007 Related book: 007: From Russia with Love Prima Official Game Guide

Book: 007: From Russia with Love Prima Official Game Guide
Author: Nelson Taruc
Pages: 176
Language: English

EA Games
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007 Item: James Bond 007 Sean Connery poster / Finnish magazine Suosikki

007 Item: James Bond 007 Sean Connery poster / Finnish magazine Suosikki

Poster includes VHS video cassette covers of "From Russia with Love" (1963), "Dr. No" (1962) and "Goldfinger" (1964).

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007 Event: Hollywood Show (27 - 29 July 2018)

What: Hollywood Show
Where: The Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel, 5400 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, USA
When: 27-29 July 2018

Friday 6pm-9pm* | Sat 10am-5pm | Sun 11am-4pm
*PLEASE NOTE: Friday night is a preview night only. No celebrities will be in attendance.
Early Birds go in 1 hour earlier.




Special Bond star appearances:

George Lazenby

James Bond in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969)


Jill St. John
Tiffany Case in "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971)
1st Ever Appearance!



Luciana Paluzzi
Viona Volpe in "Thunderball" (1965)


Martine Beswick
Zora in "From Russia with Love" (1963) and Paula Caplan in "Thunderball" (1965)




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In Memoriam: The first official Bond girl Eunice Gayson (1928 - 2018)

Who: Eunice Gayson
Born: 17 March 1928
Died: 8 June 2018


Words seem inadequate to express the sadness 007 Travelers feels about the death of the first official Bond girl Eunice Gayson (1928 - 2018), who played Sylvia Trench in "Dr. No" (1962) and "From Russia with Love" (1963) with Sean Connery as James Bond.

Source: The Official Eunice Gayson Website

Photo © eunicegayson.com

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007 Item: Photo of Martine Beswick (Paula Caplan and Zora) with autograph and dedication

007 Item: Photo of Martine Beswick (Paula Caplan and Zora) with autograph and dedication

Martine Beswick's autograph, dedicated to 007 Travelers.

She plays Bond girl Paula Caplan in "Thunderball" (1965) and Zora in "From Russia with Love" (1963).

Martine Beswick (Zora) and Sean Connery (James Bond)
in promoshot of "From Russia with Love" (1963)

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007 Item: James Bond Istanbulissa! (From Russia with Love) Finnish comic book

007 Item: James Bond Istanbulissa! (From Russia with Love) Finnish comic book

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007 Item: James Bond 007 From Russia with Love - James Bond mug, inspired by original movie posters

007 Item: James Bond 007 From Russia with Love - James Bond mug, inspired by original movie posters

50th Anniversary Collection

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VIDEO: Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith

James Bond and Madeleine Swann get a lift to Blofeld’s lair in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith. Silver Wraiths have appeared in "From Russia with Love" (1963), "Moonraker" (1979), 
"For Your Eyes Only" (1981) and "SPECTRE" (2015).

Video: 007.com





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In Memoriam: George Martin

Photo by: Cinetropolis

007 Travelers is saddened to hear that George Martin has passed away.

Sir George Henry Martin
3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016






Martin directly and indirectly contributed to the main themes of three films in the James Bond series. Although Martin did not produce the theme for the second Bond film, "From Russia with Love" (1963), he was responsible for the signing of Matt Monro to EMI just months prior to his recording of the song of the same title.

Martin also produced two of the best-known James Bond themes. The first was "Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey in 1964. The second, in 1973, was "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney and Wings for the film of the same name. He also composed and produced the film's score.

In addition, George Martin composed, arranged and produced film scores since the early 1960s, including the instrumental scores of the films A Hard Day's Night (1964, for which he won an Academy Awards Nomination), Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965) and Yellow Submarine (1968). 

Source: Wikipedia

Bond Blu-ray & DVD Announcement

New Steelbooks and box-set to be released!

Photo: 007.com

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release an all-new line-up of special edition Blu-rays, DVDs and box-sets on 15th of September 2015.

Source and video: www.007.com

"Two never-before-seen featurettes are included with interviews from Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. “The Shadow of SPECTRE” will recount the fictional history of the global criminal syndicate and terrorist organization, “The Story So Far” will provide an overview of Daniel Craig’s first three Bond movies.

Six films featuring the SPECTRE organization (FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, THUNDERBALL, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY) and the three recent Daniel Craig titles (CASINO ROYALE, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, SKYFALL) will each get a limited edition Blu-ray Steelbook release, their cover designs inspired by each film’s opening title sequence."

