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* MisidentifiedWeapons:
** A minor but rather jarring moment from the otherwise quite good film. When the script reads, "That's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six!", it's probably a good idea to make sure the man Bond is saying this to is holding a ''revolver''. Not a Colt M1911, one of the most recognizable ''semi-automatic pistols'' ever made and which almost everyone knows has a ''seven'' round magazine. And on top of this, Smith and Wesson didn't even manufacture a 1911 variant at the time. Even more perplexing is that Smith and Wesson revolvers were used later in the film, making it questionable why the props department chose to use a 1911 in the first place.
*** Definitely a mistake, and an even more perplexing one because after the 6th shot is fired, when Dent steps into the room, you can clearly see the slide locked back, showing that he IS out of rounds, and it would have been totally appropriate for Bond to point this out instead of the 'Smith and Wesson' line.

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* MisidentifiedWeapons:
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MisidentifiedWeapons: A minor but rather jarring moment from the otherwise quite good film. When the script reads, "That's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six!", it's probably a good idea to make sure the man Bond is saying this to is holding a ''revolver''. Not a Colt M1911, one of the most recognizable ''semi-automatic pistols'' ever made and which almost everyone knows has a ''seven'' round magazine. And on top of this, Smith and Wesson didn't even manufacture a 1911 variant at the time. Even more perplexing is that Smith and Wesson revolvers were used later in the film, making it questionable why the props department chose to use a 1911 in the first place.
*** Definitely a mistake, and an
place. This mistake is even more perplexing one because after the 6th shot is fired, when Dent steps into the room, you can clearly see the slide locked back, showing that he IS out of rounds, and it would have been totally appropriate for Bond to point this out instead of the 'Smith and Wesson' line.

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* TheLoad: Honey Rider. Oddly enough, she isn't widely hated among James Bond fans, partly because she was the first main Bond Girl, but she really is the single most superfluous Bond girl in the entire film series—yet is consistently ranked as the best, a position clearly earned solely because she's the first and still very attractive. The film makers were usually pretty good in making the Bond girls in the series of at least some nominal importance to the plot of each film (even if, in the case of Mary Goodnight, their only importance is as TheMillstone), but Honey is of no importance whatsoever. She shows up late in the film, tags along, and does nothing of any consequence. The film takes the time to give her the same backstory from the novel (Dr. No killed her father, she received all her education by reading the whole encyclopedia, she murdered her rapist, etc.) but again, none of that has any impact on the rest of the film. She exists solely to be the DistressedDamsel (and even that comes across as an afterthought) and for {{Fanservice}}. The latter, Creator/UrsulaAndress does very, very well, which is the third reason she isn't widely hated.

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* TheLoad: Honey Rider. Rider
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Oddly enough, she isn't widely hated among James Bond fans, partly because she was the first main Bond Girl, but she really is the single most superfluous Bond girl in the entire film series—yet is consistently ranked as the best, a position clearly earned solely because she's the first and still very attractive. The film makers were usually pretty good in making the Bond girls in the series of at least some nominal importance to the plot of each film (even if, in the case of Mary Goodnight, their only importance is as TheMillstone), but Honey is of no importance whatsoever. She shows up late in the film, tags along, and does nothing of any consequence. The film takes the time to give her the same backstory from the novel (Dr. No killed her father, she received all her education by reading the whole encyclopedia, she murdered her rapist, etc.) but again, none of that has any impact on the rest of the film. She exists solely to be the DistressedDamsel (and even that comes across as an afterthought) and for {{Fanservice}}. The latter, Creator/UrsulaAndress does very, very well, which is the third reason she isn't widely hated.
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** A not too blatant example, since the US had worked out before the events of the film that their rockets were being toppled; they just didn't know who the culprit was, and Bond works out by himself that Dr. No is responsible. However, Dr. No also freely gives away the existence of SPECTRE, who Bond and, presumably, [=MI6=] had been totally ignorant of until that point. In fairness, he only told him because he was trying to recruit him, and Russia and China definitely know because they keep doing business with them (No is on a mission for SPECTRE, but it is strongly implied that they were hired by Red China; No even has an army of Chinese henchmen), so its not so bad if half the world knows anyway.

