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) appeared in the novel "Live and Let Die", was based on a Jamaican fisherman who often took Fleming shark fishing. In "Dr. No", for the first time in the Bond novels, there is friction between Bond and M, brought about because Bond was nearly killed by the SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb in "From Russia, with Love". M orders Bond to use a new gun and sends him on a holiday assignment, which Bond resents. The writer Raymond Benson—who later wrote a series of Bond novels—sees M at his most authoritarian in "Dr. No", punishing Bond both in terms of stripping