A British spy ship has struck a mine and has sunk in Albanian waters. On board was a vital piece of defense equipment, the ATAC transmitter. Bond has to recover it before the Russians get hold of it and use it for no good. The murder of Havelock, a marine archaeologist helping MI6 locate the wreck, gives Bond a lead. He goes after the assassin and encounters the late archaeologist's daughter, Melina, who is on the quest for revenge. She and Bond discover another villain, Emile Locque. But who is he working for? A gang boss called Columbo? Or Kristatos, a legitimate shipping magnate? Bond and Melina, menaced by killers at every turn, need some quick answers.

Release Date:

• June 24, 1981

Plot:

• The sale of an ATAC decoder to the KGB.

Box Office Results:

• 94.9 million

Running Time:

• 2 hours, 9 minutes

Issued Sidearm:

• Walther PPK

Gadgets:

• Identigraph
• The ATAC
• Lotus Esprit Turbo with exploding anti-theft system
• Radio wristwatch

Director:

• John Glen

Screenplay:

• Richard Maibaum
• Michael G. Wilson

Title Song:

• For Your Eyes Only

Title Song Artist:

• Sheena Easton

Starring:

• Roger Moore as James Bond

Villain:

• Julian Glover as Aristotle Kristatos

• John Hollis as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Henchmen:

• John Wyman as Erich Kriegler
• Michael Gothard as Emile Leopold Locque
• Stefan Kalipha as Hector Gonzales
• Jack Klaff as Apostis

Bond Girls:

• Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock
• Cassandra Harris as Countess Lisl von Schlaf
• Lynn-Holly Johnson as Bibi Dahl

Supporting Cast:

• Walter Gotell as General Anatol Gogol
• James Villiers as Bill Tanner
• Geoffrey Keen as Sir Frederick Gray
• Desmond Llewelyn as Q
• Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny

• Chaim Topol as Milos Columbo

Filming Locations:

• London, UK; Ionian Sea off Albania; Albania; Moscow, Russia; Corfu, Greece; Madrid, Spain; Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; Albania itself.

Best Quote: (According to mi6.co.uk)

• Bond: "Now put your clothes back on and I'll buy you an ice cream."

Best Mistake (According to mi6.co.uk)

• Bond uses a table umbrella as a parachute while being shot at by baddies. But the umbrella seems to contain bullet holes before the enemy starts shooting .

Distinguishing Feature (According to mi6.co.uk)

• M does not appear in this film due to the death of actor Bernard Lee. The picture of a knight riding a horse in M's office is also absent for the first time.

Vital Statistics (According to mi6.co.uk)

• Conquests: 2
  
• Martinis: 0
  
• Kills: 11
  
• "Bond, James Bond": 2

Trivia

• Cassandra Harris was the first wife of Pierce Brosnan.
• This was intened to the next movie after The Spy Who Loved Me, but after the box office hit of Star Wars, the producers cashed in on Moonraker.

Detailed synopsis:
The pre title sequence begins with Bond visiting his late wife Tracy's grave being rudely interupted by a universal exports helicopter coming to retrieve him. Once they are flying directly over the thames, a bald man in a wheel chair with a white persian cat {blofeld} hijacks his helicopter via remote control. Bond daringly climbs outside the helicopter then back in and disables the remote control and takes back his helicopter. He then flies over and lifts Blofeld and his wheelchair by the landing gear and drops him down a smokestack.

A British surveilance ship St Georges equipped with the ATAC transmitter is on a routine run