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From Russia With Love (1964)
From Russia With Love (1964)
1964 | Action, Classics, Mystery
Only the second (ever) Bond film, this is very much a product of its time (as are the books), complete with the Cold War setting.

Here, Bond is sent to Istanbul to obtain a decoding machine from a Russian defector in what is obviously a honey trap, but there are strings being pulled behind the scenes by SPECTRE - the organisation itself only name-dropped in the previous film - who are out for revenge for the defeat of Dr No in the previous film.

This is the film with the cringe worthy Gypsy encampment fight.

On the other hand, it's also the one with Roas Klebb and her shoes ...