From Russia With Love gadgets

Garotting wire watch

As a unique way to kill his victims Donald ‘Red’ Grant, a psychotic killer, used an extremely thin piece of wire that extended out of his watch to strangle his victims to death.

Pager

This gadget probably looks a bit dated in today's technological society, but at the time of From Russia With Love this gadget was cutting-edge. It's hardly used in the film apart from a very small scene with Sylvia Trench. The pager bleeps alerting Bond that Universal Exports is trying to contact him.

Car phone

The car phone is another gadget that is looking extremely outdated in modern times. After Bond’s bleeper alerts him to call Universal Exports, he walks to his car where he picks up his phone to contact the office. This is hardly a gadget, but like the pager, this would have been very clever in 1963.

Attaché case

This leather briefcase is issued to all 00 agents as standard equipment by Q-Branch. Featuring an array of gadgetry that would become standard as the films continued, the Attaché case would save Bond’s life a number of times throughout From Russia With Love.

The case contained 20 rounds of ammunition, hidden in the sides, and a flat throwing knife that Bond uses to stab Red Grant during his vicious fight aboard the Orient Express. The case also featured a 0.25 calibre AR7 folding rifle with infrared sight. This was contained inside the briefcase and was used by Bond to shoot the SPECTRE helicopter pilot dropping grenades on him at the end of the film.

Other gadgets in the briefcase included 50 gold sovereigns, which were used to lead Grant into a false sense of security opening the case. Not knowing that the case had to be opened by turning the magnetic catches to the horizontal position, Grant opens the case incorrectly, causing a talcum powder disguised tin of tear gas to explode in his face.

Telephone bug detector

This small and very simple bug detector is used by James Bond to check to see if his telephone in his hotel room is bugged, and of course it is.

Camera/tape recorder

Disguised as a camera, the back comes off to reveal a tape recorder. Tatiana Romanova tells Bond a description of the LEKTOR machine that is recorded so that officials at MI6 can check to see if the machine is genuine.

Poision tipped spiked shoe

This rather nasty gadget was an invention by SPECTRE. In it's normal state this looked like a normal shoe, but a click of the shoe extended a metal spike. Once the poisonous spike made contact with it's designated target it's victim would be dead in 12 seconds. Rosa Klebb tries to spike Bond at the end of the film in Venice, unsuccessfully. Kronsteen however pays the price for his failure when he unsuspectingly ‘gets the boot’ from Morzeny.

The LEKTOR

The reason for James Bond's mission was to collect the LEKTOR. This would be then used to de-code Russian top-secret transmissions. It looked like a typewriter and had 24 symbol and 16 code keys.