From Russia with Love (1963)

United Kingdom, United States of America

Action, Thriller, Adventure

United Artists, EON Productions, Danjaq

Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Bernard Lee

Terence Young

Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood

Taglines: The world's masters of murder pull out all the stops to destroy Agent 007!

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Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

Reviews:

Author: GenerationofSwine
I love this one... surprise, surprise, surprise. Everyone loves this one. I think if there were a true point of contest amongst die hard Bond fans it is From Russia With Love v Goldfinger for the best Bond film. Clearly I'm in the From Russia With Love camp, because it works as a serious spy thriller, it works as a Bond movie, it works as a dramatic thriller and it works as an action movie. It has enough character to be an extremely well made Bond film, and, for a second outing, nobody has done it better.