James Bond Theme James Bond Theme The "James Bond Theme" is the main signature theme of the James Bond films and has featured in every Eon Productions Bond film since "Dr. No", released in 1962. The piece has been used as an accompanying fanfare to the gun barrel sequence in almost every James Bond film. The "James Bond Theme" has accompanied the opening titles twice, as part of the medley that opens "Dr. No" and then again in the opening credits of "From Russia with Love" (1963). It has been used as music over the end credits for "Dr. No", "Thunderball" (1965), "On
SMERSH (James Bond) "The Intelligence Men", and STENCH in "Carry On Spying". SMERSH (James Bond) SMERSH is a fictional Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. SMERSH is the acronym of "Spetsialnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpionov", meaning "Special Methods of Spy Detection" (in Russian Cyrillic СМЕРШ: Специальные Методы Разоблaчения Шпионов). Fleming's version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organisation, which existed 1943–1946 (the real name is a portmanteau of two Russian words: "SMERt' SHpionam" [Смерть Шпионам, Směrť Špionam] meaning "Death to Spies"). However, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation,