Casino Royale (1967 film)/Trivia

• All-Star Cast
• Breakaway Pop Hit: "The Look of Love", due to severe Mood Whiplash.
• Creator Killer: A sadly literal instance. The stress of making the film caused producer Charles K. Feldman to develop heart problems, which claimed his life just two years after its release.
  • A less lethal instance happened to all of the film's directors except for John Huston. All of them had fairly distinguished careers prior to working on this film, but none of them had anywhere near the same success afterwards. Probably the worst affected was Val Guest; after word got out that he had taken over as the primary director late in production, he got unfairly blamed for the resulting mess and was reduced to directing Awful British Sex Comedies for the rest of his career.
• The Danza: Terence Cooper as Coop.
• Dueling Movies: It was released in the same year as an official Bond, You Only Live Twice.
• Star-Derailing Role: For Peter Sellers; this started a downward trajectory for his career that lasted eight years before a Career Resurrection.
• Troubled Production: Not only an obscene number of directors and screenwriters got involved, but the actors fought with them.

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