Connery returns in this second outing as Bond. This is allot better movie than Dr.No. As Bond squares off against the evil SPECTRE organisation in a pulse-pounding race to seize the Soviet Lektor decoding machine. This excellent movie has the iconic boat chase, a brilliant Helicopter attack, but the iceing on the cake is the outstanding brawl on the train with Robert Shaw. This is up there with the best of all the Bonds. Excellent !

The second Bond film managed to be even better than "Dr No". This has one of the best plots to be found in any Bond, as Our Man travels to Instanbul to bring back a beautiful Russian defector and a Lektor decoding machine.

This actually feels like a terrific spy story rather than a series of big set pieces, which was to be the case with a lot of the later Bonds. Ted Moore's cinematography is highly evocative, turning Istanbul into a labyrinth of darkness and deceit. The scenes aboard the Orient Express are wonderful, providing a perfectly romantic backdrop.

Robert Shaw and Lotte Lenya are unforgettable as the wicked villains. Connery is still playing Bond with a dangerous edge at this point. Daniela Bianchi is extremely appealing as the naive Russian girl, caught up in the dastardly, complex chain of events.

A classic Bond film, one of the very best.

Bond's back in the 2nd James Bond. You have to add this to your collection Connery's second best Bond.