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For Your Eyes Only
Producer: EON Best line:
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Good Cut
1)
Bond was to dump a huge mound of snow and ice from a truck onto the hockey players
attacking him, then quip: "A real snow job."
2) Bond was to drop a bad guy
into a river, saying "The party's a washout."
3) Kriegler was to try and crush
Bond with a huge block of stone when he would step on a loose floorboard, which
would spring up and hit him in the crotch. Kriegler would then then fall through
a window to his death.
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Undercover
Writer
Richard Maibaum: "The girl was marvelous. Roger also seemed to control himself
a little without trying to be so goddamned funny all the time."
Roger Moore announced that he is reluctant to play 007 again, but is lured back at the last moment for an undisclosed sum. To cover the possibility of a new actor playing Bond (Timothy Dalton was approached), and to provide continuity, the script writers included a scene in which 007 visits the grave of his murdered wife.
Filming got off to a rocky start when Moore heard that Broccoli had called Connery the better Bond in an interview.
The fishing/spy boats like the one in the film actually exist. Russian fishing vessels with excessive radio antennae were reported shadowing NATO exercises throughout the Cold War (and you thought that our government banned fishing boats in our waters to protect the dolphins).
Terence Young, the director of Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Thunderball, said he was approached to direct. “They asked me because they said it was going to be the last of the series. I liked the idea because as I had made the first film I thought, ‘why not make the last?’ It would also have been a marvelous opportunity to get back to the beginnings and do away with all the gadgets. However, when I introduced the condition that if ever Bond reappeared part of the profits should be given to the Red Cross I heard no more!”
The pre-title sequence is a dig at Kevin McClory, who owns the rights to Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE. The unnamed man in a wheelchair is obviously meant to be Blofeld, and disposing of him so early was producer Cubby Broccoli's way of saying that the success of 007 did not depend on him.
Stuntman Paolo Rigon died during the filming of the bob sleigh chase. The bobsled he was riding in overturned as it chased a skier down the run.
Underwater photographer Al Giddings recorded some astounding footage for the keelhaul scene. Giddings himself was dragged across the reef several times. Then, taking live sharks, assistants guided them toward a brave (read: crazy) stuntman’s crotch as he treaded water. The resulting footage is a seemless, terrifying shark attack.
In the most famous scene from the film, Roger Moore was uncomfortable kicking the villain's car over a cliff: "Roger had a little medal in his hand -- the Dove -- and he wanted to throw that in and unbalance the car," said Michael Wilson. "John Glen and I said, 'No, you're mad as hell, you've got to kick this goddamned car off the cliff, now just get out and do it!'"
Carole Bouquet (Melina Havelock) angrily denied rumors that she slept with producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. He’s old enough to be my father.” She also called the film “one of the most stupid ever made.” End of publicity tour.
One of the Bond girls was played by Tula Cossey, who was later revealed to be a former male. Born Barry Cossy in 1954, schoolyard friend Richard Ellis described him as “a bit of a loner. He was tall, dark and good-looking, but maybe just a little effeminate.”
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