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starring: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Leedirected by: Terence Young
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0027616540638
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Label: MGM/UA Home Video
Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 6549
Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 08, 1963
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best, and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he won the role of Agent 007. In his first adventure James Bond is called to Jamaica where a colleague and secretary have been mysteriously killed. With an American CIA agent (Jack Lord, pre-Hawaii Five-O), they discover that the nefarious Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) is scheming to blackmail the U.S. government with a device capable of deflecting and destroying U.S. rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. Of course, Bond takes time off from his exploits to enjoy the company of a few gorgeous women, including the bikini-clad Ursula Andress. She gloriously kicks off the long-standing tradition of Bond women who know how to please their favorite secret agent. A sexist anachronism? Maybe, but this is Bond at his purest, kicking off a series of movies that shows no sign of slowing down. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Best Bond
Sean Connery is the penultimate Bond, mostly through sheer personality. There may not be the incredible effects as available today, but when it comes down to it - he's the Bond for all seasons.
Rating:  - Dr. No
I gave it four stars because of its picture and sound quality.
It would have been better with a companion booklet.
Sorry Mr. Connery, but I'm NOT into this movie.
JC
Rating: - The Bond movie that started it all!!!!
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This movie is just over 45 years old (counting from the date of this review).
(Sir) Sean Connery made six EON (or "official") movies with him starring as James Bond. They were: (1) Dr. No (1962) (2) From Russia with Love (1963) (3) Goldfinger (1964) (4) Thunderball (1965) (5) You Only Live Twice (1967) and (6) Diamonds are Forever (1971).
As you can see from the above list, "Dr. No" is the first spy film of the British Bond series. As well, it is the ... Read More
Rating: - Vintage Bond at its Best .... this one started the Franchise!
My wife and I are huge Sean Connery fans and 'James Bond' fans. When the first James Bond films hit the theaters I can remember an acrimonious discussion with my future mother-in-law about how my future wife was not allowed to see those "kinds of movies"! (My wife and I were high-school teenagers at the time.) In the ensuing years, we had lots of laughs over this episode .... but I was hooked on James Bond movies. There is only ONE James Bond and that is Sean Connery. Dr. No is the one that got me ... Read More
Rating: - The very first Bond film....
Would you believe I had the Dell/Gold Key comic that was based on this film? Do you have any idea what that sucker'd be worth today? OUCH! Anyway...all hail the maiden voyage of the SS 007-Franchise! It would be one of the few of the series to adhere faithfully to the novel it was named for.
Sean Connery, (it was almost a year before I learned how to pronounce his name correctly, [like everybody else, I thought it was 'Seen Canary']) shows us immediately why he is still the quintessential ... Read More
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