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Présentation: Un des premiers films de la longe série de sagas de James Bond, mettant en vedette Sean Connery à une époque où les films d'espionnage étaient de véritables spécialités réalistes et élégantes à la fois. On ne voit d'ailleurs plus cela dans les versions modernes de James Bond à tel point que le public lui-même se détache depuis quelques années des dernières versions qui comportent trop d'effets spéciaux préfabriqués, informatisés à l'extrême et insipides.

Ce film est une superbe réussite d'une autre époque et fait partie de tout coffret de collection pour amateurs cherchant des oeuvres originales. Cette version, disponible dans les magasins à rayons et les grandes surfaces propose une restoration d'images complète et l'ajout d'un audio dolby 5.1. Une réussite, à se procurer immédiatement. 8/10

(Selon Wikipédia) Bons baisers de Russie (From Russia with Love) est un film britannique réalisé par Terence Young, sorti en 1963 faisant partie de la série James Bond.

Synopsis
Le MI6 reçoit un message d'une secrétaire russe du consulat soviétique à Istanbul, Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi), leur proposant de leur apporter un décodeur top secret appelé Lektor, à condition qu'on l'aide à fuir à l'ouest. En réalité, elle a été engagée sans le savoir par Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), membre important du SPECTRE et ancien colonel du KGB, afin d'éliminer James Bond (Sean Connery), qui est la cause de la chute d'un de leurs meilleurs éléments, le docteur No (voir James Bond contre Docteur No).
James Bond est donc envoyé à Istanbul où il prend contact avec l'agent local du MI6, Kerim Bey (Pedro Armendariz). Avec son aide, il parvient à contacter la secrétaire en question et à s'emparer du Lektor. Prenant l'Orient Express en direction de l'ouest, Bond accompagné de Tatiana et Kerim Bey ne se doutent pas qu'ils sont suivis par Red Grant (Robert Shaw), un tueur à la solde du SPECTRE chargé d'éliminer Bond. Il tue d'abord Kerim Bey puis, à l'escale de Zagreb, se présente à 007 et lui dit être le contact du MI6 qui doit l'aider à passer la frontière yougoslave.
Lors du dîner, dans l'Orient Express, il commence d'abord par droguer Tatiana en versant un somnifère dans son vin. Puis, après que les deux hommes ont ramené la Soviétique à sa cabine, il assomme Bond. Lorsque celui-ci se réveille, Grant lui déclare qu'il travaille pour le SPECTRE, qu'il l'exécutera puis qu'il ramènera le Lektor à son organisation. Bond lui propose 50 souverains d'or, cachés dans sa valise, contre sa vie sauve. Mais la valise est piégée, et du gaz lacrymogène en sort au moment où le tueur à gages tente de l'ouvrir. Bond en profite pour se jeter sur lui et, après une rude bataille, parvient à le tuer.
Au petit matin, le train s'arrête en pleine campagne. Bond et Tatiana, toujours à moitié endormie, en sortent et l'agent secret parvient à s'emparer du camion devant récupérer Grant après son forfait. Le SPECTRE tente alors par tous les moyen de l'arrêter, d'abord en essayant d'intercepter le camion, puis en l'attaquant en pleine mer alors qu'il tente de rejoindre Venise en canot à moteur. Tout se termine cependant à l'avantage de Bond.
À l'hôtel de Venise où Bond et Tatiana peuvent enfin se relaxer, ils sont cette fois attaqués par Rosa Klebb elle-même, déguisée en femme de chambre et qui a décidé de prendre les choses en main. Chacune de ses chaussures contient une lame à cran d'arrêt recouverte de poison. Elle tente de piquer Bond mais Tatiana l'abat à coup de pistolet avant qu'elle ne parvienne à ses fins. Le film se termine alors que Bond et Tatiana s'embrassent, bien installés dans une gondole vénitienne.
