Dr. No (soundtrack) Dr. No (soundtrack) Dr. No is the original soundtrack for the first James Bond film of the same name. Composer Monty Norman was selected by producer Albert R. Broccoli after Broccoli backed a musical of Norman's "Belle" or "The Ballad of Dr. Crippen" written by Wolf Mankowitz, a frequent collaborator with Norman and an original screenwriter for "Dr. No". Norman's only previous film score had been "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll" (1960). Norman traveled to Jamaica on the same chartered aircraft as the producers and many of the film's crew arriving on 14 January 1962. He met Chris Blackwell,
Dr. No (novel) It was the first Bond film in the Eon Productions series; Sean Connery portrayed Bond, with Joseph Wiseman as Doctor No and Ursula Andress as Honeychile Rider. Although the story follows the same general storyline, there are some changes: the film shows No to be an operative of the fictional crime organisation SPECTRE and his island fortress is nuclear-powered; No is killed not by the mountain of guano, but by drowning in reactor coolant. The novel was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in May 2008. The actor Toby Stephens played Bond, while No was played by David Suchet. Dr. No