Line #2 YMMV/FromRussiaWithLove


1	!!The film:
2	* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Creator/RobertShaw originally turned down the role of Donald "Red" Grant, calling the script "rubbish". His then-wife Mary Ure convinced him to take the part.
3	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The really long CatFight between two skimpily-dressed Roma 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.
4	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
5	** Blofeld's RightHandCat, the most widely imitated and parodied aspect of the film.
6	** Red Grant is very popular as a Bond villain and [[FountainOfExpies inspired many blonde, quiet, muscular henchmen in later Bond films]], such as Hans in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', Kriegler in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', Necros in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', and Stamper in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''. This also was why many fans initially reacted negatively to Creator/DanielCraig's casting as Bond in ''Film/{{Casino Royale\|2006}}'', as he looked more like Grant and his expies than Bond himself (though that died down when they saw that SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct).
7	** As far as Bond's one-shot allies, Kerim Bey is one of the most memorable and charismatic. His actor Creator/PedroArmendariz is also something of a MemeticBadass for delivering such a bombastic performance while dying of cancer.
8	--->'''Kerim Bey, watching over a bound and gagged criminal, with hours to kill''': I have had a particularly interesting life. Would you like to hear about it?
9	* EvenBetterSequel: Is generally considered better than ''Film/DrNo'', regularly appearing on Top 10 Lists that the former doesn't appear on. Many consider that this film got its own Even Better Sequel in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
10	* HarsherInHindsight: Bond slapping Tanya quite viciously across the face is even more uncomfortable in light of Creator/SeanConnery's infamous stance on hitting women.
11	* HilariousInHindsight:
12	** Bond helps a Soviet defector get away with a top-secret piece of Soviet equipment. In ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'', Creator/SeanConnery would star as a Soviet defector trying to get away with some top-secret Soviet equipment. At least one reviewer humorously dubbed ''Red October'' "[[{{Pun}} From Russia With Sub]]". Also, a portrait of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is prominently featured inside the Soviet embassy. In ''Red October'', Capt. Ramius (Connery) would extol Gagarin in his speech to the crew.
13	** While in the Istanbul catacombs, Bond is taken aback by the presence of rats. In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy reveals that his father Henry Sr., played by Connery, [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes is "scared to death" of rats]].
14	** [[Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974 This wouldn't be the last time Connery found himself involved in murder on the Orient Express]].
15	* 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.
16	-->'''Kerim Bey''': James, life in Istanbul will never be the same without you.
17	* LoveToHate: [[PsychoLesbian Rosa Klebb]] is exceedingly cruel and off-putting, and is therefore generally considered a very good villainess.
18	** [[TheDragon Donald "Red" Grant]] is a brutal PsychoForHire, but is so effectively chilling and memorable that he became the archetype for the "hulking blonde henchman" in Bond films.
19	* MemeticMutation: [[TheJoyOfX From/To [X] With Love]].
20	* MoralEventHorizon: For most of the film, Grant appears to simply be a professional doing his work. Then he and Bond finally meet and we see what a twisted bastard he really is.
21	-->"My orders are to kill you and deliver the Lektor. How I do it's my business. It'll be slow and painful. The first shot won't kill you. Nor the second. Nor even the third. Not until you crawl over here and ''kiss my foot''!"
22	* {{Narm}}: Bond checks into his hotel room and casually walks around checking for bugs... with the ''Bond'' theme playing in the background ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqzbtcp72yk the whole time]]''. It's like the ''Bond'' canon version of [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike and the bots]] blurting out "BA-DA-BA-DAAAAAAAAAAA!" during the boring bits of ''Film/AgentForHARM''
23	* NarmCharm: On the other hand, though, [[MundaneMadeAwesome 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.
24	* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/WalterGotell, who plays Morzeny, would later be better known to Moore-Dalton-era Bond fans as the actor behind KGB head General Gogol.
25	* SignatureScene:
26	** Bond finding Tanya in his bed. This scene is used to screen test potential James Bond candidates and Bond girls.