Fiche technique
* Titre : Bons baisers de Russie
* Titre original : From Russia with Love
* Réalisation : Terence Young
* Scénario : Richard Maibaum, d'après le roman Échec à l'Orient-Express de Ian Fleming adapté par Johanna Harwood
* Musique : John Barry, d'après le thème de Monty Norman (non crédité)
* Chanson titre : Lionel Bart chantée par Matt Monro
* Direction artistique : Syd Cain
* Costumes : Jocelyn Rickards, Eileen Sullivan et Ernie Farrer
* Maquillage : Basil Newall et Paul Rabiger
* Coiffures : Eileen Warwick
* Photographie : Ted Moore (en)
* Ingénieurs du son : John W. Mitchell et C. le Messurier
* Effets spéciaux : John Stears et Frank George
* Montage : Peter Hunt
* Montage sonore : Norman Wanstall et Harry Miller
* Créateurs du générique : Robert Brownjohn et Trevor Bond
* Société de production : Eon Productions Limited
* Producteurs : Harry Saltzman et Albert R. Broccoli
* Distributeur : United Artists
* Budget : 2 500 000 $
* Format : Couleurs (Technicolor) - 1,66:1 pour l'Europe et 1,85:1 pour les États-Unis - Mono (Westrex Recording System) - 35 mm
* Genre : Action, espionnage
* Durée : 1h50
* Pays d'origine : Royaume-Uni Royaume-Uni
* Date de sortie :
o Royaume-Uni Royaume-Uni : 10 octobre 1963
o France France : 30 juillet 1964
* Box-office mondial Monde : 78 900 000 $
Distribution
* Sean Connery (VF : Jean-Pierre Duclos) : James Bond
* Daniela Bianchi (VF : Nathalie Nerval) : Tatiana Romanova
* Pedro Armendáriz (VF : André Valmy) : Kerim Bey
* Lotte Lenya (VF : Lita Recio) : Rosa Klebb
* Robert Shaw (VF : Roger Rudel) : Donald 'Red' Grant
* Bernard Lee (VF : Serge Nadaud) : M
* Desmond Llewelyn (VF : Jean Ozenne) : Major Boothroyd
* Eunice Gayson (VF : Nicole Favart) : Sylvia Trench
* Walter Gotell (VF : Henry Djanik) : Morzeny
* Francis De Wolff : Vavra, le leader des bohémiens
* George Pastell : Conducteur de train
* Nadja Regin (VF : Anna Fournet) : La fille de Kerim
* Lois Maxwell (VF : Paule Emanuele) : Miss Moneypenny
* Aliza Gur : Vida
* Martine Beswick (VF : Danièle Ajoret) : Zora
* Vladek Sheybal (VF : Howard Vernon) : Kronsteen
Autour du film
* Première apparition de Desmond Llewelyn dans le rôle du responsable de l'équipement. Le personnage, déjà vu brièvement dans James Bond 007 contre Dr. No, ne sera appelé « Q » qu'à partir de Goldfinger.
* Fourni par Q, l'attaché-case est le premier gadget utilisé dans un film de James Bond. Il fera de la section Q un élément crucial de la série.
* Pendant le tournage, les médecins diagnostiquèrent un cancer à l'acteur mexicain Pedro Armendariz (qui joue le rôle de Ali Kerim Bey, l'agent du MI6 en poste à Istanbul). Malgré une santé de plus en plus précaire, et au prix d'un aménagement du calendrier de travail, il alla au bout du tournage mais se donna la mort dans sa chambre d'hôpital de Los Angeles quelques semaines seulement avant la sortie du film. Son fils Pedro Armendáriz Jr. apparaît dans le James Bond Permis de tuer en 1989.
* En 2005, cet opus bondien a eu droit à une adaptation en jeu vidéo.
* Walter Gotell, qui interprète Morzeny dans le film, sera par la suite le général Gogol dans six autres films de Bond.
