Winner!
Yes Don it was Barry Nelson in 1954. The book was written in 1953 and Peter Lorre played Le Chiffre. Another strange thing about it was that the American CIA agent Leiters' first name was Clarence not Felix. I just got done watching the one hour made for TV movie and it had some neat scenes of old european style metal inlay plaques. Now there is a piece of movie memorabilia I would like to have. Send me your address and I will get the chip out to you.