1. Dr. No (1962)

SEAN CONNERY

The film begins in Jamaica, where British agent Commander John Strangways and his secretary are murdered (by the Three Blind Mice). James Bond is sent by M, armed with a newly acquired Walther PPK (to replace his Beretta M1934 which had jammed on a previous mission) to Jamaica to investigate their disappearances and determine whether it is related to recent disruptions of American rocket launchings at Cape Canaveral.

At the airport in Kingston, Bond walks past a suspicious female photographer who tries to take a picture of him, Bond is greeted by Mr. Jones a uniformed driver, saying he's been sent to drive him to Government House. The man, however, is actually an enemy agent who commits suicide after he is discovered, rather than risk the wrath of his boss. Later through Pleydell-Smith, the local governor, and General Potter, who regularly played cards with Strangways. Bond learns that Strangways had recently taken up fishing and that he had hired a man in the harbour named Quarrel to guide him around. Bond visits Quarrel who initially is uncooperative because he is unsure of Bond's true allegiance. After Bond beats Quarrel and Puss-Feller, a local barman aiding Quarrel, Bond meets Felix Leiter of the CIA who vouches for Bond being from the British Secret Service.


Joseph Wiseman as Julius NoWhen investigating Strangways' home, Bond finds a receipt from a local metallurgist named Professor Dent who helped Strangways by identifying rock samples from a nearby island known as Crab Key. Dent claims the rocks are average ordinary pyrites, however, Bond quickly learns that the rocks are actually radioactive. As it turns out, Dent is an agent of Dr. Julius No, the resident of Crab Key, and Dent has been ordered to kill Bond. After an unsuccessful attempt with a tarantula, Dent uses the local governor's secretary, Miss Taro to lure him to her home. When Dent arrives to murder Bond, however, Bond is prepared for him and executes Dent after a brief interrogation in which Bond learns that Strangways had been murdered.

Bond and Quarrel set sail to Crab Key where they meet Honey Ryder, an innocent scavenger of seashells. Soon after they are discovered and are forced to flee into the depths of the island where Quarrel is burned alive by Dr. No's "dragon tank" and Bond and Honey are captured. Once inside the lair, Bond and Honey are imprisoned in a luxury "guest" suite where they await dinner with Dr. No. During the meal it is revealed that Dr. No lost his hands in an unspecified manner and he has two prostheses. Additionally, Dr. No informs Bond that he was the former treasurer of the Tong and is now a member of SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) and that he is there on Crab Key disrupting American rocket launches at the nearby Cape Canaveral because his 'brilliance' was rejected by both the East and the West.

When the meeting concludes, Bond is briefly brutalized by No's henchmen and is taken prisoner until he can be further interrogated by Dr. No. Before the Doctor can see him, however, Bond escapes from his prison cell and overloads the nuclear reactor that would have been used to sabotage an American rocket launch. After a hand-to-hand fight on a descending platform in the heart of a nuclear reactor Bond manages to knock Dr. No down and escapes the lift before it plunges into the reactor's cooling vat. Dr. No, on the other hand, is unable to grip the framework of the lift due to his crude metal hands and sinks to his death in the boiling, radioactive water. Bond then escapes with Honey in a raft, and is later picked up by his employers. They throw him a rope, but Bond unties it as they are towing him away and passionately kisses Honey.