M sends out his finest gambler, 00 agent Commander James Bond to play in the game. When that happened he knew that he too would be branded with the deadly question-mark he recognized so often in others, the promise to pay before you have lost: the acceptance of fallibility.The head of Station S, Fawcett formulates a plan to take down SMERSH operative Le Chiffre who is the head of communist sympathizing trade unions in northern France, who is attempting to earn money in game in Baccarat Chemin de fer in order to compensate for the loss of his chain of brothels which were shut down after a law banning prostitution surfaced in France.

One day, and he accepted the fact, he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.

But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. The passage noted concludes “.luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared.

The episode, adapted for an American audience, was broadcast on 21 October 1954 and starred Barry Nelson as “Card Sense” James “Jimmy” Bond, and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre.Ībove the CBS stamp in this copy is a green biro note in a studio editor’s hand reading, “ description of Bond and ‘Luck’”. THE COPY THAT FIRST PUT JAMES BOND ON SCREEN.ĬBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 to adapt Casino Royale into a one-hour TV adventure. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1954Ĩvo, first American edition, first printing, second issue, THE CBS FILE COPY stamped “Property CBS - TV Story Department Hollywood” on front free endpaper, original green cloth, lettered in red, design to upper cover in red, DUST-JACKET, collector’s red cloth folding case

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