From Russia with Love - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[phyllis]

This movie includes a scene where Bond walks through a sewer full of rats. Another movie featuring Sir Sean Connery, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), features a similar scene.

[sara]

A scene was cut just before Bond meets Romanova on the ferry. Bond tries to lose his mysterious pursuer and hops into a taxi. Bond takes control of the taxi's brakes, causing the pursuing Bulgarian to run into the back of the taxi, and a third car to join the pile-up. The driver of the third car turns out to be Kerim Bey. When the angry Bulgarian protests to Bey, he is told "My friend, this is life", while Bond makes his escape in the British Embassy's Rolls-Royce. Terence Young shot the scene ten times to get the long ash on Bey's cigar that Pedro Armendáriz insisted on. It wasn't until a private screening one week before the movie's release that Young's twelve-year-old son noticed that the Bulgarian had already been killed by Grant in the mosque, so it was cut.

[janice]

Bob Simmons: The franchise regular stuntman is the actor appearing in the gun barrel sequence at the beginning of this movie. The same footage was used for the first three James Bond movies. The others being Dr. No (1962) and Goldfinger (1964).

[javier]

Bond gets Grant's attention on the train when he offers to buy a cigarette from him for fifty gold sovereigns. A gold sovereign has a face value of £1, but its gold content is worth much more than that. The gold content of fifty gold sovereigns would have been worth £415 in 1963 (gold then being worth $35.35 an ounce). In 2016, that much gold would be worth about $15,000.

[lynn]

Nikki Van der Zyl: As the voice (uncredited) of a receptionist. She dubbed other actresses' voices as Honey Ryder in Dr. No (1962), and Domino Derval in Thunderball (1965).

[clayton]

James Bond doesn't appear until seventeen minutes and fifteen seconds into the movie. Donald "Red" Grant's voice is first heard one hour and twenty minutes in.