Dr. No (film) 2005, it was honoured as the 22nd greatest quotation in cinema history by the American Film Institute as part of their 100 Years Series. Monty Norman was invited to write the soundtrack because Broccoli liked his work on the 1961 theatre production "Belle", a musical about murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen. Norman was busy with musicals, and only accepted to do the music for "Dr. No" after Saltzman allowed him to travel along with the crew to Jamaica. The most famous composition in the soundtrack is the "James Bond Theme", which is heard in the gunbarrel sequence and in a calypso
Dr. No (film) just over $5 billion in box office returns alone, making the series one of the highest-grossing ever. It is estimated that since "Dr. No", a quarter of the world's population have seen at least one "Bond" film. "Dr. No" also launched a successful genre of "secret agent" films that flourished in the 1960s. The UK Film Distributors' Association have stated that the importance of "Dr. No" to the British film industry cannot be overstated, as it, and the subsequent "Bond" series of films, "form the backbone of the industry". "Dr. No" – and the "Bond" films in general – also