Adaptational Nationality: In this film, Bond is American (and a CIA agent) and Leiter is British (and a MI6 agent) instead of the other way around.Felix Leiter's first name was changed to Clarence.James Bond's first name was changed to the more American-sounding Jimmy.Whereas in the novel a SMERSH operative kills Le Chiffre and Vesper commits suicide after being revealed to have been a mole for the bad guys against her will, here Le Chiffre is killed by Bond himself and Valerie (Vesper's counterpart) survives. Adaptational Alternate Ending: The ending greatly simplifies the ending of the novel.See also the 19 big screen versions of the story. It stars Barry Nelson as an American 'Jimmy' Bond, Linda Christian as Valerie Mathis (a Composite Character of Vesper Lynd and Rene Mathis) and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. It adapts Ian Fleming's novel of the same name (the first in the series of novels), which was released the year before.
Leiter: Aren't you the fella that was shot?Ĭasino Royale was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, released in 1954 as a television movie/episode of the anthology series Climax!.
