Dr. No

James Bond’s first screen outing arrives with salt on its skin and a flawless piece of understatement. At Laughing Waters on Jamaica’s north coast, Honey Ryder rises from the sea carrying conch shells, singing “Underneath the Mango Tree” in a custom ivory bikini that became an instant film image, all sun, defiance and peril. The scene plays like a promise: glamour with a pulse, and danger waiting just beyond the surf. Near Ian Fleming’s Goldeneye, Bond and Quarrel watch her appear, and the film knows exactly how much to reveal. Not much. That is enough.