Chekhov's Gun: We are told early on that Le Chiffre always carries three razor blades: one in his hat, one in his cigarette case, and one in his left shoe.

The Casino: The titular casino where Bond and Le Chiffre play baccarat is one of only two locations in the film, the other being the hotel the characters are staying at.

When he realizes that she knew nothing about it, he figures out that Le Chiffre also intends to test Valerie's loyalty and decides to go along with it. Bluff the Eavesdropper: Bond, knowing that Le Chiffre has a microphone in his hotel room, confronts Valerie about it.Agony of the Feet: Le Chiffre needs Bond to tell him where he stashed the cheque for his winnings at the Baccarat table, and decides to use a pair of pliers on Bond's feet to make him talk.Adaptational Nationality: In this film, Bond is American (and a CIA agent) and Leiter is British (and a MI6 agent) instead of the other way around.Felix Leiter's first name was changed to Clarence.James Bond's first name was changed to the more American-sounding Jimmy.Whereas in the novel a SMERSH operative kills Le Chiffre and Vesper commits suicide after being revealed to have been a mole for the bad guys against her will, here Le Chiffre is killed by Bond himself and Valerie (Vesper's counterpart) survives. Adaptational Alternate Ending: The ending greatly simplifies the ending of the novel.

See also the 19 big screen versions of the story. It stars Barry Nelson as an American 'Jimmy' Bond, Linda Christian as Valerie Mathis (a Composite Character of Vesper Lynd and Rene Mathis) and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. It adapts Ian Fleming's novel of the same name (the first in the series of novels), which was released the year before.

Leiter: Aren't you the fella that was shot?Ĭasino Royale was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, released in 1954 as a television movie/episode of the anthology series Climax!.

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