Following the success ofDr. No,United Artists greenlit a sequel and doubled the budget available for the producers. In addition to filming on location in Turkey, the action scenes were shot atPinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, and in Scotland. Production ran over budget and schedule, and was rushed to finish by its scheduled October 1963 release date.
From Russia with Love was a critical and commercial success. It took in more than $78 million in worldwide box-office receipts, far more than its $2 million budget and more than its predecessorDr. No, thereby becoming ablockbuster in 1960s cinema. In 2004,Total Film magazine named it the ninth-greatest British film of all time; it was the only Bond film to appear on the list. It was also the first film in the series to win aBAFTA Award for Best Cinematography.
From Russia with Love was followed byGoldfinger in 1964.
International criminal organisationSPECTRE seeks revenge againstMI6 agentJames Bond for the death of their agentDr. No inJamaica.[Notes 1] SPECTRE's chief planner,Czechoslovak chessgrandmaster Kronsteen, devises a plan to lure Bond into a trap, using as bait the prospects of procuring a Lektor cryptography device from theSoviet Union's consulate inIstanbul. SPECTRE operativeRosa Klebb, a former head ofSMERSH (Soviet counter-intelligence), is assigned to oversee the mission and chooses trained killer Donald Grant to assassinate Bond at the right moment. To set the trap, Klebb recruits a cipher clerk at the consulate,Tatiana Romanova, to unwittingly assist in the plan, tricking Romanova into believing Klebb is still working for SMERSH.
InLondon, Bond is called to a meeting withM and informed that Tatiana has requested Bond's help to defect to the West, in exchange for providingBritish intelligence with a Lektor. Exactly as Kronsteen predicted, M suspects a trap but decides to honour Tatiana's request. Before departing, Bond is equipped with a specialbriefcase fromQ Branch, containing several defensive gadgets and anArmaLite AR-7 sniper rifle, to help on his assignment. Upon arriving in Istanbul, Bond works alongside the head of MI6's branch in the city,Ali Kerim Bey, while he awaits word from Tatiana. Grant is shadowing Bond to protect him until he steals the Lektor. During this time, Kerim Bey is attacked by Soviet agent Krilencu. After an attack on the men while they hide out at aRoma settlement, Kerim Bey assassinates Krilencu with Bond's help before he can flee the city.
Eventually, Tatiana meets Bond at his hotel suite, where she agrees to provide plans to the consulate to help him steal the Lektor. The pair spend the night together, unaware that Klebb and Grant are filming them. Upon receiving the consulate's floor plans and a description of the Lektor from Romanova, the latter which MI6 confirms, Bond and Kerim Bey make and execute a plan to steal the Lektor, before all three make haste to escape the city aboard theOrient Express. Aboard, Kerim Bey and Bond subdue Commissar Benz, a Soviet security officer. While Bond returns to Tatiana to wait for their rendezvous with one of Kerim Bey's sons, Grant kills both Kerim Bey and Benz. Angered, Bond questions Romanova's true motives.
When the train arrives inBelgrade, Bond informs one of Kerim Bey's sons of his father's death and receives instructions to rendezvous with a British agent named Nash atZagreb. However, Grant overhears the conversation, kills Nash and assumes his identity. He drugs Tatiana at dinner and overpowers Bond. He reveals that Tatiana was a pawn in SPECTRE's plan; he intends to kill both her and Bond, staging it as a murder-suicide and leaving behind faked blackmail evidence which will scandalise the British intelligence community. Bond tricks Grant into setting off a booby trap in Bond's attache-case before the two engage in a vicious fight ending with Bond killing Grant by stabbing then garrotting him. Taking the Lektor and the film of their night together, Bond and Romanova leave the train inIstria, Yugoslavia and use Grant's escape plan. They evade helicopter and boat attacks by SPECTRE agents before reaching safety.
Learning of Grant's death and Bond's survival, SPECTRE's enigmatic chairman,Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has Kronsteen executed for his plan's disastrous failure. As the organisation promised to sell back the Lektor to the Russians, Klebb is ordered to recover it and kill Bond. While Bond and Tatiana are resting in aVenice hotel, Klebb comes to their room disguised as a maid. When Klebb prepares to shoot Bond, Tatiana knocks her gun to the floor. Klebb tries to stab Bond with a venom-tipped blade in her shoe but as she struggles with Bond, Tatiana shoots her dead. With his mission accomplished, Bond spends some time on a romantic boat ride with Tatiana and drops the blackmail film in the sea.
