From Russia with Love (1963)

Director:

Terence Young

Writers:

Ian Fleming (novel)
Johanna Harwood (adaptation)

Release Date:

27 May 1964 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

The world's masters of murder pull out all the stops to destroy Agent 007!

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Title Written In Movie | Spy Gang | Market Place | Spy Hero | Double Agent

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination

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Cast

Sean Connery	...	James Bond
Daniela Bianchi	...	Tatiana Romanova
Pedro Armendáriz	...	Ali Kerim Bey (as Pedro Armendariz)
Lotte Lenya	...	Rosa Klebb
Robert Shaw	...	Donovan 'Red' Grant
Bernard Lee	...	M
Eunice Gayson	...	Sylvia Trench
Walter Gotell	...	Morzeny
Francis De Wolff	...	Vavra, the Gypsy Leader (as Francis de Wolff)
George Pastell	...	Train Conductor
Nadja Regin	...	Kerim's Girl
Lois Maxwell	...	Miss Moneypenny
Aliza Gur	...	Vida
Martine Beswick	...	Zora (also as Martin Beswick)
Vladek Sheybal	...	Kronsteen

Also Known As:

Ian Fleming's 'From Russia with Love' (UK) (complete title)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | Russian | Turkish

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Canada:G (Quebec) | Brazil:12 | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Iceland:12 | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | South Korea:15 | Ireland:PG | West Germany:12 (nf) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Finland:(Banned) (1964) | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (original rating) | Peru:14 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (original rating) | USA:GP (re-rating) (1971) | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | Finland:K-16 (re-rating) | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

"The Canals", Venice, Veneto, Italy

Company:

Danjaq

Trivia:

According to the book "Death of a President" (1964) by William Raymond Manchester, this was the last motion picture John F. Kennedy ever saw, on 20 November 1963, in the White House.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the chess tournament the white queen on the magnetic board is moved from F4 to E4. In the following shot it is back on F4.

Quotes:

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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)

Soundtrack:

From Russia With Love

The best Bond film in the series

In this James Bond film, the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organisation plans to steal a Lektor Decoding machine from the Russians by using a member of the Russian Cryptograph Section in Turkey and the British Secret Service. James Bond (agent 007) is sent to Istanbul in Turkey.

"From Russia with Love" the 2nd James Bond film is quite different from the first film "Dr No", but I still like a lot it because I think it is good to try new things in a Bond film, and it doesn't get too close to the first film. I also like the way the film focuses on the story and not too much on the action. The train scenes are also great in the film because you always know that something big is going to happen, in this case the famous intense fight between James Bond and Red Grant.

Another very important element in the film is the mysterious character only known as "Number One", head of the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organisation, you can't see his face and he is always stroking his fury white cat, I like this character because of the way he is depicted as the evil head of his organisation always trying to stop James Bond even though they don't meet face-to-face until sometime later in the series.

Overall, a great James Bond film, and this is definitely one of the best in the series. I would definitely recommend this Bond film.