FxrAndy Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Does any one recognise this one????????????? Any ideas would be welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Does any one recognise this one? Is that a photo of your TV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy777 Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 ...wasn't the first Casino Royale a '60's spoof with Peter Sellers and Woody Allen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted December 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Yes, well monitor, i tryed to print screen but all i got was a black image. BTW i think it may be an old zeno sea hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted December 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 ...wasn't the first Casino Royale a '60's spoof with Peter Sellers and Woody Allen? Yes it was, want a copy of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvt Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Not sure about the watch but the movie is horrible... though it does make for some interesting Bond trivia, especially after you learn the story of why Casino Royal was never made (until now) in to an official Bond film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted December 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 @ Tvt, why has it taken so long then, i did not know that there was a story behind it? @ Pugwash, managed a better image i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvt Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Well the story is not really funny or anything, just long and interesting if you care about that sort of thing. In a nutshell the movie rights to Casino Royal have been passed around from studio to studio for years. It was originally made into a TV show in 1954 and so the rights to Casino Royal laid with the producers. In the early 60's the Bond movies started and became popular but those producers did not have the rights to Casino Royal. The producer who DID have those rights (after he bought them from the TV guys) approached the Broccoli's (the producers for the official movies) and offered to do a joint venture to make Casino Royal into a movie. Well the Broccoli's felt they had been burned by doing thi sonce before. They had done a co-production on Thunderball with the guy who co-wrote the book. This is a very convoluted sotry in and of itself and it was why that producer was able to re-make Thunderball years later (Never say Never again) as an un-officual bond movie but still using the characters. ANYWAY, the Broccolis did not want any more co-ventures and so they turned down Casino Royal. The producer went ahead and started producing it as an alternative James Bond movie and hired Peter Sellers to star. Sellers wanted to play it more or less straight while the producers wanted a spoof. This led to Sellers leaving the production mid way through... they had to change the script and hired David Niven (who was one of the original canidates to play Bond in Dr. No) and then tried to piece together a spoof of Bond using the old Sellers footage and the new stuff they were shooting. In part this is why the movie is so aweful, it never had any sort of focus and was changing as they were making it and so on. So the spoof Casino Royal came out in 1967 and the official Bond producers never had the rights to it. Then all sorts of bizarre things happened including casino Royal almost being made again as a serious un-official Bond movie in the 90's. Eventually through several studios merging with each other Sony now has the rights to ALL the Bond films including casino Royal and Thunderball / Never Say Never Again. this allowed them to make Casino Royal as an offical Bond and also prevent any more un-offical films from being made. I have simplified this of course and some details may be incorrect but you get the gist of it... nothing is ever as simple as it appears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted December 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 @ Tvt thanks for the insight, nothing is ever as simple as it seams, when you watch the two films you see alot of x overs of names and what ever, i agree it is awfull but you can see where austin powers came from! thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolfire Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Thanx for the amazing insight and information on this piece of history... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitmic Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 But the question still remains: What watch is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marrickvilleboy Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 look on ebay - they are found pretty commonly. type in "vintage diver" into the search and you will find this watch, this following example is similer. http://cgi.ebay.com/Caravelle-vintage-auto...1QQcmdZViewItem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted December 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 close but not quite there i dont think. the hands are different and the 5 min markers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marrickvilleboy Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 close but not quite there i dont think. the hands are different and the 5 min markers I did say "similar" not same. but trust me, i see alot of those kind of ebay from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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