While there are two dozen Bond theme tunes, their quality varies pretty wildly, from the truly awful (sorry, Madonna), to the deeply dull (Sam Smith), to the true classics, like Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger.” Here are all the James Bond themes, ranked from the stinkers to the gems. The film stars David Niven as the 'original' Bond, Sir James Bond 007. Help Support This ChannelHD Film Tributes is a channel with over three hundred movie homages currently posted. It is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. (You'd never hear a smooth Sean Connery-era theme in a Daniel Craig Bond movie, after all.) For any musician, recording a Bond tune guarantees a spot in music history, but history doesn't remember all of the Bond themes fondly. Casino Royale is a 1967 spy comedy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures featuring an ensemble cast. Bond themes are the secret sauce of the movies: paired with the bombastic credits, they set the tone for the action to come, and speak to the current era of the franchise. We can expect the opening scenes of the film to deliver on a few time-honored traditions: the gun barrel sequence, the pre-title teaser, and perhaps most importantly of all, the highly stylized title credits, set to an original theme song.

Feldman, who subsequently produced the Bond spoof Casino Royale in 1967.

After Ratoff's death, the rights passed to Charles K. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) and his girlfriend. When Broccoli and Saltzman bought the rights to existing and future Fleming titles, the deal did not include Casino Royale, which had been sold to producer Gregory Ratoff for a television adaptation in 1954.

Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. No matter how directors or actors put their signature stamp on the franchise, James Bond films have a familiar formula. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda, where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan).

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