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Screenwriters Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood returned to adapt author Ian Fleming's novel and make it a tight, suspenseful narrative. The excellent producing team of Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli and Harry Saltzman maintained the high standards that the first film set. Sean Connery reprised the role of James Bond which he would become internationally famous for. Back to direct a second time was Terence Young who really developed and understood the James Bond mystique. But what RUSSIA had going for it is most of the same creative people who worked on DR. In most cases, the second in a film series usually doesn't live up to the original.

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RUSSIA is a very strong sophomore effort in the Bond series.įROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is the second in the Bond series, following the successful introduction of James Bond to movie audiences in DR. But a revisit and reviewing of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE after several years has changed my tune.

The MacGuffin (a Lektor decoder) wasn't very sexy as an object of interest. The Istanbul, Turkey location was too obscure. The Bond girl (Daniela Bianchi) never did much for me. But I don't think I fully appreciated FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE back in high school. I would have six or seven guys crammed into our small family room, digging James Bond scoring with exotic foreign women, driving kick-ass foreign cars, and fighting bad ass villains around the world. In high school, I owned GOLDFINGER and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE on RCA Video Disc (before consumers could own video cassettes) and would invite my high school buddies over for a James Bond night. Besides GOLDFINGER (1964), I have probably watched FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) more than any other James Bond film.