* Pour la rencontre entre Bond et Tatiana devant les caméras cachées du SPECTRE, Bianchi était vêtue de collants couleur chair et Bond d'une serviette de bain. Par considération pour son actrice, Young demanda à toute l'équipe de quitter le plateau, ne gardant avec lui que le personnel essentiel.
* La séquence des égouts dans lesquels Bond, Tatiana et Bey sont pourchassés par des centaines de rats, représentait un réel défi pour l'équipe du film. En effet, la loi britannique leur interdisant d'utiliser des rats sauvages dans le film, ils se servirent de rongeurs blancs apprivoisés et recouverts de cacao, mais leur idée échoua car les rongeurs léchaient ce dernier. Young et une partie de l'équipe se rendirent à Madrid où ils purent tourner cette scène avec deux cents rats rassemblés par un chasseur de rongeurs local.
* La course poursuite en hors-bord a été tournée sur la côte de Pendik en Turquie. L'équipe du film dut faire face à bien des contretemps :
o Les hors-bords calaient sans arrêt car les assistants avaient déversé du kérosène dans les réservoirs d'essence tandis que l'actrice Daniela Bianchi (Tatiana) souffrait du mal de mer. En moyenne, l'équipe obtenait 30 secondes d'images utilisables sur une journée de 13 heures.
o Ces difficultés obligèrent le réalisateur Terence Young à quitter Pendik. La fin de la course-poursuite fut donc tournée quelques semaines plus tard sur les côtes écossaises. Là, les cascades en bateau furent coordonnées par Peter Twiss, un ancien pilote de la Royal Air Force, qui fut le premier Britannique à dépasser le mur du son.
* La chanson du film From Russia With Love chantée par Matt Monro est dans la version française interprétée par l'acteur et chanteur suédois Bob Askolf sous le titre Bons baisers de Russie.
* Sur une photographie de Tatiana Romanova qu'il remet à Moneypenny, James Bond y inscrit la phrase From Russia with Love.
Lieux de l'action
* Istanbul, Turquie
* Train Orient-Express
* Yougoslavie
* Venise, Italie
Lieux de tournage
* Écosse, Royaume-Uni (scènes d'hélicoptères)
* Istanbul, Turquie, en particulier à Hagia Sophia
* Studios Pinewood, près de Londres, Royaume-Uni
* Venise, Italie
Récompenses
* Prix de la meilleure photographie lors de la British Society of Cinematographers 1963.
* Prix de la meilleure photographie lors des BAFTA Awards 1964.
* Nomination au Golden Globe de la meilleure chanson (Lionel Bart, pour From Russia with Love) en 1965.

From Russia with Love (1963) is the second in the James Bond spy film series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr. No.
In addition to filming on location in Turkey, the action scenes were shot both in Scotland and Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire. From Russia with Love was a critical and commercial success, outgrossing its predecessor Dr. No with over $78 million in worldwide box office. It is considered by many as the best film in the James Bond series.

In a mansion garden at night, James Bond is seen alternately stalking and being stalked by a tall, blond assassin. Bond is captured and strangled violently to death by a man named Red Grant, using a garrote wire. Suddenly, floodlights switch on and the dead person turns out to be a man wearing a Bond mask, in a scenario that completes a SPECTRE training exercise.
Kronsteen, a chess grandmaster, and SPECTRE's expert planner, has devised a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No. Ex-SMERSH operative Rosa Klebb is put in charge of the mission by the megalomaniac Number 1. She has already chosen a pawn: Tatiana Romanova, a cypher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. Klebb departs to SPECTRE Island, the organisation's secret training base, where she assigns Grant to be the assassin.
In London, M tells Bond that Romanova has contacted their "Station 'T'" in Turkey, offering to defect with a Lektor, which MI6 and the CIA have been after for years. She has said that she will only defect to Bond, whose photo she has allegedly found in a Soviet intelligence file. In fact she is following orders from Klebb, who pretends she is still working for SMERSH and that this is a SMERSH deception.
