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The next day, Bond appears to have amused himself sexually with both women вЂ“ his reward, it seems, for helping defend the camp. The helicopter shootout scene was filmed in Scotland вЂ¦ From Russia With LoveДЄnyway, pro-Soviet Bulgarians attack the compound вЂ“ huh? вЂ“ triggering a shootout like something from a Western, with gypsy caravans going up in flames like chuck-wagons. Two women fighting was very saucy in 70s cinema: I seem to remember it happening in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers, with leering males instantly taking bets. Then there is a fantastically strange interlude in which Bond is taken by his Turkish liaison Kerim Bey (Pedro ArmendГЎriz) to a Gypsy camp for an evening's racy entertainment, including a full-on girl-on-girl scalp-clawing catfight.

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Young was rumoured to have tutored Connery in how to walk and talk with style. This was the hotel room in which 007 is going to walk around in a state of undress, his gun-holster on display, as superbly casual as an untied bow-tie. For audiences of that generation, it was probably the very fact of going to a hotel which was so exciting. There is something a bit unsexy about Istanbul, but when 007 checks into his hotel room, director Terence Young uses the Bond theme almost deafeningly as Bond checks the place for bugs. It's a very bizarre premise, though perhaps no more bizarre than that of any other Bond film. Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi in From Russia With Love. Spectre's plan is to use Bond's conspicuous presence in Turkey to inflame Anglo-Russian tension вЂ“ key murders will be blamed on the British вЂ“ and also to wipe out the hated enemy Bond himself, and then to smear his reputation with secretly shot footage of his bedroom action with Tatiana. The idea is that she will contact British intelligence, claiming to have fallen in love with James Bond from his file photo, and offer them a key decoding device, a 'Lektor'.

Tatiana still thinks Klebb is working for Mother Russia. With much repressed shoulder-stroking and knee-patting, she recruits the beautiful Russian patriot Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi), working for the Soviet embassy in Istanbul. Here the villains are not the Soviet group Smersh but the separate terrorist organisation Spectre, to whom key Russian agents have secretly transferred their allegiances, most importantly the comedy hatchet-faced lesbian Col Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya).

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Where Fleming's novel straightforwardly presented a Soviet plot to lure Bond with a honeytrap, the movie was not so anti-Russian.

The main location is Istanbul, which is weirdly gloomy and cloudy. It is not actually based in Russia, there is an opening and closing sequence in Venice (the interiors were shot in Pinewood, with stock footage of St Mark's Square), and a Balkan train journey culminates in a truck-versus-helicopter shootout filmed in Scotland. The movie itself is oddly austere, even downbeat: less extravagant, less gadgety, less action-based than the films which followed вЂ“ and actually less than its predecessor, the first Bond film, Dr No. Reading this on mobile? Click here to view clip Actually, it is a Raymond Revuebar vision of adult sophistication. To my saucer-eyed 12-year-old self, this was the grownup world as it was meant to be: erotic, exotic, mysterious and dangerous. Then it was time for the title-sequence itself, a fantastically silly image of a belly-dancer on whom the titles were ripplingly projected. Perhaps nothing in any 007 film can ever match the heart-racing thrill of Monty Norman's inspired Bond theme. It was like a bad dream or expressionist ballet. What a thrill to hear that incredible theme tune played live (as it were) for the first time, echoing around the cavernous old cinema and seeing those opening titles: the mysterious circle shunting across the dark screen, Bond walking in profile, turning dramatically face on and firing, the descending curtain of blood. Quite long-in-the-tooth Bond films would be revived on the big screen like this: this was a double bill of From Russia With Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965). This was at the old Classic in Hendon Central in London, some time in the early 1970s, in an era before Bond films were shown on television, and going to see them at the cinema was a special school-holiday treat.

From Russia With Love is my favourite James Bond movie, simply because it is the first Bond I ever saw at the cinema.

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