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The Three Blind Mice are professional assassins working for Dr. Julius No and supporting antagonists in the 1962 film, Dr. No. They pretended to be blind as a ruse in order to deflect attention. They have become known as "The Three Blind Mice" because of the song that accompanies them on the film's soundtrack and were the first characters to appear in the James Bond film series. They were portrayed by Eric Coverley, Charles Edghill and Henry Lopez.
Novel biography[]
The three blind assassins are sent to the Queen's Club, and when John Strangways leaves during a card game to order some drinks when in fact, he leaves to contact Regent's Park over the radio transmitter. Strangways is apparently fooled by their ruse, and deposits some coins into their tin cups, presumably feeling sorry for their handicapped states. The assassins thank him for it in a manner expected of natives ("Bless you, Father"), but proceed to shoot him in between the shoulders, in the back, and in the pelvis. They place his body in a car, and later kills his secretary, Mary Trueblood. They later burn the documents gathered by Strangways, and place him and Trueblood’s bodies in a coffin together.
After James Bond defeats Dr. No and finds Honey Ryder, Bond hears the assassins approach him through the main tunnel. Suspecting they are the ones that killed Strangways, Bond feels forced to kill them in self-defence. When the blind gangsters approach them, Bond kills each of them in the head, in the stomach, and in the neck, mirroring the manners in which they killed Strangaways.
Film biography[]
When R. J. Dent tells Dr. No that John Strangways has found radioactive bits of rock from Crab Key, he orders the Three Blind Mice to kill Strangways and his secretary Mary Trueblood. They move along, pretending to be blind and as they made to Strangways' location, Strangways politely gives them a quarter and as soon as he opened his door, they shoot him with suppressed guns (Two M1911s and one a Walther P38). After they get the body away, they move on Strangways' secretary and soon remove the files about Crab Key and Dr. No.
The Three Blind Mice are also sent to kill James Bond when Mr. Jones fails to do so. They wait for him at his hotel, but they are thwarted by the arrival of a car.
"I think they were on their way to a funeral".
When Miss Taro asks Bond to come up to her house, it is a trap so that the Blind Mice can kill him. In a dramatic car chase, Bond outsmarts the Mice, who drive over a cliff to their deaths.
Trivia[]
- The Three Blind Mice are the first characters to appear onscreen in any Eon Bond film.
- The actors and characters are unnamed in both the film and its credits. The James Bond Encyclopedia recently released the names of all three actors of the Three Blind Mice as well as their Hearse Driver: Eric Coverley (1st Beggar), Charles Edghill (2nd Beggar), Henry Lopez (3rd Beggar) and Adrian Robinson (Hearse Driver).
- The book describes the three as "Chigroes", which was an outmoded term at the time used to describe people with one black parent and one Chinese parent. The film does not elaborate on their heritage, which may suggest each member of the trio was full-blooded Black.
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