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** A not too blatant example, since the US had worked out before the events of the film that their rockets were being toppled; they just didn't know who the culprit was, and Bond works out by himself that Dr. No is responsible. However, Dr. No also freely gives away the existence of SPECTRE, who Bond and, presumably, [=MI6=] had been totally ignorant of until that point. In fairness, he only told him because he was trying to recruit him, and Russia and China definitely know because they keep doing business with them (No is on a mission for SPECTRE, but it is strongly implied that they were hired by Red China; No even has an army of Chinese henchmen), so its it's not so bad if half the world knows anyway.

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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Bond invokes the trope after he knifes a guard and Honey gives him the WhatTheHellHero treatment.
** Some latter-day reviews film point out that there is actually little plot justification for Bond killing this particular man, other than continuing to establish the "licence to kill" aspect of 007 in a way Ian Fleming never did in his books. (According to WordOfGod this is why Bond is shown murdering Professor Dent earlier in the film, again an event never depicted by Fleming.)

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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Bond invokes the trope after he knifes a guard and Honey gives him the WhatTheHellHero treatment.
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treatment. Some latter-day reviews film point out that there is actually little plot justification for Bond killing this particular man, other than continuing to establish the "licence to kill" aspect of 007 in a way Ian Fleming never did in his books. (According to WordOfGod this is why Bond is shown murdering Professor Dent earlier in the film, again an event never depicted by Fleming.)

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** Bond's killing of Dent. No such scene occurs in any of Fleming's novels, but because the film version of Bond was promoted as a character who "kills who he pleases, when he pleases, how he pleases", and [[Literature/DrNo the novel]] actually has very little in the way of Bond killing people, this scene, along with a later sequence in which Bond knifes a guard for no real reason other than to have Bond give some justification in dialogue for his actions when Honey acts shocked, were added. Connery's Bond never acted this way again, though Moore and Dalton had a few PayEvilUntoEvil moments, and it's become normal operating procedure for the Craig version.

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** Bond's killing of Dent. Dent
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No such scene occurs in any of Fleming's novels, but because the film version of Bond was promoted as a character who "kills who he pleases, when he pleases, how he pleases", and [[Literature/DrNo the novel]] actually has very little in the way of Bond killing people, this scene, along with a later sequence in which Bond knifes a guard for no real reason other than to have Bond give some justification in dialogue for his actions when Honey acts shocked, were added. Connery's Bond never acted this way again, though Moore and Dalton had a few PayEvilUntoEvil moments, and it's become normal operating procedure for the Craig version.
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* TheDragon: Professor Dent to Dr. No.

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* TheDragon: Professor Dent to is in charge of Dr. No.No's operations in Jamaica and is ordered to have Bond killed. When his minions fail him, he tries to do the job himself.

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* DamselInDistress: Honey Rider at the end of the movie.

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* DamselInDistress: Honey Rider at DamselInDistress
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the end of the movie.movie, Honey Rider is manacled to a ramp in a pool and Bond must rescue her.

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* AffablyEvil: Dr. No treats James Bond to dinner and shows him around his evil lair!



* AffablyEvil: Dr. No treats James Bond to dinner and shows him around his evil lair!
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JustForFun/{{The one|With}} [[OriginsEpisode that started it all]].

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* WhatMeasureIsAMook?: Bond knifes a guard and Honey gives him the WhatTheHellHero treatment.

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* WhatMeasureIsAMook?: WhatMeasureIsAMook: Bond knifes a guard and Honey gives him the WhatTheHellHero treatment.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook?: Bond knifes a guard and Honey gives him the WhatTheHellHero treatment.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: James Bond has a few. One is the ever famous gun barrel, and the other is killing Professor Dent in cold blood.
-->'''Bond:''' That's a Smith and Wesson... and you've had your six.
** More iconically, when we first meet Bond at a casino, winning a card game.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: James Bond has himself gets no fewer than three.
** The gunbarrel sequence shows Bond as
a few. One badass agent who is always quickest on the ever famous gun barrel, and draw.
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the other is killing Professor Dent in cold blood.
-->'''Bond:''' That's a Smith and Wesson... and you've had your six.
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film proper, we first meet Bond at a casino, winning where he effortlessly wins a card game.game, gets a date with the beautiful Sylvia Trench, and then gives [[NiceToTheWaiter a massive tip]] to the doorman as he leaves, showcasing his love of risk, [[BornLucky astonishing luck]], womanizing, charm and the fact that he values the thrill of the game more than money. Plus there's the introduction of his iconic CatchPhrase.



'''Bond:''' ''[lighting a cigarette]'' [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Bond, James Bond]].

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'''Bond:''' ''[lighting ''[[[SmokingIsCool lighting a cigarette]'' cigarette]]]'' [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Bond, James Bond]].Bond]].
** Bond gunning down Professor Dent in cold blood was designed to illustrate to the audience exactly what a licence to kill meant, as in more than just a licence to kill in self-defence.
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* HollywoodHealing: Quarrel gets his face slashed with a broken flashbulb, drawing blood. He appears completely undamaged in all subsequent scenes.
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** The design of the opening credits is weird compared to the later formula. The BondGunBarrel is scored with a weird space-age ditty, with the Bond theme starting after the shot, but this film's particular arrangement makes it sound out of order compared to the ones in later films. Then the circle becomes part of the still colourful and artistic credits. And given there's no theme song per se, at a certain point the music changes to a calypso rendition of "Three Blind Mice", culminating in the eponymous assassins changing from silhouettes to the movie characters. Also no silhouettes of naked women; instead we have silhouettes of fully clothed female - and male - dancers, as well as the three actors portraying the aforementioned assassins.

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** The design of the opening credits is weird compared to the later formula. The BondGunBarrel is scored with a weird space-age ditty, electronic ''wheep''s, with the Bond theme starting only after the shot, but this film's particular arrangement makes it sound out of order compared to the ones in later films. Then the circle becomes part of the still colourful and artistic credits. And given there's no theme song per se, at a certain point the music changes to a calypso rendition of "Three Blind Mice", culminating in the eponymous assassins changing from silhouettes to the movie characters. Also There are no silhouettes of naked women; instead we have silhouettes of fully clothed female - dancers (female and male - dancers, male), as well as the three actors portraying the aforementioned assassins.
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the novel, Honey collects seashells in the hopes of paying for the surgery to get her broken nose fixed. The film omits this, thus implying that she collects shells purely for the money.

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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the novel, Honey collects seashells in the hopes of paying for the surgery to get her broken nose fixed. The film omits this, thus implying that she collects shells purely for the money.simply to make her living.
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* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon: Crab Key and neighboring islands. When Bond asks Quarrel where he took Strangways, Quarrel points to the harbor, saying, "That there's the Caribbean. That's where I took him."
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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''''Film/JamesBond'' Films'''\\
By Creator/EonProductions:\\
'''Creator/SeanConnery:''' '''Dr. No''' | ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' | ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' | ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' | ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' | ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''\\
'''Creator/GeorgeLazenby:''' ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''\\
'''Creator/RogerMoore:''' ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' | ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' | ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' | ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' | ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' | ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' | ''Film/AViewToAKill''\\
'''Creator/TimothyDalton:''' ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' | ''Film/LicenceToKill''\\
'''Creator/PierceBrosnan:''' ''Film/GoldenEye'' | ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' | ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' | ''Film/DieAnotherDay''\\
'''Creator/DanielCraig:''' ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' | ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' | ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' | ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' | ''Film/NoTimeToDie''\\
Non-Eon Films:\\
''Film/CasinoRoyale1954'' | ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' | ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''-]]]]]
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* NapoleonDelusion: Invoked; Bond mocks Dr. No's thirst for power by remarking that western asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon — or God.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Goya's ''Portrait of the Duke of Wellington'' can be seen hanging on the wall in Dr. No's lair; Bond clearly recognises the painting. In RealLife, this had been stolen from the National Gallery in London in August 1961, several months before filming began -- so the clear implication in the film is that ''Dr. No was responsible for the theft'' [[note]] Creator/KenAdam, the film's Production Designer, had the idea to include this little detail and painted the copy ''over a weekend'' after getting a slide of the original from the National Gallery; the copy was later used for publicity for the film but, like the original, it was stolen while on display[[/note]]. The painting was returned in 1965.

