History Film / FromRussiaWithLove

* ShoePhone: This film is the first to have gadgets, although they are rather mundane compared to later versions. Specifically, the tear-gas bomb disguised as a tin of talcum powder, and Rosa Klebb and Morzeny's shoe-daggers. Grant has a wire garotte hidden inside his watch.

* BellyDancer: In the gypsy camp, as well as the opening credits.

** Lisa Guiraut's BellyDancer character; she has no dialogue of any sort, and her sole function in the plot aside from titillating the audience for four minutes is that her performance, entirely by coincidence, provides distraction for the Russian agents sneaking up on the Romani camp.

* CoolGuns:
** Bond is issued an [=ArmaLite=] AR-7 "takedown rifle" as part of his equipment kit. When this rifle is disassembled, [[IkeaWeaponry the receiver, barrel, and magazines fit inside the stock]], allowing it to fit neatly into Bond's briefcase. 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 wound a SPECTRE pilot, making him drop a live grenade that blows up his helicopter.
** Creator/SeanConnery famously posed with a Walther LP-53 air pistol for the poster. Apparently, it was photographer David Hurn's own personal weapon which he provided when a prop PPK didn't turn up for the shoot.
** SPECTRE trainees can be seen training with Armalite AR-10s.
** Red Grant uses a Broomhandle Mauser [=C96=] to shoot a man about to backstab Bond during the gypsy camp fight.

* PsychoLesbian: Implied with Klebb when she caresses Tatiana's hair while saying "a labour of love". Quite explicit in the novel, where Kronsteen notes that she has "overcome the sex instinct," and can have a lover tortured to death just as easily as a stranger; and her effort to seduce Tatiana sends the latter fleeing from the room.

* RenegadeRussian: Rosa Klebb. (In the novel, she is explicitly working for the USSR and has not defected to join SPECTRE.)

** 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 wound a SPECTRE pilot, making him drop a live grenade that blows up his helicopter.

* DeadlyTrainingArea: A villainous example:

** And we even see one mook dodging blasts from a flamethrower.

* IkeaWeaponry: Bond uses an [=ArmaLite=] AR-7 Explorer as a SniperRifle. It's only .22 calibre, but the ranges at which it's used this doesn't cause a problem.

* A CatFight between two gypsies, sometimes removed from TV broadcasts, which serves nothing more than to have two scantily-clad women fighting each other.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''♫ From Russia with love, I fly to you... ♫'']]

%%* TheLancer: Kerim Bey, to Bond.

** Earlier in his confrontation with Grant, as he was impersonating Captain Nash, he addresses Bond as [[IAmVeryBritish "old man."]] After Bond kills Grant with the knife in his suitcase, he pockets the money in Grant's coat and says, "You won't be needing this... old man."

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the book Tatiana had black hair. In the film she has blonde hair.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The original novel had Bond struck by Rosa Klebb's poison-stained stiletto and left in an UncertainDoom h until Ian Fleming wrote ''Dr. No'' (where it was revealed that he survived). The film has him hold Klebb off with a chair until Tatiana can kill her, 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.

* 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 hold Klebb off with a chair until Tatiana can kill her, 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.

* IAmVeryBritish: While masquerading as Nash, Grant puts on a British accent and peppers his speech with stereotypical Briticisms in an attempt to maintain his cover. Lampshaded by Bond once he's caught on to the ruse.
-->'''James Bond:'''You won't be needing this, 'Old man'

-->'''Tatiana''': I thought this was for tomorrow. Today is the thirteenth, isn't it?
-->'''Bond''': This is a hell of a time to be superstitious.

-->'''Rosa Klebb''': Training is useful, but there is no substitute for experience.
-->'''Morzeny''': I agree. We use live targets as well.

-->'''Bond:''' Excuse me, is your clock correct?
-->'''Russian:''' Russian clocks are always --''(explosion covers everyone in dust)''

* SchmuckBait

-->'''Kerim Bey''': ''(translating for Vavra)'' The women will fight until one of them is dead or surrenders. The winner will marry the man they both love, the loser will be cast out of the tribe, never to return. If both quit, the elders of the tribe will then decide who will marry the chief's son.
-->''[speaking Romani, Vida lets out a long string of curses, glaring venomously at Zora]''
-->'''Kerim Bey''': She's saying that...
-->'''James Bond''': [[RealityHasNoSubtitles Yes, I think I got it without the subtitles.]]

-->''TheEnd''
-->''[[TheEndOrIsIt Not Quite The End]]''
-->''James Bond will return in the next Ian Fleming thriller, Film/{{Goldfinger}}.''

** Creator/DesmondLlewelyn's character is not referred to as "Q" but as the "equipment officer" for "Q branch", and is credited as "Boothroyd". Also, Q and Bond interact with each other respectfully rather than engaging in the prickly banter they'd become famous for.

** In a carry-over from ''Film/DrNo'', the Bond Theme gets used to score relatively mundane scenes such as Bond checking into the hotel.

** After Kerim Bey shoots Krilencu as the latter tries to escape by climbing from a hatch hidden inside the mouth of Creator/AnitaEkberg on a billboard for a movie, Bond quips, "She should have kept her mouth shut".

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Grant pretends to be a British agent, but consumes red wine with fish, something a Brit would never do. He also says "cheero" instead of "cheerio", and "old man" instead of "old chap". Bond doesn't put two and two together until after Grant gets the drop on him, then curses himself for missing it.

* DeathBySex: Inverted with Kerim whose intent to "relax" with his mistress pulls him away from his desk as it gets attacked by a mine on the other side of the wall.

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By Creator/EonProductions:\\
'''Creator/SeanConnery:''' ''Film/DrNo'' | '''From Russia with Love''' | ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' | ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' | ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' | ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''\\
'''Creator/GeorgeLazenby:''' ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''\\
'''Creator/RogerMoore:''' ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' | ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' | ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' | ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' | ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' | ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' | ''Film/AViewToAKill''\\
'''Creator/TimothyDalton:''' ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' | ''Film/LicenceToKill''\\
'''Creator/PierceBrosnan:''' ''Film/GoldenEye'' | ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' | ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' | ''Film/DieAnotherDay''\\
'''Creator/DanielCraig:''' ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' | ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' | ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' | ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' | ''Film/NoTimeToDie''\\
Non-Eon Films:\\
''Film/CasinoRoyale1954'' | ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' | ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''-]]]]]