It features the unlikely couple of Peter Sellers (as baccarat genius Evelyn Tremble – one of the many 007s in the film) and Ursula Andress (billionaire double agent Vesper Lynd). Despite this, amid the two hours of loosely cobbled-together satirical silliness and swinging trippiness there sparkles a diamond of a scene. Then five directors, among them John Huston and Val Guest, arrived to spoil the broth.
After Oscar-winner Ben Hecht died in the middle of writing the screenplay (or, as some have suggested, as a result of writing it), no fewer than ten writers were brought in to finish it off. The 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale is a complete mess.
