Month: December 2012

You Only Live Twice, released in 1967, marks a few firsts in the Bond franchise. First Bond not written by screenwriter Richard Maibaum. First Bond directed by Lewis Gilbert, who would return later for two Roger Moore entries. First Bond where we finally see SPECTRE head Blofeld. First Bond film not to be released after only a year – 007 fans had to wait an entire year and a half for this entry.

It also marked what audiences believed would be an extremely substantial last. During filming, Sean Connery announced that his fifth 007 appearance would be his swan song. Of course, this piqued the interest of filmgoers who wished to see his last 007 performance. Not that You Only Live Twice needed the extra attention. After Goldfinger and Thunderball‘s massive grosses, audiences were more than ready for the next outing.

You Only Live Twice has quite the straightforward premise: SPECTRE steals spacecraft from the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in order make them both believe they’re messing with each other in hopes of starting a global war. This is all, of course, the brain child of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who we see for the very first time here in full. He’s played by Donald Pleasance, who many of you may know for his later role as the psychiatrist tracking down Michael Myers in Halloween series. Much like with the original villain Dr. No, we don’t actually see Blofeld until quite late in the film. Unlike Dr. No, the character of Blofeld will appear in more than one 007 entry.

The opening sequence shows the American spacecraft hijacking and then moves on to 007 getting killed. What???? Well, we think (not really) that’s what happened until after the opening credits, but it turns out Bond was just faking his death so he could be sent on his mission to Japan without SPECTRE following his every move.

Nearly the entire picture is set in Japan and we get a taste of Japanese culture, 007 style. There’s sumo wrestlers. There’s a school of ninjas that Bond has at his disposal. We even get the appearance of Bond having to go undercover, which means he must looks more Japanese. Of course, this seems to consist only of Bond’s hair being dyed just slightly darker.

Bond’s gadgets this time around include a tricked out helicopter and a cigarette that kills you right away.

It’s hard to watch You Only Live Twice today without chuckling at its clear influence of another British super spy, Mr. Austin Powers. Even more than From Russia with Love, this may be the film that influenced Mike Myers the most. When we do finally see Blofeld, his uniform is the one that inspired Dr. Evil’s and the two share a striking resemblance to one another. Blofeld’s lair happens to be a hollowed out volcano.

Speaking of the hollowed out volcano, my previous posts haven’t done enough justice to Ken Adam’s work as production designer on the Bond films. You may not think of set design immediately when thinking of 007, but the work of Adam has inspired film for 50 years. His sets are amazing, from Fort Knox in Goldfinger to the volcano lair here. Adam would also work with Kubrick in Dr. Strangelove and Barry Lyndon. The guy is a master and he excelled at the great details of making Bond sets look immaculate. The final showdown at the volcano site shows his fine work.

You Only Live Twice is unique because there’s two main Bond girls. For the first half, it’s Aki, a Japanese agent played by Akiko Wakabayashi. She meets a rather unfortunate end when some poison meant for Bond ends up in her mouth instead of 007’s. For the second half, we have Kissy, played by Mie Hama who must act as 007’s wife as part of his cover. The character of Kissy is unique because she manages to actually turn down Bond’s sexual advances, something we don’t see too often. It doesn’t last long though.

Bond fans may remember one particular bit of trivia about this picture: the screenplay is by Roald Dahl! Yes, that Roald Dahl. The children’s author who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and many other classic books.

The theme song “You Only Live Twice” performed by Nancy Sinatra is a very solid one. I must confess that every time I hear it now, though, I think of the Robbie Williams tune “Millenium”, which samples it.

You Only Live Twice is definitely a bit sillier than the previous entries, though isn’t anywhere near as ridiculous as some of the Roger Moore entries would get. It’s also a whole lot of fun and puts to great use the Japanese locales. It had roughly the same budget as Thunderball and the action sequences are highly entertaining, though not quite as astonishing of what we saw in Thunderball. 

The picture is certainly an influential Bond flick, even if it’s main influence might have been on the Austin Powers series. It did great business at the box office, though not quite Thunderball numbers. Earning $43 million in the United States (lower than its two predecessors), it placed seventh in 1967’s top grossers. While Connery would claim this would be his finale, it wouldn’t quite turn out that way after all. However, the next Bond adventure would introduce us to the second 007. More on that very soon.

