Trivia: Casino Royale was the only film where James Bond dies until the release of No Time to Die over 50 years later.
Trivia: Despite the long scene where they play each other at baccarat at the casino, Peter Sellers and Orson Welles were never on set at the same time. There are a number of theories ranging from stage fright to their alleged intense hatred of each other. (01:35:00)
Trivia: During the "torture of the mind" sequence, one of the bagpipers stops Peter Sellers and asks him if he is Richard Burton, to which Sellers responds, "No, I'm Peter O'Toole." The piper then says, "Then you're the finest man who ever breathed." The piper in question is Peter O'Toole in a cameo, and the exchange is a two-fold reference to the 1965 film "What's New Pussycat?", which starred both O'Toole and Sellers: first, Richard Burton had a cameo in that film and had a similarly surreal exchange with Peter O'Toole; and second, there is a dialogue between O'Toole and Sellers in that film where Sellers says O'Toole is the "finest man who ever breathed."
Trivia: While filming his first scene with Jacqueline Bisset, Peter Sellers fired a gun into her face. Although the weapon was loaded with blanks, the shards tore open Bisset's skin nevertheless, leaving blood pouring down her face. The noise of the shot also startled her so much that she dropped the bottle of champagne she was holding on her foot. Bisset would later call Sellers her worst leading man.
Answer: Given that this is a comedy, the thinking was probably "Well, we'll just blow up your retirement so you've got no choice but to come out of it."
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