From Russia With Love (1963) – “Living For the Bond” Series

In our ongoing Bond series, we revisit the OG Bond, Sir Sean Connery, in this second film in the franchise. We follow Bond this time in the midst of a Cold War espionage plot where he has to take on SPECTRE, the shadowy organization that is out to kill him along with possibly inciting World War III. This was PEAK Connery and very much a film of its time, very 1960’s. It also co-stars Robert Shaw as the iconic villain Red Grant along with Lotte Lenya as the infamous Rose ...