Monday, September 15, 2025

James Bond Movie Review: ****From Russia with Love (1963)

 This is the second of the Bond movies.  Again Sean Connery stars as James Bond 007.  Spectre is again the villian, and we meet number 1 but never see his face, just him holding his at.  However we do see the demise of numbers 3 (Lotte Lenya) and 5 Vladek Sheybal) on the scepter side.  This is a spy vs spy film with Spectre pitting the Russian KGB against the British MI6.  It is fun wathing spies go at each other.  Bond knows he is stepping into a trap when he agrees to meet the Russian beauty (Daniela Bianchi).  In the end of course she loves him.  She was not with Spectre but a Russian spy and manipulated by Spectre to work for them without knowing it.  Of course Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) and M (Bernard Lee) are in the mix.  This time we add Q Branch to MI6 who give Bond an explosive brief case.  It saves his life he he is captured by Grant (Robert Shaw) a trained assassin.  This movie has all the formulary fun of James Bond and the intrigue of a good spy movie.

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