Hawks was interested but the director backed out after seeing an early print of Dr. So, when he acquired the film rights to Ian Fleming’s first 007 novel in the early 1960s, Feldman recognized it had commercial potential even as the film series produced by one-time associate Broccoli and Harry Saltzman was getting underway in 1962.įeldman tried to entice director Howard Hawks, his one-time colleague on Red River. He had produced films in a variety of genres such as 1948’s Red River (uncredited), 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire, 1955’s The Seven Year Itch and 1965’s What’s New Pussycat. Broccoli was one of his employees) turned producer, was nobody’s fool. Feldman’s Casino Royale, the producer’s 1967 send-up of 007.įeldman, one-time agent (Albert R.
April Fool’s Day is as good as any occasion to note this month marks the 55th anniversary of Charles K.
