15. Orient Express Fight (From Russia With Love, 1963)
While Bond has used gadgets to get out of dangerous situations many times, we also have to remember he's not afraid to get his hands dirty. In "From Russia With Love," SPECTRE concocts a plan to have Bond steal the Russians' Lektor decoding device. They will then kill him and sell it back to the Russians, getting money as well as revenge for the death of Dr. No. Once Bond has stolen the Lektor with the help of Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi), a pawn in SPECTRE's plan, they hide aboard the Orient Express. On the train with them is assassin Red Grant (Robert Shaw), who pretends to be a MI6 agent. After a conversation with Grant, where he tells Bond he's been played by SPECTRE all this time, he and Bond get in a fist fight. What's great about this sequence is there's no music, only the sound of the train moving and of Bond and Grant's struggle. This adds to the realism of the scene, along with the fact Connery and Shaw did their own stunts. I love how it ends with Bond choking Grant with his own watch garrote. He then steals Grant's wallet, saying "You won't be needing this...old man," mocking Grant's catchphrase when he was pretending to be from MI6.