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"Salainen agentti 007 Istanbulissa" Nelosella 21.3.2015 klo 21.00 / "From Russia with Love" on channel Nelonen in Finland 21 March 2015 at 21.00

Mikä / What: Salainen agentti 007 Istanbulissa / From Russia with Love (1963) (Sean Connery)
Missä / Where: Nelonen / Channel Nelonen in Finland
Milloin / When: 21.3.2015, 21.00

SPECTREn eksperttisuunnittelija Kronsteen keksii juonen kuinka varastaa Lektor, venäläisten salauslaite ja myydä se takaisin heille sekä samalla kostaa heidän agenttinsa Tohtori No:n kuoleman Bondille. Ex-SMERSH agentti Rosa Klebb on vastuussa tehtävästä. Hän palkkaa salamurhaaja Donald "Red" Grantin ja Tatiana Romanovan, salakirjoitusvirkailijan Neuvostoliiton konsulaatista Istanbulista. Romanova on tietämättään syötti Klebbin juonessa. Bond matkustaa Turkkiin ja tapaa Ali Kerim Beyn, MI6:n turkkilaisen virkamiehen.

SPECTRE's expert planner Kronsteen devises a plot to steal a Lektor, cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No; ex-SMERSH operative Rosa Klebb is in charge of the mission. She recruits Donald "Red" Grant as an assassin and Tatiana Romanova, a cipher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul, as the unwitting bait. Bond travels to Turkey and meets with Ali Kerim Bey, the MI6 officer in Turkey.

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Bond girl: Red Grant's masseuse

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Bond girl: Red Grant's masseuse

007 Film: From Russia With Love (1963)
Actress: Jan Williams

Bond connection: Red Grant's masseuse on SPECTRE Island.







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Bond girls: Vida and Zora

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Bond girls: Vida and Zora

007 film: From Russia With Love (1963)
Actresses: Aliza Gur (Vida), Martine Beswick (Zora)

Bond connection: Vida and Zora are encountered when 007 visits the gypsy camp with Kerim Bey (Head of the British Secret Service's "Station T" in Istanbul, Turkey). Kerim tells him that both women are in love with the same man. His true lover will be decided in a hand-to-hand fight to the death between the two women.

After the fight Bond persuades the host to stop the girls from fighting and tells 007 the girls are his to choose which one wins.

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Bond girl: Tatiana Romanova

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Bond girl: Tatiana Romanova
007 Film: From Russia With Love (1963)

Actress: Daniela Bianchi

Bond connection: Tatiana Romanova is introduced as a corporal in Soviet Army Intelligence, assigned to work in the Soviet Embassy in Istanbul as a cipher clerk. Her commanding officer is Rosa Klebb — in the screenplay adaptation, she is secretly an agent for SPECTRE — who manipulates her into believing that she is on an important mission for her country, when she is in fact merely a pawn in the terrorist organization's latest bid to destroy the British Secret Service. Once in Istanbul, she contacts Ali Kerim Bey and tells him her plans: she would willingly defect from the Soviet Union and take with her the precious LEKTOR only if Bond assisted the operation. She claimed that she had fallen in love with the man from a picture she had seen in a secret file and wanted to live with him. Both M and Bond believe this to be a trap, but the prize is valuable enough to go for it. They react just as the main instigator of the plot, chess champion Kronsteen, had predicted. Bond then flies to Istanbul and contacts Kerim, spending several days there, waiting for contact. After a riot at a Gypsy camp, Bond returns to his hotel room and finds Romanova walking across the room and getting into his bed, wearing only a black velvet choker and black stockings. They make love, but are secretly filmed by Klebb's minions via a one-way mirror. This tape is explicitly planned to be used to embarrass MI6.

In the film, after meeting her again to verify the authenticity of her information, they blow up the Soviet Embassy in Istanbul to cover their escape. With the help of Kerim, they board the Orient Express and depart for Trieste and the Italian frontier. As a part of Kronsteen's strategy, the SPECTRE assassin Donald 'Red' Grant kills Kerim. Bond contacts Grant, who is pretending to be an agent named Nash. After sedating Romanova, Nash's identity is revealed to Bond, who then fights Grant in their train room. Prior to the fight, Grant explains that he is going to kill Bond and then execute the sleeping Romanova with Bond's gun, making it look like a murder-suicide. Bond finally defeats Grant and takes Romanova to Venice. It is there they meet Klebb again who, in an attempt to retrieve the LEKTOR and kill Bond, disguises herself as a maid and tries to eliminate the agent with a dagger-tipped shoe poisoned with blowfish venom. Romanova shoots Klebb, thus saving Bond. She and Bond are last seen on a boat in Venice, with Bond dropping the incriminating negatives into the canal.


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Bond girl: Sylvia Trench

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Bond girl: Sylvia Trench

007 Films: Dr. No (1962) and From Russia With Love (1963)

Actress: Eunice Gayson

Bond connection: In "Doctor No" James Bond plays Baccarat with a crowd of people at a casino in London. Sylvia sits across the table. Bond receives message from M and he has to leave. After meeting with M, Bond returns to his apartment. There, he finds Sylvia putting golf balls into a hat wearing only a button-up shirt of his. Although he must run to the airport, he spends a quick amount of time with her.

