John Strangways, the Station Chief of MI6 in Jamaica, is murdered, along with his secretary Mary, by a trio of assassins before his home is ransacked. After MI6 loses radio contact … See more

• Sean Connery as James Bond, a British MI6 agent, codename 007.
• Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder, a local shell diver, making a living by selling Jamaican seashells … See more

Monty Norman was invited to write the film score because Broccoli liked his work on the 1961 theatre production Belle, a musical about murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen. … See more

Around the time of Dr. No's release in October 1962, a comic book adaptation of the screenplay, written by Norman J. Nodel, was … See more

Ian Fleming first wrote Dr. No as a television outline for film producer Henry Morgenthau III to promote the Jamaican tourism industry. After this project fell through Fleming … See more

Promotion
As soon as late 1961, United Artists started a marketing campaign to make James Bond a well-known name in North America. … See more

Critical response
Dr. No received a mixed critical reception. Time magazine called Bond a "blithering bounder" and "a … See more