From Russia with Love (1963)
Action, Thriller, Adventure • 1h 55m
Overview
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Eunice Gayson, Walter Gotell, Francis de Wolff, George Pastell, Nadja Regin, Aliza Gur, Martine Beswick, Vladek Sheybal, Anthony Dawson, Lisa Guiraut, Hasan Ceylan, Fred Haggerty, Neville Jason, Peter Bayliss, Nusret Ataer, Peter Brayham, Desmond Llewelyn, Jan Williams, Peter Madden, Fred Wood, Bill Brandon, Moris Farhi, Alf Mangan, Dido Plumb, Ernie Rice, Andre Charisse, Hugo de Vernier, Victor Harrington, Barbara Jefford, Jim Brady, Eric Pohlmann, Bob Simmons, Nikki Van der Zyl, Michael Culver, Elizabeth Counsell, Bedri Çavusoglu, Peter Evans
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray, despite prevalent frozen grain
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray, despite prevalent frozen grain
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Director: Guy Hamilton
Director: Guy Hamilton
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain
Director: Guy Hamilton
Director: Guy Hamilton
Director: Martin Campbell
Director: Martin Campbell
Director: Sam Mendes
Director: Sam Mendes
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
US Universal 4K Blu-ray (for original forced subtitles font)
IMAX sequences have not been released on home video to date
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
US Universal 4K Blu-ray (for original forced subtitles font)
IMAX sequences have not been released on home video to date
Directors: Val Guest & Ken Hughes & John Huston & Joseph McGrath & Robert Parrish
Directors: Val Guest & Ken Hughes & John Huston & Joseph McGrath & Robert Parrish
4K Streaming
4K Streaming
Warner Bros Blu-ray is the best Blu-ray even though it has color and major contrast issues
4K SDR master on streaming seems to be from the same scan and looks like it has less tinkering than the Blu-ray
Caps of 4K SDR master: 007 on Home Media: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
4K Streaming
4K Streaming
Warner Bros Blu-ray is the best Blu-ray even though it has color and major contrast issues
4K SDR master on streaming seems to be from the same scan and looks like it has less tinkering than the Blu-ray
Caps of 4K SDR master: 007 on Home Media: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Director: Terence Young
Director: Terence Young
Director: Terence Young
US Arrow > UK StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray, better color grading
Director: Terence Young
US Arrow > UK StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray, better color grading
Director: Terence Young
Director: Terence Young
Director: Noah Baumbach
Director: Noah Baumbach
Director: Leo McCarey
Director: Leo McCarey
Director: Billy Wilder
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
Director: Billy Wilder
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Mosfilm official 4K Youtube Streaming
See comparison vs German Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray which is a 2K upscale of the previous restoration
Criterion/Artificial Eye Blu-ray are even older restoration than the Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray has incorrect pitch on the Russian audio see thread
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Mosfilm official 4K Youtube Streaming
See comparison vs German Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray which is a 2K upscale of the previous restoration
Criterion/Artificial Eye Blu-ray are even older restoration than the Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray has incorrect pitch on the Russian audio see thread
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
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