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Goya's ''Portrait of the Duke of Wellington'' Creator/FranciscoDeGoya's ''Art/PortraitOfTheDukeOfWellington'' can be seen hanging on the wall in Dr. No's lair; Bond clearly recognises the painting. In RealLife, this had been stolen from the National Gallery in London in August 1961, several months before filming began -- so the clear implication in the film is that ''Dr. No was responsible for the theft'' [[note]] Creator/KenAdam, the film's Production Designer, had the idea to include this little detail and painted the copy ''over a weekend'' after getting a slide of the original from the National Gallery; the copy was later used for publicity for the film but, like the original, it was stolen while on display[[/note]]. The painting was returned in 1965.

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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''''Film/JamesBond'' Films'''\\
By Creator/EonProductions:\\
'''Creator/SeanConnery:''' '''Dr. No''' | ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' | ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' | ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' | ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' | ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''\\
'''Creator/GeorgeLazenby:''' ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''\\
'''Creator/RogerMoore:''' ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' | ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' | ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' | ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' | ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' | ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' | ''Film/AViewToAKill''\\
'''Creator/TimothyDalton:''' ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' | ''Film/LicenceToKill''\\
'''Creator/PierceBrosnan:''' ''Film/GoldenEye'' | ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' | ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' | ''Film/DieAnotherDay''\\
'''Creator/DanielCraig:''' ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' | ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' | ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' | ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' | ''Film/NoTimeToDie''\\
Non-Eon Films:\\
''Film/CasinoRoyale1954'' | ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' | ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''-]]]]]



[[caption-width-right:300:''[[IronicNurseryTune Three blind mice in a row ...]]'']]

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* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: Both fans and critics have likened Honey Rider's emergence from the sea in a white bikini to ''Botticelli's Venus'', a painting which depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving naked at the sea-shore.

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* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: Both fans and critics have likened Honey Rider's emergence from the sea in a white bikini to ''Botticelli's Venus'', Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Botticelli}}'', a painting which depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown full-grown woman, arriving naked at the sea-shore.
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After a British agent and his secretary are murdered in UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}} and their files about the mysterious Dr. No are stolen, James Bond, codename 007, the best {{UsefulNotes/MI6}} agent, is sent to investigate.

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After a British agent and his secretary are murdered in UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}} and their files about the mysterious Dr. No are stolen, {{UsefulNotes/MI6}} sends their best agent, James Bond, codename 007, the best {{UsefulNotes/MI6}} agent, is sent to investigate.
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''Dr. No'' is the first film in the Creator/EonProductions ''Film/JamesBond'' series and the first cinematic adaptation of Creator/IanFleming's [[Literature/JamesBond literary hero]] ([[TheFilmOfTheBook based off]] the [[Literature/DrNo novel of the same name]]), directed by Creator/TerenceYoung and starring Creator/SeanConnery. It came out on October 7, 1962 in the UK and had limited releases in the US in 1963.

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''Dr. No'' is the first film in the Creator/EonProductions ''Film/JamesBond'' series and the first cinematic adaptation of Creator/IanFleming's [[Literature/JamesBond literary hero]] ([[TheFilmOfTheBook based off]] the [[Literature/DrNo novel of the same name]]), directed by Creator/TerenceYoung and starring Creator/SeanConnery. Monty Norman composed the score, and Music/JohnBarry arranged what would become the franchise's iconic theme. It came out on October 7, 1962 in the UK and had limited releases in the US in 1963.

