Casino Royale is a haphazard, disjointed consolidation of various unconnected plot-threads that really would have been better served as a series of Saturday Night Live skits than a complete movie.ĭuring production Peter Sellers apparently had a major falling out with Orson Welles, perhaps owing to an invitation for Princess Margaret to visit the set (Sellers had boasted about his relationship with the royal family) but when she arrived on set she snubbed Sellers and favored Welles. The production is now somewhat legendary for being complete pandemonium, with no less than five different directors cycling through disparate segments of the film (in addition to at least one uncredited director), along with an army of script writers (which at one point included the legendary Billy Wilder). Very loosely based on Ian Flemings’ inaugural James Bond novel, 1967’s Casino Royale is a silly, chaotic, parody of the spy film genre.
