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From Russia with Love (film)

From Russia with Love
The upper centre of the poster reads "Meet James Bond, secret agent 007. His new incredible women ... His new incredible enemies ... His new incredible adventures ..." To the right is Bond holding a gun, to the left a montage of women, fights and an explosion. On the bottom of the poster are the credits.
British cinema poster for From Russia with Love, designed and illustrated by Renato Fratini and Eric Pulford
Directed by Terence Young
Produced by Harry Saltzman
Albert R. Broccoli
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum
Story by Johanna Harwood
(Adaptation)
Based on From Russia, with Love
by Ian Fleming
Starring Sean Connery
Pedro Armendáriz
Lotte Lenya
Robert Shaw
Bernard Lee
Daniela Bianchi
Music by John Barry
Cinematography Ted Moore
Edited by Peter R. Hunt
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • 10 October 1963 (1963-10-10) (London, premiere)
  • 11 October 1963 (1963-10-11) (United Kingdom)
Running time
115 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $2 million
Box office $79 million

From Russia with Love is a 1963 spy thriller film, directed by Terence Young, produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and written by Richard Maibaum, based on Ian Fleming's similarly-named 1957 novel. It is the second film in the James Bond film series, as well as Sean Connery's second role as MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, 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.

Following the success of Dr. 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 at Pinewood 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 more than $78 million in worldwide box office receipts, far more than its $2 million budget and more than its predecessor Dr. No, thereby becoming a blockbuster in 1960s cinema.

Seeking to exact revenge on James Bond (007) for killing its agent Dr. No and destroying the organization's assets in the Caribbean, SPECTRE begins training agents to kill Bond. Meanwhile, the organization's expert planner, a Czech chess grandmaster named Kronsteen, devises a plan to manipulate Bond into stealing a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets. SPECTRE's leader, Number 1, puts Rosa Klebb, an ex-SMERSH operative and the organization's Number 3, in charge of the mission. Klebb recruits Donald "Red" Grant, ordering him to protect Bond until he acquires the Lektor, before killing him for it and bringing the device back to SPECTRE so they can sell it back to the Soviets. To further assist the scheme, Klebb recruits Tatiana Romanova, a cipher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul, whom she fools into thinking that she is still working for SMERSH. In London, M informs Bond that Romanova has contacted their "Station 'T'" in Turkey, offering to defect with a Lektor, which both MI6 and the CIA have been after for years. However, Romanova's message states that she will only defect if brought back by Bond, whose photo she had supposedly found in a Soviet intelligence file. Prior to his departure, Bond is supplied by Q with an attaché case containing a concealed knife, concealed gold sovereigns, and a special tear gas booby trap connected to the lock mechanism, along with an Armalite AR-7 rifle.


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