From Russia With Love

Syd Cain, who worked on five of the James Bond films as Art Director and Production Designer, died yesterday at the age of 93. According to an obituary published by MI6: Broccoli hand-picked their first Bond crew largely from his experience with Warwick Films, and selected Cain as his Art Director on “Dr. No”, where [...]

It has recently been revealed that permission has been granted for Bond 23 to shoot on location in Istanbul, already well used in From Russia With Love and featuring at the end of The World Is Not Enough. In this article we take a look at the Maiden’s Tower, which served as M’s prison in [...]

As a tribute to the late John Barry, professional musician Tim Mottershead takes an in-depth look at John Barry’s contribution to the James Bond films.

It has been remarked that From Russia, With Love is Fleming’s most traditional novel, and it has been suggested that this is the reason for the success of the film, which is faithful to its source. Bond does not appear at the beginning of the book while the reader is taken through the machinations of [...]

MI6 has a story about a pistol used on the poster artwork with Sean Connery was recently sold at auction for ten times its estimate: A pistol held by Sean Connery as James Bond in a poster to promote the 1963 film From Russia With Love has sold at auction for £277,250 ($436,828 USD). And [...]

It may therefore come as something of a surprise for anyone brought up purely on the films, that James Bond has a favourite strawberry jam. After vodka martinis and the finest vintage Champagnes it doesn’t seem at first glance to be Bond-like at all. The James Bond books often feature mouth-watering descriptions of the meals [...]

After being attacked at a gypsy camp in From Russia With Love, Kerim vows to kill the leader of the band of Bulgars involved. He plans on shooting Krilencu when he tries to make an escape through a trap door in an advertising hoarding – Marilyn Monroe in the book and Anita Ekberg in the [...]

After the huge commercial success of the first Bond film, Dr No, producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli could not wait to get back on location to start the filming of the second instalment. Selecting Fleming’s fifth Bond novel, From Russia With Love (partly, it is said, as it was identified by President John F [...]

Following the poor reception of The Spy Who Loved Me, Fleming decided to visit Jamaica in July 1962, where he worked on the short story Octopussy. The story is set in Kitzbuhel and Jamaica, two places close to Fleming’s heart, and centres around a figure suffering the ill effects of a lifetime of smoking and drinking heavily who seems distinctly autobiographical.

The Chemex coffee maker is the American designed filter maker used by James Bond in the the book From Russia, With Love.