What is it, Bond?

Broccoli and what's-his-face knew how to write a screenplay. Do you remember when James Bond enters the undersea lair of Dr. No? (If you don't, turn away from this blaring screen and get yourself to a video store immediately.) And do you remember how Bond, after admiring - and astutely commenting upon the degree of artificial light within - Dr. No's magnified fish tank, proceeds to ascend the stairs to the dinner table and then pauses, just briefly, to admire a painting of the Doctor's? That very specific painting was a reproduction of Goya's "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington." What is most intriguing about the appearance of that painting on Crab Key is that its original was stolen from the National Gallery (in London, I think) in 1961. "Dr. No" was made in 1962, while the painting was still missing from the eyes of the real world. A brilliant reflection on the evil genius of art museum caper-ism, do you not think?

It would be a shame if a certain someone was correct in telling me that Dr. No was a capuchin in the first draft of the screenplay.