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Actors: Sean Connery Lotte Lenya Robert Shaw
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about From Russia With Love |
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This tome, Bond must prevent that the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. steals a new Russian decoding machine, the "Lektor". Bond shall travel from Istanbul to Venice in a new adventure.
--Bjorn Bakker, Resident Scholar
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When a Soviet Lektor decoding machine is stolen, both the British and the evil organization known as S.P.E.C.T.R.E. are both out to retrieve it and it's up to James Bond to get it first. Persued by a cunning killer (Shaw) and helped by a Russian Spy (Lenya), it's an action packed extravaganza, including the very famous fight between Bond and Red Grant (Shaw) on the Orient Express! Top Drawer Bond! Followed by the highly successful Goldfinger.
--Alan, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Part of a series?
- James Bond
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- state secrets
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- happy
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- killer
- terrorist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
- 80%
Hair color
- red
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- muscular (man)
- average (woman)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Turkey
- Russia
- England/UK
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
- moving train
- fort/military installation
- sewers/subways
- building
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 5 (an average amount)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to rescue
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- ocean ship battles
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- poisoning
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Any profanity?
- None
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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