 In 1954 CBS paid Ian Fleming $ 1 @,@ 000 to adapt Casino Royale into a one @-@ hour television adventure as part of its Climax ! series . The episode aired live on 21 October 1954 and starred Barry Nelson as secret agent " Card Sense " James ' Jimmy ' Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre . A brief tutorial on baccarat is given at the beginning of the show by the presenter of the programme , William Lundigan , to enable viewers to understand a game which was not popular in America at the time . For this Americanised version of the story , Bond is an American agent , described as working for " Combined Intelligence " , while the character Leiter from the original novel is British , renamed " Clarence Leiter " . The agent for Station S. , Mathis , does not appear as such ; his surname is given to the leading lady , named Valérie Mathis instead of Vesper Lynd . 
