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The From Russia with Love Blu-ray puts Sean Connery’s 1963 James Bond adventure on one Region A MGM disc, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, the original mono track, a cast and crew commentary and a documentary. This is a pre-owned copy in Good condition, in stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Add it to your cart and add a classic 007 film to your shelf.
| Format | Blu-ray |
|---|---|
| Discs | 1 |
| Studio | Alliance Home Entertainment |
| Released | August 17, 2012 |
| Run time | 1 hour and 55 minutes |
| Condition | Good Condition |
| Availability | In stock |
The From Russia with Love Blu-ray presents Sean Connery's second outing as 007 in 1080p high definition, on the MGM disc distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on October 21, 2008.
This listing is a pre-owned copy in Good condition. It is a Region A Blu-ray, the standard for US and Canadian players, so it plays in any US Blu-ray player or console.
From Russia with Love is the second film in the official James Bond series. Terence Young returned to direct, and Sean Connery stars as Bond alongside Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw and Bernard Lee.
The film premiered in the UK on October 11, 1963, and reached US cinemas in 1964. Made for about 2 million US dollars, it earned roughly 79 million worldwide.
Ted Moore won the BAFTA for Best Cinematography for his work on the film, and the title song received a Golden Globe nomination. On this disc, the film is presented in 1080p at an aspect ratio of about 1.66:1, with English SDH and Spanish subtitles available.
This MGM disc was part of the first wave of Bond titles released on Blu-ray in the US, and it carries an extensive set of extras:
Collectors who want the full lossless soundtrack and the original mono mix on one disc will find both here, which makes the From Russia with Love Blu-ray an easy upgrade from older DVD editions.
Jump ahead three decades to Pierce Brosnan's debut with the GoldenEye Blu-ray, or browse more classics in our movies section and the full Blu-ray catalog. The film's production history is covered on Wikipedia.
From Russia with Love Blu-ray: Questions Buyers Ask
Which edition is this?
It is the MGM Blu-ray distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, released October 21, 2008, on a single disc.
Will it play in my US player?
Yes. It is a Region A disc, the standard for US and Canadian Blu-ray players. It will not play in a DVD-only player.
Does it include the original mono soundtrack?
Yes. Along with the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 remix, the From Russia with Love Blu-ray includes the original English mono track.
Is this copy new or used?
It is a pre-owned copy in Good condition, covered by our 30-day return policy.
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R. C. Walker –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Amazon: Lotte Lenya is … “lovely???.
The James Bond series of films has, over the last 40-odd years, been a great highlight of cinema’s spy genre. Often imitated, they have never been surpassed. I can remember when even the earliest of them was new, a theatrical experience much looked forward to.
After a somewhat slow start in “Dr. No”, “From Russia With Love” propelled Bond and Connery forward to a new height — and even better was to come. “From Russia” was more of what we came to expect from Bond films, with 007 travelling from one interesting locale to another.
“From Russia” boasts (as came to be usual) an excellent cast — most particularly Robert Shaw as the trained assassin and Lotte Lenya as Col. Klebb, who recruited him to kill Bond.
The casting of Lotte Lenya is the most creative casting move undertaken in this film. In the late ’20s and very early ’30s, she was one of the great lights of the Berlin stage, for whom Kurt Weill wrote many roles specifically. She was stunning as Jenny the Pirate in the Dreigroschenoper (or Threepenny Opera, of which a 1931 film is now on DVD; a CD of her performing Weill’s “Seven Deadly Sins” and a number of other wonderful Weill songs is also out and about). Lenya’s performance in “From Russia” adds real gravitas and a palpable sense of menace to the film.
If you check the Amazon review of this film, you may notice that in it Lotte Lenya is referred to as a “lovely assassin”. How’s that again?? I did call their attention to this gaffe, asking if anyone there had actually seen Ms. Lenya, but apparently they’re sticking with the “lovely”. Ah, well … here we go. In the 20s and 30s, Lotte Lenya was, in a word, plain. In “From Russia”, she was 65 and had graduated from plain to — well, unattractive, anyway. Her face was perfect for the role, lovely in the sense of Margaret Hamilton or a pre-surgery Phyllis Diller. Can you imagine a blonde bombshell chasing 007 around with dagger-loaded sensible shoes? Well, maybe if you want comic relief. As it is, a “lovely” Lotte is hilarious enough.
