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For Your Eyes Only is also the title of a James Bond short story collection by Fleming.
For Your Eyes Only, subtitled "Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond", was first published in 1960. It marked a change of pace for Ian Fleming, who previously had written only full-length novels featuring his characer, James Bond. This book contained five short stories, several of which were reportedly based upon scripts for a proposed James Bond TV series.
The stories were:
"For Your Eyes Only" and "Risico" were adapted closely for the 1981 film version of For Your Eyes Only in 1981 (see below). "The Hildebrand Rarity" provided the character of Milton Krest for the 1989 Bond film Licence to Kill, while "From a View to a Kill" provided part of its title (and nothing else) to the 1985 entry, A View to a Kill. "Quantum of Solace", which was written in the style of W. Somerset Maugham, was an experimental piece in which Bond is told the story of an abused woman; with no secret agent elements, plus a title that was likely to confuse audiences, it is the only Ian Fleming story that has never to date been referenced in any way by the Bond movie series.
| Preceded by: Goldfinger | For Your Eyes Only | Followed by: Thunderball |
The film is notable for the pre-credit sequence which sees what is believed to be the final comeuppance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Bond's enemy in four previous films (although he is deliberately not named due to copyright issues). This was because of attempts by film producer Kevin McClory to produce a rival Bond film based on his ownership of the screen rights to the book of Thunderball, including the copyright on Blofeld, and the producers wished to show that the Bond films did not need Blofeld. Two years later McClory's effort would hit the screens as Never Say Never AgainNever Say Never Again is a somewhat rewritten 1983 remake of the film Thunderball with Sean Connery reprising his role as James Bond. It is not part of the canonical or "official" Bond film series from EON Productions and United Artists (in this case, it but it does not fit the EON films' continuity. Recently MGM was able to gain the distribution rights of Never Say Never Again.
The film focuses on the recovery of the vital Automatic Targeting and Attack Communicator (ATAC), lost in the Ionian SeaThe Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy, including Calabria and Sicily, to the west, by southwestern Albania and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ith when the British spy ship St Georges is sunk by an old mine hauled up in its fishing nets. The ATAC system is used by the Ministry of DefenceThis articles deals with the British ministry, see defence minister for other countries. Whitehall, Westminster, London The Ministry of Defence MoD is the United Kingdom government department charged with managing the military. Ministers as of 22 August, to communicate and co-ordinate the Royal NavyThe Royal Navy is the navy of the United Kingdom. It operates a number of aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, fifteen nuclear submarines, and various other ships, as well as aircraft and Britain's amphibious forces, the Royal Marines. The Royal Navy's fleet of PolarisPolaris Alpha Ursae Minoris, is the bright star closest to the north celestial pole, making it the current north pole star. It is also known as the North Star the Lode Star or the Pole star . Because it lies nearly in a direct line with the axis of the Ea submarines. Sir Timothy Havelock, a marine archaeologist and MI6 agent, and his wife are murdered by a Cuban hitman, Hector Gonzales, while he is searching for the wreck of the St Georges. Bond is sent after Gonzales to find out who hired him, but is beaten to it by Havelock's daughter, Melina, who kills him before Bond can find out. After identifying a man in Gonzales' estate who appeared to be paying him, Bond is led to a well connected Greek businessman and intelligence informant, Aris Kristatos, who tells Bond that the man he saw is employed by Milos Columbo, a Greek smuggler. However, when Bond confronts Columbo, it emerges that Kristatos is actually in the employ of the KGB to recover the ATAC, and had set up Columbo as the villain as he knew too much about Kirstatos' KGB leanings. Bond is aided in his pursuit of Kristatos and the ATAC by Melina and Columbo. In the films climax, Bond throws the ATAC system over a cliff rather than hand it to the KGB chief General Gogol, with the quip "That's detente, comrade. I don't have it, you don't have it."
After the outlandish plot of Moonraker, it was decided that the James Bond series returned to reality, and FYEO goes back to the more basic style of Dr. No and From Russia With Love. One of the most famous sequences of the film is when Bond's venerable Lotus Esprit is destroyed and is forced to make his escape in a Citroën 2CV.
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