History Film / FromRussiaWithLove

The film was followed by ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.

The film was followed by ''Film/Goldfinger''.

* BiggerBad: Blofield is this here. He's not directly active in the plot this time, but it's clear that him and the rest of SPECTRE are a much bigger threat that Bond will have to face in the future.

* The very first appearance of Blofeld, complete with [[TheFaceless hidden face]] and [[RightHandCat white Persian cat]].

** There's also "I'd say one of their aircraft is missing", which for [[OlderThanTelevision younger viewers]] falls almost nonsensically flat, but it's a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Our_Aircraft_Is_Missing One of Our Aircraft Is Missing]], or at least to the [[WorldWarII wartime]] phrase it's based on. It was still a relevant and clever reference in 1963, and that was the target audience.

* BellyDancer: In the gypsy camp.

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Bond actually works out SPECTRE's plan entirely by himself, but Red Grant is perfectly happy to fill in the details while he has him cornered [[WhyDontYaJustShotHim at gunpoint]].

* BlofeldPloy

* The very first appearance of Blofeld, complete with [[TheFaceless hidden face]] and [[RightHandCat white Persian cat]].
* [[ReadyForLovemaking Tatiana's seduction of Bond by entering his hotel room and getting into his bed]]. [[FetishFuel Wearing only a black ribbon around her neck and a pair of black stockings]].
** The love scene used for screen-testing Bonds.
* A CatFight between two gypsies, sometimes removed from TV broadcasts, which serves nothing more than to have two scantily-clad women fighting each other.
* A long, drawn-out fight between Bond and Red Grant on the Orient Express. Creator/SeanConnery and Robert Shaw did most of the fight scene themselves.
* A helicopter chase.

* [[LotteLenya Rosa]] [[TheBaroness Klebb]]'s [[KickChick shoe dagger]].

* VideoInsideFilmOutside: during an external shot of Venice, a preemptive reference appears to the MontyPython sketch;

* BlofeldPloy

** Sylvia Trench reappears, once again denied a romance with Bond as he's called away on a mission. This was meant to be a {{Running Gag}} throughout the series, but the character was dropped after this film. One could argue that Moneypenny played out that gag, in her own way.

-->'''Morzeny''': I agree. We use live targets as well.

* LatexPerfection: A part of the opening tow show [[spoiler:that the Bond Grant just killed was actually live practice]].

** Besides which: Since ''Film/DrNo'' was the first Bond ''film,'' and M ordered Bond at the beginning of the film to replace his Beretta with the Walther PPK because of the Beretta jamming up on him (in an unseen incident that caused Bond to get injured), Bond didn't have the Beretta in the film version of ''FromRussiaWithLove'' anyway.

* TranquilFury: Bond's reaction to the death of [[spoiler: Kerim Bey]]. Notable in the fact that it is one of the few times we ever see Bond mad at all.

* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Averted (or rather, {{unbuilt|trope}}): Bond's gear is nothing like as outlandish as it would become in later films. The most "gadgety" equipment he has is the suitcase, containing hidden strips of gold coins, a knife, a disassembled rifle, a SuicidePill (In the novel, though Bond flushed it immediately) and a tear gas booby trap.

* FalseFlagOperation: Formerly SPECTRE's speciality. They pretend to be the KGB to steal the Lektor and destroy Bond.

* RevisedEnding: The original novel had Bond struck by Rosa Klebb's poison-stained stiletto due to his Beretta [[ShurFineGuns jamming on him]] and brought to what was his death until Ian Fleming wrote ''Dr. No''. The film has him survive and has Tatiana do away with Klebb, and ends with Bond and Tatiana riding triumphantly down Venice's Grand Canal. This was arguably for the better, to avoid a maudlin DownerEnding.

* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Averted (or rather, {{unbuilt|trope}}): Bond's gear is nothing like as outlandish as it would become in later films. The most "gadgety" equipment he has is the suitcase, containing hidden strips of gold coins, a knife, and a tear gas booby trap.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Klebb gives Tatiana the choice of either participating in her honey trap of James Bond, or get shot.

The film was also adapted into a videogame for 6th-generation consoles, over 40 years later, with Sean Connery reprising his iconic role for the first time in decades.

After the President of the United States announced that ''From Russia, With Love'' was his 9th favourite book, it became clear to EON which novel they were going to adapt next.

* A long, drawn-out fight between Bond and Red Grant on the Orient Express. Sean Connery and Robert Shaw did most of the fight scene themselves.

The movie is typically considered one of the best, if not ''the'' best of the Bond franchise. One filmmaker notes that almost every Bond movie production starts out trying to make the next ''From Russia With Love'' and ends up being the next ''Thunderball''.

The film was also adapted into a videogame for 6th-generation consoles, almost 50 years later, with Sean Connery reprising his iconic role for the first time in decades.

-->-- ''Ernst Stavro Blofeld''', head of SPECTRE

* ContinuityNod: In a SPECTRE meeting, Kronsteen mentions "the killing of our operative, Film/DrNo"; in the book, he lists off the deaths of [[CasinoRoyale Le Chiffre]], [[Literature/LiveAndLetDie Mr. Big]], and [[Literature/{{Moonraker}} Hugo Drax]].

* DirtyCommunists: Subverted. The original Fleming story had them, but most were changed to agents of the [[strike:capitalist]] criminal SPECTRE.
** Well, they're not the main villains, but they still hire a group of Bulgarian assassins to dispatch Bond.

* TheFaceless: Blofeld. According to ''LuckyNumberSlevin'', this is what makes him the best Blofeld - "That's when the villain is most effective - when [[NothingIsScarier you don't know what he looks like]]."
** The credits even refuse to tell us the actor's name, and simply feature a question mark. For the record, the body is Anthony Dawson (Professor Dent from the previous film) and the voice was Eric Pohlmann.

* FanService: The catfight between the Gypsy women and the belly dance are purely for the male audience's viewing pleasure.
** Although in fact the catfight does occur in the book. In the book, it turns into FullFrontalAssault.

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: A rare example of the series almost completely averting this trope, as Bond actually works out SPECTRE's plan entirely by himself, while Red Grant just confirms that what Bond is saying is the truth.
** Thats not rare for this series at all; Bond nearly always figures out the plan on his own, and the villains usually just fill out the details.

* SurpriseCheckmate: Performed by TheChessmaster Kronsteen.
** Actually wasn't quite checkmate, but his opponent has his king pinned down to a single square. He saw that it was hopeless and surrendered.

** And obviously during the song that plays over the closing credits.

* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Subverted: this movie is actually one of the least tech-reliant of the Bond films. The gadgets simply consist of some knives, tear gas and a fold-up rifle.
** Although the suitcase containing those gadgets is wicked cool: containing strips of gold coins, the way the tear gas is deployed, et al. The thing is, the suitcase and gear are not outlandish and seem perfectly realistic gadgets of TheSixties era spycraft.

* TranquilFury: Bonds reaction to the death of [[spoiler: Kerim Bey]]. Notable in the fact that it is one of the few times we ever see Bond mad at all.

* ContinuityNod: In a SPECTRE meeting, Kronsteen mentions "the killing of our operative, [[DrNo Dr. No]]"; in the book, he lists off the deaths of [[CasinoRoyale Le Chiffre]], [[Literature/LiveAndLetDie Mr. Big]], and [[Film/{{Moonraker}} Hugo Drax]].

** Besides which: Since ''DrNo'' was the first Bond ''film,'' and M ordered Bond at the beginning of the film to replace his Beretta with the Walther PPK because of the Beretta jamming up on him (in an unseen incident that caused Bond to get injured), Bond didn't have the Beretta in the film version of ''FromRussiaWithLove'' anyway.