Credited as "?" in the film,Anthony Dawson portrayedErnst Stavro Blofeld (SPECTRE No. 1), the head and mastermind of SPECTRE and Bond's nemesis. He had previously played Professor Dent inDr. No. Dawson's dialogue was dubbed by an uncreditedEric Pohlmann.[5]Fred Haggerty played Krilencu, a Bulgarian assassin who works as a killer for the Soviets in theBalkans.Desmond Llewelyn portraysMajor Boothroyd, head of MI6 Q Branch and the equipment officer, making his first of many appearances that continued until 1999. Additional cast members includeNeville Jason as Kerim Bey's chauffeur,Peter Bayliss as Russian agent Commissar Benz, Nusret Ataer as Mehmet, Kerim Bey's son, andPeter Madden as Canadian chessmaster McAdams. Uncredited performances includeMichael Culver andElizabeth Counsell as a couple in apunt, and William Hill as Captain Nash, a British agent killed and impersonated by Grant.[citation needed]
Following the financial success ofDr. No, United Artists greenlit a second James Bond film. The studio doubled the budget offered toEon Productions with $2 million, and also approved a bonus for Sean Connery, who would receive $100,000 along with his $54,000 salary.[6] AsPresidentJohn F. Kennedy had named Fleming's novelFrom Russia, with Love among his ten favourite books of all time inLife magazine,[7] producers Broccoli and Saltzman chose this as the follow-up to Bond's cinematic debut inDr. No. The comma in the title of Fleming's novel was dropped for the film title.From Russia with Love was the last film President Kennedy saw at the White House on 20 November 1963 before going to Dallas.[8] Most of the crew from the first film returned, with major exceptions being production designerKen Adam, who went to work onDr. Strangelove and was replaced byDr. No's uncredited art directorSyd Cain. Title designerMaurice Binder was replaced byRobert Brownjohn. Stunt coordinatorBob Simmons was unavailable and was replaced by Peter Perkins[7] though Simmons performed stunts in the film.[9]John Barry replacedMonty Norman as composer of the soundtrack.
The film introduced several conventions which would become essential elements of the series: apre-title sequence, the Blofeld character (referred to in the film only as "Number 1", though Blofeld is mentioned in the end credits, with the actor labeled as "?"), a secret-weapon gadget for Bond, a helicopter sequence (repeated in every subsequent Bond film exceptThe 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.[10]
Ian Fleming's novel was aCold War thriller but the producers replaced the Soviet undercover agencySMERSH with the crime syndicate SPECTRE so as to avoid controversial political overtones.[7] The SPECTRE training grounds were inspired by the filmSpartacus.[11] The original screenwriter wasLen Deighton, who accompanied Harry Saltzman, Syd Cain, and Terence Young to Istanbul,[12] but he was replaced because of a lack of progress.[13] Thus, two ofDr. No's writers,Johanna Harwood andRichard Maibaum, returned for the second film in the series.[7] Some sources state Harwood was credited for the "adaptation" mostly for her suggestions, which were carried over into Maibaum's script.[13] Harwood stated in an interview forCinema Retro that she had been a screenwriter of several of Harry Saltzman's projects, and her screenplay forFrom Russia with Love had followed Fleming's novel closely, but she left the series due to what she called Terence Young's constant rewriting of her screenplay with ideas that were not in the original Fleming work.[14]Maibaum kept on making rewrites as filming progressed. Red Grant was added to the Istanbul scenes just prior to the film crew's trip to Turkey; this brought more focus to the SPECTRE plot, as Grant started saving Bond's life there (a late change during shooting involved Grant killing the bespectacled spy atHagia Sophia instead of Bond, who ends up just finding the man dead).[7] For the last quarter of the movie, Maibaum added two chase scenes, with a helicopter and speedboats, and changed the location of Bond and Klebb's battle from Paris to Venice.[15] Uncredited rewrites were contributed byBerkely Mather.
