For Your Eyes Only (1981)

For Your Eyes Only (1981), a spy film produced by Albert R. Broccoli and directed by John Glen (in his feature directorial debut), is the twelfth installment in the James Bond franchise from Eon Productions. The script, written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, is adapted from two Ian Fleming short stories – For Your Eyes Only and Risico. The British Ministry of Defence’s information gathering vessel, St Georges, holds the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC) which coordinates the Royal Navy’s Polaris submarines. Unfortunately, while navigating in the Ionian Sea, the ship accidentally triggers an old naval mine and sinks. In response, marine archaeologist Sir Timothy Havelock is discreetly asked to locate the St Georges. However, before he can do so, he and his wife are murdered on their yacht by a Cuban hitman named Hector Gonzales. Sir Timothy’s daughter, Melina Havelock witnesses this brutal act and vows to seek revenge for her parents’ death. Meanwhile, General Gogol of the KGB is also aware of the situation involving the St Georges and has already informed his contact in Greece.

James Bond, a MI6 agent, is directed by the Minister of Defence, Sir Frederick Gray, and MI6 Chief of Staff Bill Tanner to recover the ATAC before it falls into Soviet hands. The transmitter possesses the capability to launch attacks using Polaris ballistic missiles from submarines. Bond travels to Spain in search of Gonzales’s employer. While surveilling Gonzales’s villa, he is captured by his henchmen but manages to escape when Gonzales is killed by a crossbow bolt. Outside, Bond learns that the assassin was actually Melina and the two flee together. With Q’s assistance and advanced computer technology, Bond identifies Emile Leopold Locque as the man he witnessed paying off Gonzales. He then proceeds to Locque’s potential base in Cortina, Italy where he meets his contact Luigi Ferrara and intelligence informant Aris Kristatos, a prominent Greek business tycoon who also happened to be Kristatos’s former resistance comrade during World War II.