007ดร.โน

[@taxpayer6079]

Over acting…