Although uncredited, the actor who played Number 1 was Anthony Dawson, who had played Professor Dent in the previous Bond film,Dr. No, and appeared in several of Terence Young's films. In the end credits, Blofeld is credited with aquestion mark. Blofeld's lines were redubbed by Viennese actor Eric Pohlmann in the final cut.[7]Peter Burton was unavailable to return as Major Boothroyd, so Desmond Llewelyn, a Welsh actor who was a fan of theBond comic strip published in theDaily Express, accepted the part. 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, but M does introduce him as being from Q Branch. Llewelyn remained as the character, better known as Q, in all but one of the series' films until his death in 1999.[16][17]
Several actresses were considered for the role of Tatiana, including ItaliansSylva Koscina andVirna Lisi, Danish actressAnnette Vadim, Polish actressMagda Konopka, Swedish actressPia Lindström, and English-bornTania Mallet.[18][19] Elga Gimba Andersson was nearly cast in the role but was fired after refusing to have sex with a United Artists executive.[19]1960 Miss Universe runner-up Daniela Bianchi was ultimately cast, supposedly Sean Connery's choice. Bianchi started taking English classes for the role, but the producers ultimately chose to have her lines redubbed by British stage actress Barbara Jefford in the final cut.[20] The scene in which Bond finds Tatiana in his hotel bed was used for Bianchi'sscreen test, with Dawson standing in, this time, as Bond.[7] The scene later became the traditional screen test scene for prospective James Bond actors and Bond Girls.[21][22] In her initial scene with Klebb, Tatiana refers to training for the ballet, making a reference to the actress's background.
Greek actressKatina Paxinou was considered for the role of Rosa Klebb, but was unavailable. Terence Young cast Austrian singer 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, whom Young also considered convincing as an intellectual.[11] Sheybal was initially hesitant to take the role but was convinced by Connery's girlfriendDiane Cilento.[19] Several women were tested for the roles of Vida and Zora, the two fighting Gypsy girls, and afterAliza Gur andMartine Beswick were cast, they spent six weeks practising their fight choreography with stunt work arranger Peter Perkins.[23] Beswick was mis-credited as 'Martin Beswick' in the film's opening titles, but this error was fixed for the 2001 DVD release.[24]
Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz was recommended to Young by directorJohn 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 killed himself.[7] Remaining shots after Armendáriz left London had astunt double and Terence Young himself as stand-ins.[4]
EnglishmanJoe Robinson was a strong contender for the role ofRed Grant but it was given to Robert Shaw.[25]
Filming began on April 1, 1963, atPinewood Studios.[7][19][Notes 2] Armendariz's scenes were shot first after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, with Terence Young serving as a stand-in for Kerim Bey for the last two months of the production.[19] Most of the film was set in Istanbul, Turkey. Locations included theBasilica Cistern, Hagia Sophia and theSirkeci railway station, which also was used for theBelgrade andZagreb railway stations. The MI6 office in London, SPECTRE Island, the Venice hotel and the interior scenes of the Orient Express were filmed atPinewood 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 inArgyll, Scotland and Switzerland. The end scenes for the film were shot inVenice.[7] However, to qualify for the British film funding of the time, at least 70 per cent of the film had to have been filmed in Great Britain or the Commonwealth.[26] The Gypsy camp was also to be filmed in an actual camp inTopkapi, but was actually shot in a replica of it in Pinewood.[20] The scene with rats (after the theft of the Lektor) was shot in Spain, as Britain did not allow filming with wild rats, and an attempt to film white rats painted in cocoa in Turkey did not work.[27] Principal photography wrapped on 23 August.[28] Ian Fleming spent a week in the Istanbul shoot, supervising production and touring the city with the producers.[29][19]
Director Terence Young's eye for realism was evident throughout production. For the opening chess match, Kronsteen wins the game with a reenactment ofBoris Spassky's victory overDavid Bronstein in 1960.[30] Production Designer Syd Cain built up the "chess pawn" motif in his $150,000 set for the brief sequence.[20] Cain also later added a promotion to another movie Eon was producing, making Krilencu's death happen inside a billboard forCall Me Bwana.[19] A noteworthy gadget featured was theattaché case (briefcase) issued by Q Branch. It had atear gas bomb that detonated if the case was improperly opened, a foldingAR-7 sniper rifle with twenty rounds of ammunition, a throwing knife, and 50gold sovereigns. A boxer atCambridge, Young choreographed the fight between Grant and Bond along with stunt coordinator Peter Perkins. The scene took three weeks to film and was violent enough to worry some on the production. Robert Shaw and Connery did most of the stunts themselves.[4][7] Young stated that the château garden assassination of the fake Bond in thepre-credits sequence is styled afterLast Year at Marienbad.[31]
