The instrumental theme from the movie was a modest hit for Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (#27 on the Billboard Hot 100 #1 on the 'Easy Listening' charts) and probably is better known today than the movie itself is.Nearly 50 years later, Dusty Springfield's 'The Look of Love' still gets airplay on light rock stations, while Royale wallows in well-deserved obscurity, known primarily only by Bond fanatics.Niven taking over what was intended as a Sellers vehicle is the inverse of The Pink Panther. However, after Sellers left the film, material with David Niven was shot to wrap around Sellers' and Andress' material in which Niven became the main character. Billing Displacement: Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress get top billing as they were originally the stars of the film.And that's not even mentioning the cameos by the likes of Peter O'Toole or Geraldine Chaplin. All-Star Cast: A pretty big amount of household names here: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, John Huston, William Holden, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Jacqueline Bisset.Actor-Shared Background: One of the few times in her career Deborah Kerr played a Scot ( who's actually a Frenchwoman in disguise).Acting for Two: In the European French dub, Georges Aminel voiced both Le Chiffre and the bagpipe player.
