20 Things You Didn't Know About From Russia With Love (1963)
6. "She Should Have Kept Her Mouth Shut!"
The scene in which Double-0 Seven helps Kerim Bey to kill Bulgarian killer, Krilencu (Fred Haggerty) with Bond’s folding sniper’s rifle was adapted from Ian Fleming’s original novel.
In the novel, Krilencu crawled out of a hatch concealed in a billboard advertising Niagara (1953), starring Marilyn Monroe with the hatch being concealed behind Monroe's mouth.
The iconic blonde bombshell had passed away by the time that the film was made, necessitating a change in the sequence. Production designer, Syd Cain saw the opportunity to use the billboard scene to market Eon Productions’ other 1963 film, Call Me Bwana, starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg. Krilencu famously crawled out of Ekberg’s mouth before being shot by Kerim Bey.
Call Me Bwana was the last non-Bond film that Eon Productions produced until The Silent Storm (2014).