From Russia With Love
From Russia with Love is a razor-sharp, briskly-paced Cold War suspense containing many electrifying action scenes. This time combating a secret group known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen will use the ravishing Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi) to trick Bond into supporting them. Bond happily journeys to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his humor to survive his life in a sequence of enemy encounters.
From Russia With Love
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
Budget: $8 million
Worldwide Box Office: $82 million
Rate of Return: 10.25
Underrated in its day and now almost overrated today, this single installment was a change of pace but a moderate disappointment. While Sean Connery’s “blunt instrument” version in love may have been an interesting hook, telling such a story with a new actor, even one who looked at the part and was a superior onscreen fighter, was both less of a gimmick and a bridge too far. Diamonds Are Forever would have been better with Lazenby if Her Majesty’s Secret Service had been better with Sean Connery.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)