If you want to be Bond but haven't the time to hack Connery's face into GoldenEye, you can pick up the 2005 video game version of From Russia with Love on the cheap. The developers even paid/blackmailed Connery into doing the voice work for his iconic character. (Source)

You may be shocked to learn this, but the filmmakers didn't actually blow up the helicopter that Bond blasted to spectral smithereens in the film's climax. The original copter was restored and auctioned off in 2006. Save your money to grab it when it comes around for another pass. (Source)

If you want to read Bond but are afraid you'll miss the colorful visuals of the films, you might be surprised to know that From Russia with Love, along with a few other Bond adventures, were adapted into comic strip form in the 1960s. Read one a day to get the full effect of the serialized format. The ink may or may not rub off on your hands. (Source)

Steven Spielberg said that his choice of Robert Shaw to play Quint in Jaws was because he was blown away by Shaw's performance as Grant. Shaw was a distinguished stage and screen actor even before To Russia With Love, but it was probably Jaws that propelled him to pop culture stardom. (Source)

Pedro Armendáriz, the actor who played Kerim Bey, was dying of cancer during filming and played through unbearable pain. He never lived to see the release of the film. After being released from the hospital for cancer treatment, he shot himself in June of 1963. (Source)