Bond flies to Istanbul to meet station head Ali Kerim Bey. He is followed from the airport by an unkempt man in glasses and by Red Grant. The next day, after Kerim Bey's office is bombed, Bond and Kerim Bey spy on the Soviet consulate using a periscope from an underground tunnel beneath the consulate. Seeing rival agent Krilencu, Kerim Bey takes Bond to a rural gypsy settlement, where Kerim Bey plans to lie low while deciding how to deal with Krilencu. While two jealous gypsy girls fight over a lover, the camp is attacked by Krilencu's men. From concealment Red Grant saves Bond's life from Krilencu's men. Although he is wounded in the attack, Kerim Bey kills Krilencu the next night with Bond's sniper rifle. When Bond returns to his hotel suite, he finds Romanova in bed waiting for him, unaware that they are being filmed by Grant and Klebb.
The next day, Romanova heads off for a pre-arranged rendezvous at Hagia Sophia. Bond follows her and stalks the bespectacled man who had followed him at the airport. The man attempts to intercept Romanova's floor plan of the Soviet consulate, but he is killed by Grant. When Bond finds the body, he takes the floor plan. Kerim Bey and Bond set up a plan to steal the Lektor and smuggle it back to Britain. On the appointed day, Bond enters the consulate lobby. Kerim Bey then sets off an explosion under the building, which releases tear gas. In the resulting chaos, Bond finds Romanova and escapes with the Lektor on the Orient Express. Kerim Bey and a Soviet security officer named Benz, who spots Romanova, also board the train, but Grant later kills both of them, making it appear as if they killed each other.
The train crosses southern-central Europe to Belgrade. There Bond arranges for agent Nash from "Station 'Y'" to meet him at Zagreb. When the train stops, Grant finds and kills Nash. Grant boards the train once again, meeting Bond as Nash. He drugs Romanova at dinner, then overcomes Bond. Grant taunts him, boasting SPECTRE has been pitting the Soviets and the British against each other. He also claims that Romanova thinks that "she's doing it all for mother Russia" when she is really working for SPECTRE. Grant also mentions the film that he and Klebb took of Bond and Romanova at the hotel suite, saying that after he kills both of them, he'll plant it in her handbag along with a forged blackmail letter so it looks like it was a murder-suicide.
Bond tricks Grant into opening Bond's attaché case, which releases tear gas. In the ensuing struggle, Bond eventually manages to stab Grant with the knife hidden in the attaché case, and strangles Grant to death with his own garrote. At dawn, Bond and Romanova leave the train, hijack Grant's getaway truck, destroy an enemy helicopter, and drive to a dock, eventually boarding a powerboat.
Number 1 is very unhappy, and summons Kronsteen and Klebb. He reminds them that SPECTRE does not tolerate failure; they blame each other. Number 1 promptly brings in Morzeny to then execute Kronsteen with a poisoned spike in the toe of his shoe. Number 1 tells a frightened Klebb that she has one last chance.
Klebb sends Morzeny after Bond with a squadron of SPECTRE's boats. When stray bullets puncture several barrels of fuel stored on his boat, Bond throws them overboard. Pretending to surrender, he fires a signal flare into the fuel, engulfing all the enemy boats in flames.
Bond and Romanova reach Venice and check into a hotel. Rosa Klebb, disguised as a maid, attempts to steal the Lektor. In the climax, Klebb gets the drop on Bond, and holds him at gunpoint but the gun is knocked away by Romanova. Klebb releases her poisoned toe-spike, but Bond pins her to the wall with a dining chair. Romanova grabs the gun and shoots Klebb dead. Riding in a gondola, Bond throws the film of him and Romanova into the water, and they sail away.
[edit] Cast
* Sean Connery as James Bond: Secret Intelligence Service Agent. Also known as 007.
* Daniela Bianchi as Tatiana Romanova (voiced by Barbara Jefford):[1] Soviet Embassy clerk and Bond's love interest. Fleming based Romanova on Christine Granville.[2]
* Pedro Armendáriz as Ali Kerim Bey: British Intelligence Station Chief in Istanbul.
* Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb: Main villain and ex-SMERSH Colonel, now Chief Operations Officer for SPECTRE.
* Robert Shaw as Red Grant: Cunning SPECTRE assassin and one of the principal Bond enemies.
* Bernard Lee as M: Chief of British Intelligence.
* Walter Gotell as Morzeny: SPECTRE thug who trains personnel on SPECTRE Island.
* Vladek Sheybal as Kronsteen: Chess grand-master and Chief Planning Officer for SPECTRE.
* "?" (anonymous credit for Anthony Dawson (body) and Eric Pohlmann (voice) as "Number 1" (Ernst Stavro Blofeld): Chief of SPECTRE and Bond's nemesis.
* Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary.
* Desmond Llewelyn as Major Boothroyd: Head of 'Q' Section (British Intelligence gadgetry department).
* Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench: Bond's semi-regular girlfriend.
* Francis de Wolff as Vavra: Chief of a Gypsy tribe used for dirty work by Kerim Bey
* George Pastell as The Orient Express Train Conductor that informs James Bond of Kerim Bey's death.
* Fred Haggerty as Krilencu: A Bulgarian assassin who works as a killer for the Soviets in The Balkans.
* Aliza Gur and Martine Beswick as Vida and Zora, respectively: Two jealous Gypsy girls who are disputing the same man.
* Nadja Regin as Kerim Bey's lonely girlfriend.
The film features the first appearance of Desmond Llewelyn as Major Boothroyd, known as Q, the character he would play in all but two of the series' films until his death in 1999. However, screen credit for Llewelyn was omitted at the opening of the film and is reserved for the exit credits, where he is credited simply as 'Boothroyd'. Llewelyn's character is not referred to by this name in dialogue, nor is he addressed as 'Q' (although M does introduce him as being from Q Branch.)
The Boothroyd/Q character appeared in the previous film, Dr. No. In this appearance, he was portrayed by actor Peter Burton, and addressed by M initially as "Armourer," and as Major Boothroyd by Bond.
[edit] Production
As President John F. Kennedy had named Fleming's novel From Russia with Love among his ten favorite books of all time in Life magazine,[3] producers Broccoli and Saltzman chose this as the follow-up to the cinematic debut of Dr. No. From Russia with Love was the last film President Kennedy saw at the White House on 20 November 1963 before going to Dallas.[4]
Ian Fleming's novel was a Cold War thriller, however the producers named the crime syndicate SPECTRE instead of the Soviet undercover agency SMERSH so as to avoid controversial political overtones.[3] The SPECTRE training grounds were inspired by the film Spartacus.[5]
The film introduced several conventions which would become essential elements of the franchise: a pre-title sequence, the Blofeld character (referred in the film only as "Number 1"), a secret weapon gadget for Bond, a helicopter sequence (repeated in every subsequent Bond film except The Man with the Golden Gun), a postscript action scene after the main climax, a theme song with lyrics, and the line "James Bond will return/be back" in the credits.
