Quote Originally Posted by mike
Were those movies popular in Russia at the time? I mean, I know they must've had them because Visotskiy wrote a song about James Bond, but were they liked?
Not so much popular. That's just the point of VV's song about Sean Connery visiting Moscow (if it's the one you mention): he expected the crowds of fans, and was quite shocked discovering he was almost unknown in USSR. (True story, AFAIK).