Here is the movie with a scene that happens today - June 10. I hope you enjoy it and watch it tonight.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Kronstein and Klebb are summoned
to a meeting with SPECTRE’s mysterious Number One to discuss a plan to steal
the Lector decoding machine from the soviets and lay the blame on the British.
On June 10, 1963 [11:14 to 13:59] the killer, Grant gets recruited by Klebb.
She also recruits Tatiana Romanova, a clerk in the coding section of the Soviet
consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. M, the head of British intelligence tells James Bond agent 007 that Tatiana has sent a message
that she will defect with the lector if Bond is the one who helps her. Q gives
Bond his briefcase with a hidden knife, gold coins and gas grenade inside. Bond
flies to Istanbul where he meets Ali Kerim Bey MI6’s man in the city. An
attempt is made to kill Bey and they observe the Soviet consulate through a
hidden periscope. Bey takes Bond to a gypsy camp to hide out, but it is attacked
by Krilencu and his men. Back at his
hotel Bond finds Tatiana in his bed and unknown to them their amorous interlude
is secretly filmed. Bey and Bond set off a bomb under the Soviet consulate and
use the confusion this creates to get the lector and Tatiana. They plan on
traveling on the Orient Express. Grant is on board and makes it appear Bey and
a Soviet agent killed each other. Grant meets Bond impersonating a British
agent he has killed. Grant drugs Tatiana and overcomes Bond, taunting him by telling
him of SPECTRE’s plan to set the Soviets and British at each other’s throats.
Grant tells him that when Bond and Tatiana are dead he will plant film of their
erotic encounter and a forged blackmail letter that will make it look like a
murder-suicide, further damaging Anglo-Soviet relations. Bond, however tricks
Grant into opening the briefcase and detonating the gas grenade and after an
epic fight Grant is killed. Bond and Tatiana leave the train and after
destroying the helicopter and boats SPECTRE sends after them reach Venice.
Number One is very unhappy the plan has failed and after killing Kronstein
sends Klebb to finish off Bond. She gets the drop on Bond, but Tatiana attacks
and finally shoots Klebb. Bond and Tatiana relax in Venice.
Many people, including me think
this is one of the best Bond films. It focuses on the people not fancy sci-fi
gadgets, as so many of the later films do. It is played straight and has a
script with a plot that actually makes sense.
From Russia, With Love by
Ian Fleming (Penguin Books, New York, 2003) at page 3 gives the date of this
event
Producer - Harry
Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli
Director - Terence
Young
Runtime – 1 hour 55
minutes
Released – October
19, 1963
Starring -
Sean Connery as
James Bond, Agent 007.
Daniela Bianchi as
Tatiana Romanova (voiced by Barbara Jefford), the bait for Bond
Pedro Armendáriz as
Ali Kerim Bey: British Intelligence Station Chief in Istanbul.
Lotte Lenya as Rosa
Klebb: Chief Operations Officer for SPECTRE
Robert Shaw as Red
Grant: Cunning SPECTRE assassin
Bernard Lee as M :
Chief of British Intelligence.
Walter Gotell as
Morzeny: SPECTRE thug who trains personnel
Vladek Sheybal as
Kronsteen: Chief Planning Officer for SPECTRE.
Lois Maxwell as Miss
Moneypenny: M's secretary.
Desmond Llewelyn as
Q : Head of 'Q' Section
Eunice Gayson as
Sylvia Trench: Bond's semi-regular girlfriend.
Francis de Wolff as
Vavra: Chief of a Gypsy tribe used for dirty work by Kerim Bey
George Pastell as
the Orient Express train conductor.
Fred Haggerty as
Krilencu: A Bulgarian assassin who works as a killer for the Soviets .
Aliza Gur and
Martine Beswick as Vida and Zora, respectively: Two jealous Gypsy girls
Nadja Regin as Kerim
Bey's lonely girlfriend.
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