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Why does Bond go through Yugoslavia?


Bond stole the Lektor from the Russian consulate in Instanbul. Turkey was friendly to the West. Why did Bond choose to go through Eastern Block territory instead of taking a boat to Italy or something? I haven't read the book. Is it explained there?.

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In the book the girl had been coached to insist on taking the Orient Express. Bond simply wants to get on a plane straight from Turkey but she refuses and insists on the train. In the book they're going to ride it straight to Paris but I think in the movie they were going to stop the train somewhere and get in in a car with one of Kerim's sons, before he was killed that is.

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"hey pesci, here's a nickel, say yugoslavia.", they should've cut the hair a bit on robert shaw's stuntman, or should i say fall guy. pedro armendariz makes his final movie here, i've also seen him in "captain sindbad" from the same year, and the great western "3 godfathers" (1948). bond sure slaps women around a lot in the movies. this is the only bond flick where the theme (title) song doesn't appear in the opening credits, well i suppose you could say the same about "on her majesty's secret service". as brought up earlier on this board, i have to really agree that every scene with rosa klebb is unintentionally hilarious 👞, sometimes i get her confused with ilse steppat from "on her majesty's secret service".



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