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''Casino Royale'' is a (named Coop), Woody Allen (Bond's nephew Jimmy Bond), Joanna Pettet (Mata Bond, illegitimate daughter of Mata Hari and James Bond), and Peter Sellers (card-sharp Evelyn Tremble impersonating Bond at Casino Royale). Prior to the release, Charles K. Feldman , the producer, had acquired the film rights and attempted to get ''Casino Royale'' made as an official (made by EON Productions ) James Bond movie; however, the producers of the official series, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman , turned him down. Believing he couldn't compete with the official series, the novel was then adapted as a spoof of not only of James Bond, but of the entire Spy Fiction Genre . The Sellers–Welles segment is the only portion based upon the novel. PLOT SUMMARY The story of ''Casino Royale'' is told in a somewhat disjointed, episodic form and is best outlined in "chapters". Note: some of these chapters overlap. Chapter 1 M (here referred to by his family name, McTarry, and played by John Huston ) accompanies representatives of the CIA , KGB and French secret service to the massive country estate of Sir James Bond ( David Niven ), an eccentric First World War hero who resigned from the secret service after luring the love of his life, Mata Hari , to her death in front of a Firing Squad . (The film ignores the fact that these events would have taken place 50 years earlier, suggesting that in the ''Casino Royale'' universe, the First World War occurred during the time of the real world's Second World War .) During the intervening years, Bond's name has become symbolic of the spirit of the secret service, to the extent that another individual (decried by Bond as being oversexed) has been given his name and his number, 007 (a vague reference to Sean Connery 's Bond). M and the others beg Bond to lend his leadership to a mission investigating the disappearance and deaths of secret agents around the world. When Bond refuses, M orders a military strike on Bond's mansion; the mansion is destroyed, but M is killed in the attack. Chapter 2 Sir James travels to McTarry Castle in Scotland in order to return McTarry's remains to his ancestral home. All that does remain of M is his Toupee , which is promptly dubbed a "hairloom" by Lady Fiona ( Deborah Kerr ), his grieving widow. Bond soon finds himself fending off the advances of McTarry's many daughters. Unknown to Bond, McTarry's wife and family have been replaced by agents of the mysterious Dr. Noah, who have been assigned to either discredit or kill Bond. But after Bond handily defeats a gang of thugs in a sport involving players throwing heavy stone cannonballs at each other, Fiona falls in love with Bond, and is imprisoned by her fake daughters to prevent her from helping him. Bond is then invited to a Grouse shoot, but the grouse turn out to be disguised Flying Bomb s (though they really look more like Puffin s than grouse). Meanwhile, with some creative acrobatics, Lady Fiona manages to escape and helps Bond to foil the attack. En route back to London, Bond survives another attempt on his life involving a remote-controlled dairy truck, which fatally backfires on the female agent luring him into the trap. Chapter 3 Bond, now promoted to the position of M, settles into McTarry's old office and his secretary, Miss Moneypenny 's daughter ( Barbara Bouchet ). Bond's first order is to rename all remaining MI6 agents "James Bond 007" in order to confuse the enemy. He also orders that an agent be found who has enough self-control to resist the charms of female enemy agents. Such an agent is found in "Coop" (played by one-time Bond candidate Terence Cooper ). Although Coop is able to resist the charms of M/Bond's "secret weapon" - an exotic agent known as The Detainer ( Daliah Lavi ), he is unable to resist entering into a romantic liaison with the smitten Miss Moneypenny. Chapter 4 Sir James convinces millionaire spy Vesper Lynd (Bond film veteran Ursula Andress ) to recruit Baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble ( Peter Sellers ) into taking part in a mission to undermine the finances of Le Chiffe, who is now trying to win back the money owing to SMERSH at the Casino Royale. After a brief fling with Vesper, Tremble receives a whirlwind indoctrination into the ways of spying thanks to Q . Chapter 5 Proceeding on a clue provided by Fiona, Bond reconciles with his long-estranged daughter Mata Bond ( Joanna Pettet ) - also the lookalike daughter of Mata Hari - who spends her time smoking from Hookah s, going to analysts, and giving poor dance recitals. (As noted earlier, the First World War must have happened more recently in the ''Casino Royale'' universe, as Mata Bond is only in her mid-20s.) Recruited into MI6, Mata is sent to East Berlin (via Taxi ) to follow Fiona's clue and infiltrate a school for Nannies which is actually a front for a spy school (the same one Mata Hari attended) from which Fiona had received her orders to intercept Bond in Scotland. Mata encounters her mother's teachers and a plan to sell compromising photographs of military leaders from the United States , China and Great Britain at an "art auction," which she disrupts. The pictures are being sold by a man named Le Chiffre ( Orson Welles ) in order to make money to pay back SMERSH after he squandered the organization's money at the gambling tables. As Mata takes her taxi cab back to London, Le Chiffre realizes he'll have to raise the money in the casino. Chapter 6 In the only section of the film remotely connected to the novel, James Bond 007 (aka Evelyn Tremble) arrives in France for his encounter with Le Chiffre at the Casino Royale. Le Chiffre, however, would rather amuse the crowd with elaborate magic tricks and illusions than play cards. Despite Le Chiffe using trick sunglasses to cheat, Tremble ultimately defeats the villain at the game, but he is soon kidnapped and tortured by Le Chiffre. During a hallucinogenic torture sequence (which involves a huge group of bagpipers and Peter O'Toole ), Tremble is ultimately killed by Vesper, who tells him, "Never trust a rich spy" before machine-gunning him down with her bagpipe. Le Chiffre, meanwhile, turns out to actually be an agent of Dr. Noah and is killed in suitably bizarre fashion. Chapter 7 After Mata Bond is kidnapped from the heart of London by a giant UFO , Sir James and the rest of the surviving James Bond 007s head to Casino Royale to rescue her and discover that the casino is located atop a giant underground base run by Dr. Noah, who turns out to be Sir James' weak-kneed nephew, MI6 Agent Jimmy Bond ( Woody Allen ), last seen escaping a firing squad in Central America earlier in the film (although exactly why how he could be doing this at the same time as masterminding the McTarry Castle exploit is left unexplained). Jimmy's plan is to kill all men over 4 foot 6 inches tall, leaving the diminuative villain the big man who gets all the girls. Meanwhile, as a huge brawl breaks out in the casino involving secret agents, French police, stereotypical movie Cowboys and Indians , George Raft , William Holden , and a Seal with the name tag "James Bond 007", "The Detainer" tricks Jimmy into swallowing a miniature nuclear bomb, leading to an explosive finale. As the film ends, the various Bonds are seen playing harps in Heaven , including Jimmy Bond -- a fact quickly rectified as the angel of Evelyn Tremble sends Jimmy "to a place that's incredibly hot." This version of ''Casino Royale'' is notable as the only legally authorized (albeit unofficial) Bond story in any venue in which the main character (all "versions" of him, in fact) is killed off. CAST AND CHARACTERS
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