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Seen on: 06/17/2012 (rewatch)

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From Russia with Love (1963)

Directed by Terence Young

Action | Adventure | Thriller

Most recently watched by sleestakk, sensoria

Overview

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

Rated PG | Length 115 minutes

Actors

Sean Connery | Walter Gotell | Anthony Dawson | Robert Shaw | Barbara Jefford | Bernard Lee | Eunice Gayson | Lois Maxwell | Daniela Bianchi | Lotte Lenya | Francis de Wolff | George Pastell | Nadja Regin | Aliza Gur | Desmond Llewelyn | Martine Beswick | Eric Pohlmann | Vladek Sheybal | Michael Culver | Pedro Armendáriz | Bill Brandon | Peter Bayliss | Peter Madden | Andre Charisse | Bob Simmons | Hasan Ceylan | Alf Mangan | Fred Wood | Nusret Ataer | Neville Jason | Ernie Rice | Jim O'Brady | Hugo de Vernier | Peter Brayham | Victor Harrington | Elizabeth Counsell | Jan Williams | Nikki Van der Zyl | Moris Farhi | Dido Plumb | Bedri Çavusoglu | Fred Haggerty | Lisa Guiraut

Viewing Notes

The historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago did a special Fathers Day screening of James Bond films, so my sons and I decided to drive in to catch two of them. From Russia With Love was the second of the two we saw.

My friend Jay, who also attended, had never seen From Russia With Love. It was great that he got to experience it for the first time on film in a theatre!

The print was in great shape and it was a real treat to see this on the big screen, the way it was intended. From Russia With Love is one of my favorite Bond films; while it’s not perfect, it introduces a lot of the elements that were to become staples of every Bond film after that. It’s also a great hybrid between the vicious, cold, calculating Bond of the novels and Dr. No, and the more adventurous, softer Bond in later films.

My sons liked this one more than Dr. No naturally. One of my favorite scenes is the brutal hand-to-hand combat scene in the train car between Connery and Shaw. That fight scene is as raw and vicious as any fight in Bond films for years to come and can hold its own against even the more recent Casino Royale.

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