From Russia with Love

1963/Action, Rated-PG, 2Discs/3:25:45
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Crew: Directors and cast members (includes IMDB links)
Details: (Netflix summary)
Content:
Disc 1
- Theatrical Version 1:55:03
- Commentary by director Terence Young & cast & crew
Disc 2 - Extras ~1:30:42
- Ian Fleming The CBC Interview 7:43
- Ian Fleming & Raymond Chandler 5:12
- Ian Fleming on Desert Island Discs 5:11
- Animated Storyboard Sequence 1:28
- Inside From Russia With Love 33:43
- Harry Saltzman Showman 26:42
- Theatrical Archive (7:32): 1. Original Trailer 3:35, 2. Back to Back 2:02, 3. Bond Sale 1:55
- TV Broadcasts (1:36): 1. Sean Connery is Bond :12, 2. Bond All Over :22, 3. More Thrills Per Minute 1:02
- Radio Communications (1:30): 1. Fantastic Bond Sale :52, 2. Famous Named Villains :27, 3. Sean Connery is :09
- 141 Image Database (Slideshow) Includes: 1. Filmmakers (3), 2. Ian Flemming (5), 3. Portraits (16), 4. Pinewood (19), 5. Dressed to Kill (3), 6. Lovely (9), 7. Tatiana Meets Rosa Klebb (16), 8. Istanbul (10), 9. Gypsy Camp (3), 10. Orient Express (11), 11. Scotland (13), 12. Rats (2), 13. Back Projection (3), 14. Smoke on the Water (2), 15. Lost Scene (3), 16. Around the World with 007 (23)
Eggs: (Eeggs, Eggs, DVD Town)
Musical Highlights: Matt Monro-From Russia With Love
Factoids: (IMDB, Mistakes, BondMovies, Wiki) Mi6
1. During the helicopter sequence towards the end of the film, the inexperienced pilot flew too close to Sean Connery, almost killing him.
2. The receptionist at the Istanbul Hotel at which James Bond stays has the same voice as Honey Rider in Dr. No (1962). This is because Nikki Van der Zyl dubbed both Ursula Andress in that movie and the receptionist. She also dubbed Claudine Auger as Domino in Thunderball (1965).
3. SPECTRE stood for Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
4. Some rumored reports maintain that James Bond creator Ian Fleming makes small appearance in this film standing next to the Orient Express train. He is allegedly wearing grey trousers and a white jumper and stands on the platform to the right side of the train.
5. In 1950, a US naval attaché was assassinated and thrown from the Orient Express train by a Communist agent. This story inspired Ian Fleming's novel "From Russia With Love".
6. Two actresses with bit parts would reappear in later films: Nadja Regin, who plays Kerim's girl, would play the dancer at the start of Goldfinger (1964), and Martine Beswick, one of the Gypsy girls, returned as Paula in Thunderball (1965).
7. The moves in the chess game played by Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal) are from the game played by Boris Spassky and David Bronstein at the USSR Championship in Leningrad in 1960.
8. The words used for "pull" and "push" signs on the doors at the Russian consulate are literal translations of the corresponding English verbs ("dergat" and "pikhat"). First, it's not what is customarily written on the doors in Russia ("to" and "fro" are used), and second, the colloquial forms of verbs are used, not the written forms.
9. When Bay is about to kill the man that was hanging on the movie banner, look carefully at the names on the banner. The names are Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, the producers of the Bond movies.
10. Alfred Hitchcock was originally considered as director for the film version in 1958, with Bond to be played by Cary Grant and a possible return to the screen for Grace Kelly as Tatiana Romanova, but the deals fell through when Vertigo performed badly at the box office. The helicopter scene in From Russia with Love mimics the cropduster scene from the film Hitchcock did instead in North by Northwest.
11. The Bulgarian assassin Krilencu tries to escape from his apartment through a secret window in a billboard advertising Call Me Bwana with the face of Anita Ekberg, the only non-James Bond film produced by EON Productions. Ironically, Rik Van Nutter who would play Felix Leiter in Thunderball was married to Ekberg.
12. The "007" theme (the song played during the gunfight at the gypsy camp and also during Bond's theft of the LEKTOR) was used as part of the Eyewitness News format on Philadelphia television station KYW-TV.
13. Although not credited, the actor who 'played' Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a.k.a. Number One of SPECTRE was Anthony Dawson, the same actor who had played Professor Dent in the previous Bond film, Dr. No, also directed by Terence Young. The actual actor of Blofeld was credited with a question mark.
14. According to the book "Death of a President" (1964) by William Raymond Manchester, this was the last motion picture John F. Kennedy ever saw, on 20 November 1963, in the White House.
Comments: B. The Ultimate Collectors Edition adds 19:34 new material to approximately 1:11:08 of older material.