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 (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