Casino Royale '67

chrisno1

I just purchased the Burt Bacharach OST. I've played it a couple of times.
I think its quite good. Probably the best thing about the film (I've only watched it once - more than enough). It's catchy and jokey. I don't think the main theme disgraces Bond at all unlike what unfolded on screen. Equally the theme song Look of Love is brilliant - wasn't it Oscar nominated? before any of the official 007 themes? I think its hamstrung a bit by the nature of the action unfolding on screen, for instance the Trip to Find Mata sequence feels very long and stop-start on CD, but works quite well with all those bizarre dancing girls. The Cowboys and Indians finale does nobody any favours and is best left forgotten.
Overall I rather enjoyed it. It lacks the drama of a Barry score but is better balanced than Legrand's effort for NSNA. It shows more than anything than Bacharach understood the project; while he's having fun, he isn't really mocking the action or the central hero, merely offering an amusing sideline on our hero. Makes you wonder if he'd have made a decent stab at an Eon Bond score....

Blackleiter

chrisno1 wrote:

I just purchased the Burt Bacharach OST. I've played it a couple of times.
I think its quite good. Probably the best thing about the film (I've only watched it once - more than enough). It's catchy and jokey. I don't think the main theme disgraces Bond at all unlike what unfolded on screen. Equally the theme song Look of Love is brilliant - wasn't it Oscar nominated? before any of the official 007 themes? I think its hamstrung a bit by the nature of the action unfolding on screen, for instance the Trip to Find Mata sequence feels very long and stop-start on CD, but works quite well with all those bizarre dancing girls. The Cowboys and Indians finale does nobody any favours and is best left forgotten.
Overall I rather enjoyed it. It lacks the drama of a Barry score but is better balanced than Legrand's effort for NSNA. It shows more than anything than Bacharach understood the project; while he's having fun, he isn't really mocking the action or the central hero, merely offering an amusing sideline on our hero. Makes you wonder if he'd have made a decent stab at an Eon Bond score....

Although I agree that many of the tunes on the CR'67 soundtrack are memorable and quite catchy, I can hardly bear listening to it because it reminds of that absolutely awful movie!

Barbel

"The Look Of Love" was Oscar-nominated indeed.
There was an expanded re-release of the score a while back, too.

Thunderpussy

I have to admitt, That I've only ever watched it Once, then only parts when it's on the telly. So apart from
The theme song, I can't say I ever even noticed the soundtrack. ( The film really is that BAD !) )

Sir Miles

Parts of the soundtrack are superb...and I quite like the film too...

Sherbrook

If you watch the movie without expectations of it being a "Bond film" it's quite OK

I think it flopped at the time though

Golrush007

I do enjoy most of Casino Royale '67, there are only a few parts that really feel boring but for the most part I enjoy the zany 60s style and although I would never dare call it a good film I can't help enjoying it! One of the main reasons for that is that I love the soundtrack! As well as The Look of Love and the main theme, I enjoy all the incidental tracks as well. I've never owned the soundtrack on CD but a few months ago I was browsing in a second-hand record shop and picked up the soundtrack LP for next-to-nothing. I have enjoyed it immensely! I only wish that it had the vocal version of Casino Royale which played over the end credits on the soundtrack album, not because it is amazing or anything, I just want to have it for the sake of being complete.

Barbel

The expanded re-release may be what you're after.

Golrush007

Barbel wrote:

The expanded re-release may be what you're after.

Indeed! However, it is not high enough on my list of priorities! The original soundtrack album will satisfy my needs for the time being. I actually had no idea that there was an expanding soundtrack release until I read it on this thread.