What brief fight scenes there are, towards the end, are somewhat crude and awkward, not surprising since it is a live broadcast. It's typical, however, of the limitations of the live television format from the fifties: two or three different small sets (rooms) are used for the entire show the action is slow, driven mainly by dialog, and it has the feel of a stage play, in three acts. ![]() Yep, we've definitely entered a Twilight Zone-type warped version of the Bond mythology. Completing the reversal on Fleming's original concept, Bond's buddy Leiter is a British agent (always an American CIA agent in the future films). In footage nearly lost, reflected in the muddy black-and-white presentation, we witness an historic first - the first TV or film incarnation of James Bond. Let's enter a dim, bygone alternate universe where James Bond was an American agent, strolling through a low-budget TV production adaptation of the Ian Fleming novel.
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