But when they showed the scene at the end where the Indians are riding horses in a casino, everyone in the studio said: ‘What are the horses about?’ ” Royale, which cost $12 million to make, was an unlikely hit: It earned $41.7 million worldwide ($300 million today) and was 1967’s 13th highest grossing domestic film.
You can buy or rent Casino Royale for as low as 3.99 to rent or 14.99 to buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, and YouTube. “The movie didn’t make sense, but they didn’t want it to make sense,” says co-star Daliah Lavi, now 73. Casino Royale is currently available to stream with a subscription on MGM+ for 5.99 / month, after a 7-Day Free Trial. Noah, the evil head of Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH), Orson Welles and John Huston, who also is credited as a director. The Hollywood Reporter‘s review called the two-hour, 17-minute Royale “over-long, undisciplined, formless, confusing, misfiring and a threat to the coccyx.” The film had five credited directors one star (Peter Sellers) who believed the film shouldn’t be done as a spoof and acted accordingly a slew of celebrity cameos (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Peter O’Toole among them), plus a cast that included Woody Allen (who played both Jimmy Bond - James Bond’s nephew - and Dr.
