From Russia with Love
October 10, 1963 in theaters
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
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"The equipment is all here, as you can see."
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The briefcase gadget in this film became one of the most imitated props in spy cinema history.
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Widely considered the best of the Connery era, and the argument is strong. The film is more genuinely spy-like than most of the series -- the chess tournament opening, the SPECTRE briefing, the Orient Express sequences -- and the relative restraint gives it a weight the gadget-heavy later films rarely achieve. Connery is at his most watchful and least performative. A film that takes its genre seriously without becoming ponderous.
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