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Film professor Erin Hamer Beck joins John and Mitch to discuss minutes 42-49 which begin with Bond telling his host that their hospitality “overwhelms me” and end with Bond accompanying Karim to kill Krilencu on a dark Istanbul street.

This week John and Mitch are joined by documentarian Christy Henry (upcoming documentary ROMA IN AMERICA) to talk about minutes 35-42 which begin with sewer rats on the oar of the rowboat and end with Bond enjoying the performance of a belly dancer at a “gypsy” encampment.

Film professor and author Dr. Cynthia Baron joins John and Mitch to talk about minutes 28-35 which begin with Bond asking Karim where he can contact Tania and end with Bond and Karim taking a rowboat through the catacombs beneath Istanbul.

 This week, John and Mitch welcome Bruce Scivally, Author of James Bond: The Legacy and writer/director of Bond Documentaries to talk about minutes 21-28 which begin with M telling Bond he’s “booked on the 8:30 plane in the morning” to Istanbul and end in the office of Karim Bey who tells Bond that “something smells.”

A second examination of minutes 14-21 with author Dr. Monica Germana (Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender).

This week, John and Mitch are joined by Pete the Retailer (Star Wars Minute, ABCD:TOS) and Joe Mazel (ABCD:TOS) to talk about minutes 14-21 of From Russia with Love which start with  Tatania Romanova leaving the Russian Consulate building and end with Bond telling M that he is really “not too busy at the moment, sir”. 

John and Mitch are joined by Kaite Stover of the Kansas City Public Library to discuss minutes 7-14  which begin with Kronsteen handily dispatching his chess opponent and end with some people leaving a building in Istanbul. 

 John and Mitch welcome author Mark O'Connell (Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan) to discuss minutes 0-7 of From Russia with Love, which begin with the classic gun barrel sequence and end with a chess player tearing up a note.  

John and Mitch launch the From Russia With Love season of 007x7  with a special episode discussing the state of cinema in 1963. 

Oft mentioned Alien Minute listener and host of the Effectively Speaking podcast Eric Moore joins us to wrap up Dr. No.