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James Bond 007, From Russia with Love. Declassification of the 2nd James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.
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Opening
- sneaking around the grounds at night, strangled to death from behind by the choke wire of Grant's watch - turns out to be a man in a Bond mask who was unknowingly part of a training exercise
Title Song/Credits
- "From Russia with Love" by Matt Monro

- gypsy dancers with the credits projected onto their skin
Villains
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld, SPECTRE agent #1 petting white cat on lap, whose face is never revealed (Anthony Dawson body, Eric Pohlmann voice)
- Rosa Klebb, SPECTRE agent #3 with poison-tipped switchblade shoe set on stealing Russian Lektor decoding machine to intercept secret government signals (Lotte Lenya)
- Kronsteen, SPECTRE agent #5 (Vladek Sheybal)
- Morzeny, SPECTRE Operations Chief (Walter Gotell)
- Donald "Red" Grant, heavy (Robert Shaw)
- Krilencu, assassin (Fred Haggerty)
- Tatiana Romanova, Russian agent and cypher clerk and Klebb's lure (Daniela Bianchi)
Girls
- Tatiana Romanova, Russian agent and cypher clerk and Klebb's lure (Daniela Bianchi)
- Sylvia Trench, boating partner (Eunice Gayson)
- Kerim's girl (Nadja Regin)
- Vida and Zora, dueling women (Aliza Gur and Martine Beswick)
- gypsy dancer (Leila)
- masseuse (Jan Williams)
Gadgets
- briefcase with folding sniper's rifle with infrared night sight, rounds of ammunition, a flat throwing knife and 50 gold sovereigns
- tear gas talcum powder
- poison-tipped switchblade shoes
- watch with choke wire
- tape recorder camera
Chases
- flower vendor's pickup truck chased by helicopter
- running on foot chased by helicopter
- boat chased by three other boats
Binds
- under attack by Krilencu and his gang at Vavra's gypsy camp and about to be stabbed in the back in the melee, the stabber is shot and killed by Grant
- at Grant's gun point on the train, uses 50 gold sovereigns to buy a cigarette and lure Grant into opening the case with the exploding tear gas
- fighting with Grant on the train and in a choke hold from Grant's choke-wire watch, ejects flat knife from case, stabs Grant in arm and chokes him with his own choke wire
- chased by helicopter, takes cover under some boulders and uses folding sniper's rifle to shoot helicopter gunman who is holding a live grenade, which detonates and sends helicopter exploding to the ground
- chased by boats, drops leaking fuel barrels from boat into sea and then fires pistol, causing multiple explosions in the water around the other boats
- about to be shot by Klebb, saved by Tatiana who chops down on Klebb's arm and dislodges gun from Klebb's hand
- with Klebb's poison-tipped switchblade shoe extended, uses chair to pin her against the wall until Tatiana shoots her
One-liners
- "Just reviewing an old case," to Miss Moneypenny after being called away from Sylvia
- "Well, from this angle things are shaping up nicely," looking through a periscope at Tatiana's legs after being asked by Kerim how she looks to him
- "She should have kept her mouth shut," after Kerim snipes Krilencu as he is climbing out of the mouth of a billboard of Anita Ekberg
- "Sorry, I'm a bit upset myself," after meeting Tatiana for the first time and her telling him, "Careful, guns upset me"
- "No, it's the right size - for me that is," to Tatiana before kissing her and after she says she thinks her mouth is too big
- "Not mad about his tailor, are you?" to Kerim after gagging Benz and pulling his suit jacket down over his shoulders
- "I'd say one of their aircraft is missing," after shooting helicopter from the sky
- "Just isn't your day, is it?" to flower vendor after stealing his truck, kidnapping him and then pushing him overboard off his own boat
- "Yes, she's had her kicks," after Tatiana calls Klebb a "horrible woman"
Locations
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Lochgilphead and Crinan Canal, Scotland
- Venice, Italy
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