For Your Eyes Only

For Your Eyes Only, the twelfth James Bond film, was made in 1981 and is considered by many to be the best of the series of films starring Roger Moore.

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 Again but it does not fit the EON films' continuity.

The film focuses on the recovery of the priceless ATAC communication transmitter, lost in the Ionian Sea when the British vessel St Georges is sunk by a mine.

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.

Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Directed by John Glen, the film was an Eon Productions / United Artists movie based on the novel by Ian Fleming.

The theme song was performed by Sheena Easton, the first artist in the film series' history to perform a Bond theme song on-screen in the Maurice Binder title sequence.