Here are the facts:

Film: You Only Live Twice

U.S. Release Date: June 12, 1967

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Screenplay: Roald Dahl

Bond: Sean Connery

Main Villain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasance)

Main Bond Girl (s): Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi) and Kissy (Mie Hama)

Theme Song: “You Only Live Twice” – performed by Nancy Sinatra

Budget: $9.5 million

Worldwide Box Office: $111.6 million

My James Bond blog series will return in “The 007 Files: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”

Thunderball is the fourth 007 adventure, known most for its extensive use of underwater scenes. With the phenomenon that was its predecessor, Goldfinger, this film was granted the highest budget yet for a 007 film, by far: $9 million.

The picture was actually meant to be the 1st oo7 adventure, but a legal dispute over writing credits held that up. This is likely a good thing because had Thunderball been first, it would’ve only had a $1 million dollar budget. Thunderball is definitely the biggest 007 movie in scope, especially with all the underwater action. The lesser budget would have meant there would be no way it’d look as good as it does. In fact, the massive budget (for the mid 1960s) allows the film to still hold up remarkably well even today and I can’t even imagine how impressive it looked in 1965.

The pre-title credit sequence continues the Goldfinger started tradition of having little to do with the rest of the film, but it’s a good one. Bond attends the funeral of a nemesis, who of course turns out not to be dead in quite spectacular fashion. The baddie is dressed as a widower… yep, that’s right. It’s a man, baby! Of course, this sequence is also known for Bond rocking a jet pack and the return of that beloved Aston Martin DB5.

Thunderball returns to the evil shadowy organization known as SPECTRE, which gave us the villains in Dr. No and From Russia with Love. Just like in Russia, we glimpse the ultimate Bond baddie that would come to be known as Blofeld only from the neck down, as he gives orders to fellow criminals only known by their number. The chief villain here is #2, Emilio Largo, played by Adolfo Celi. He is the mastermind of a plan to steal two atomic bombs from NATO, holding the world ransom for $100 million dollars until SPECTRE gets their demands. The theft of the bombs involves the facial reconstruction of one of the NATO pilots, which we discover in an extended sequence where 007 discovers some of this while having some R&R in a health clinic. In that health clinic, Bond is nearly murdered when a baddie sets a spinal traction machine to its fastest setting. Of course, an eventual Bond love interest saves the day by shutting the machine down. Just four films into re-watching the franchise, I’m already struck by how many times 007 would be dead if not for the women in his life. Who says the Bond women are just window dressing? Not me.

Bond is, of course, tasked with the mission of finding the bombs, which means making friends with the evil Largo. This means making even better friends with his mistress, Domino, played by Claudine Auger. He also beds down another Largo employee Fiona Volpe, a memorable character portrayed by Luciana Paluzzi. Her death while dancing with 007 is a Bond classic.

Of course, before Bond is sent on his mission, he gets the visit from Q. His gadgets this time are a little funny in retrospect… a watch and a camera that work underwater!!! Of course, they do come in handy.

All this intrigue leads to a big showdown in the waters of the Bahamas, where the majority of Thunderball takes place. Largo also has a pretty bad-ass collection of sharks, even though they do not have frickin laser beams attached to their frickin heads, unfortunately.

The main villain and main Bond girl in Thunderball do not fully measure up to what we’ve seen before in three previous entries. And we also have a pretty by-the-numbers Bond theme from crooner Tom Jones. This isn’t “Goldfinger” by Shirley Bassey, but most aren’t.

However, what Thunderball lacks in those departments, it makes up for with this fact: it’s a damn exciting big-budget action spectacle. That final underwater showdown between Bond and allies and the SPECTRE villains is is truly impressive.

After taking a one movie break, director Terence Young is back at the helm for this one. This would be Young’s final 007 picture, but his contribution to helming Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Thunderball makes him one of the most beloved and important figures in 007 film history.

