James Bond's cinematic ties to the Caribbean began way back in 1962, when super-cool Sean Connery portrayed 007 in the first film in the James Bond series, Dr. No. Dr. No was filmed in Jamaica and made full use of the island's iconic locations and tropical atmosphere. It features one of the seminal and most unforgettable scenes in the history of the Bond series, when Ursula Andress, playing Honey Rider, emerged from the ocean in a white bikini, with a dive knife strapped to her waist, singing Underneath the Mango Tree. If Ursula Andress was calculus, teenage boys would have learned the subject overnight.
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