History Film / FromRussiaWithLove

* SameLanguageDub: Creator/DanielaBianchi's dialogue (as Tatiana Romanova) was overdubbed by Barbara Jefford to hide her thick Italian accent.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Kerim in the book is a [[BlackAndGrayMorality very dark gray]] UnscrupulousHero who raped a woman as a teenage hoodlum and shoots an unarmed, fleeing opponent in the back, among other things. Here, he's a much more likable LovableRogue.

* FakeDefector: What Tatiana is told her mission is to be.

** Creator/DesmondLlewelyn's character is not referred to as "Q" but as the "equipment officer" for "Q branch", and is credited as "Boothroyd".

* PoisonedWeapons: Rosa Klebb has a poisoned dagger in the toe of her shoe. At the end, she has a kicking fight with James Bond who pushes her against the wall with a chair until Tatiana Romanova shoots her. (Compare with the novel)

* PinPullingTeeth: A SPECTRE mook does this while dropping grenades on Bond from a helicopter. Another mook is flying the aircraft, but for some reason he needs to have a grenade in each hand.

** Bond is issued an Armalite AR-7 "takedown rifle" as part of his equipment kit. When disassembled, all the parts and ammo fit inside the stock. Bond takes aim at Krilencu with it, then lets Kerim pull the trigger at the latter's insistence on wanting to settle the score personally. Later, Bond uses the rifle to kill a SPECTRE helicopter pilot.

* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Grant orders a Chianti with his grilled soul, albeit red instead of white. This tips Bond off that he's an imposter.

** The changing of the book's ending meant that Rene Matis' re-appearance was omitted.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The original novel had Bond struck by Rosa Klebb's poison-stained stiletto and brought to what was his death until Ian Fleming wrote ''Dr. No'' (where it was revealed that the people with him were able to keep him alive until a doctor could be summoned). 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. 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 ''From Russia With Love'' anyway.

* VideoInsideFilmOutside: During an external shot of Venice, a preemptive reference appears to the Creator/MontyPython sketch;
-->'''Tatiana:''' Behave yourself, James! We're being filmed...

** The two SPECTRE helicopter henchmen die when Bond shoots the arm of the one who dropped grenades as he had just unpinned one, which falls into the aircraft and they have no time to throw it out before it explodes.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Klebb is shot by Tatiana, whom she recruited, with the gun she brought.

Over 40 years later the film was adapted into a video game for 6th-generation consoles, ''VideoGame/DoubleOhSevenFromRussiaWithLove'', with Sean Connery reprising his iconic role for the first time in decades.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Grant is throttled with his own wristwatch-garotte.
** Klebb is shot by Tatiana, whom she recruited, with the gun she brought.

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** Creator/DesmondLlewelyn's character is not referred to as "Q" but as the "equipment officer" for "Q branch".

** The footage showing Istanbul's landmarks is much more conspicious in showcasing them than later Bond films would with their foreign locations, by which point the idea of Bond visiting a famous international location was much more common.

The movie is typically considered one of 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 ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. Sean Connery cites it as his personal favourite of the Bond films he made, and it was also the last one Ian Fleming saw before his death in 1964 before the release of the next one, ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.

* SerendipitousSurvival: Kerim Bey survives Krilencu's first assassination attempt, a bomb planted on the exterior wall of his office near his desk, because his girlfriend pulled him away from said desk for a make-out session mere seconds earlier.

* RefusedHandshake: As Kronsteen leaves the chess match, a member of the press offers his hand to shake, but Kronsteen just ignores him. Given that he's summoned to a meeting with Blofeld, this is rude, but understandable.

* ReadyForLovemaking: Tania sneaks through the window of Bond's hotel room while 007 is getting ready to take a shower, and climbs into Bond's bed wearing precisely one black velvet neck ribbon and a pair of black silk stockings. (When Bond asks Tatiana if she wore anything at all when she snuck into his room, she replies, "This!", pointing to said ribbon. (Incidentally, this very scene is used to audition future Bond girls.)

** The Gypsy women who have a catfight and the belly dancer are purely for the male audience's viewing pleasure.