This is the first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming's unflappable British Secret Service Agent 007, with Sean Connery setting the standard as the insouciant and devil-maycare James Bond. Sent to Jamaica to investigate the murders of a British agent and his secretary, Bond comes into contact with the evil and unscrupulous Chinese scientist Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman.)
Dr. No's scheme is to divert rockets being fired from Cape Canaveral off their charted course and to blackmail the US to get their rocket launches restored to normal. Helping Bond is Ursula Andress (mostly undressed in a bikini throughout most of the film), as well as bad gals like Zena Marshall, who almost leads Bond to his death in her bedroom, and Eunice Gayson, a Bond pickup in a London gambling house who proves herself a greater adversary than even James Bond can handle.
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