From Russia With Love
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Actor: Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw, Sean ConneryBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Russian (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of From Russia With Love
Movie Review: Sean Connery at his best...
Summary: 5 Stars
From Russia with Love
The second movie featuring James Bond, Agent 007 of her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service continues to marvel audiences the world over. James Bond is a fictional character created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953 while he vacationed in his Jamaican property by the name of Golden-eye.
The James Bond movies capture the action and romance found in the books by the author and surfaced a world of espionage, gadgets, secret weapons, beautiful women and amazing cars. The success of Sean Connery created an image so powerful that still to today, it is thought as that of the best Bond character.
From Russia with Love dazzled audiences with an action packed film where Bond is sent to help Tatiana Romanova defect in Turkey. The organization introduced during the first film, SPECTRE is now resolved to avenge the killing of Dr. No.
The first few scenes are frightening for we see James Bond following and being followed by an assassin who captures and strangles Bond, using a garrote wire. We gasp but lights go on and we realize that it was not Bond after all, but an impersonator using a mask to make believe he is Bond as SPECTRE agents train to eliminate their nemesis, Agent 007, James Bond.
Robert Shaw is magnificent in the role of Red Grant who skillfully pursues Bond throughout this film with the intention of eliminating 007. The plot starts to unfold and we learn that Kronsteen, masterfully played by Vladek Sheybal, is a Chess player who plans to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from Russia and has thought of every variation to successfully accomplish his mission.
Rosa Klebb, played by Lotte Lenya, is given leadership of the mission and she selects Tatiana Romanova, beautifully played by Daniela Bianchi as the pawn that will capture Bond.
M reviews details with Bond, telling him that Romanova has voiced a desire to defect by contacting Section T in Turkey and that she has revealed enough details about the Lektor to make her believable, but Tatiana is actually following orders from Rosa Klebb.
Bond travels to Istanbul and is followed from the airport by Red Grant and the next day, the Kerim Bey's office is bombed, so Bond spies on the Soviets through a periscope that All Kerim Bey, a Turkish spy takes him under ground and shows to him how it has conveniently been placed to permit them to know what the Russians are up to.
All Kerim Bey is played by Mexican actor Pedro Armendariz, son of a Mexican and an American and cousin of famous actress Gloria Marin. Thanks to his mother, Mr. Armendariz learns to speak English from infancy, living with them in Texas and studying in California, where he graduates as an engineer but is discovered by an acting agent visiting Mexico and is one of the many Mexican actors that becomes famous throughout the Latin world and in Hollywood. His son, Pedro Armendariz Jr., who also became an actor, will later be seen in another James Bond movie; License to Kill.
Through the periscope, Kerim Bey sees Krilencu, a rival agent and both Kerim and James go to a gypsy camp where they get involved in the lover's fight of two jealous gypsy girls and get attacked by Krilencu's men. Kerim Bey kills Krilencu with Bond's sniper rifle and when Bond returns to his hotel he finds Romanova waiting for him, in bed.
During the next days, Bond follows the man who followed him at the airport but the man gets killed by Grant and when Bond finds the body, he discovers the floor plans for the Soviet consulate so he sets up a plan to steal the Lektor. They release gas through an explosion under the building and they escape with the Lektor on the Orient Express, but Grant is on the train with them!
Bond arranges for agent Nash to meet him but Grant intercepts and kills Nash and because he had overheard the pass words exchanged by Bond with another agent, he approaches Bond making believe he is Nash. During dinner, Grant makes the mistake of ordering red wine with fish and Bond starts to suspect him. Grant drugs Romanova at dinner and then, overcomes Bond telling him that while Romanova believes she is working for mother Russia, she is really working for SPECTRE.
Dr. No introduced Number 1 at SPECTRE as a mysterious character whose face is never seen and who is always carrying and playing with a beautiful Persian white with green eyes cat. The way he eliminates agents that displease him is interesting and we see him upset with Kronsteen because his plan has failed and we witness his execution with a poisoned spike in the toe of the shoes used by one of his agents. This very same spike in the toe will later be used by Klebb.
Much action ensues and finally Bond and Romanova reach Venice where Rosa Klebb, disguised as a hotel maid, tries to get the Lektor away from Bond. Without a doubt, one of the most memorable Bond films by Sean Connery.
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