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'''James Bond:''' ''[[Take Over the World|World domination.]] The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God.'' }}
'''Dr. No''' is the first ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' film, starring [[Sean Connery]]. After a British agent and his secretary are murdered in Jamaica and their files stolen, [[James Bond]] is sent to investigate. As the first film of the series, [[Early Installment Weirdness|it lacked many of the traits that would become iconic of the franchise]] but nonetheless set the groundwork.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Ian Fleming loved the movie so much that he made Bond Half-Scottish in honor of [[Sean Connery]]. He also gave Ursula Andress a cameo in his novel ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''.
* [[Adaptation-Induced Plothole]]: Major Boothroyd says Bond's Beretta, which is in .380 ACP, is underpowered and assigns him a ''less'' powerful pistol, a Walther PP in .32 ACP. This conversation is directly from the book, where Bond's Beretta was a slightly different model in .25 ACP which ''is'' less powerful than .32 ACP.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Double-subverted. When Bond tries to escape his cell through the vent, he gets shocked when he touches the grill. However, he tries again by using his shoe to push it out and succeeds in escaping. As a nice touch, he experimentally taps the grill at the other end with his feet to make sure it isn't electrified.
** Also justified in the novel. It's designed to be a part of a [[Deadly Game]].
** And the reason it's so wide? It's not an air vent; it's a ''water'' vent, as Bond learns to his dismay.
* [[Animal Assassin]]:
* [[Antagonist Title]]
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Dr. No's [[Robot Hand|Robot Hands]].
* [[Artistic Title]]: The Dr. No film doesn't use artistic title montages, instead it uses a stylized geometric animation.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Pussfeller gives one when Leiter introduces him to Bond.
{{quote|'''Leiter''': "That's Pussfeller, he owns the place."
'''Bond''': "I hope he cooks better than he fights!"
'''Pussfeller''': "Nobody died from my cooking...''yet''."
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Bond's driver.
* [[Big Red Button]]: The large wheel that Bond turns to set the reactor to danger level.
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: "What happened?" "I think they were on their way to a funeral!"
* [[Clipboard of Authority]]: The sheaf of papers Bond picks up while infiltrating the reactor room.
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* [[Creepy Centipedes]]: A poisonous centipede is used in an attempt to kill Bond in the novel. [[Did Not Do the Research|Never mind that their poison is almost harmless to humans.]]
* [[Cyanide Pill]]: A henchman uses a suicide cigarette.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]▼
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Honey Rider at the end of the movie.
** Subverted in the book - she was tied up with the threat of being eaten by a swarm of crabs. She knew the crabs were harmless, and let them swarm over her; her distressed attitude was over what would happen to Bond.
▲* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Decontamination Chamber]]: Used to cleanse Bond and Ursula of radiation. Ursula wears a [[Nude-Colored Clothes|flesh-colored towel]] in an [[Special Effects Failure|ineffectual attempt]] to convince the audience [[Fan Service|she is nude]].
* [[The Dragon]]: Professor Dent to Dr. No.
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* [[Handy Cuffs]]: When Bond is captured by the crew of Dr. No's "dragon".
* [[Hazmat Suit]]: Dr. No's radiation suit.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The metal hands of Dr. No
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Bond himself does it twice: multiple times in his hotel room and by murdering Professor Dent rather than capturing him for interrogation.
* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: Bond taunts Dr. No when they're eating dinner.
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* [[Same Language Dub]]: Strangways and the photographer are dubbed, and Nikki Van der Zyl dubbed over Eunice Gayson and Ursula Andress...
** [[Non-Singing Voice]]: ...which also had a singing voice.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The title character was Fleming's tribute to the iconic [[Yellow Peril]] villain Fu Manchu.
* [[Sleeping Dummy]]: Bond uses several pillows under the covers of his bed.
* [[Spiteful Spit]]: Miss Taro to Bond after he has her arrested.
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* [[Token Trio]]: Bond, Honey and Quarrel on their journey through Crab Key.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Since it's Bond's first movie, the [[Leitmotif]] is used for everything, including arriving at the airport and driving by the coast.
** The making-of featurette on the DVD has a scene that adds extra explosions to Bond's signature line.
{{quote|"Name's Bond. '''*EXPLOSION*''' James Bond '''*ANOTHER EXPLOSION*'''"}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] A bit of irony: Bond does this with Honey when she describes how she murdered a man who raped her by putting a black widow spider in his bed, causing him to die over the course of a week. "I wouldn't make a habit of it" he says, shocked. But later, after Bond somewhat unnecessarily stabs one of Dr. No's men to death, Honey acts shocked and asks why he had to kill the man.
* [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things]]: Averted and lampshaded.
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{{James Bond Films}}
[[Category:The Criterion Collection]]▼
{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Heroes and Villains}}
▲[[Category:The Criterion Collection (LaserDisc)]]
[[Category:Films of the 1960s]]
▲[[Category:Dr. No]]
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