Post by ant-mac on Nov 6, 2018 23:00:54 GMT
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) 5/5.
A British spy film and the second in the JAMES BOND film series produced by Eon Productions. The screenplay is by Johanna Harwood, Richard Maibaum and Berkely Mather and is based on Ian Fleming’s 1957 novel of the same name. This time, the film soundtrack is by John Barry, the film is one again produced by Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and it’s directed by Terence Young again.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE stars Sean Connery as James Bond, Daniela Bianchi as Tatiana Romanova, Pedro Armendáriz as Ali Kerim Bey, Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb, Robert Shaw as Donald "Red" Grant, Bernard Lee as M, Desmond Llewelyn as Major Boothroyd - AKA Q - Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny and Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The film also features Walter Gotell, Vladek Sheybal, Francis de Wolff, George Pastell and Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench.
James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge 007's killing of Doctor Julius No in the previous film. Although it’s the second of the books to be made into a film, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is actually the fifth JAMES BOND novel. Despite some major alterations from the book, the film is still a fairly reasonable portrayal of the source material. Then film has a smoother and more professional finish than its immediate predecessor. It also marked the debut of Desmond Llewelyn as Q, a role he would play for 36 years until THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH in 1999.
A British spy film and the second in the JAMES BOND film series produced by Eon Productions. The screenplay is by Johanna Harwood, Richard Maibaum and Berkely Mather and is based on Ian Fleming’s 1957 novel of the same name. This time, the film soundtrack is by John Barry, the film is one again produced by Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and it’s directed by Terence Young again.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE stars Sean Connery as James Bond, Daniela Bianchi as Tatiana Romanova, Pedro Armendáriz as Ali Kerim Bey, Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb, Robert Shaw as Donald "Red" Grant, Bernard Lee as M, Desmond Llewelyn as Major Boothroyd - AKA Q - Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny and Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The film also features Walter Gotell, Vladek Sheybal, Francis de Wolff, George Pastell and Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench.
James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge 007's killing of Doctor Julius No in the previous film. Although it’s the second of the books to be made into a film, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is actually the fifth JAMES BOND novel. Despite some major alterations from the book, the film is still a fairly reasonable portrayal of the source material. Then film has a smoother and more professional finish than its immediate predecessor. It also marked the debut of Desmond Llewelyn as Q, a role he would play for 36 years until THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH in 1999.