In "From Russia with Love" Sylvia picnics with James Bond and notices the scar on his back, before he is paged by Miss Moneypenny.

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"From Russia with Love" "poster girl" Anita Ekberg has passed away

Anita Ekberg (29 September 1931 – 11 January 2015) whose picture was seen on poster in Bond movie "From Russia with Love" (1963) has passed away.

Rik Van Nutter and Anita Ekberg

Ekberg was married 1963-1975 with Rik Van Nutter, who is remembered as Felix Leiter in "Thunderball" (1965).








In "From Russia with Love" James Bond and his ally Kerim Bey visited villain Krilencu's hideout (behind a giant billboard film poster on a brick wall for the 1963 film "Call Me Bwana" - a Bob Hope comedy with Anita Ekberg, produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli) where Bey shot and killed Krilencu with Bond's sniper rifle as he was escaping through a private hatch in the brick wall - crawling out of the mouth of actress Anita Ekberg.

Kerim Bey: - Do you notice anything?

Bond: - Not yet.

Kerim Bey: - She has a lovely mouth, that Anita.

Bond: - Yes. I see what you mean.

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Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

007 Food: "James Bond" menu in Hotel Alpenruh Mürren, Switzerland

Food: James Bond Menu
Experience of 007 Travelers: Hotel Alpenruh Mürren, Switzerland in July 2014.












"That was my idea (James Bond Menu) and our chef Oliver Jensen created it. The idea became because of the Bond World 007."

Urs Brotschi, Hotel Manager, Hotel Alpenruh

"DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER"

Beef carpaccio with chipped cheese and rock salt 
(Small eatable diamonds made of rock salt).

"Diamonds Are Forever"

"QUANTUM OF SOLACE"

Tasty onion-red wine soup with pieces of herbs bread 
(The chef needs some solace while cutting the onions).

"Quantum of Solace"

"FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE"

Grilled pork filet "Stroganoff" on a bell pepper sauce with mushrooms and pickles served with mashed potatoes and glazed big beans 
(Named after the Russian noble family Stroganoff).

"From Russia with Love"

"SKYFALL"

Strawberry yogurt foam on a kiwi tatar 
(Fall out of the sky with this dreamlike light dessert)

"Skyfall"

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Bond villain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld

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Bond villain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld

007 Film: From Russia With Love (1963)
Actors: Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)
Mission: Humiliating MI6 for the death of Julius No by using Russian agent Tatiana Romanova and a Soviet decoding device as bait to lure James Bond into a trap, killing him and leaking compromising photos of Bond and Tatiana to the press before selling the decoder back to Moscow.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives (No contact between him and Bond)


007 Film: Thunderball (1965)
Actors: Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)
Mission: Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money from the United Kingdom.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives (No contact between him and Bond)


007 Film: You Only Live Twice (1967)
Actor: Donald Pleasence
Mission: Capture United States & Soviet spacecraft from orbit in order to provoke war between the superpowers on behalf of an undisclosed Asian country.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives.


007 Film: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Actor: Telly Savalas
Mission: Extort the world with viruses that render crops and livestock totally infertile.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives.


007 Film: Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Actor: Charles Gray
Mission: Create an industrial laser attached to satellite and magnified by diamonds, which is capable of destroying targets anywhere on the face of the Earth. Used to target nuclear stockpiles of countries that refuse to pay him.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead.


007 Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
"Wheelchair villain" (implied to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
Actors: John Hollis (body), Robert Rietty (voice)
Mission: To kill Bond as revenge by remotely hijacking Bond's helicopter and making it crash.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead after Bond drops him in a smokestack.


007 Film: Never Say Never Again (1983)
Actor: Max von Sydow
Mission: Hold world powers for ransom with nuclear weapons.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives. No contact with Bond.


007 Film: SPECTRE (2015)
Actor: Christoph Waltz
Mission: Gain political power by bringing the world's intelligence agencies under his control through the "Nine Eyes" program; also kill Bond for supposedly stealing his father's love and for ruining several of his previous plans.
Fate of the Bond villain: He receives a facial scar due to Q's exploding watch. Captured and arrested by MI6.


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Bond villain: Rosa Klebb

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Bond villain: Rosa Klebb

007 Film: From Russia With Love (1963)

Actress: Lotte Lenya


Mission:

Humiliating MI6 for the death of Julius No by using Russian agent Tatiana Romanova and a Soviet decoding device as bait to lure James Bond into a trap, killing him and leaking compromising photos of Bond and Tatiana to the press before selling the decoder back to Moscow.

Fate of the Bond villain:

Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova.

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