Catfight – Russia with Love / brighter version

Martine Beswick (Zora) fighting Aliza Gur (Vida)!
“The gypsy girlfight is FRWL’s most infamous and sadistic scene. Never has a Bond movie felt so much like a snuff film. Where most movies poke fun at “catfights,” this film puts it on a level of gladiatorial match. They don’t say the girls are fighting to death, but they don’t say they aren’t! In fact, the fight between the two women “in love with the same man” is so savage (or so arousing?) that Bond asks for it to be stopped. Strange that the only way we’re “saved” from this scene is by an explosion of good old-fashioned gunplay. Stranger yet is the relief we feel at the arrival of this “safe” movie violence. How sexually charged is this scene? When From Russia With Love aired on ABC throughout the ’70s and ’80s, the ENTIRE gypsy camp sequence was cut from the film. I doubt it was because of the belly dancer.” – Sex and the Secret Agent: The Subtext Of From Russia With Love