Originally Posted By: Capo de La Cosa NostraFrom Russia With Love [size:8pt
Terence Young 1963 UKNth time; TV SPECTRE recruit a Russian spy to kill James Bond and steal an encoding machine. Possibly the best Bond film, the second of the lot, grounded enough to be taken seriously, though marred by camp one-liners and obvious gags - it is at its best when it is being brutal, the fight scene on the train being the main attraction. There is one throwaway scene in Turkey, in which Bond is invited to watch two near-naked gyspy women settle an affair by fighting one another; it has all the crowd-stroking hilarity of a risible Russ Meyer catfight.[/size]
I agree, Mick, that this was the best by far of the Bonders. For me, Lotte Lenya and Robert Shaw really made the film--as menacing a pair of villains as ever graced(?) the screen. Shows the triumph of acting over the gadgetry that polluted so many other Bonders.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