[edit] Casting
Although uncredited, the actor who played Ernst Stavro Blofeld was Anthony Dawson, who had played Professor Dent in the previous Bond film, Dr. No. In the end credits, Blofeld is credited with a question mark. Blofeld's voice was provided by Viennese actor Eric Pohlmann.[3] It is rumoured that author and James Bond creator Ian Fleming has a cameo appearance, in a location train scene, standing outside the train in grey trousers and a white sweater.[6]
Many actresses were considered for the role of Tatiana, including Sylva Koscina, Virna Lisi, and Annette Vadim, with 1960 Miss Universe runner-up Daniela Bianchi being ultimately cast, supposedly by Sean Connery's choice. Bianchi started taking English classes for the role, but the producers ultimately chose to dub her voice over.[7] The scene in which Bond finds Tatiana in his hotel bed was used for Daniela Bianchi's screen test, with Dawson standing in, this time, as Bond.[3] The scene later became the traditional screen test scene for prospective James Bond actors. This screen test forms part of the Ultimate Edition DVD series, showing potential candidates auditioning for the role down the years: James Brolin, Sean Bean, and Sam Neill along with future 007 Pierce Brosnan. The scene has also been used to audition several James Bond leading ladies, including Maryam D'Abo and Maud Adams.[8][9]
Katina Paxinou was originally considered for the role of Rosa Klebb, but was unavailable. Terence Young cast Lotte Lenya after hearing one of her musical recordings. Young wanted Kronsteen's portrayer to be "an actor with a remarkable face", so the minor character would be well remembered by audiences. This led to the casting of Vladek Sheybal, who Young also considered convincing as an intellectual.[5] Several women were tested for the roles of Vida and Zora, and after Aliza Gur and Martine Beswick were cast, they spent six weeks practicing their fight choreography with stunt work arranger Peter Perkins.[10]
Pedro Armendáriz was recommended to Young by director John Ford to play Kerim Bey. After experiencing increasing discomfort on location in Istanbul, Armendáriz was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Filming in Istanbul was terminated, the production moved to Britain, and Armendáriz's scenes were brought forward so that he could complete his scenes without delay. Though visibly in pain, he continued working as long as possible. When he could no longer work, he returned home, and took his own life.[3] Remaining shots after Armendáriz left London had a stunt double and Terence Young himself as stand-ins.[1]
Joe Robinson was a strong contender for the role of Red Grant but it was given to Robert Shaw.[11] Shaw built himself up for the role and wore lifts to give him height.[12]
[edit] Filming
Most of the film was set in Istanbul, Turkey. Locations included the Basilica Cistern, Hagia Sophia, and the Sirkeci Station which also was used for the Belgrade and Zagreb railway stations. The MI6 office in London, SPECTRE Island, the Venice hotel and the interior scenes of the Orient Express were filmed at Pinewood Studios with some footage of the train. In the film, the train journey was set in Eastern Europe. The journey and the truck ride were shot in Argyll, Scotland and Switzerland. The end scenes for the film were shot in Venice.[3] However, to qualify for the British film funding of the time, at least 70% of the film had to have been filmed in Great Britain or the Commonwealth.[13] The gypsy camp was also to be filmed in an actual camp in Topkapi, but was actually shot in a replica of it in Pinewood.[7] The scene with rats (after the theft of the Lektor) was shot in Spain, as Britain did not allow filming with wild rats, and filming white rats painted in cocoa didn't work.[14]
Director Terence Young's eye for realism was evident throughout production. For the opening chess match, Kronsteen wins the game with a reenactment of Boris Spassky's victory over David Bronstein in 1960.[15] Production Designer Syd Cain built up the "chess pawn" motif in his $150,000 set for the brief sequence.[7] A noteworthy gadget featured was the attaché case issued by the Q-Branch. It had a tear gas bomb that detonated if it was improperly opened, a folding AR-7 sniper rifle with twenty rounds of ammunition, a throwing knife, and 50 gold sovereigns. A boxer at Cambridge, Young choreographed the fight between Grant and Bond along with stunt co-ordinator Peter Perkins. The scene took three weeks to film and was violent enough to worry some on the production. Yet Robert Shaw and Connery did most of the stunts themselves.[1][3] The fact that there was not as much light thrown on gadgets and vehicles as in future films has been critically appreciated, since it benefitted the storyline.