After the unexpected loss of Armendáriz, production proceeded, experiencing complications from uncredited rewrites byBerkely Mather during filming. EditorPeter Hunt set about editing the film while key elements were still to be filmed, helping to restructure the opening scenes. Hunt and Young came up with the idea of moving the Red Grant training sequence to the beginning of the film (prior to 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.[7]
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 am shoot and crashed the car. The actress's face was bruised and Bianchi's scenes had to be delayed for two weeks while the facial contusions healed.[7]
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 the crop-dusting scene inAlfred Hitchcock'sNorth by Northwest and the latter by a previous Young/Broccoli/Maibaum collaboration,The Red Beret.[32] These two scenes would initially be shot in Istanbul but were moved to Scotland. The speedboats could not go fast enough due to the many waves in the sea,[33] and a rented boat filled with cameras ended up sinking in the Bosphorus.[20] A helicopter was also hard to obtain, and the special effects crew were nearly arrested trying to get one at a local airbase.[33][34] The helicopter chase was filmed with aradio controlled miniature helicopter.[20] The sounds of the boat chase were replaced in post-production since the boats were not loud enough,[35] and the explosion, shot in Pinewood, got out of control, burningWalter Gotell's eyelids[33] and seriously injuring three stuntmen.[32]
PhotographerDavid Hurn was commissioned by the producers of the James Bond films to shoot a series of stills withSean Connery and the actresses of the film. When thepropWalther PPK pistol did not arrive, Hurn volunteered the use of his own Walther LP-53air pistol.[36] 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-barrelled pistol for his drawings of Connery on the British posters.[37]
For the opening credits, Maurice Binder had disagreements with the producers and did not want to return.[38] Designer Robert Brownjohn stepped into his place, and projected the credits on female dancers, inspired byconstructivist artistLászló Moholy-Nagy projecting light onto clouds in the 1920s.[39] Brownjohn's work started the tradition of scantily clad women in the Bond films' title sequences.[40]
From Russia with Love is the first Bond film in the series with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer.[41] The theme song was composed byLionel Bart ofOliver! fame and sung byMatt Monro,[42] although the title credit music is a lively instrumental version of the tune beginning with Barry's brief "James Bond Is Back" then segueing intoMonty 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.[42] 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 asfinger 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.[43]Frank Sinatra was considered for singing the theme song, but Sinatra turned the part down.[44]
Recalling his visit to Istanbul, John Barry said, "It was like no place I'd ever been in my life. [The Trip] was supposedly to seep up the music, so Noel Rogers and I used to go 'round to these nightclubs and listen to all this stuff. We had the strangest week, and really came away with nothing, except a lot of ridiculous stories. We went back, talked to Lionel, and then he wrote 'From Russia with Love.'''[45]
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 more adventurous theme to relax the audience.[43] The arrangement appears twice on the soundtrack album; the second version, titled "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.[7][46] The completed film features a holdover from the Monty Norman-supervisedDr. No music, as the post-rocket-launch music fromDr. No is played inFrom Russia with Love during the helicopter and speedboat attacks.[46]
Original theatrical trailer forFrom Russia with Love
From Russia with Love premiered on 10 October 1963 at theOdeon Leicester Square in London.[47] Ian Fleming, Sean Connery and Walter Gotell attended the premiere. The following year, it was released in 16 countries worldwide, with the United States premiere on 8 April 1964, at New York'sAstor Theatre.[48] Upon its first release,From Russia with Love doubledDr. No's gross by earning $12.5 million ($127 million in 2024 dollars[49]) at the worldwide box office.[50] After reissue it grossed $78 million,[51] of which $24 million was from North America.[52] It was the most popular movie at the British box office in 1963.[53]
