From Russia with Love - Seriesly
28Holy cow, this one's going up super late. My own fault, too much stuff got in the way this week, but there's quite a lot of free time coming up, so after the next episode we should be on-target for Friday releases as intended!
Anyway! This week on SERIESLY, we're looking at Sean Connery's favorite Bond film (and an adaptation of JFK's 9th favorite book of all time), FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. A clerk at the Soviet embassy tells the British government she wants to defect, and bring a complex decoding device with her. MI6 knows it's a trap, but does either side really know how far down the rabbit hole goes?
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From Russia with Love is the second James Bond film made by Eon Productions and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1963, the film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr. No.
Following the success of Dr. No, United Artists approved a sequel and doubled the budget available for the producers. In addition to filming on location in Turkey, the action scenes were shot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire and in Scotland. Production ran over budget and schedule, and had to rush to finish by its scheduled October 1963 release date. From Russia with Love was a critical and commercial success, taking over $78 million in worldwide box office receipts, more than its predecessor Dr. No.
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