1963 · bond · spy · action
From Russia with Love
Directed by Terence Young1h 55m1963
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Our read: From Russia with Love (1963) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded bond · spy · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured bond / spy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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