From Russia With Love (1964)
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Critic Consensus: The second James Bond film, From Russia with Love is a razor-sharp, briskly-paced Cold War thriller that features several electrifying action scenes.
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Cast
as James Bond
as Tatiana Romanova
as Donald Grant
as Rosa Klebb
as Kerim Bey
as Sylvia Trench
as Kronsteen
as Morzeny
as Vida
as Zora
as M
as Miss Moneypenny
as Kerim's Girl
as Vavra
as Train Conductor
as Vida
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
as Belly Dancer
as Foreign Agent
as Krilencu
as Chauffeur
as Benz
as Tempo
as McAdams
as Rhoda
as Boothroyd
as Masseuse
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Critic Reviews for From Russia With Love
All Critics (52) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (2) | DVD (11)
The film lacks the exotic, colourful flamboyance of the best of its successors. So shoot me.
Sophisticated? Well, not really. But fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed.
From Russia with Love is a preposterous, skillful slab of hardhitting, sexy hokum.
For my money, still the best Bond, with a screwball plotline that keeps the locales changing and the surprises coming.
007 is very much with us again, and anyone who hasn't yet got to know him is urged to do so right away!
Standing at the pinnacle of the series, From Russia with Love shows how good a Bond film can be when all the ingredients mesh.
Audience Reviews for From Russia With Love
Manages to build upon the strengths of it's predecessor (Dr. No) while also laying down the seeds of the classic "Bond formula" (Opening theme song, mission briefs from M, gadgets, Bond girls). Connery continues to kill it as James Bond in this excellent Cold War-thriller that almost approaches the level of Hitchcock at times, especially in Bond's confrontation with Red Grant. Speaking of Red Grant, the villains are also better this time around. Both Robert Shaw and Lotte Lenya turn in excellent and memorable performances. If I had to pick a drawback, it's that I found Tatiana to be a pretty dull character and didn't showcase much personality outside of being eye-candy.
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This film has everything that was great about the first bond film, and more. The plot is wiser, the characters have more to do, the action is much more developed, and the character-to-character dialogue scenes are some of the most intense scenes I have ever seen in a movie. This film does everything to perfection, and what I love so much about these films is how easily each cast member can work with each other. They all feel so comfortable. I have no complaints about this film, besides a few characters that were brought up, but left out until then end of the film, but every movie can be poked at. "From Russia With Love" is a stunning Bond feature!
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The best of the lot: the most perfectly realised on the screen and the truest to Fleming. As with Dr. No, the location photography here in the main favours the gritty over the travelogue pretty, a trend the series would regrettably begin to move away from with the very next film, Goldfinger. Terence Young's direction has a sure-footedness and confidence that was entirely lacking in his earlier effort and Robert Shaw's psychopathic SPECTRE agent is still the best henchman to have graced the Bond franchise.
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From Russia With Love Quotes
| James Bond: | Red wine with fish. Well that should have told me something. |
| Red Grant: | You may know the right wines, but you're the one on your knees. How does it feel old man? |
| Tania Romanova: | But, there are some English customs that are going to be changed. |
| James Bond: | But of course darling. |
| James Bond: | Suppose when we meet in the flesh, I don't come up to her expectations. |
| M: | Just see that you do. |
| James Bond: | Your Lips are perfect... For me that is... |
| James Bond: | Your Lips are perfect. For me that is... |
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