In comparing the film to its predecessor,Dr. No,Richard Roud, writing inThe Guardian, wrote thatFrom Russia with Love "didn't seem quite so lively, quite so fresh, or quite so rhythmically fast-moving."[56] He went on to say that "... the film is highly immoral in every imaginable way; it is neither uplifting, instructive nor life-enhancing. Neither is it great film-making. But it sure is fun."[56] Writing inThe Observer,Penelope Gilliatt noted that "The way the credits are done has the same self-mocking flamboyance as everything else in the picture."[57] Gilliatt went on to say that the film manages "to keep up its own cracking pace, nearly all the way. The set-pieces are a stunning box of tricks".[57] The critic forThe Times wrote of Bond that he is "the secret ideal of the congenital square, conventional in every particular ... except in morality, where he has the courage—and the physical equipment—to do without thinking what most of us feel we might be doing ..."[58] The critic thought that overall, "the nonsense is all very amiable and tongue-in-cheek and will no doubt make a fortune for its devisers".[58]
Bosley Crowther ofThe New York Times wrote: "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."[59]Time magazine called the film "fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed."[60]Variety described the film as "a preposterous, skillful slab of hardhitting, sexy hokum. After a slowish start, it is directed by Terence Young at zingy pace. The cast perform with an amusing combo of tongue-in-cheek and seriousness and the Istanbul location is an added bonus."[61]
From Russia with Love received critical praise from critics decades following the film's original release and is considered one of the finest Bond films.Rotten Tomatoes sampled 63 reviewers and judged 97% of the reviews to be positive with an average rating of 7.9/10. Its summary states: "The second James Bond film,From Russia with Love, is a razor-sharp, briskly-paced Cold War thriller that features several electrifying action scenes."[62]
In his 1986 bookGuide for the Film Fanatic,Danny Peary describedFrom Russia with Love as "an excellent, surprisingly tough and gritty James Bond film" which is "refreshingly free of the gimmickry that would characterise the later Bond films, and Connery and Bianchi playreal 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."[63]
Film criticJames Berardinelli cited this as his favourite Bond film, writing "OnlyFrom Russia with Love avoids slipping into the comic book realm ofGoldfinger and its successors while giving us a sampling of the familiar Bond formula (action, gadgets, women, cars, etc.).From Russia with Love is effectively paced and plotted, features a gallery of detestable rogues (including the ultimate Bond villain, Blofeld), and offers countless thrills".[64]
In June 2001 Neil Smith ofBBC Films called it "a film that only gets better with age".[65] 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.[66] In 2006, Jay Antani of Filmcritic praised the film's "impressive staging of action scenes",[67] whileIGN listed it as second-best Bond film, behindGoldfinger.[68] That same year,Entertainment Weekly put the film at ninth among Bond films, criticising the slow pace.[69] When the "James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set" was released in November 2007 by MGM, Norman Wilner ofMSN choseFrom Russia with Love as the best Bond film.[70] Conversely, in his book about the Bond phenomenon,The Man With the Golden Touch, British author Sinclair McKay states "I know it is heresy to say so, and that some enthusiasts regardFrom Russia With Love as the Holy Grail of Bond, but let's be searingly honest – some of it is crashingly dull."[71]In 2014Time Out polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films;[72]From Russia With Love was listed at 69.[73]
In 2005, theFrom Russia with Love video game was developed byElectronic Arts and released on 1 November 2005 in North America. It follows the storyline of the book and film, albeit adding in new scenes, making it more action-oriented. One of the most significant changes to the story is the replacement of the organisation SPECTRE to OCTOPUS because the name SPECTRE constituted a long-runninglegal dispute over the film rights toThunderball between United Artists/MGM and writerKevin McClory. Most of the cast from the film returned in likeness. Connery not only allowed his 1960s likeness as Bond to be used, but the actor, in his 70s, also recorded the character's dialogue, marking a return to the role 22 years after he last played Bond inNever Say Never Again. Featuring athird-personmultiplayerdeathmatch mode, the game depicts several elements of later Bond films, such as theAston Martin DB5 fromGoldfinger (1964) and the rocket belt fromThunderball (1965).[79][80]
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