The title of this movie is said to have been the inspiration for James Bond creator Ian Fleming for the title of the 1957 novel "From Russia With Love".
Alec Guinness was unimpressed when John Davis of the Rank Organisation visited the set and announced that the film needed more pratfalls. He was even more unimpressed after he saw the finished product on the big screen and found that Davis had had slapstick footage featuring a body double of Guinness inserted. In his diary, Guinness called the film "very indifferent" and Davis "an objectionable man," saying he should have stuck to accountancy.
Opening credits: All characters and events in this film are fictitious.Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.