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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this notoriously incoherent parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees to battle SMERSH's hold on the lavish Casino Royale only after organization head M is murdered. Also mixed up in the affair are several other secret agents, all named James Bond, played by everyone from Peter Sellers and Woody Allen to a chimpanzee. Despite a star-studded cast, a large production budget, and a hit score by Burt Bacharach, the film was universally panned as a muddled, overlong failure, with the occasional amusing sequence lost in the unintelligible surroundings. The participation of several screenwriters and five different directors, including John Huston, only adds to the confusion. |||| The movie opens at the country estate of Sir James Bond 007 (David Niven), a legendary British spy who retired from the secret service 50 years ago in 1917. He is visited by the head of British MI6, M (John Huston), CIA junior cipher clerk Ransome (William Holden), KGB labour camp inspector Smernov (Kurt Kasznar), and Deuxième Bureau vice detail Le Grand (Charles Boyer). Bond then insults Ransome's cyanide-spitting carnation, the armoury concealed in Smernov's grotesque boots, the different deadly poisons in each of Le Grand's fly buttons, and M's flame-throwing fountain pens. In the gardens, M and the others then get to the point of the visit: various agents around the world have disappeared and died because of the ruthless organization SMERSH.

Yet Bond abruptly leaves to play Debussy. As he plays, the men discuss that Bond retired after he lured Mata Hari, the famed exotic dancer and courtesan, to her untimely demise in front of a firing squad in France. When Bond returns and refuses, M gives Bond a letter from Windsor Castle to change his mind. Bond promptly declines once again and causes M to launch a military strike on the mansion. The mansion is blown up by the rockets and M is killed. At SMERSH headquarters, the head informs his henchmen that Bond has returned and they must proceed with Plan B in order to destroy his image. Bond travels to Scotland to return M's remains to the grieving "widow". All that was left of M was a toupee, which is dubbed a 'hairloom' by the "widow" Lady Fiona McTarry (Deborah Kerr). Lady Fiona is actually Agent Mimi, chosen to impersonate the widow since she has "the best Scots accent". During the wake, Bond has to fend off the advances of McTarry's many young "daughters". Bond is then invited to a ceremonial grouse shoot even though grouse are out of season. Lady Fiona explains, "Whenever a McTarry dies, the grouse come into season." That night, Bond handily defeats a gang of thugs in a cannonball throwing competition. Lady Fiona is so impressed with his victory she starts telling him in French that he is magnificent. The other SMERSH agents now doubt her loyalty and worry she has blown their cover, so they imprison her. The next morning is the grouse hunt, but the grouse turn out to be disguised flying bombs. Agent Mimi escapes and helps Bond to foil the attack by revealing that a magnetic button was placed on his jacket which lead the grouse bombs towards him. Agent Mimi and Bond launch the button back at the SMERSH agents who volley it back to them. After several such volleys, the button lands in the launch truck, destroying it. Mimi subsequently leaves to join a convent after asking Bond to think of her as the second woman in his life. Returning to London, Bond survives another attempt on his life. A car driven by a SMERSH agent blocks Bond's car from the front while the remote controlled dairy truck full of explosives chases behind him. The truck loses video contact with the SMERSH controllers. Bond passes the blocking car and escapes to safety within his compound, closing the gates behind him. When the gates close, the chasing car skids sideways up against the gates. The truck then crashes into the car and explodes.