From Russia with Love (DVD)

The second edition of the Bond series. From Russia with love was one of the classics too. The film boasts a number of outstading elements. One of these is the pre-credits seqeunce were Grants attcks a fake Bond. Another being the introduction of Q and the Bond gadgets. Bonds assignment in this film is to un-cover a decoding machine called 'Lektor'. This is currently held by the Russians. Bond is helped by Soviet agent- Romanova. SPECTRE, a secret national crime organisation, tries to prevent Bond from finding the 'Lektor' but are un- succesful. On his missions, bond encounters many enemies- one of wich is Donald 'Red' Grant. ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ Following on from the outstanding success of the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, in 1963, the studios and money men were very quick to get a second helping onto our cinema screens the following year. (May, 1964) Directed by Terence Young, this movie again cast everyone’s favourite Edinburgh milkman, Sean Connery, (just imagine this guy delivering your gold tops in the morning girls) as the intrepid and dashing 007. He is once more pitted against his old adversary, the dreaded SPECTRE organisation, who are still up to all their old nasty tricks, and trying to do the dirty on the whole world. ~ ~ This time around, SPECTRE want to get their ...  Read the complete review

Lets face it, you couldn't get away with making a James Bond movie like this nowadays, with the blatant sexism and sometimes racism shown in these movies from this time period they wouldn't make it off the cutting room floor, however get past that and the James Bond movies from the 1960's and 1970's are masterpieces and revolutionary for their time. The film opens with James Bond in a mansion garden late at night where James Bond ( Sean Connery ) is being stalked and is stalking tall blond assassin Red Grant ( Robert Shaw ) Bond is captured by the Shaw and is strangled to death, suddenly floodlights turn on and the dead person is someone wearing a Bond ...  Read the complete review

The second of the James Bond films, From Russia With Love is perhaps the most old fashioned of the series. The story is set amidst the height of the cold war, with Russian and the west firmly at odds with each other. James Bond, played once again by Sean Connery is sent to Istanbul to meet a young Russian intelligence worker, who claims she has fallen in love with 007 (having only seen a photo of him). Tatiana Romanova, played by the beautiful Daniela Bianchi, a former Miss Rome, is perfectly believable in the role of the besotted young woman. She offers to steal a Lektor decoder, a device highly prized by MI6, believing she is merely following the orders of ...  Read the complete review

Terence Young takes the directing helm again for the second James Bond film from EON productions. The first, Dr No, launched Sean Connery onto the international screen, and brought us the charismatic British agent James Bond. The Plot Crime organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E. has created a device that will decode Russian secrets and upset the world order. Secret agent James Bond 007 is sent to Istanbul to retrieve the device. He has to overcome S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s agents first of all, though, including the strong 'Red' Grant and ex-KGB Rosa Klebb, devious and dangerous. The Cast and Performances Sean Connery once again assumes the role of ...  Read the complete review