 Binder's budget for the title sequence was £2,000 (£ in ).Monty Norman was invited to write the soundtrack because Broccoli liked his work on the 1961 theatre production "Belle", a musical about murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen.Norman was busy with musicals, and only agreed to do the music for "Dr. No" after Saltzman allowed him to travel along with the crew to Jamaica.