Audiences responded with intense enthusiasm to the Thunderball release. It grossed an amazing $141 million worldwide, which would be equivalent to about $1 billion today. In other terms, Thunderball did Skyfall numbers upon its release. It earned $63 million dollars in the U.S. in 1965, placing it third after The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago. This picture is a celebration of the successes that the three previous entries allowed for its high $9 million budget. The makers of Thunderball reward the audience with a rousing and exciting action flick that is just a lot of good ol’ fashioned fun.

Here are the facts:

Film: Thunderball

U.S. Release Date: December 21, 1965 (December 29, 1965 in the UK)

Director: Terence Young

Screenplay: Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins

Bond: Sean Connery

Main Villain: Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi)

Main Bond Girl: Dominique “Domino” Derval (Claudine Auger)

Theme Song: “Thunderball” – performed by Tom Jones

Budget: $9 million

Worldwide Box Office: $141.2 million

My James blog series will return in “The 007 Files: You Only Live Twice”

1964’s Goldfinger, the third entry in the James Bond series, is considered by very many to be the gold standard in 007 world. It is generally considered the best Bond picture of all time. From a box office point of view, it built on two very successful first adventures and then shattered box office records with its own performance. The DeMille movie theater in New York City chose to stay open 24 hours after Goldfinger was released due to its incredible business. The film would earn an astonishing $51 million dollars in the U.S., placing it second for the year behind only My Fair Lady.

While Dr. No and From Russia with Love certainly set up the basic framework that we’ve come to know for 007 movies, they are all on display in Goldfinger, really for the first time.

In From Russia with Love, Q’s gadgetry gives us Bond’s famous briefcase. In this one, it’s the car. Oh, the car! The Aston Martin DB5. The Bond vehicle that’s so famous that they’d bring it back again and again. It’s tricked out with all kinds of amazing features, from the ability to deploy an oil slick to machine guns on the side to that ejector seat used so effectively. The Aston Martin used in Goldfinger is widely regarded as the most famous vehicle in cinema history.

There’s the pre-title credit sequence that has really nothing to do with the rest of the film. It’s a brilliant one, culminating with Bond seeing that henchman coming at him in the reflection of his latest conquest’s eyes. And that famous Bond quip at the scene’s close: “Shocking”.

And one of the celebrated Bond villains ever: Auric Goldfinger, played by German actor Gert Frobe. His scheme to rob Fort Knox is pretty ingenius. Of course, Mr. Goldfinger doesn’t count on Bond getting assistance with the main Bond girl, Pussy Galore, who he manages to woo over to his side. It is Galore more than anyone who eventually helps foil Goldfinger’s dastardly plans. Of course, the name Pussy Galore is likely the most remembered of the Bond gals. Honor Blackman is the first Bond girl that seems to be close to Bond’s level. She’s not just window dressing. While she’s not the classical beauty that we got in Dr. No and From Russia with Love, Blackman’s performance provides one of the very best 007 love interests. Their introduction in the film gives us one of the most well-known 007 moments of the series.

There is so much more in terms of classic scenes. Most notably, Bond’s discovery of Jill Masterson, a Goldfinger employee, suffocated in gold paint after she betrays the villain and sleeps with 007. And there’s the laser beam scene, where Goldfinger nearly kills Bond. It’s dialogue will never be left out of a 007 best of reel:

Bond: Do you expect me to talk?

Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to die!

Finally, there’s the wonderful final battle in Fort Knox, which includes Bond’s classic showdown with Goldfinger’s main henchman Oddjob (played by wrestler Harold Sakata) and his world famous hat. The art direction of Fort Knox is a triumph for Ken Adam, who put together the fantastic sets in many a 007 flick.

The final encounter between Bond and Goldfinger is also great, where Bond’s earlier warning about firing guns in an airplane is proven quite true.

Terence Young directed the first two Bond features. Here the reins are turned over to Guy Hamilton. He employs a faster pace than the first two films and a mastery of the action sequences. He’s helped by a healthy $3 million dollar budget (for 1964), triple the Dr. No budget and a million more than the From Russia with Love budget. It’s all up there on the screen. Richard Maibaum returns as screenwriter for the third time in a row, along with co-writer Paul Dehn.

And then there’s the always terrific musical score by John Barry, along with one of the greatest Bond theme songs sung by Shirley Bassey. It is this theme song that nearly all others are judged against.

