From Russia With Love (1963)

Rating: ***
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi

Sean Connery's second outing as James Bond is much better than the lightweight "Dr. No" (1962). A beautiful Russian KGB operative (impossibly pretty Daniela Bianchi) defects and wishes to trade some valuable information with the British Secret Service in exchange for political asylum. Naturally, Agent 007 is assigned to meet her, "inspect the goods", and escort her back to England. Little does she know, however, that she is being played by some nasty SPECTRE double agents in the KGB. Lots of cool action and beautiful babes in this exciting film. Ms. Bianchi gets my vote for prettiest Bond girl in the series.