Ursula Andress seven years. In Italy, she starred opposite Marcello Mastroianni in the science fiction movie "The 10th Victim" (1965). She returned to Hollywood to play George Peppard's love interest in the World War One film, "The Blue Max" (1966), another success at the box office. Andress made her second film for Seven Arts: another with Derek, who again starred and directed, "Once Before I Die" (1966), shot in the Philippines. More widely seen was the Bond satire "Casino Royale" (1967), also produced by Feldman, where Andress played Vesper Lynd, an occasional spy who persuades Evelyn Tremble, played by Peter Sellers, to
SMERSH (James Bond) grafts, signs of the wound remain in later Bond books). Then, at the end of the novel, Bond's lover and fellow agent Vesper Lynd—in fact a Soviet double agent—commits suicide when she learns that a SMERSH agent has her under surveillance and that the organisation is planning to kill her. As a result of her death, Bond swears vengeance upon SMERSH, which he calls "the threat behind the spies, the threat that made them spy". His revenge begins in the second novel, "Live and Let Die", wherein he becomes highly interested in disrupting Mr. Big's financing of Soviet operations upon