James Bond, For Your Eyes Only. Declassification of the 12th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• trapped in a helicopter that is being remotely controlled by Blofeld, climbs out onto the rails of the helicopter, opens cockpit door, throws out dead pilot, short circuits remote control, picks up Blofeld in his wheelchair on the rails of the helicopter and drops him to his death into a smokestack

Title Song/Credits

• "For Your Eyes Only" by Sheena Easton
• naked silhouetted women running, tumbling and swimming on and in water and Sheena Easton singing

Villains

• Aristotle Kristatos, drug trafficker and oil explorer set on hijacking A.T.A.C. nuclear controller from British ship to hold the nuclear powers at ransom (Julian Glover)
• Emile Leopold Locque, enforcer in the Brussels underworld (Michael Gothard)
• Eric Kriegler, East German biathlon champion and bodyguard (John Wyman)
• Apostis, bodyguard (Jack Klaff)
• Hector Gonzales, Cuban assassin (Stefan Kalipha)
• Ernst Stavro Blofeld, petting white cat on lap (John Hollis body, Robert Rietty voice)

Girls

• Melina Havelock, salvager and avenger of her parents' murder (Carole Bouquet)
• Bibi Dahl, Kristatos' protege figure skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson)
• Countess Lisl, Colombo's high-priced Austrian mistress (Cassandra Harris)

Gadgets

• remote control helicopter
• Lotus Esprit, car with security system that explodes car if glass is broken
• motorcycles with spiked wheels for riding on snow and machine gun handlebars
• Neptune miniature two-man submarine
• miniature submarine with robotic arm
• JIM underwater salvage submarine suit
• 3-D visual identigraph for identifying a person based on a description
• radio and scrolling message LCD wrist watch
• miniature tape recorder

Chases

• chased on foot by guards and dogs through woods near Gonzales' villa
• Citröen 2 CV car chased by two other cars through town and down winding mountain streets, with cars being knocked off road and tumbling down hills to be met up with again around the next hairpin turn, ending with enemy car being jumped by Citröen and forced off road into a treetop by an oncoming truck
• chased on foot in town by motorcycles
• chased on skis by motorcycles and Kriegler featuring aerial 360 jump, 18 meter jump, segment on a bobsled track and jump from bobsled track onto cabin roof
• chased on foot on a Corfu beach by dune buggies
• chases car on foot up steps while car winds back and forth hairpin turns up hillside

Binds

• trapped in a helicopter that is being remotely controlled by Blofeld, climbs out onto rails of helicopter and into cockpit to regain control of the helicopter
• chased by guards around Gonzales' pool, uses patio table umbrella to land safely after jumping off wall
• chased in town by motorcycles, jams front wheel with board under front fender and sends rider over handlebars and through storefront window
• being sniped at and chased by Kriegler, does an aerial 360 jump over motorcyclists, knocking gun out of motorcyclist's hand with his skis
• cornered by Locque atop ski jump, has no choice but to go down ski jump, sticks landing and finds small jump to get air over Kriegler who was waiting at the bottom to shoot him
• chased on skis by motorcycles, lodges ski pole between two trees and clotheslines one of the motorcyclists
• attacked by pickup hockey players at ice rink, gets in Zamboni and knocks them all into the goal
• after Locque explodes compound and escapes by car, chases up steps to catch car at top of hill, shoots Locque through windshield and pushes car off edge of cliff
• attacked by man in submarine suit after recovering the A.T.A.C. nuclear controller, affixes detonation timer to the back of the suit helmet and swims away
• trapped under filing cabinet and under attack by man in submarine suit, gets free and swims away moments before detonation explodes man in submarine suit
• in Neptune submarine and under attack by other miniature submarine, backs miniature submarine into shipwreck and then accelerates to break free of the robotic arm
• tied together to Melina and dragged at the end of a cord behind boat and over coral, dives down while boat makes turns, cuts cord on coral and wraps cord around large rock, causing cord to snap under the pressure and knock some of crew off of boat to be eaten by sharks
• being run down by boat, dives down with Melina to sea floor and uses an abandoned scuba tank's oxygen to buy time long enough to convince Kristatos the sharks must have got them
• having lost Kristatos and the A.T.A.C. nuclear controller, gets "St. Cyrils" lead from parrot and uses Colombo to narrow down which St. Cyrils it is out of hundreds in Greece
• with St. Cyrils high atop rocky outcrop, uses rock climbing gear to scale rock face, but loses element of surprise when he disrupts a bird's nest and gets kicked off edge by Apostis when he reaches the top
• dangling in midair at the end of rock climbing rope partway down the face, uses shoelaces to make foothold loops for ascending rope, and throws a piton in Apostis' chest just before Apostis knocks free the last piton holding Bond from falling
• about to have a large wall stone thrown on him by Kriegler, uses wrought iron candle sconce pole to push stone and Kriegler back, through window, down roof and over edge of cliff
• with Russian KGB General Gogol demanding he hand over the A.T.A.C. nuclear controller, throws it over the edge of the cliff to destroy it and prevent it from getting into enemy hands

One-liners

• "Keep your hair on," to bald Blofeld as he's on the rails of the helicopter and pleading for his life
• "Moneypenny, a feast for my eyes," to Miss Moneypenny before she replies, "What about the rest of you?"
• "Love a drive in the country, don't you?" to Melina as they're driving down a treacherous hillside
• "Stinging in the rain?" to Q after seeing demo of killer umbrella that collapses around person's head and neck when in gets wet
• "A nose, not a banana, Q" after Q jokingly gives the composite on the identigraph a very long nose
• "Send them to the funeral, will you?" to florist handing him his lilies after motorcyclist crashes through her storefront window
• "Don't they have showers at the ice rink?" to Bibi as she comes out of his hotel bathroom wearing a towel
• "Yes, well, you get your clothes on, and I'll buy you an ice cream," to Bibi after she comes on to him and tells him she's not a virgin
• "Don't you ever come up for air?" to Bibi and she lunges and kisses him
• "You can't lose," to Bibi after she says that she'll get the gold medal because of her breath control
• "Don't grow up anymore - the opposite sex would never survive you," to Bibi
• "Well, I took the scenic route," when asked by Bibi what took him so long, after being chased on skis
• "Courage is no match for an unfriendly shoe," to Countess Lisl's asking Bunky where his courage is after he bets only half his chips
• "Bottoms up," to Countess Lisl's "Cheers"
• "Had no head for heights," after pushing Locque's car off edge of cliff
• "Well, I hope he was dining alone," after shark startles him and Melina on their salvage dive

Locations

• Meteora, Kalambaka and Corfu, Greece
• Tofana Mountain, Cortina, Italy
• The Bahamas
• England

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