If SMERSH thought that having one Bond was bad enough, wait until they find themselves up against seven! Retired spy James Bond is forced to come out of retirement to deal with the threat of SMERSH! But the aging agent is out of his depth and needs some help. This is partially due to the fact that Ian Fleming sold off the filming rights to the 'Casino Royale' novel several years earlier and before Eon Productions acquired the license for the remainder of his novels and the legal rights to it remained tied up for years afterwards. The 1967 version of the film however is not considered to be officially canon as it is not part of the Eon Productions film series and was heavily altered from its source material to be a more farcical lampoon comedy. This version was very loosely based on the Ian Fleming novel of the same name and was the second adaptation of it the first being a 1954 television movie with a modernized third adaptation being released in 2006. It was directed by Ken Hughs, Joseph McGrath, John Huston, Robert Parrish, Val Guest, and Richard Talmadge.
