If your only experience of Casino Royale is just the 2006 Daniel Craig movie, know this: Of all the Bond films it’s probably the only handful of the films that both closely follow the plot one of the source material and actually capture the tone and meaning of the book. Published seven decades ago on April 13, 1953, Casino Royale created a new kind of action thriller - one that wasn’t afraid to actually mock its male protagonist. And, in many ways, the first Bond book, is still the best. No with Sean Connery as James Bond is certainly more visible, but without Fleming and his books, the phenomenon of Bond simply wouldn’t exist. It was called Casino Royale and it not only changed Fleming’s life but shocked and thrilled the entire world. Just before his getting married, at the age of 43, former British Naval officer Ian Fleming sat down at his typewriter, after what many biographers say was five years of procrastinating.
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