William Boyd

What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s

The newspaper Izvestiya dismissed the film of Dr No as ‘rubbish’; but Novy Mir had a shrewder, more prescient take on the Bond ‘brand’, James Fleming discovers

Sean Connery and Ursula Andress pose for a promotional still for the film Dr No in 1962. [Getty Images]
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