27	** The Orient Express fight between Bond and Grant. Every so often after this film, Bond gets into a fight on a train, examples are ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', and ''Film/{{Spectre}}''.
28	** Bond being chased by a SPECTRE helicopter (not unlike Creator/CaryGrant in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'') and taking it down with his portable sniper rifle.
29	* SpecialEffectFailure:
30	** When Blofeld gives his Siamese fighting fish speech, where he explains that the third fish is letting the other two fight so that it can finish off the survivor, it is easy to see that the real reason why the third fish isn't attacking is because the fish tank is divided by a glass wall.
31	** Pedro Armendáriz dabs his arm with a red sponge to simulate being shot during the Romani camp fight.
32	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While the story is very good, keeping the SPECTRE plot a mystery until Bond finds out would have made for a cool twist.
33	* ValuesDissonance:
34	** Bond slapping Tatiana after Kerim's murder. Granted, Bond is understandably upset over his friend's death and he knows Tatiana has been lying to him, but it seems quite brutish to modern viewers.
35	** It's a throwaway line but Kerim casually notes that the Western allies and the Soviets in Istanbul have encouraged a blood feud between the Roma and the Bulgars through using them respectively as pawns in the Cold War.
36	** On that note, the representation of the {{UsefulNotes/Romani}} is... very dated. The use of the common slur term for the people rather than the more appropriate Roma, the representation of them as simultaneously filthy and backwards and the women as sexual objects of desire ([[BigLippedAlligatorMoment not to mention the weird-as-hell catfight to the death]]) definitely shows how attitudes towards the Romani have changed in the last 60 years.
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38	!!The novel:
39	* CompleteMonster: [[PsychoForHire Donovan "Red" Grant]] 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. He is chosen to execute Bond and Tatiana.
40	* DesignatedHero: Kerim is intended to be a [[LovableRogue lovable]], [[LargeHam larger-than-life]] UnscrupulousHero, but it's hard to see him as anything other than a villain due to his backstory, in which he describes how as a drunken teenager he won a woman in a bet and when she refused to go with him, he beat her unconscious, stripped her naked, chained her up, fed her on table scraps and raped her until her mind broke and she said she liked it. [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization But BECAUSE she said she liked it, Kerim himself, Bond, and the narrator all treat it as okay]]. The only reason he isn't the most loathsome person in the book is that TheHeavy is a serial killer-turned-KGB legbreaker with a triple-digit bodycount to his name. None of this is present in [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove the film adaptation]], whose version of Kerim ''is'' genuinely lovable and is one of the most popular one-film characters.
41	* HilariousInHindsight:
42	** Bond finds Q Branch's attaché case (which contains two hidden knives, gold sovereigns and his silencer, but neither the tear gas nor the rifle from the film) to be a bit over-the-top ([[ChekhovsArmory though of course he ends up using everything]]), and later he laments that his side doesn't provide handy gadgets like Grant's five-shot copy of ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. It's pretty strange to see the iconic "spy gadget" user lamenting that he doesn't get kit like that.
43	** Kerim Bey's given name in the novel was [[Film/DonnieDarko "Darko"]].
44	* NauseaFuel: Fleming's extremely detailed description of what it feels like to be shot in the heart.
45	* TearJerker: The chapter "Out of Danger?" where Bond has to break the news of [[spoiler: Kerim's death]] to his son and M.
46	* ValuesDissonance:
47	** Kerim's kidnapping, imprisoning, and attempting to brainwash a woman into loving him in his {{backstory}} is portrayed as a mere "youthful indiscretion" that the Service quickly straightened out of him, rather than the serious crime it would be extremely difficult to redeem oneself from that it would be seen as today. This can definitely hamper modern readers' sympathy for Kerim.
48	** Kerim also says that most Turkish people secretly hate democracy and [[WarIsGlorious wish for the mass-murdering, serial-raping days of the Sultans to come back]].
49	** Bond and Tatiana telling DomesticAbuse jokes. Even as playful banter it's doubtful this would fly today outside of a BlackComedy.

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