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From Russia with Love (1963)
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Ian Fleming received a useful boost to his sales when President Kennedy listed From Russia with Love as one of his ten favourite books. It is also one of the most popular Bond movies and a terrific thriller in its own right, owing much to Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed's The Third Man in its marvellous atmosphere of foreign intrigue. Superbly shot on location in a pre-touristy Istanbul, and closely following Fleming's original story, the film has Sean Connery's spy duped into smuggling a top-secret communist decoding machine, plus blonde Russian diplomat Daniela Bianchi, from Turkey to the West via the Orient Express. Lotte Lenya is unforgettable as lesbian villain Rosa Klebb, and Robert Shaw is an impressive hitman who commits a terrible faux pas in front of 007 by ordering red wine with fish. AT
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Running time
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110min
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Country of origin
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UK
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Genre
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Spy Adventure
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, from the novel by Ian Fleming
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Theatrical distributor
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Econ Prods Ltd
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UK cinema certificate
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A
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UK cinema release date
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April 2009
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