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Location Guide - For Your Eyes Only
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London, UK
After a phony red-alert call and a hair-raising
helicopter ride above Beckton Gasworks in London, Bond meets
with the MI6 Chief of Staff and the Minister of Defence
at the Ministry at Whitehall Court to receive
his orders. 007 must investigate a Cuban hit
man, Gonzales. After the mission falls apart and Gonzales
is assassinated, Bond returns to London, where Q uses
the Identigraph to identify the paymaster as the shady
gangster, Emile
Locque.
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Corfu, Greece
Bond journeys to Vatonies on the island of Corfu, to
the luxury estate of rich playboy-assassin: Hector
Gonzales. Whilst surveying the payoff Bond's
cover is blown and the situation soon erupts into
a Citron-bound rampage through the foothills of
Corfu and into Pagi village. Later, Bond returns
to Corfu with Melina
Havlock intent on tracking down her parents
killer. Here, Bond meets with Kristatos at the
Achillion Palace Casino and in the course of the
investigation, 007 spends the night with British-born Countess
Lisl at her beachfront batch before her tragic
death.
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Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Intent on getting to the bottom of the ATAC encoder
mystery, Bond agrees to meet with Aris
Kristatos. At the Olympic Ice Rink in Cortina,
007 rendezvous with the chilly Kristatos who suggests
that Locque is working for the smuggler Columbo.
In search of Locque and with a little persuasion from
the over-zealous Bibi,
Bond attends a biathlon event, where the villain's
goons ambush him and a gigantic ski-chase ensues. Presumably
out of trouble, 007 returns to Corfu Township and runs
into Melina.
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Albania
To prove his loyalty to Bond, Columbo takes
his entourage across the sea to Albania and with the
help of 007, he raids Kristatos' warehouse where he
stores his smuggled opium. After a brutal firefight
in and
around the dockside warehouse, 007 pursues the
Locque, to a rocky cliff-top where he meets his demise.
In one of his most vengeful moments, Bond kicks the
car from it precarious position.
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Ionian Sea
Bond and Melina head for the Ionian Sea where 007 believes he will find the wreckage of the St. Georges spy-ship and the precious ATAC. When Melina and Bond go below the surface to investigate the wreck they are ambushed underwater by Kristatos' goons and finally captured onboard the boat.
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Kalambaka, Greece
Kristatos takes the ATAC to St. Cyrils, an abandoned and ornate monastery, at the summit of a remote mountain in Meteora. In this historic place of worship the villain hopes to sell the British encoder to the highest bidder. Bond, Columbo and Melina rendezvous at the remote outpost to take on the manic Kristatos and protect British secrets. 007 and the power hungry Kristatos face-off once more at this isolated haven. With the mission a success, Melina and Bond retire to her luxury launch for some peace and quiet. |
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Shooting For Your Eyes Only
First-time Bond director John
Glen assembled
a top-notch team and embarked for Corfu in the autumn of
1980. On September 15th, production on the twelfth Bond
adventure began at the Villa Sylva at Kanoni, standing
in for Gonzales' elaborate residence. The "For
Your Eyes Only" shoot got off to a good start - for
several sunny days the first unit shot the sequence that
would see the hitman's death and climax in a frantic car chase.
With the first action piece in the can, the crew departed
for the Greek mainland to capture scenes with their leads
in and around St. Cyrils - actually known as Agia Triada
Monastery.
Right: "For
Your Eyes Only" casts the spotlight on the mediterranean.. |
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The production complexity increased substantially
when the resident monks protested the crew's presence. The clergymen,
who were not directly involved in the productions negotiations
to shoot there, went out of their way to prevent John Glen and
his team from capturing the shots they would require. Whilst
filming scenes in and around the buildings proved to be impossible
until
the dispute was resolved, the monks could not prevent Rick Sylvester
and the second unit from staging Bond's daring ascent and rapid
decent of the sheer cliff face.
Corfu also doubled for the various Albanian
locations seen in "For Your Eyes Only".
The crew shot at The Old Fortress in Corfu Township to stage
the dockside fight, Bond's chase through the ruins and finally
onto the cliff face. The moment of truth for Roger Moore's Bond
was upon the first unit at this setting - Moore confirms his
follow up to "Moonraker"
has two feet firmly on the ground when he opts to boot Locque's
car from
its
teetering
position.
Next, the first unit can scenes at St. Georges Beach, Corfu to
capture the beach-buggy showdown and the tragic death of Lisl.
Above: Bond's 12th on-screen mission sees the superspy travel from London to Corfu and back; From the UK to the snowy Cortina, Italy and and back to the mediterranean. |
Back home in the UK another Bond veteran Peter
Lamont, who had recently risen through the ranks, was preparing
a raft
of sets at Pinewood for the crew's return just prior to Christmas
1980. Lamont had worked closely with Ken Adam and his team for
nearly 20 years before Adam stepped down from the role of Production
Designer and let Lamont come to the fore. In the warmth of the
sound studio Moore and co-star Cassandra Harris shoot their "nightcap" sequence
as well as scenes onboard the St. Georges spy-ship.
Above: In and around the water -
007 sails to the Albanian docks with Columbo, returning
to Corfu in time to rendezvous with Melina and explore
the St. Georges wreck in the Ionian Sea. Bond's last stop
is
the rocky outcrops of Kalambaka, on the Greek mainland... |
January saw the first unit on location again
in northern Italy, filming a high-octane ski sequence in and
around the Olympic ski-jump at Cortina. The crew faced a major
challenge in Cortina - the township's warmest winter in decades!
Some quick planning saw snow trucked in from neighboring areas
in order to lend to the effect of mid-winter. The first unit
filmed exteriors of the Miramonti Hotel and ski-lodge, which
were used as Bond's residence whilst in Italy, all the while
the second unit took on the more dangerous challenge of filming
the extensive bobsled sequence. Principal production for the
newest
007 adventure wrapped in March of 1981 - leaving just three months
for post production work before the June 24th premiere.
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