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 (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