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From
Russia with love
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Book: From Russia with love (1963)
Movie: From Russia with love (1963)
Premise
movie:
"Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal), master plotter for
SPECTRE, has devised a scheme to steal a new decoder, the
Lektor, from the Russians, and embarrass the British Secret Service, along
the way gaining revenge for SPECTRE for the death of Dr No. Rosa
Klebb (Lotte Lenya), former head of operations for SMERSH, and now a
SPECTRE agent is placed in control by the mysterious No. 1. Klebb
assesses Donovan Grant (Robert Shaw), a psychopath training on
SPECTRE Island, and recruits a Russian cypher clerk, Tatiana
Romanova (Daniela Bianchi), from the Istanbul Consulate.
In London, the trap is sprung. Tatiana will defect to the British
with the Lektor, only if James Bond (Sean Connery), with whose
picture she has fallen in love, will collect her. Bond plays along,
and works with Kerim Bey (Pedro Armendáriz), head of Station T in
Turkey. SPECTRE heats up the Cold War in Istanbul by killing and
attacking the Russians and the British, through their respective
agents, the Bulgars and the Gypsies. Bond gets caught up in this,
and helps Kerim kill Krilencu (Fred Haggerty), a murderous
Bulgar. Tatiana comes to Bond's room, where unbeknown to them, they are
photographed making love. He gets enough information out of her for
London to agree that the Lektor sounds genuine, so he engineers her
escape from the Consulate with the machine, and they race on board
the Orient Express. However, Grant, who has been following Bond
since his arrival, on one occasion saving his life, is also on
board. Kerim Bey is killed, and Bond decides to stay on the train,
rather than go across country. He gets a message to London asking
for help to smuggle the Lektor across the border, and is met at
Zagreb by Captain Nash - or rather, by Grant, who has quickly
disposed of the British agent, and taken his place.
Bond is suspicious of Nash when he sees him doctor Tatiana's drink,
but is surprised when Nash reveals that he is from the opposition.
Tatiana is to be killed, alongside Bond, and a letter threatening to
blackmail 007 will be found with a reel of film of the lovemaking.
Bond manages to appeal to Grant's greed, and uses a booby trap in
the briefcase to turn the tables. After a vicious fight, Bond
garrottes Grant, collects Tatiana and hijacks Grant's escape route.
SPECTRE realise what's happened, and send a helicopter and later a
flotilla of boats after Bond as he and Tatiana travel by sea to
Venice. Bond disposes of them, and reaches Venice, where Rosa Klebb
appears, masquerading as a cleaning woman. Tatiana distracts her,
and then shoots her as she attacks Bond. Tatiana returns Bond's
ring, as he looks at the reel of film he's taken from Grant, and
throws it in the water."
from:
http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/bond/filmography/
005.html
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Premise
book:
"SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance, of
interrogation, torture and death. James Bond is dedicated to the
destruction of its agents wherever he finds them. Then the cold eye
of SMERSH focuses on Bond and far away in Moscow a trap is laid for
him."
from:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-
/books/0141187603/reviews/202-4644476-6476656
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Author:
"Born into a wealthy and influential English family, Ian
Fleming spent his early years attending top British schools such as
Eton and Sandhurst military academy. He took to writing while
schooling in Kitzbuhel, Austria, and upon failing the entrance
requirements for Foreign Service joined the news agency Reuters as a
journalist - winning the respect of his peers for his coverage of
a 'show trial' in Russia of several Royal Engineers on espionage
charges. Fleming briefly worked in the financial sector for the
family bank, but just prior to the Second World War was recruited
into British Naval Intelligence where he excelled, shortly acheiving
the rank of Commander. When the war ended, Fleming retired to
Jamaica where he built a house called "Goldeneye", took up writing
full-time and created the character that would make him famous -
British Secret Service agent James Bond, in a novel called "Casino
Royale". Fleming spent the rest of his life writing and
traveling the world, but as his Bond character reached new heights of
popularity on movie screens, Fleming was in ailing health. He died
of a heart attack in England in August 1964 at the age of 56."
from:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001220/bio
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Director:
Terence Young
Cast:
Sean Connery (James Bond), Daniela Bianchi (Tatiana
Romanov), Pedro Armendáriz (Kerim Bey), Lotte Lenya (Rosa Klebb), Robert Shaw
(Donald Grant), Bernard Lee (M) and others.
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