From Russia with Love (soundtrack) From Russia with Love (soundtrack) From Russia with Love is the soundtrack for the second James Bond film of the same name. This is the first series film with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer. John Barry, arranger of Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme" for "Dr. No", would be the dominant Bond series composer for most of its history and the inspiration for fellow series composer, David Arnold (who uses cues from this soundtrack in his own for "Tomorrow Never Dies"). The theme song was composed by Lionel Bart of Oliver! fame and sung by Matt Monro. Following the
From Russia, with Love (novel) a cliché into a silk purse with astute alchemy". Robert R Kirsch, writing in the "Los Angeles Times", also disagreed with Boucher, saying that "the espionage novel has been brought up to date by a superb practitioner of that nearly lost art: Ian Fleming." In Kirsch's opinion, "From Russia, with Love" "has everything of the traditional plus the most modern refinements in the sinister arts of spying". "From Russia, with Love" was serialised in "The Daily Express" from 1 April 1957; it was the first Bond novel the paper had adapted. In 1960 the novel was also adapted as a