Steve Forsyth –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
One of Connery’s two best outings – the best Bond film before the GOLDFINGER plunge!
When viewing these films by how closely they translated the character of James Bond to the screen, this film is clearly the best of the entire 20+ film series. If you take the three Bond movies that Terrence Young directed (this, DR. NO, and THUNDERBALL), it is clear who truly understood Ian Fleming’s character and universe. FRWL is the most espionage oriented of the series, delivering a story that is every bit as crackeling as the on-screen action. Rich, complex, and full of suprises, the story is the best feature to this Bond gem. Connery also seems fully devoted to the role (unlike his final two efforts).
Having gotten through the introductory phase of DR. NO, this is where the Bond series really begins to take off. After watching this classic, one truly wonders how much better the remainder of the series would have been if they had stayed more true and down-to-earth with the Bond character and his assignments. Unfortunately, as is the case with most sequels, the producers lost sight of what made the first films so great (the character and plotting) and instead gave us what THEY figured we wanted – more unbelievable action and explosions!
Aside from the sight of a giant car-telephone, this film alone in the series feels unconstrained by the decade in which it was produced – creating a tense and involving story that can be enjoyed and appreciated by today’s audiences as much as it was during its first run!
This film also introduced us to the character of Q, played by Desmond Llewelyn. Though in this film, his trademark animosity toward 007 is not quite fully formed, it is nice to see him come into the series so early!
My only true complaint about the movie is the underdeveloped female character of Tanya Romanov. She could have been a really unique character, but as it is, we never really see when or why she decides to “switch sides.” It is never clear, in fact, until the last scene whose side she is on. It may have been nice to see more of the story from her POV.
Though Bond would have a few more “realistic” adventures to come (THUNDERBALL, ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, LIVE AND LET DIE, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, LIVING DAYLIGHTS), this was by-and-large the last and best of the early “real” James Bond.
Photoscribe –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
They don’t make ’em like this anymore….
This was actually the next to the last “novelistic” Bond movie. “Goldfinger” was the last, and, oddly enough, started the overproduction juggernaut that would eventually kill the “cool spy” genre in movies. Bond, driven mainly by “Goldfinger”‘s incredible combination of music, acting, gadgets, outsized goals of the villains and Connery’s charm as the hero, sparked more imitators than just about any other franchise you can name, before or since. I say “mainly”, because “FRWL” also had a lot of charm…in fact, there are people who would argue that THIS is the best pre-“Thunderball” Bond film, not “Goldfinger”. What set the first three Bond films apart from their successors was the “pulp” quality to the settings, the faithfulness to the print origins and the perfect casting of just about every part. Who else could play Red Grant or Rosa Kleb if not Robert Shaw and Lotte Lenya? In “Dr. No”, the movie would have had a much different flavor if there had been no Quarrel or Strangways or that spitfire photographer. Compare this with the eventual condition of the franchise where ridiculously elaborate equipment and escapes were mapped out for Bond at the last minute…heck, in Brosnan’s last film, his Aston Martin could turn INVISIBLE, fer crissake!! No…the first three films were 1) More realistic 2) More involving 3) More cerebral, and this one is a prime example.
“FRWL” starts out all business and is a mix of humor AND business from the word go. “M” calls Bond via old radiophone while the randy field agent romances Sylvia Trench lakeside somewhere in the country. Bond drops everything, heads to MI6, gets debriefed and heads off to Istanbul to meet a pretty Russan agent who, indeed, has a crush on him. There is supposed to be an exchange of a Russian decoder that the West thinks is being given them by a defector, when SPECTRE is actually behind everything. Along the way, they run into a SPECTRE-trained psychopath, Grant, as well as Ali Kerim Bey, an affable old colleague of 007’s, a gypsy band that supplies local color, and the inimitable Rosa Kleb, played by Lotte Lenya, the wife of Kurt Weill, co-author of “The Threepenny Opera”.
Things hadn’t quite gotten cartoonish yet in the Bond universe, and this was an adventure with all the cues that kept it from feeling juvenile…a good movie for Dad and older brother, rather than a puerile quip machine for pubescents and tweens like the later ones turned into.
All hail Connery/Dalton/Brosnan!
BOOOOO! Roger Moore!!