Today’s movie is an espionage thriller with a scene that
happens on June 10. I hope you will enjoy this film 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, impersonating a British agent he has killed, meets Bond
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
Producers - Harry
Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli
Director - Terence
Young
Runtime – 1 hour 55
minutes
Released – October
19, 1963
Starring –
Sean Connery as
James Bond
Daniela Bianchi as
Tatiana Romanova
Pedro Armendáriz as
Ali Kerim Bey
Lotte Lenya as Rosa
Klebb
Robert Shaw as Red
Grant
Bernard Lee as M
Walter Gotell as
Morzeny
Vladek Sheybal as
Kronsteen
Lois Maxwell as Miss
Moneypenny
Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014.
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