[william clark]

Actually, From Russia With Love is closest to the book of any. Dr. No was my favorite of the Fleming novels (that I’ve read), but the movie really short-changed his running the air-duct gauntlet sequence.

[yarddog]

Well none of them were right by the book but “From Russia With Love” came fairly close. I think “Dr. No” was a bit closer tho.

I can remember scenes from the book being done exactly the same in the movie. Even such little things as a guy tapping his matchbox on the table.

[RayChuang88]

I've read the original From Russia With Love and the movie itself is probably the closest in "feel" to the original novel, though of course there were added scenes and the evil organization was SPECTRE, not the SMERSH (which was actually a real counter-intelligence operation that was part of the Soviet Red Army from 1943 to 1946).