As far as villains’ lairs go, the island hideout of Bond character Dr. No is the template from which many other fictional lairs followed. Dr. No was the first movie in the James Bond series. It’s got all the typical elements that any good villain needs:
- It’s an island in the Caribbean.
- It has a profit-generating guano plant.
- Walls of bare rock.
- Stolen masterpieces.
- Automatically opening doors.
- A staff of Chinese masseuses.
- Missile silo.
- Fish tanks built into the rock walls.
I’m doing this all off of memory right now, so I’m sure I’m forgetting something. Amazingly enough, the novel and film are very close. The movie doesn’t hit as hard on the guano aspect as the novel does.
