From Russia With Love (film)
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British cinema poster for From Russia with Love, designed and illustrated by Renato Fratini and Eric Pulford
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| Directed by | Terence Young |
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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 |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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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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