05
May
It is the 70th anniversary of the publication of Casino Royale, the first novel by Ian Fleming, a former British intelligence agent, with which the Agent 007 saga began, followed by thirteen more books by him, including short stories. At Fleming's death in 1964, three of the saga had made it to the movies: The Satanic Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), both directed by Terence Young, and Goldfinger (1964), a charge of Boy Hamilton. The wealth of the author's family came from both the Robert Fleming & Co. bank and the Scottish American Investment Trust, so it…