 There is a longstanding rumor that in the early drafts of the  script, Dr. No turned out to be a monkey. When first approached by  Albert R. Broccoli (qv) and Harry Saltzman (qv), screenwriters  Wolf Mankowitz (qv) and Richard Maibaum (qv) discarded most of  the source material and wrote a story treatment about a shipping  magnate called Buchwald attempting to blow up the Panama Canal. Dr.  No was a monkey god worshiped on the island, and the villain kept a  capuchine monkey as a pet. Broccoli and Saltzman told them to try  again and this time stick more closely to the source material. Wolf  Mankowitz was dissatisfied with the script and had his name removed  from the credits. Mankowitz later co