After the unexpected loss of Armendariz, production proceeded, experiencing complications from rewriting by Richard Maibaum during filming. Editor Peter Hunt set about editing the film while key elements were still to be filmed, helping to restructure the opening scenes. Hunt and Young conceived of moving the training exercise on a Bond double to preface the main title, a signature feature that has been an enduring hallmark of every Bond film since. The briefing with Blofeld was rewritten, and back projection was used to refilm Lotte Lenya's lines.[3]
Behind schedule and over budget, the production crew struggled to complete production in time for the already-announced premiere date that October. On 6 July 1963, while scouting locations in Argyll, Scotland for that day's filming of the climactic boat chase, Terence Young's helicopter crashed into the water with Art Director Michael White and a cameraman aboard. The craft sank into 40–50 feet (12–15 m) of water, but all escaped with minor injuries. Despite the calamity, Young was behind the camera for the full day's work. A few days later, Bianchi's driver fell asleep during the commute to a 6 a.m. shoot and crashed the car; causing bruising to her face, the actress' scenes had to be delayed two weeks while these facial contusions healed.[3]
The helicopter and boat chase scenes were not in the original novel, but were added to create an action climax. The former was inspired by Hitchcock's North By Northwest, and the latter by a previous Young/Broccoli/Maibaum collaboration, The Red Beret.[16] These two scenes would be shot in Istanbul, but were moved to Scotland; the speed boats could not run fast enough due to the many waves in the sea,[17] and a rented boat filled with cameras ended up sinking in the Bosphorus.[7] A helicopter was also hard to get—the special effects crew nearly got arrested trying to get one at a local air base.[17][18]
The helicopter chase was filmed with a radio controlled miniature helicopter.[7] The sounds of the boat chase were replaced since the boats were not loud enough[19] and the explosion, shot in Pinewood, got out of control, burning Walter Gotell's eyelids[17] and seriously injuring three stuntmen.[16]
See also: List of James Bond vehicles, List of James Bond gadgets, and James Bond locations
Photographer David Hurn was commissioned by the producers of the James Bond films to shoot a series of stills with Sean Connery and the actresses of the film. When the theatrical property Walther PPK pistol didn't arrive, Hurn volunteered the use of his own Walther LP-53 air pistol.[20]. Though the photographs of the "James Bond is Back" posters of the US release airbrushed out the long barrel of the pistol, film poster artist Renato Fratini used the long barreled pistol for his drawings of Connery on the British posters. This pistol became a symbol of James Bond on many posters of the series.
[edit] Music
See also: From Russia with Love (soundtrack)
From Russia with Love is the first Bond film in the series with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer.[21] The theme song was composed by Lionel Bart of Oliver! fame and sung by Matt Monro,[22] although the title credit music is a lively instrumental version of the tune beginning with Barry's brief James Bond is Back then segueing into Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme"). Monro's vocal version is later played during the film (as source music on a radio) and properly over the film's end titles.[22] Barry travelled with the crew to Turkey to try getting influences of the local music, but ended up using almost nothing, just local instruments such as finger cymbals to give an exotic feeling, since he thought the Turkish music had a comedic tone that did not fit in the "dramatic feeling" of the James Bond movies.[23]
In this film, Barry introduced the percussive theme "007"—action music that came to be considered the 'secondary James Bond Theme'. He composed it to have a lighter, enthusiastic and adventurer theme, in order to relax the audiences.[23] The arrangement appears twice on the soundtrack album; the second version, entitled "007 Takes the Lektor", is the one used during the gunfight at the gypsy camp and also during Bond's theft of the Lektor decoding machine.[3][24] The completed film features a holdover from the Monty Norman-supervised Dr. No music; the post-rocket-launch music from Dr. No is played in From Russia with Love during the helicopter and speedboat attacks.[24]
[edit] Release and initial reception
From Russia with Love premiered on 10 October 1963 at the Odeon, Leicester Square in London. The following year, it was released in 16 countries worldwide. In April 1964, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said:[25]
Don't miss it! This is to say, don't miss it if you can still get the least bit of fun out of lurid adventure fiction and pseudo-realistic fantasy. For this mad melodramatization of a desperate adventure of Bond with sinister characters in Istanbul and on the Orient Express is fictional exaggeration on a grand scale and in a dashing style, thoroughly illogical and improbable, but with tongue blithely wedged in cheek.
