FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963)

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Bond: Sean Connery

Villains: Rosa Klebb
              SPECTRE (Blofeld)

Henchmen: Red Grant
                   Kronsteen
                   Morzeny

Girls: Tatiana Romanova
          Sylvia Trench

Allies: Kerim Bey

MI6 Intelligence: 'M'
                            Miss Moneypenny
                            'Q' (AKA Major Boothroyd)

Gadgets/Weapons: Attache Briefcase

Locations: London, England
                 Istanbul, Turkey
                 Venice, Italy
                 Orient Express (Europe- Yugoslavia)

Main Theme: From Russia with Love by Matt Monro/ Opening Titles by John Barry

PLOT: James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.
(Courtesy of iMDb)


Directed by Terence Young

Music by John Barry

Screenplay by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood

Release Date: April 5, 1963

Domestic Gross: $25.6 Million (1963)
Adjusted Domestic Gross: $214.5 Million (2012)
World-wide Gross: $79.1 Million (1963)
World-wide Gross Adjusted: $612.3 Million (2012)

Critics Rating: 96% out of 100%.  Total score: A