It is easy to see why Goldfinger is considered the quintessential 007 feature. The film turned a highly successful franchise into a true phenomenon. Goldfinger earned nearly $125 million worldwide which was an absolutely astronomical figure in that era. There is no question that it’s a great film, but it is the greatest Bond ever? That’s a tough one for me, especially after just re-watching From Russia with Love, which is brilliant as well. And, of course, there’s the other ones I’m getting ready to evaluate again, too. When all is said and done, Goldfinger is likely to be regarded as the best. You’ll have to wait until I’m all done when all blog entries before I reveal my list, though. So stay tuned!

Here are the facts:

Film: Goldfinger

U.S. Release Date: December 22, 1964 (September 18, 1964 in the UK)

Director: Guy Hamilton

Screenplay: Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn

Bond: Sean Connery

Main Villain: Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe)

Main Bond Girl: Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman)

Theme Song: “Goldfinger” – performed by Shirley Bassey

Budget: $3 million

Worldwide Box Office: $124.9 million

My James Bond blog series will return in “The 007 Files: Thunderball”

The second installment of “The 007 Files” is the follow-up to 1962’s Dr. No, 1963’s From Russia with Love. The worldwide success of the first installment gave audiences something to look forward to… and this picture delivered upon the high expectations and then some. The Ian Fleming novels were all wildly successful, but the book that this movie was based on was held in rather notable regard. President John F. Kennedy has listed it as one of his Top Ten favorite books in a 1961 Life magazine article. It is said that JFK received a private screening of the brillliant film adaptation just before the tragic events in Dallas.

The team from Dr. No would largely return for From Russia with Love: director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum, and, of course, Sean Connery as 007. The success of that film would afford its follow-up with a $2 million dollar budget, double the first. 

Notably, several of the Bond traditions we’ve come to know and love that were not in Dr. No make their debut here. The pre-title credit sequence. The use of multiple exotic locations (Dr. No is about 90% in Jamaica). And the first appearance of the treasured Desmond Llewelyn as “Q”, the man who supplies 007 with all his nifty gadgets. In From Russia with Love, it’s the famous black briefcase that is used for much more than storing paperwork.

From Russia with Love does require audiences to remember Dr. No. The plot involves SPECTRE, that dastardly organization bent on world destruction. The villains in From Russia with Love are trying to kill James Bond, partly due to revenge of 007 killing Dr. No. Also, early in the picture, Bond is canoodling with the character of Sylvia Trench, who appeared as one of 007’s love interests in the inaugural film.

The film gives us our first glimpse of Bond’s arch nemesis in the franchise, Blofeld. Well, kind of. We don’t see his face. We only see him from the neck down, stroking his pet kitty as he barks out orders to his underlings. He refers to his fellow SPECTRE operatives as “Number 3” and “Number 5”. He had a button device that when he pushes it, he can rid himself of undesirable employees. If you’re smiling while reading this paragraph, it may be because From Russia with Love, more than any other Bond film, served as the main influence for the Austin Powers franchise.

The villains from the movie are truly unique and belong at the top of memorable baddies in the series. German actress Lotte Lenya plays Rosa Klebb, a former Soviet intelligence official turned SPECTRE operative. She certainly doesn’t look like a typical main 007 nemesis – she’s tiny in frame, but makes up for it with her ruthless ways and those now-famous shoes equipped with tiny knives protruding out of them. Robert Shaw portrays Red Grant, a cunning SPECTRE assassin who tails 007 throughout the film. He actually saves Bond’s life in one scene, because he can’t kill him until he’s located the Lektor device which Bond has in his possession. What’s the Lektor device? Well, it’s a device SPECTRE wants to steal from the Soviets, but it gets in MI6’s hands when Bond retrieves it. So… what’s the Lektor device? Here’s my best answer – who cares? I’m a firm believer in the teachings of the greatest director ever, Alfred Hitchcock. Hitch made famous the term “The MacGuffin”. What is that? The MacGuffin is what the protagonists and antagonists are seeking out. It’s what they’re fighting to protect. It’s what they’re willing to kill for to get. The MacGuffin moves the plot forward, giving the characters reasons to do what they’re doing. The MacGuffin provides reasoning for elaborate action sequences, iconic heroes, and vengeful and colorful villains. What the MacGuffin really does — in this case, the Lektor device — is incidental.

