And top it off by having six directors undertake separate segments of the film – just to make it even more lucid. James Bond in a full-blown hellzapoppin’? Why yes – and such a thing could only happen in 1967.Īt no other time during the incomprehensible history of this planet could anyone coral Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, John Huston and Woody Allen into anything other than some kind of surrealistic documentary. Casino Royale: A 1967 hellzapoppin’ film based on Ian Fleming’s novel of the same name.