History Awesome / FromRussiaWithLove

** That whole fight scene qualifies. [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny Although it doesn't look particularly groundbreaking now]], at the time movie fight scenes tended to be short and stagey. This was one of the most realistically ''vicious'', painful-looking fight scenes yet done in cinema. The editing was similarly influential, and it's the grandaddy of every quick-cut movie fight in a confined space for the next fifty years, including Film/TheBourneSeries and ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. Made even more impressive by the fact that Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/RobertShaw did most of it themselves.

* Red Grant's cool professionalism all throughout is a beauty to behold. He stalks Bond through the ''whole'' movie, even saving his life once, with Bond none the wiser. Then, he has the balls to kill Bond's contact and replace him to fool Bond. And Bond is ''totally fooled'' until Grant reveals himself as a SPECTRE hit man.

* Meta example for Lotte Lenya's performance as Rosa Klebb for making a 5-foot middle-aged woman seem like a genuinely intimidating threat to James Bond.
* In another meta one, Pedro Armendariz was dying of cancer during filming and in so much pain that he committed suicide shortly afterwards, even being unable to stand in some scenes, but you can't tell at all as he gives a performance bursting with enthusiasm and vitality, ending up as one of Bond's most memorable allies.

* That whole fight scene qualifies. [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny Although it doesn't look particularly groundbreaking now]], at the time movie fight scenes tended to be short and stagey. This was one of the most realistically ''vicious'', painful-looking fight scenes yet done in cinema. The editing was similarly influential, and it's the grandaddy of every quick-cut movie fight in a confined space for the next fifty years, including Film/TheBourneSeries and ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. Made even more impressive by the fact that Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/RobertShaw did most of it themselves.

** Not to mention the fight between them, one of the most well known in cinematic history of its tense brutality. Made more impressive by the fact that Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/RobertShaw did most of it themselves.

** His introduction to Rosa Klebb, where he no sells getting hit in the gut with brass knuckles.

** Not to mention the fight between them, one of the most well known in cinematic history of its tense brutality. Made more impressive by the fact that Creator/SeanConnery and Robert Shaw did most of it themselves.

* In another meta one, Pedro Armendariz was dying of cancer during filming and in so much pain that he committed suicide shortly afterwards, even being unable to stand in some scenes, but you can't tell at all as he gives a performance bursting with enthusiasm and vitality, ending up as one of Bond's most memorable allies.

* In another meta one, Pedro Armendariz was dying of cancer during filming and in so much pain that he committed suicide shortly afterwards, even being unable to stand in some scenes, but you can't tell at all as he gives a performance bursting with enthusiasm and vitality, ending up as one of Bond's most memorable allies.

!!The Novel

* Tanya shooting Klebb.

* The first instance of the BlofeldPloy. The fact that even Col. Klebb is afraid of this man tells everything.

** Not to mention the fight between them, one of the most well known in cinematic history of its tense brutality.

[[AC: The Film]]

[[AC: The Novel]]

* Red Grant's cool professionalism all throughout is a beauty to behold. He stalks Bond through the ''whole'' movie, even saving his life once, with Bond none the wiser. Then, he has the balls to kill Bond's contact, replace him to fool Bond. And Bond is ''totally fooled'' until Grant reveals himself as SPECTRE.

* Bond's attaché case, considered by many to be his absolute best gadget. While setting the trend of Q's gadgets being disguised as everyday objects, it is also extremely useful and could be utilized on any mission.

** His introduction, where he no sells getting hit in the gut with brass knuckles.

* Tania shooting Klebb.

* Bond manages to kill the [[BloodKnight totally brutal]] Red Grant with his own wristwatch-garotte. He then retrieves his money and incriminating film from Grant's pockets, growling "You won't be needing this...'old man'." Yeah.