Date of Release World Premiere 10th October 1963, the Odeon Leicester Square, London.
Running Time 116 minutes
Starring Sean Connery as Ian Fleming’s James Bond
Plot Using the British Secret Service as its dupe, SPECTRE plans to steal the Lektor decoding machine and sell it back to its Russian owners, with the added refinement of the death of Double-O-Seven.
Bond’s Women
- Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi)
- Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson)
Gypsy Girls
- Zora (Martine Beswick)
- Vida (Aliza Gur)
Bond’s Enemies
- Donald ‘Red’ Grant (Robert Shaw)
- Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya)
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Anthony Dawson [voice: Eric Pohlmann])
- Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal)
- Morzeny (Walter Gotell)
- Krilencu (Fred Haggerty)
Bond’s Allies
- Kerim Bey (Pedro Armendariz)
- ‘M’ (Bernard Lee)
- Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
- ‘Q’ (Desmond Llewelyn) [his first appearance as the character]
Bond’s Car 4.5 litre Bentley
Bond’s Gadget Briefcase: which holds an AR-7 folding sniper’s rifle, 40 rounds of ammunition, an exploding tear gas cartridge disguised as a tin of talcum powder, 50 Gold Sovereigns, and a throwing knife.
Main Title Music ‘From Russia With Love’ (Instrumental)
End Title Music ‘From Russia With Love’ sung by Matt Monro
Music Score John Barry
Art Director Syd Cain
Main Titles Designer Robert Brownjohn
Screenplay Richard Maibaum & Johanna Harwood
Director of Photography Ted Moore
Director Terence Young
Producers *Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli
The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for the Western Hemisphere
Filming Locations
- Pinewood Studios, London, England
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Scotland, UK (Helicopter chase scenes)
- Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Turkey Venice,
- Veneto, Italy
Budget $2 million
Worldwide Box Office $78.9 million
Worldwide Box Office Gross Income 2002 inflation-adjusted $464 million
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