Casino Royale (1954)

[moonfleet]

It's a film presented as the first adaptation of the book for American television, with P.Lorre playing the villain, has anybody seen it ??...is it a good one ??....



Moon.

[ringsider]

Do you mean the 1954 US TV show with Peter Lorre playing Le Chiffre.



Is it any good? Only from a "completist" point of view if you have seen all the other Bonds.



This TV show was so low budget, so low production values, that I nearly didn't get to the end (and it lasted less than 55 minutes). And it cost me nearly £20 I seem to recall.





Regards - Bernard

[moonfleet]

Do you mean the 1954 US TV show with Peter Lorre playing Le Chiffre.



Is it any good? Only from a "completist" point of view if you have seen all the other Bonds.



This TV show was so low budget, so low production values, that I nearly didn't get to the end (and it lasted less than 55 minutes). And it cost me nearly £20 I seem to recall.





Regards - Bernard

Yes, I do mean this one, it's for sale here at a low price (about 7€), maybe I'll get it for P.Lorre....



Thanks Bernard.



Moon.

[batman]

The version on have last about 40m and has the end missing .... it only cost me about a fiver and the picture quality is quite good. Are there any 'complete' versions out there?

[ringsider]

My version, video not DVD, says that it was edited from the best material available and that "it ends abruptly a few seconds before the original ending".

It looks a little better than I remembered.





Regards - Bernard

[716Jones]

When I saw the title of the thread I had a bizarre vision of Peter Lorre as James Bond.



I'm feeling better now, though.

[Lord Brett]

The version on have last about 40m and has the end missing .... it only cost me about a fiver and the picture quality is quite good. Are there any 'complete' versions out there?

I seem to recall that there is a full length version out there somewhere - I've got the same version as others on this forum. If it's still going, it may be The Ian Fleming Foundation that were offering the complete version.

[doojeen]

Scenes from the American TV production, starring Barry Nelson as US secret agent Jimmy Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre:

YouTube - 1954 Casino Royale TV Climax Mystery Theater Peter Lorre

YouTube - Re: Casino Royale (1954) (THE ENDING)