The main Bond girl this time around is Tatiana Romanova, an employee of the Soviets stationed in Istanbul. It is Rosa Klebb who tasks Tatiana with becoming romantically involved with Bond. The scene where Rosa explains the mission to the beautiful Tatiana is one of the more well-known and risque scenes in 007 lore. We definitely get the idea that Rosa is quite attracted to Tatiana and the homosexual overtones of the sequence were pretty bold for 1963. Tatiana thinks her mission to bed down Mr. Bond is a noble one and that she’s serving her country. She has no clue Rosa is a SPECTRE baddie. Of course, Tatiana is willing to go to bed with 007… and surprise, Bond puts up little resistance (even though he knows the whole time he’s being played). Tatiana is played by Italian beauty queen Daniela Bianchi. She certainly looks the part of stunning Bond girl, even if perhaps nobody could measure up to the standard Ursula Andress set as Honey Rider in Dr. No.

The doubled budget of From Russia with Love affords the picture with more action than Dr. No. It’s frankly a more exciting movie with better pacing than the first. While we only see Dr. No for a few moments, we get more familiar with Rosa and Red Grant’s characters.

The centerpiece of the film is a fantastic train sequence that encompasses about a half hour of the running time. This is where Bond and Tatiana are trying to deliver the Lektor, but the tough Red Grant has other ideas. This is when that handy black briefcase courtesy of Q comes into play. We also get a boat chase sequence at the end that is very well-done and a final encounter with Rosa and her pointy shoes in a hotel room. There’s also a terrific scene of a helicopter chasing Bond that is clearly inspired by Hitchcock’s North by Northwest.

From Russia with Love would double Dr. No‘s American box office gross, earning $16 million dollars and placing fifth in 1963’s biggest films, right behind Hitchcock’s The Birds.

While Dr. No provided a very solid and memorable start to the 007 franchise, From Russia with Love is a masterpiece. We see Connery growing even more into his signature role. We have greater villains and several more exciting action sequences. And we witness, for the first time, many signature 007 movie hallmarks. It is unquestionably one of the greatest Bond films of all time.

Here are the facts:

Film: From Russia with Love

U.S. Release Date: April 8, 1964 (October 1963 in the UK)

Director: Terence Young

Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, novel adaptation by Johanna Harwood

Bond: Sean Connery

Main Villain: Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya)

Main Bond Girl: Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi)

Theme Song: “From Russia with Love” – performed by Matt Munro

Budget: $2 million

Worldwide Box Office: $78.9 million

My James Bond blog series will return in “The 007 Files: Goldfinger”

The cinematic life of one of the most iconic, if not the most iconic, film characters ever celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. It’s done so in about the best fashion imaginable with Skyfall, the 23rd official 007 adventure. Skyfall is already considered one of the finest of the series and is already the highest grossing worldwide and domestically with a take inching towards $1 billion dollars.

Added to that, we now have perhaps the best film box collection ever released – “Bond 50”, which I received for Christmas this year. It contains all 22 earlier Bond films, with an amazing 120 hours of extra features — that’s five days worth, folks. The box set even includes a space for Skyfall when it’s released next year.

I knew that when I got the box set, I wanted to do something I’ve never done before: Watch the James Bond adventures in order of release. Of course, I’ve seen them all. Some only once. Some several times. And now that I’ve got this here handy blog, I’m choosing to start a new category – “The 007 Files” – where each blog post will concentrate on each movie. And I do mean the movies – it is certainly necessary to mention that there would be no 007 without author Ian Fleming, who created him. I’ll say now I’ve never read the books and this is a movie blog, not a book blog, damn it!

We start with the first – 1962’s Dr. No. 

As a Bond fan, you can’t help but be struck by some of the things not in Dr. No – no pre-title credits sequence. No Q character. No hopping around the globe – in fact, other than a few moments in London, the entire film takes place in Jamaica. Not a lot of wisecracks.

And you can’t help but marvel that none of that really matters. Dr. No is a rock solid film and a wonderful introduction to the character and the Bond universe. The plot is probably one of the most straightforward of any of the 007 films: a British intelligence officer in Jamaica is killed and Bond is sent to investigate. The slain officer was investigating recent mysterious incidences of rocket launches being disrupted in the United States. This introduces Bond to his CIA counterpart, Felix Leiter, a recurring character in 007 world. Bond’s investigating leads him to the villainous Dr. No, who reveals his sinister intentions in true Bond fashion (while dining with 007 and talking about it). He figures – why not? He’s going to kill him anyway.

Speaking of true Bond fashion, while I mentioned several things not in the first movie, a lot of other iconic items we associate with the franchise are: his flirtation with M’s secretary, Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell). His womanizing – he beds a total of three women in the inaugural film. His impeccable sense of fashion (the extras on the Blu Ray reveal that director Terence Young was very instrumental in developing Bond’s “only the best” style fashion). And, of course, his way of often introducing himself. That is how we meet James Bond in Dr. No … eight minutes into the picture in what is surely the most well-known and greatest film introduction in the medium’s history:

Coolest. Intro. Ever. The second coolest in Bond franchise history? Well, that also belongs to this film. When the main Bond girl, Honey Rider, is introduced coming out of the water, it represents what is also one of the most famous film scenes in history. That’s another amazing thing in Dr. No – it probably has the Best bond girl of all time. Simply put, Ursula Andress circa 1962 is just unbelievably stunning and her chemistry with Connery is fantastic.

Gotta love that classic Connery quip: “No. I’m just looking.”

Besides having probably the best Bond girl, we also have, well, the best Bond. Sean Connery. What can you say? It was a stroke of genius casting him. With further blog posts, we’ll delve into Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, and Craig. And as great as some of them were and are, when someone says James Bond – I picture Connery. We see him master the role from the get-go in this movie.

The structure of Dr. No is different in the sense that we don’t even meet Dr. No until about an hour and twenty minutes in (the movie’s runs just an hour and fifty). Even Andress doesn’t show up until over halfway through. It kind of reminded me of Javier Bardem’s late entry into Skyfall. Joseph Wiseman, as the film’s title character, does an effective job… even if he has a lot less to do than later 007 baddies. He reveals in that key dinner scene that he’s a member of SPECTRE, which all Bond fans know is a running theme we’ll see time and again.

Watching Dr. No, we must remember that the makers couldn’t have known just how successful the franchise would turn out. It’s the first movie and the budget is relatively low. It doesn’t have the number of action set pieces that we’ve become accustomed to.

What it does have is the best Bond being introduced as Bond. This is the movie that got film audiences to fall in love with the coolest spy on the face of the earth. His character is defined so well in the introductory movie. There is one scene in which he uses that “licence to kill” when he shoots an unarmed villain in cold blood. After all, what’s the use of having a licence to kill if you can’t use it?

It’s got the Bond girl that every Bond girl since has been trying to measure up to… and probably never will.

And, of course, I have to mention John Barry’s unforgettable “James Bond Theme”. What a composition. So much so that we expect to hear it with each new Bond entry. If we didn’t, we’d be disappointed. That includes the shot of Bond walking with the gun barrel bearing down on him that has become iconic and used ever since.

Dr. No would earn $8.1 million dollars in the United States, ranking at the 6th highest grosser that year, with nearly $60 million worldwide.

As the franchise would move forward, the 007 adventures would add some of the previously mentioned hallmarks we’ve come to anticipate and expect. We’ll discuss those with each upcoming entry in this blog series. But what might be the most beloved films series of all time doesn’t become that without a memorable start. And Dr. No provides quite a memorable start.

Here are the facts:

Film: Dr. No

US Release: May 8, 1963 (October 1962 in the UK)

Director: Terence Young

Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather

Bond: Sean Connery

Main Villain: Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman)

Main Bond Girl: Honey Rider (Ursula Andress)

Theme Song: “James Bond Theme” – composer: John Barry

Budget: $1 million

Worldwide Box Office: $59.6 million

My James Bond blog series will return in “The 007 Files: From Russia With Love”