James Bond is informed by M that a beautiful Soviet agent has fallen in love with him and wishes to defect. She promises to steal a valued decoding machine called the Lektor, which MI6 desperately wants. Bond is warned the scenario may be a trap, and indeed it is. Unbeknown to the 'defector', Tatiana Romanova, the Soviets and British are being used as pawns in an inspired scheme masterminded by SPECTRE. Tatiana is unaware that her immediate superior, Colonel Rosa Klebb, is actually working for SPECTRE. The plan is for Bond and Tatiana to steal the Lektor then be executed by assassin Red Grant. SPECTRE will then recover the machine and sell it back to the Soviets, embarrassing MI6 in the process and murdering Bond in the revenge for his killing of Dr. No.
Bond flies to Turkey to rendezvous with Tatiana and, with the assistance of local intelligence chief Kerim Bey, steals the Lektor and escapes aboard the Orient Express. On bard, however, is Red Grant. Grant kills Kerim, but is in turn strangled by 007 in a fierce hand-to-hand battle. Bond and Tatiana escape to Venice, destroying a SPECTRE motorboat fleet in the process. There, they are menaced by Rosa Klebb who makes a last-ditch attempt to recover the Lektor. Instead, she is killed by Tatiana, who now professes her genuine love for James Bond.
Review
Another Sean Connery classic, with stunning fight scenes and the introduction
of the ultimate female villain, Rosa Klebb. The film has more depth and long-lasting
appeal than 'Dr. No', and is another Bond film to go in the all time great
category.
10/10
2. From Russia
With Love
Official
video blurb
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Official website plot synopsis
Sean Connery returns as James Bond in this thrill-a-minute adventure with blistering action, romance and high-tech gadgetry. Boasting remarkable villains and exotic locales, it's a pulse-pounding experience that many fans consider to be the greatest Bond film of all.
The evil SPECTRE organization has hatched a plan to steal a decoder that will access Russian state secrets and irrevocably unbalance the world order. It is up to James Bond to seize the device first, but he must confront enemies that include Red Grant (Robert Shaw) and the ruthless Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), a former KGB agent with poison-tipped shoes. Even as Bond romances a stunning Soviet defector (Daniela Bianchi), he realizes he is being lured into a deadly trap, and he will need all of his courage, abilities and cutting-edge technology to triumph over the forces that seek to destroy him.
Dazzling highlights include a riveting
helicopter attack, a gypsy camp gun battle, and a bone-crunching brawl aboard
the Orient Express. From the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice,
From Russia With Love delivers slam-bang thrills laced with the humor and
sex appeal of Agent 007 himself.
Cast
Daniela Bianchi
as 'Tatiana Romanova'
Eunice Gayson as 'Sylvia
Trench'
Martine Beswick and Aliza
Gur as 'Vida and Zora' (The gypsy fighting girls)
Nadja Regin as 'Kerim's
girl'
Lotte Lenya as 'Rosa Klebb'
Robert Shaw as 'Donald
'Red' Grant'
Vladek Sheybal as 'Kronsteen'
Fred Haggerty as 'Krilencu'
Walter Gotell as 'Morzeny'
Anthony Dawson as 'Ernst Stavro Blofeld'
Pedro Armendariz as 'Kerim
Bey'
Bernard Lee as 'M'
Lois Maxwell as 'Miss
Moneypenny'
Desmond Llewelyn as 'Boothroyd'
Title song: 'From Russia With Love' performed by Matt Monro