History YMMV / FromRussiaWithLove

** Red Grant is very popular as a Bond villain and inspired many blonde, quiet, muscular henchmen in later Bond films.

* FridgeHorror:
** Tatiana, a loyal Soviet clerk that's good at her job and has no malice against anyone, is manipulated by a traitor through her devotion to country to commit treason and played by Bond to defect out of infatuation as the audience fully knows Bond has no intention of settling down with her, likely leaving her to an uncertain future in an enemy country.

** Creator/SeanConnery would later appear in the 1974 film adaptation of ''[[Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974 Murder on the Orient Express]]''. Another film that focuses on ThrillerOnTheExpress.

* MemeticMutation: From/To [X] With Love.

** NarmCharm: Having epic music for that mundane scene arguably makes it better. Also kind of helps that Bond kills someone (BondOneLiner and all) and the music kicks in right on the scene before that.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While the story is very good keeping the SPECTRE plot a mystery until Bond finds out would have made for a cool twist.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Pedro Armendiaz dabs his arm with a red sponge to simulate being shot during the gypsy camp fight.

** Bond finding Tanya in his bed. This scene is used to screen test potential James Bond candidates.

* HarsherInHindsight: This is Desmond Llewelyn's first film as Q, and features James Bond traveling to Istanbul. ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', released thirty-six years later, also featured Bond traveling to Istanbul and would be Llewelyn's last film as Q before his retirement and death.

** Kerim's off-handed remark that the West and the USSR's respective uses of Gypsies and Bulgars as muscle has ignited a blood feud between them.

** Speaking of which, Connery and Shaw would have a rematch 13 years later as Myth/RobinHood and the Sheriff of Nottingham in ''Film/RobinAndMarian''.

** Bond being chased by a SPECTRE helicopter (not unlike Cary Grant in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'') and taking it down with his portable sniper rifle.
* SpecialEffectFailure: The actor playing Kerim Bey dabs his arm with a red sponge to simulate being shot during the gypsy camp fight.

* Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Sylvia Trench was supposed to be recurring character like M, Q, and Moneypenny. Instead she was written out and never mentioned again after her picnic with James.

* HoYay : Kerim for Bond. Hell, he treats screwing his mistress like a chore, but he's the most animated and enthusiastic guy in the world when he's sharing a scene with James.

* HoYay

* EvenBetterSequel: To ''Film/DrNo'' and might have gotten its own in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.

* FridgeLogic: Couldn't the Gypsy Prince decide FOR HIMSELF which girl to marry?
** And miss the chance to see a CatFight over him?
** It's addressed in the film (or maybe just the book). If he picks one, the other will assuredly murder her and possibly him as well. So they may as well just settle things now.
* HilariousInHindsight:

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The really long, boring CatFight between two skimpily-dressed gypsy women has nothing to do with the overall plot and is pretty [[{{Narm}} Narmy]] in its attempts to be titillating. Toned down from the book, where both women end up completely naked.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Blofeld's RightHandCat, the most widely imitated and parodied aspect of the film.

* FridgeHorror: Tatiana, a loyal Soviet clerk that's good at her job and has no malice against anyone, is manipulated by a traitor through her devotion to country to commit treason and played by Bond to defect out of infatuation as the audience fully knows Bond has no intention of settling down with her, likely leaving her to an uncertain future in an enemy country.

* CompleteMonster: [[PsychoForHire Donovan "Red" Grant]] [[note]]changed to Donald in the film[[/note]] has been afflicted with a burning urge to kill during the full moon since his youth. Starting with animals, he graduated to vagrants and tramps before becoming a SerialKiller who targeted young woman in his native Ireland. Escaping justice by joining the military, Grant would defect to the Russians after he realized they could offer him the bloodshed he craved. A ruthless, efficient killer, Grant rose to the position of head executioner of the clandestine group SMERSH and was indulged in being allowed to murder with impunity during the full moon. This even extended to Grant being allowed access to prisons with {{chainsaw|Good}}s during those nights. Bond's chosen executioner, Grant kills his ally Darko Kerim and proceeds to try to murder Bond and his lover, admitting that all he cares about in life is his ability to murder people.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Tatiana asks why British men don't wear cologne like Russian men do. Bond replies "We wash."

* DesignatedHero: Kerim wasted most of his youth being a drunken thug and [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty sexual predator]], and even in the present seems to have few regrets, at one point giving a [[CharacterFilibuster rather long speech]] in defense of the NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization that both Bond and the narrator appear to agree with. Thankfully toned down in the film; he's still [[UnscrupulousHero unscrupulous]] but [[LovableRogue more lovably so]].

** As far as Bond Lancers go, Karim Bey has a lot of chemistry with Bond.

** Karim's off-handed remark that the West and the USSR's respective uses of Gypsies and Bulgars as muscle has ignited a blood feud between them.

* AdaptationDistillation: The book is generally regarded as one of Fleming's best, but many of the changes for the film are still considered good decisions - the book's unusual format (where the entire first third is SMERSH planning their ''konspiratsia'', following Grant, Klebb and finally Romanova before Bond ever turns up) is distilled into a much shorter sequence; there's more SceneryPorn in Istanbul and events are slightly reordered so Bond plays a greater role in the action; Kerim isn't a creepy sexual predator (see below); the sequence on the Orient Express gives Bond slightly less of an IdiotBall moment when he realises "Nash" isn't who he says he is, and the changed ending neatly resolves what happens to Klebb, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Kronsteen]] and Tatiana.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The really long, boring CatFight between two skimpily-dressed gypsy women has nothing to do with the overall plot and is pretty [[{{Narm}} Narmy]] in its attempts to be titillating.

* AdaptationDistillation: The book is generally regarded as one of Fleming's best, but many of the changes for the film are still considered good decisions - the book's unusual format (where the entire first third is SMERSH planning their ''konspiratsia'', following Grant, Klebb and finally Romanova before Bond ever turns up) is distilled into a much shorter sequence; there's more SceneryPorn in Istanbul and events are slightly reordered so Bond plays a greater role in the action; the sequence on the Orient Express gives Bond slightly less of an IdiotBall moment when he realises "Nash" isn't who he says he is, and the changed ending neatly resolves what happens to Klebb, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Kronsteen]] and Tatiana.

* ValuesDissonance: Bond slapping Tatiana. Granted, Bond's friend Kerim has just been murdered and he knows Tatiana has been lying to him, but it seems quite brutish to modern viewers.

* AdaptationDistillation: The book is generally regarded as one of Fleming's best, but many of the changes for the film are still considered good decisions - the book's unusual format (where the entire first third is SMERSH planning their ''konspiratsia'', following Grant, Klebb and finally Romanova before Bond ever turns up) is distilled into a much shorter sequence; there's more SceneryPorn in Istanbul and events are slightly reordered so Bond plays a greater role in the action, and the sequence on the Orient Express gives Bond slightly less of an IdiotBall moment when he realises "Nash" isn't who he says he is.

* HilariousInHindsight: Kerim Bey's given name in the novel was [[Film/DonnieDarko "Darko"]].

* TearJerker: InUniverse, the death of Karim Bey (which also pisses off Bond). Meta: Pedro Amerdantriz (Karim's actor) was dying of cancer during filming, and on various scenes he couldn't walk (the running Bey, Bond and Tatiana do through the Istambul market was done with a body double for Karim).

** Creator/SeanConnery would later appear in the 1974 film adaptation of ''[[Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress Murder on the Orient Express]]''.