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From Russia with Love

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• Crime/detective
• Thriller

• 1963
• Terence Young
• 110 mins
• PG

Summary

Spy adventure starring Sean Connery. James Bond is sent to Istanbul to help a Russian defect to the West with an important cipher machine. However, he is unaware that he is being drawn into a trap laid by criminal organisation Spectre.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

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, along with alluring Russian clerk Daniela Bianchi, from Turkey to the West via the Orient-Express. Lotte Lenya is unforgettable as 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.

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7.3/10

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Cast

rolenameJames BondSean ConneryTatiana RomanovaDaniela BianchiKerim BeyPedro ArmendárizRosa KlebbLotte LenyaRed GrantRobert Shaw"M"Bernard LeeSylvia TrenchEunice GaysonMorzenyWalter GotellMiss MoneypennyLois MaxwellVavraFrancis De WolffMajor BoothroydDesmond LlewelynTrain conductorGeorge PastellKerim's girlNadja ReginZoraMartine BeswickKronsteenVladek SheybalKrilencuFred HaggertyBelly dancerLeila Foreign agentHasan CeylanRolls chauffeurNeville JasonVidaAlizia Gur

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rolenameDirectorTerence Young

Details

Theatrical distributor

Park Circus

Released on

2009-04-24

Languages

English | English | Russian | Italian | French | Turkish

Guidance

violence

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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