When a British agent vanishes in Jamaica, MI6 dispatches 007 to investigate, uncovering a plot to sabotage American rocket launches from a fortified island lair. On the trail he crosses paths with the shell-collecting beauty Honey Ryder and closes in on the reclusive, steel-handed Dr. No, a member of the sinister organization SPECTRE. Terence Young's film launched the most durable franchise in cinema and established the template whole: the gadgets, the martini, the exotic locales and Sean Connery's suave, dangerous incarnation of Ian Fleming's spy. Lean and atmospheric, it remains the cool, foundational blueprint for the Bond phenomenon.