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 (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,