'From Russia with Love' has the first James Bond theme song, though only an instrumental version plays at the film's beginning the full song with vocals by Matt Munro is not heard until the end credits. No' had only some multi-colored silhouette cut-outs). The opening credits feature the first use of live, scantily-clad women behind the titles ('Dr. We get the first pre-credits teaser sequence. Introduced this time out are a number of developments that would quickly become staples of the Bond formula. In fact, 'Russia' is perhaps the only Bond picture that could honestly be described as an espionage movie, in which the hero does actual spying. However, at this point, the franchise has not yet made the transition to over-the-top action spectacle. Along with star Sean Connery, many critical elements that made the first film a success have returned, including director Terence Young, an exotic setting, a larger-than-life threat, and a fair amount of adventure and derring-do. One of the few direct sequels in a movie series that would quickly become a mess for continuity, 'Russia' makes several overt references to the events of previous entry 'Dr. Kronsteen has of course underestimated the cunning, fortitude, and brilliance of our man of action 007. The plan is brilliant in its simplicity, if not for one flaw. When the moment is right, Grant will kill Bond and take the Lektor, thus securing a critical intelligence asset and avenging the death of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. From there, he will rely on Bond's formidable skills to get the machine out of the country, all the while shadowed by assassin Red Grant (Robert Shaw). By duping a pretty Russian consulate worker into faking an appeal for defection to Britain, criminal mastermind Kronsteen has set in motion a plan to lure Agent 007 to Istanbul. organization to steal a Lektor code-breaking device from the Russians. 'Russia' finds Bond at the center of a plot by the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. The second film had about twice the budget of the first, a larger scope, and did even better business. No' was a pretty big hit in 1962, and was quickly followed by 'From Russia with Love' the next year.
No' had even hit cinema screens, the producers optioned the rights to almost all of Ian Fleming's popular novels and began work on a series of sequels, originally planned for release one per year until the books might run out. Before the character's first feature film 'Dr. Right from the start, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman knew that they had something special on their hands with super-spy James Bond 007.
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