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Bond villain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld

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Bond villain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld

007 Film: From Russia With Love (1963)
Actors: Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)
Mission: Humiliating MI6 for the death of Julius No by using Russian agent Tatiana Romanova and a Soviet decoding device as bait to lure James Bond into a trap, killing him and leaking compromising photos of Bond and Tatiana to the press before selling the decoder back to Moscow.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives (No contact between him and Bond)


007 Film: Thunderball (1965)
Actors: Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)
Mission: Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money from the United Kingdom.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives (No contact between him and Bond)

007 Film: You Only Live Twice (1967)
Actor: Donald Pleasence
Mission: Capture United States & Soviet spacecraft from orbit in order to provoke war between the superpowers on behalf of an undisclosed Asian country.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives.

007 Film: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Actor: Telly Savalas
Mission: Extort the world with viruses that render crops and livestock totally infertile.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives.

007 Film: Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Actor: Charles Gray
Mission: Create an industrial laser attached to satellite and magnified by diamonds, which is capable of destroying targets anywhere on the face of the Earth. Used to target nuclear stockpiles of countries that refuse to pay him.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead.


007 Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
"Wheelchair villain"
(implied to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
Actors: John Hollis (body), Robert Rietty (voice)
Mission: To kill Bond as revenge by remotely hijacking Bond's helicopter and making it crash.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead after Bond drops him in a smokestack.

007 Film: Never Say Never Again (1983)
Actor: Max von Sydow
Mission: Hold world powers for ransom with nuclear weapons.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives. No contact with Bond.

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Bond villain: Rosa Klebb


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Bond villain: Rosa Klebb
007 Film: From Russia With Love (1963)
Actress: Lotte Lenya


Mission:
Humiliating MI6 for the death of Julius No by using Russian agent Tatiana Romanova and a Soviet decoding device as bait to lure James Bond into a trap, killing him and leaking compromising photos of Bond and Tatiana to the press before selling the decoder back to Moscow.

Fate of the Bond villain:
Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova.

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007 Video game: From Russia with Love (2005)

007 VIDEO GAME TITLE: From Russia with Love
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2005
DEVELOPER: EA Redwood Shores, Rebellion Developments (PSP)
PLATFORM(S): GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PSP
BOND LIKENESS: Sean Connery

ABOUT

From Russia with Love is also notable in that it is the first video game to use Sean Connery's likeness as James Bond and the first to include all new voice work by the actor.
 
One of the most obvious changes to the story for the video game is the absence of the villainous organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E. who played a vital role in the film version, but not the novel version of From Russia with Love. Due to legal issues that have plagued the James Bond series of films since 1963, the organisation was renamed as OCTOPUS and appears to lack a central leader in the same vein as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The film rights to S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and the film Thunderball, are owned by Kevin McClory.

The game begins with a standard pre-title sequence in which Elizabeth Stark, the British Prime Minister's daughter, is kidnapped by OCTOPUS while attending a party. Fortunately, Bond was assigned to attend the party for just such an event, and he defeats OCTOPUS and rescues Stark.

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007 Soundtrack: From Russia with Love (1963)

FILM: From Russia with Love(1963)
SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1963  
SCORE COMPOSER: John Barry
TITLE SONG: "Opening Titles: James Bond Is Back/From Russia with Love/James Bond Theme"
COMPOSED BY: John Barry, Lionel Bart, Monty Norman
PERFORMED BY: John Barry (title sequence), Matt Monro (vocal version heard in film proper and during closing credits)

From Russia with Love is the soundtrack for the second James Bond film of the same name. This is the first series film with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer.
John Barry, arranger of Monty Norman's James Bond Theme for Dr. No, would be the dominant Bond series composer for most of its history and the inspiration for fellow series composer, David Arnold (who uses cues from this soundtrack in his own for Tomorrow Never Dies).

