While the first movie made of both series was a parodiy, the
Helms kept
their tone and stuck with the woefully inadequate Dean
Martin. The
Bond's soon had Sean Connery in movies that took the action
seriously.
Although Casino Royale was the first book in the Bond series,
the parody
movie of the same title which came out in 1967 was not the
first Bond
movie. That was Dr. No in 1962. Sean Connery had already done
his
initial 5 Bond movies (coming back later in Diamonds Are
Forever and the
Thunderball-remake Never Say Never Again) before Casino
Royale was made.
The first Dean Martin/Matt Helm film, The Silencers, came out
in 1966,
the same year as the great spy-spoof Our Man Flint, starring
one of the
coolest men alive (now that Lee Marvin is gone), James
Coburn.
Mark
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