Date of Release
World Premiere 10th October 1963, the Odeon Leicester Square, London.

Running Time
116 minutes

James Bond
Sean Connery

Plot
Using the British Secret Service as its dupe, SPECTRE plans to steal the Lektor decoding machine and sell it back to its Russian owners, with the added refinement of the death of Double-O-Seven.

Bond’s Women
Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi)
Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson)
Gypsy Girls: Zora (Martine Beswick)
and Vida (Aliza Gur)

Bond’s Enemies
Donald ‘Red’ Grant (Robert Shaw)
Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Anthony Dawson [voice: Eric Pohlmann])
Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal)
Morzeny (Walter Gotell)
Krilencu (Fred Haggerty)

Bond’s Allies
Kerim Bey (Pedro Armendariz)
‘M’ (Bernard Lee)
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
‘Q’ (Desmond Llewelyn) [his first appearance as the character]

Bond's Car
4.5 litre Bentley

Bond’s Gadget
Briefcase: which holds an AR-7 folding sniper’s rifle, 40 rounds of ammunition, an exploding tear gas cartridge disguised as a tin of talcum powder, 50 Gold Sovereigns, and a throwing knife.

Main Title Music
‘From Russia With Love’ (Instrumental)

End Title Music
‘From Russia With Love’ sung by Matt Monro

Music Score
John Barry

Art Director
Syd Cain

Main Titles Designer
Robert Brownjohn

Screenplay
Richard Maibaum & Johanna Harwood

Director of Photography
Ted Moore

Director
Terence Young

Producers
*Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli
The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for the Western Hemisphere

Filming Locations
Pinewood Studios, London, England
Istanbul, Turkey
Scotland, UK (Helicopter chase scenes)
Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Turkey
Venice, Veneto, Italy

Budget
$2 million

Worldwide Box Office
$78.9 million

Worldwide Box Office Gross Income 2002 inflation-adjusted
$464 million