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From Russia with Love (1963)

Approved  |   |  Action, Adventure, Thriller  |  27 May 1964 (USA)
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James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.

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Storyline

James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as Lektor. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil SPECTRE organization discovers it first. Whilst being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, whilst each SPECTRE agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald 'Red' Grant and ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb who knows all the tricks in the books and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe! Written by simon_hrdng

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Blast him! Seduce him! Bomb him! Strangle him! Target: The Unkillable James Bond 007. See more »


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27 May 1964 (USA)  »

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Bons baisers de Russie  »

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$2,000,000 (estimated)

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$24,800,000 (USA)
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Trivia

Tania is brunette in the book. In the film, she's blonde. See more »

Goofs

Near the beginning of the film, Bond gets out of a boat he is sharing with Sylvia Trench to answer a beeping pager. He takes his shirt and goes to his car to call M. Shortly after he places the call, Sylvia comes over and helps him with the shirt. During the call, he gets the shirt completely buttoned. The camera cuts away momentarily, and when it returns to the couple, the shirt is once again completely unbuttoned. During this time, Sylvia is actually trying to seduce Bond, UNBUTTONING the shirt as he takes the call. During the cutaway scene she does this. This is partly why he says "Make that an hour and a half". See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Morzeny: [after Grant kills a look-a-like Bond] Exactly one minute, fifty-two seconds. That's excellent.
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Crazy Credits

Martine Beswick is mis-credited as "Martin Beswick" in opening credits. See more »

Connections

Referenced in The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) See more »

Soundtracks

From Russia With Love
Title song written by Lionel Bart
Sung by Matt Monro
Music Conducted by Johnnie Spence (uncredited)
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The Best and the Brightest
8 August 1998 | by (London, England) – See all my reviews

A Bond film that stands out among all other films as well as the Bond films, From Russia With Love is filled with not only a heavy dose of nonstop action and adventure, but also an intelligent plot that commented heavily on the world state of affairs in 1963. Capitalist and Communists are set to work against each other by SPECTRE, an organization which does not give any special considerations to economic systems, but wishes to weaken the balance of world power and take control itself. The survival of the Bond films depended on their ability to change with the decades, and From Russia With Love is no exception. Great acting performances from not only Sean Connery, but Robert Shaw, Pedro Armendariz, and Lotte Lenya (the wife of Kurt Weill).


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