Fleming's Bond

[...] Fifty years ago today, the world lost the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming. Fleming suffered a fatal heart attack and died at the age of 56. When I was [...]

[...] renewed outbreak of civil disorder in 1969 only a very few ‘Irish’ thrillers were published. James Bond passed the island by, although in Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love (1957) the chief [...]

[...] of which is fascinating and informative. If you were looking at 320 pages of Ian Fleming and James Bond, that’s not what this book is. In fact, it is not until page 124 that Fleming even begins [...]

[...] B49 of the Queen Mary and the change in the ships may account for the seeming discrepancy. James Bond makes a memorable entrance into the room of Wint and Kidd, surprising them by bursting through [...]

[...] This famous champagne makes but one appearance in the Ian Fleming novels. His James Bond is more of a Taittinger man. It takes place in Diamonds Are Forever, and [...]

[...] of the Soviet Union. It was a position that he did not hold for very long. For a timeline, Ian Fleming wrote Moonraker during January and February of 1954 and the novel was published in 1955. Stalin [...]

[...] faced the mirror again and picked up a brush and started on the long, heavy hair. Ian Fleming could’ve taken a photo of Garbo and used it to write the description of Tatiana. [...]

[...] the Little Scarlet jam is generally the most expensive jam they make. This fits in well with Ian Fleming and his crafting of James Bond as a man who knows exactly what he likes, and will settle for [...]

[...] I was looking back through the first part of From Russia With Love, and was going over the part where Donovan Grant got his training when he was assigned over [...]

[...] When James Bond first meets Darko Kerim in From Russia With Love, the Head of Station T gets him settled. He pushed over a flat white box of cigarettes and [...]

[...] When James Bond first visits the office of Darko Kerim in From Russia With Love, Ian Fleming gives us a look around. Behind Kerim’s chair hangs an Oriental tapestry, and [...]

[...] . After arriving at Yeşilköy Airport on his B.E,A, flight for his assignment in From Russia With Love, James Bond is met outside customs by a car sent by Darko Karim. …a gleaming [...]

[...] First Class Smoking Room aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth Following their dinner at the Veranda(h) grill James Bond and Tiffany Case head out for a [...]

[...] James Bond and Tiffany Case finally make it back to England after their adventures on the RMS Queen Elizabeth, Bond still has quite a bit work to catch up on to wrap things up on the job at the end of [...]

[...] RMS Queen Elizabeth Leaving New York Harbor. The climax of Diamonds are Forever takes place on the cruiseliner [...]

[...] that Bond only half-jokingly made when asked what he wanted in a wife. They are on the RMS Queen Elizabeth and Bond is in his cabin. There is a knock at the door, and the waiter brings in a tray. [...]

[...] In the final chapter of Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond is completing his assignment at the same location in which the novel opened. [...]

[...] . Or at least that is what the advertising of that decade would’ve suggested. In Diamonds Are Forever, as Bond and Tiffany arrive (together but separate) at Idlewild, Tiffany shows that she [...]

[...] has quite a bit work to catch up on to wrap things up on the job at the end of Diamonds Are Forever. Bond is at Boscombe Down preparing to depart aboard a Canberra for Freetown when [...]

[...] in the Ian Fleming novels. His James Bond is more of a Taittinger man. It takes place in Diamonds Are Forever, and Bond doesn’t even make the decision. Tiffany Case decides to send him a message to [...]

[...] stomach. He put down his glass and ordered another. Later, when Bond is having lunch with Darko Kerim after arriving in Turkey, he is served raki. He notes that it tasted “identical with ouzo. [...]

[...] Bond is being driven through Istanbul from his hotel, the Krystal Palas to meet with Darko Kerim for the first time, he looks at the scenery around him, which he feels is marred somewhat. [...]

[...] While having lunch with Darko Kerim in From Russia With Love, Bond has kebabs, watches Kerim eat his raw meat, and they have a [...]

[...] When James Bond first visits the office of Darko Kerim in From Russia With Love, Ian Fleming gives us a look around. Behind Kerim’s chair hangs an [...]

[...] tackled the Vesper Martini just yet, which is James Bond’s own creation as outlined in Casino Royale. As with most things, Ian Fleming shared Bond’s tastes, he too enjoyed martinis as well as the [...]

[...] take down villains and save the world (and the girl). When people watched the 2006 version of Casino Royale, which was actually a pretty faithful, if modernized adaptation of Fleming’s first novel, [...]

[...] for looks. The influence of Granville is also heavily felt in the character of Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale. [...]

[...] what this book is. In fact, it is not until page 124 that Fleming even begins writing Casino Royale. All the background information is vital to the story of Ian Fleming and his creation, [...]

[...] In Chapter eight of From Russia With Love, Tatiana Romanova is in her Moscow apartment, reflecting on her life. Little does she realize that her life as [...]

[...] We’re introduced to Tatiana Romanova in chapter eight of From Russia With Love. She is preparing her supper after a day at work, [...]

[...] the Hollywood legend of Flynn either. Mr Parker notes that in From Russia With Love, when Tatiana Romanova tries to compliment Bond by telling him he looks like an American film star, Bond snaps back [...]

[...] ZIS (Zavod Imeni Stalina) Saloon Automobile In From Russia With Love, Donovan Grant makes the 40-mile trip to the Simferopol airport in a “battered ZIS Saloon”, driven by one of [...]

[...] the shorter flights across Europe. It was certainly a step up from the Ilyushin 12 which Donovan Grant had flown to Moscow not many weeks before. Undated shot of interior seating of Viscount. [...]

[...] Fleming’s From Russia With Love (1957) the chief executioner of SMERSH is a man called Donovan Grant, the illegitimate son of a German professional weight-lifter and a Southern Irish [...]

[...] back through the first part of From Russia With Love, and was going over the part where Donovan Grant got his training when he was assigned over to SMERSH. Once he got through the Intelligence [...]