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) designed a highly stylised main title sequence, a theme that has been repeated in the subsequent Eon-produced Bond films. Binder's budget for the title sequence was £2,000 (£ in ). The character James Bond was introduced towards, but not at, the beginning of the film in a "now-famous nightclub sequence featuring Sylvia Trench", to whom he makes his "immortal introduction". The introduction to the character in "Le Cercle at Les Ambassadeurs", an upmarket gambling club, is derived from Bond's introduction in the first novel, "Casino Royale", which Fleming had used because "skill at gambling and knowledge of how to behave