film information
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli
Directed by John Glen
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum & Michael G Wilson
World Premiere 24th June 1981 (London, England)
US Release Date 26th June 1981
Worldwide Box Office $194,900,000 US
Budget $28,000,000 US
Running Time 127 Minutes
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bond girls
Carole Bouquet (Melina Havelock)
Lynn-Holly Johnson (Bibi Dahl)
Cassandra Harris (Countess Lisl)
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posters
vehicles
bond villains
John Hollis (Bald Man With White Cat)
Stefan Kalipha (Hector Gonzales)
Michael Gothard (Emile Leopold Locque)
Julian Glover (Aristotle Kristatos)
bond allies
Jack Hedley (Sir Timothy Havelock)
locations
London; Ionian Sea; the locale of Madrid; Corfu; Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; Albania; Meteora, Greece.
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James Bond uniquely uses a variety of introductions throughout For Your Eyes Only. He uses his classic introduction to both Melina Havelock and Aristotle Kristatos, but introduces himself as "Bond, James" when he meets Luigi Ferrara and only as "Bond" when he meets Countess Lisl.
behind the scenes
Tula, one of the Bond Girls seen in the pool sequence at the house of Hector Gonzales, was revealed after filming to have been a transsexual
The For Your Eyes Only poster evoked concerns in some countries as to its ‘explicit’ nature - so much so that some countries painted a pair of shorts onto the poster or even cropped the image so the model's bottom could not be seen.
John Glen made an estimate that the sequence with Bond and Melina being dragged by the speedboat cost approximately $2,700 per foot of film used!
Lynn-Holly Johnson is actually a champion ice skater in real life.
To enter the identigraph booth, Q enters a five digit code. Those five digits were the first five notes to the chorus of ‘Nobody Does It Better’, the theme to a previous Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me. James Bond responds by entering the final two notes.
For Your Eyes Only marked the first film since Dr. No that Bernard Lee did not star as M. He passed away before his scenes could be filmed. §
