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) violence, wit, terrific action sequences, and colorful atmosphere ... Connery, Andress and Wiseman all give memorable performances. There's a slow stretch in the middle and Dr. No could use a decent henchman, but otherwise the film works marvelously." Describing "Dr. No" as "a different type of film", Peary notes that "Looking back, one can understand why it caused so much excitement." In 1999, it was ranked 41 on the BFI top 100 British films list compiled by the British Film Institute. The 2005 American Film Institute's '100 Years' series also recognised the character of James Bond himself in the film