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TRACK LISTING
  1. "Opening Titles: James Bond Is Back/From Russia with Love/James Bond Theme" (different arrangement from that heard in the film)
  2. "Tania Meets Klebb"
  3. "Meeting in St. Sophia"
  4. "The Golden Horn" *
  5. "Girl Trouble"
  6. "Bond Meets Tania"
  7. "007"
  8. "Gypsy Camp"
  9. "Death of Grant"
  10. "From Russia with Love" – Matt Monro
  11. "Spectre Island"
  12. "Guitar Lament" *
  13. "Man Overboard/SMERSH in Action"
  14. "James Bond with Bongos"
  15. "Stalking"
  16. "Leila Dances" *
  17. "Death of Kerim"
  18. "007 Takes the Lektor"

* Not heard in the film

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007 Book: From Russia, with Love (1957)

Bond book: From Russia, with Love
Author: Ian Fleming
Publication date: 8 April 1957

From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957. As with the first four books, From Russia, with Love was generally well received by the critics. The story was written at Fleming's Goldeneye estate in Jamaica in early 1956. By the time the book was published, he did not know whether he wanted to write another Bond book or not.
 
The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counterintelligence agency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both him and his organisation, the Secret Service. As bait for the plot, the Russians use a beautiful cipher clerk and the Spektor, a Soviet decoding machine. Much of the action takes place in Istanbul and on the Orient Express.

The novel's sales were aided by an advertising campaign that played upon a visit by British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden to Fleming's Goldeneye estate and by the publication of a 1961 Life Magazine article, which listed From Russia, with Love as one of US President John F. Kennedy's ten favourite books. There have been four adaptations of the book: a serialisation in the Daily Express newspaper, a subsequent daily comic strip by Henry Gammidge and John McLusky in the same paper, the 1963 film version, and a 2012 BBC radio adaptation of the same name, produced by Jarvis & Ayres and starring Toby Stephens.

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007 Director: Peter R. Hunt

Who: Peter R. Hunt
Born: 11 March 1925, London, England
Died: 14 August 2002, Santa Monica, California, USA

Peter R. Hunt was an English film editor, director, and television producer. Hunt was known for his work on the James Bond films with his innovative editing style.

Peter R. Hunt´s 007 production:

Director:
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969)

Editor:
"Dr. No" (1962)
"From Russia with Love" (1963)
"Goldfinger" (1964)
"Thunderball" (1965)
"You Only Live Twice" (Second unit director, supervising editor, 1967)

James Bond: 1962-69
He gained recognition for his film editing techniques when he utilized quick cutting, allowing camera swings during action and inserts interleaving other elements while working as editor on the first three Bonds.

Hunt then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". He also worked with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli on the 1963 Bob Hope film "Call Me Bwana", and with Saltzman and a few other Bond veterans on the non-EON thriller "The IPCRESS File". "Call Me Bwana" is the only film produced by the James Bond production company Eon Productions that is not a Bond film. Hunt also directed some episodes of the 1971 British television series, "The Persuaders!", which starred future James Bond Roger Moore, and Tony Curtis.

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007 Director: Terence Young

Who: Shaun Terence Young
Born: 20 June 1915, Shanghai, China
Died: 7 September 1994, Cannes, France

Shaun Terence Young was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing three James Bond films, "Dr. No" (1962), "From Russia with Love" (1963), and "Thunderball" (1965).

Terence Young´s 007 production:

Director:
"Dr. No" (1962)
"From Russia with Love" (1963)
"Thunderball" (1965)


Writer:
"Dr. No" (1962) (uncredited)

Miscellaneous crew:
"From Russia with Love" (1963) (Body double: Pedro Armendáriz – uncredited)

"Goldfinger" (1964) (Director: pre-production – uncredited)

James Bond: 1962-63, 1965
Young had previously worked five years earlier with the then relatively unknown Sean Connery, who was to play Bond, on "Action of the Tiger". For the first Bond film, Lois Maxwell claimed that "Terence took Sean under his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat." It led to three of the first four Bond films: "Dr. No", "From Russia with Love", and "Thunderball". They became financially and critically successful and helped Sean Connery become a superstar during the 1960s.
During the filming of "From Russia with Love", Young and a photographer nearly drowned when their helicopter crashed into the sea while filming a key sequence. They were rescued by other members of the film crew. Young was back behind the camera thirty minutes after being rescued.

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(1994-09-07)
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007 Film: From Russia with Love (1963)

007 Film: From Russia with Love
Release year: 1963
Directed by: Terence Young
Produced by: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli

From Russia with Love is the second James Bond film made by Eon Productions and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1963, the film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the same nameby Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr. No.

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