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From Russia With Love (1963)

Director: Terence Young

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From Time Out Film Guide

Bond number two and probably the best of the lot, with a remarkably gritty, wittily exciting plot in which the international crime organisation SPECTRE implements a diabolically complex scheme, hatched by a chess grand master, designed to cause terminal deterioration in Cold War relations. Memorable for the brilliant pre-credits stalk, Lenya's lesbo sadist, Shaw's psycho assassin, the cat-and-mouse game on the Orient Express, and - by no means least - the enchanting Daniela Bianchi, so vividly alive by comparison with the plastic dollies later Bonds toyed with. To see the film again now is to see all too vividly the abject depths of mechanical mindlessness into which the series has been sinking.

Author: TM

Time Out Film Guide


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  • Technoguy said...
    Posted on Aug 12 2008 01:33 The best ever Bond film.The greatest fight scene ever
    with Shaw's blond assassin on the train.The Russian Kleb with the knife in her shoe.The scenes in Turkey
    and Venice.Connery at his peak.The series should have ended when Connery left.The heroine was a real
    woman and was so charming.
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