For your Eyes Only

1981/Action, Rated-PG, 2Discs/3:16:22
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Content:
Disc 1 Theatrical Version 2:07:50
- Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore
- Commentary Featuring John Glen & Actors
- Commentary Featuring Michael G Wilson & Crew
Disc 2 - Extras ~1:08:32
- Deleted Scenes & Expanded Angles (4:13): 1. Hockey 007 Style 1:59, 2. Joining Forces 1:02, 3. Death of Locque ~1:52
- Bond in Greece 5:56
- Bond in Cortina 4:19
- Neptune's Journey 3:33
- Inside For Your Eyes Only 29:46
- Animated Storyboard Sequences (3:01): 1. Snowmobile Chase 1:14, 2. Underwater 1:47
- Sheena Easton 'For Your Eyes Only' Music Video 2:46
- Theatrical Archive: Theatrical Trailer 2:07
- TV Broadcasts (11:44): 1. Trailer 3:55, 2. Second Trailer 3:55, 3. Teaser 3:54
- Radio Communications (1:07): 1. Bond :33, 2. When it Comes to Action :34
- 161 Image Database (Slideshow) Includes: 1. Filmmakers (7), 2. Portraits (6), 3. Pre-Credits Helicopter Sequence (11), 4. Music & Titles (11), 5. Gonzalez's Villa/Deux Chevaux Chase (14), 6. Cortina & Ski Action (31), 7. Willy Bogner's Ski Action Unit (7), 8. Corfu (28), 9. Underwater Scenes (2), 10. Michael Wilson's Cameo (2), 11. Meteora (20), 12. 007 Meets the Prime Minister (3), 13. Donald O'Connor Visits the Set (3), 14. Doubling 007 (5), 15. Around the World with 007 (11)
Eggs: (Eeggs, Eggs, DVD Town)
Musical Highlights: Sheena Easton-For Your Eyes Only
Factoids: (IMDB, Mistakes, BondMovies, Wiki) Mi6
1. The story involving the sinking of the ship the St.Georges off the Albanian coast was inspired by an international incident on 11 April 1968 when a Soviet submarine was blown-up and sank in the Pacific Ocean. Seventy personnel died and the US Navy located the wreck using the nautical Glomar Explorer, a mission funded by Howard Hughes, whom the Willard Whyte character in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) was based on.
2. The character of the father of Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet), Sir Timothy Havelock played by Jack Hedley, was inspired by oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He was once personally acquainted with James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
3. Last EON Productions James Bond movie soley released by United Artists. They would merge with MGM before the release of the next Bond film, Octopussy (1983). The film saved United Artists from financial ruin. At the time of the film's release, the studio was still reeling from Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980), a notorious $40,000,000 bomb that was about to force UA to file bankruptcy. When this film took in a worldwide gross of $194,900,000, the studio was saved and afterwards turned its focus toward blockbusters and less on personal films.
4. A line of dialogue had to be cut from the opening helicopter sequence due to legal reasons involving Kevin McClory. The bald man could not be called Blofeld as Kevin McClory had won a court case some years previous and owned the rights to the use of SPECTRE and Blofeld. The line read something like "I thought we should celebrate the tenth anniversary of our last meeting", which ten years previous was 1971 and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). This was the last time the character of Blofeld had appeared in an EON Productions Bond movie. Several books on Bond film history have suggested that this cameo was intended as a direct response to producer Kevin McClory, who at the time owned the rights to Blofeld and was planning to mount a rival Bond film production (eventually released as Never Say Never Again (1983)) featuring Blofeld. Begging Bond to spare his life, Ernst Blofeld baffles viewers with the cryptic line "I'll buy you a delicatessen, in stainless steel!" It is reported that the phrase is attributable to Albert R. Broccoli, who recalled accounts of 1930s New York mafia gangsters offering full-service delis as a bribe to cohorts, complete with stainless steel countertops.
5. Stuntman Paolo Rigoni died during the filming of the bobsled chase.
6. 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 (1977). James Bond responds by entering the final two notes.
7. One of the Bond girls was played by Caroline Cossey, stage name Tula, who was later revealed to once have been a man.
8. Steven Spielberg was very much interested in directing a James Bond film and did have talks with Albert R. Broccoli to direct this film, but at the same time George Lucas offered Spielberg the script for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
9. Deborah Harry (Blondie) recorded a theme song for this film, which was rejected by the producers. It appears on their 1982 album "The Hunter".
10. The reason the underwater close-ups of Carole Bouquet had to be faked was that the actress had sinus trouble that made it impossible for her to dive or remain underwater.
11. This was the first James Bond movie to have a music video produced in association with the film. This was the song sung by Sheena Easton who was the first artist to appear in the opening titles. Since For Your Eyes Only and the rise of the MTV Generation, all Bond films have had music video tie-ins.
12. James Bond and Melina first meet in a house which is supposed to be in a mountain area near Madrid. There are women wearing bikinis and a swimming pool. In the meantime, some farmers are harvesting olives near there. Olives are harvested in December-January, when temperatures around Madrid are around 5 degrees Celsius.
13. When James Bond and Melina are walking in the streets, some salesman hands them two figs to eat, and Bond says "Parakalo" (which means please or you're welcome) before receiving the figs. He says it after the man gives it to him, which should be followed by him saying "Efharisto" (thank you). The only reason it would make sense for Bond to say "Parakalo" afterwards is if he said it to Melina as a way of inviting her to try a fig, but he says it directly to the salesman.
14. Bond and Melina dive underwater to a depth of 600 feet. This around the current deep diving record depth and cannot be achieved with the normal scuba gear that they're wearing.
15. When Bond and Melina are to do the deep dive Bond mentions that they must use a mixture of helium and oxygen but when they communicate through the helmet radios there voices sound normal not high pitched like it should be.
16. When the yellow Citroen stalls and won't start, Bond tells the onlookers to "push" in Spanish. But those types of 2CV and 3CV Citroens had fluid clutches just like automatic transmission cars do and can't be started by pushing them.
17. Bond and Melina are chased by cars in the mountains near Madrid, Spain. Yet when one of the pursuing cars falls down a cliff and into a net where olives are being harvested, the farmers can clearly be heard swearing and talking in Italian, not Spanish.
18. Prior to the film being released Marvel Comics was given permission to publish a two-issue comic book adaptation.
Comments: B. The Ultimate Collectors Edition adds 18:01 new material to approximately 50:31 of older material.