Thursday Matinee Movie: "From Russia with Love" (PG)

Film Series -- Spies in Love:  With each other, With their country, With their craft

From Hitchcock to Bond, from comedy to tragedy, and from the Hudson Valley to the Middle East, this six-film series, moderated by our popular film educator Victor Messick, will explore a range of movie spies and their global escapades and personal challenges.  Stay for the post-film discussion if you like.

"From Russia with Love" -- A classic!  James Bond Secret Agent 007 (Sean Connery) willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre.  Also stars Robert Shaw & Lotte Lenya.  Script written by Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum -- the screenwriter who adapted the Ian Fleming 007 novels into the highly entertaining screenplays of nearly every James Bond film from Dr. No (1962) through to Licence to Kill (1989) -- and Johanna Harwood, who also wrote Dr. No (1962).