This adds extra significance to James' doomed wife, Tracy Bond (Diana Rigg), as his first true love in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Genre: Comedy Mystery James Bond Parody Spy Film Director. This also means that as far as James Bond's original movie canon is concerned, he never had his heart broken by Vesper Lynd. Bond, and in the casino topple the evil baccarat ace Le Chiffre, whose earnings support the SMERSH. Since this was Bond's canonical first meeting with Leiter in the movies, there's no way they met at the casino in Royale-les-Eaux, France. No, Bond had never met Felix Leiter (Jack Lord) before the CIA agent introduced himself at gunpoint to 007 in Jamaica. With Spectre, the 24th James Bond film, opening in theaters this week, Nathan Rabin examines the curious 1967 film Casino Royale, a curiously insane 007 spoof that boasts an incredible list of talent both behind and in front of the camera. This timeframe does nod to Casino Royale's 1953 publication date, which happened 9 years prior to Dr. Follow Nathan Rabin on Twitter: NathanRabin. No began, James Bond ( Sean Connery) was already one of the British Secret Service's top Double-0 agents for about a decade. No is canonically Bond's first movie appearance, the events of the inaugural 007 film set the stage for everything that followed - but did the events of Casino Royale occur off-screen anyway? The answer is probably not. Related: James Bond's Correct Movie Order (Based On The Books)