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To see or to watch again: in Good Kisses from Russia, James Bond warms up the Cold War

2020-04-03T05:09:39.923Z


The 1963 adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel From Russia with Love, Sean Connery's second mission, immerses 007 in the ideological struggle between the USSR and the West. The film can be downloaded from Orange or Canal VOD platforms.


Bons Baisers de Russie , the fifth novel by Ian Fleming, was on the bedside table by John Fitzgerald Kennedy, by the admission of the President of the United States assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. And by an astonishing coincidence, a few days earlier , From Russia with Love (the original title), the second film adaptation of the adventures of James Bond, was released in London.

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The Cold War, since the Cuban missile crisis, then raised fears of a nuclear cataclysm. Sean Connery, 007 for the second time, will have to, in the scenario, annihilate the demonic aims of Ernst Stavro Blofed, the supreme chief of the Specter, who treacherously uses the ideological war opposing the Soviet secret services (SMERSH) and Western (Intelligence Service and CIA), to satisfy his megalomaniac fantasy: dominate the world.

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Released one year after Dr No , the first cinematic Bond, Bons Baisers de Russie instantly became a reference in the genre of spy films. Terence Young, assisted by the brilliant editor Peter Hunt, sits here the foundations of what should be a blockbuster.

The dangerous Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and the killer Red Grant (Robert Shaw) in Terence Young's Bons Baisers de Russie (1963). Leemage

Blofeld's double game

From the first minutes, the spectator is caught by the suspense of the pre-credits, the future trademark of the saga 007. In a twilight setting, scary, the hero is murdered. It is obviously only a duplicate of the secret agent, a macabre training of the men of the Specter who in James Bond found their sworn enemy.

Because the ignoble Blofed did not digest the death of Doctor No. And wants to assassinate this English spy who takes malicious pleasure in thwarting his plans. The organization’s # 1 will stop at nothing. He decides to infiltrate Soviet counterintelligence by recruiting Colonel Rosa Klebb and the great chess master Tov Kronsteen. A pretty Russian spy, Tatiana Romanova, forcibly recruited, will also act as bait. The minions of the Specter know, in fact, the weakness of the best agent of His Majesty for the fairer sex ...

Drawing on the experience of Doctor No , Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, who doubled the production budget, decided to favor action in a darker scenario than in the previous film. The spectacular plans follow one another: a real Homeric-like battle in a gypsy camp, a chase between the hero, still in control, and killers in a helicopter. Finally, a fight to the death in the famous Orient-Express between the hitman on duty, Red Grant (excellent Robert Shaw) and 007, which foreshadows the anthology fights against Oddjob, the goons of Goldfinger , and especially in front of the sympathetically monstrous Shark (formidable Richard Kiel) of L'Espion who loved me then of Moonraker .

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Good Kisses from Russia will make a real raid on the revenues of the world box office by amassing a treasure, worthy of Croesus, of some 600 million dollars today. Saltzman and Broccoli, after the tension caused by the landing of the Bay of Pigs, were able to invent a flawless martingale: a James Bond, Western superhero, who fights, not against the spy services of Communist Russia, but against a criminal organization, the Specter which aims to destabilize the world. Sixty years later, Daniel Craig, the last herald of MI6, does nothing else ...

The Orange or Canal VOD platforms allow you to see or review Bons Kaisers de Russie. As an appetizer Le Figaro presents, below in images, the trailer for the film.

Bons Baisers de Russie ( From Russia With Love ) by Terence Young, in 1963, with Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Shaw ...

Source: lefigaro

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