Time magazine called the film "fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed" and commented extensively on the film's humor:[26]
Director Young is a master of the form he ridicules, and in almost every episode he hands the audience shocks as well as yocks. But the yocks are more memorable. They result from slight but sly infractions of the thriller formula. A Russian agent, for instance, does not simply escape through a window; no, he escapes through a window in a brick wall painted with a colossal poster portrait of Anita Ekberg, and as he crawls out of the window, he seems to be crawling out of Anita's mouth. Or again, Bond does not simply train a telescope on the Russian consulate and hope he can read somebody's lips; no, he makes his way laboriously into a gallery beneath the joint, runs a submarine periscope up through the walls, and there, at close range, inspects two important Soviet secrets: the heroine's legs.
The budget for the film was $2 million;[27] double that of Dr. No. At the box office, it grossed $24 million in North America,[28] and $54 million internationally for a total of $78 million worldwide.[27]
The film's cinematographer Ted Moore won the BAFTA award and the British Society of Cinematographers award for Best Cinematography.[29] At the 1965 Laurel Awards, Lotte Lenya stood third for Best Female Supporting Performance, and the film secured second place in the Action-Drama category. The film was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "From Russia with Love".[30]
[edit] Retrospective assessment
Rotten Tomatoes rates From Russia with Love at a 97%, and is the second highest rated Bond film on the website, surpassed only by Dr. No. Many online sites also commonly state From Russia with Love as the best Bond film of all time.[31]
From Russia with Love was re-released in 1965, as part of a "James Bond is back ... to back!" double feature with Dr. No that grossed "nearly as much the second time around as the first."[32] Time magazine noted:[32]
There seems to be no geographical limit to the appeal of sex, violence and snobbery with which Fleming endowed his British secret agent. In Tokyo, the queue for Goldfinger stretches half a mile. In Brazil, where From Russia broke all Rio and Sao Paulo records, one unemployed TV actor had only to change his name to Jaime Bonde to be swamped with offers. In Beirut, where Goldfinger outdrew My Fair Lady, even Goldfinger's hat-hurling bodyguard, Oddjob, has become a minor hero.
In his 1986 book, Danny Peary described From Russia with Love as “an excellent, surprisingly tough and gritty James Bond film” which is “refreshingly free of the gimmickry that would characterize the later Bond films, and Connery and Bianchi play real people. We worry about them and hope their relationship will work out…Shaw and Lotte Lenya are splendid villains. Both have exciting, well-choreographed fights with Connery. Actors play it straight, with excellent results.”[33]
In June 2001, Neil Smith of BBC Films called it "a film that only gets better with age".[34] In 2004, Total Film magazine named it the ninth-greatest British film of all time, making it the only James Bond film to appear on the list.[35] In 2006, Jay Antani of Filmcritic praised the film's "impressive staging of action scenes",[36] while IGN listed it as second-best Bond film ever, behind only Goldfinger.[37] That same year, Entertainment Weekly put the film at ninth among Bond films, criticizing the slow pace.[38] When the "James Bond Ultimate Collector’s Set" was released in November 2007 by MGM, Norman Wilner of MSN chose From Russia with Love as the best Bond film.[39]
The British Film Institute's screenonline guide called the film "one of the series' high points" and said it "had advantages not enjoyed by many later Bond films, notably an intelligent script that retained the substance of Ian Fleming's novel while toning down the overt Cold War politics (the Cuban Missile Crisis had only occurred the previous year)."[40] From Russia with Love is the favourite Bond film of Sean Connery[1] and James Berardinelli.[41] In 2008, Michael G. Wilson, the current co-producer of the series, stated "We always start out trying to make another From Russia with Love and end up with another Thunderball."[42] Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig also consider this their favorite Bond film.[43]
In the 19th film in the Bond series, The World Is Not Enough, a homage is payed to From Russia with Love when Valentin Zukovsky is being drowned in caviar. Bond asks him where a weapons grade plutonium is being smuggled from, to which Zukovsky replies "Istanbul". Zukovsky then mutters "From Russia with..." before he coughs and splutters.

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