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''Dr. No'' is the first film in the Creator/EonProductions ''Film/JamesBond'' series, directed by Creator/TerenceYoung and starring Creator/SeanConnery. It came out on October 7, 1962 in the UK and had limited releases in the US in 1963.

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''Dr. No'' is the first film in the Creator/EonProductions ''Film/JamesBond'' series, series and the first cinematic adaptation of Creator/IanFleming's [[Literature/JamesBond literary hero]] ([[TheFilmOfTheBook based off]] the [[Literature/DrNo novel of the same name]]), directed by Creator/TerenceYoung and starring Creator/SeanConnery. It came out on October 7, 1962 in the UK and had limited releases in the US in 1963.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Dr. No and everyone else in the control room completely fail to look at Bond's face through the hazmat suit's window, or notice that his height, build, and walk doesn't match Chang's, whose suit Bond appropriated.
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Dent places a tarantula in Bond's bed, not a black widow. Honey Rider used a black widow to kill the man who had raped her.


* AssassinOutclassin: Firstly, Professor Dent attempts to assassinate Bond by placing a black widow spider in his bed, but he manages to overcome it. Then, the Three Blind Mice attempt to run him off the road, but he outmanoeuvres them. Finally, Dent tries to shoot him in bed, but Bond foils him with the three-pillow trick and kills him.

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* AssassinOutclassin: Firstly, Professor Dent attempts to assassinate Bond by placing a black widow spider tarantula in his bed, but he manages to overcome it. Then, the Three Blind Mice attempt to run him off the road, but he outmanoeuvres them. Finally, Dent tries to shoot him in bed, but Bond foils him with the three-pillow trick and kills him.
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A sandbank will absolutely protect someone from machine gun bullets. See WWII, etc, and soldiers using sandbags as actual cover in defensive positions.


* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Apparently hiding behind a sandbank will protect you from bullets fired by a vehicle-mounted machine gun!

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* ArtisticLicenseGuns:
** A minor but rather jarring moment from the otherwise quite good film. When the script reads, "That's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six!", it's probably a good idea to make sure the man Bond is saying this to is holding a ''revolver''. Not a Colt M1911, one of the most recognizable ''semi-automatic pistols'' ever made and which almost everyone knows has a ''seven'' round magazine. And on top of this, Smith and Wesson didn't even manufacture a 1911 variant at the time. Even more perplexing is that Smith and Wesson revolvers were used later in the film, making it questionable why the props department chose to use a 1911 in the first place.
*** Definitely a mistake, and an even more perplexing one because after the 6th shot is fired, when Dent steps into the room, you can clearly see the slide locked back, showing that he IS out of rounds, and it would have been totally appropriate for Bond to point this out instead of the 'Smith and Wesson' line.


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* GreaterScopeVillain: SPECTRE receives its first mention here as a nebulous criminal organization which Dr. No is a part of.


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* MisidentifiedWeapons:
** A minor but rather jarring moment from the otherwise quite good film. When the script reads, "That's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six!", it's probably a good idea to make sure the man Bond is saying this to is holding a ''revolver''. Not a Colt M1911, one of the most recognizable ''semi-automatic pistols'' ever made and which almost everyone knows has a ''seven'' round magazine. And on top of this, Smith and Wesson didn't even manufacture a 1911 variant at the time. Even more perplexing is that Smith and Wesson revolvers were used later in the film, making it questionable why the props department chose to use a 1911 in the first place.
*** Definitely a mistake, and an even more perplexing one because after the 6th shot is fired, when Dent steps into the room, you can clearly see the slide locked back, showing that he IS out of rounds, and it would have been totally appropriate for Bond to point this out instead of the 'Smith and Wesson' line.
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* {{Qipao}}: Honey and Miss Taro are both seen wearing qipao.

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