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“For Your Eyes Only” was a short story by Ian Fleming, one of five in a collection entitled From a View to a Kill (1960), which was also the name of one of the stories, along with “Quantum of Silence,” “Risico” and “The Hildebrand Rarity.” Except for the last, the stories were intended for a TV series never made, but film producer Cubby Broccoli had bought the rights to most of Fleming’s Bond works and turned both “For Your Eyes Only” and “From a View to a Kill” into full-length movies.

The story begins in Jamaica and involves the murder of a British couple named the Havelocks for their refusal to sell their estate to a former Gestapo officer named von Hammerstein, now the chief of counterintelligence for the Cuban secret service. The killings are done by Cuban hitmen on orders from Major Gonzales, working for von Hammerstein. The killing of the Havelocks, who’d been good friends with Bond’s superior, M, cause him to ask 007 to act independently of MI6 to track down the killers.

Bond travels to Canada and Vermont to find von Hammerstein at his estate on Echo Lake. Also in the area is the Havelock’s daughter, an expert with a bow and arrow, out to avenge her parents’ murder. She succeeds in killing von Hammerstein, followed by a shoot-out between Bond and Gonzales and the two Cuban henchmen, whom Bond kills. He returns with the daughter to Canada.

Since no movies were made from “Risico” or “The Hildebrand Rarity,” I obviously won’t do my usual comparisons of them vs non-existent movies. I will in passing mention that in “Risico” Bond is in Rome, meeting his contact at the Hotel Excelsior and dining at a restaurant called Columba (fictitious) on melon and prosciutto and tagliatelle verdi with Genovese sauce. Bond also goes to Venice, where he drinks at Harry’s Bar and Caffé Florian on the Piazza San Marco. In “The Hildebrand Rarity,” whose title refers to a very rare fish caught off the Seychelles, he feasts on caviar, rosé Champagne and the fish.

There is no gourmandism in the story “For Your Eyes Only,” although Bond at one point remarks, “The best things in America are chipmunks, and oyster stew.”

The movie For Your Eyes Only (1981), with Roger Moore, bears little resemblance to the short story and none to its locations. Only the fact that the heroine, the Havelocks’ daughter Melina (played by French actress Carole Bouquet), is skilled at archery is retained. It was the twelfth Bond movie in the series, filmed in Greece, Italy and the Bahamas.

A British spy ship, the St. Georges, sinks in the Ionian Sea, and a marine archaeologist, Sir Timothy Havelock, is asked by MI6 to find it underwater, but he and his wife are murdered by a Cuban hitman named Hector Gonzales. Havelock’s daughter witnesses the murder and vows revenge.

Bond is sent to retrieve a transmitter for submarine ballistic missile launches and to find out who hired Gonzales, whom Melina kills with her bow and arrow. Bond finds out Gonzales’s enabler is a billionaire named Emile Leopold Locque in the Italian ski resort of Cortina, where 007 meets wealthy Greek businessman and intelligence informant Aris Kristatos, who informs Bond that Locque is employed by Greek gangster Milos Columbo, known as “the Dove.” After out-skiing a hit squad down a mountain, Bond flies to Corfu after Columbo.

He meets Kristatos for dinner at the casino as well as Columbo’s mistress, Countess Lisl von Schlaf , whom Bond seduces. The next day they are ambushed, Lisl is killed and Bond captured by Columbo, who informs him that Locque was actually hired by Kristatos, working for the KGB, to retrieve the transmitter. Bond and Columbo raid Kristatos’s Albanian opium-processing warehouses, where Bond finds naval mines like the one that sank the St Georges, then destroys the base and takes out after Locque and kills him.

Bond meets Melina, and they recover the transmitter from the sunken ship, but Kristatos captures them and takes the device. Bond and Melina escape and, with Columbo’s men, he attacks a mountain monastery, St. Cyril’s, and gets back the transmitter; Columbo kills Kristatos with a knife. Bond and Melina later spend the night aboard her father’s yacht.

In Cortina d’Ampezzo Bond stays at the Miramonti Majestic Grand Hotel (Suite 108), while Melina is in the Cristallo. Bond and Kristatos dine at the Casino Achillon Palace, built in the 19th century, where he orders “Preveza prawns, Savara salad and Bourdetto.” Preveza is a city in northwestern Greece; I have not been able to find anything called “savara,” but it might be Bond’s error in thinking savara means salad; Bourdetto is a seafood stew from Corfu made with scorpion fish cooked with onions and red pepper. Kristatos says, “Oh, an excellent choice, I’ll have the same. May I suggest a white Robola wine from Caponia, my home place?” Bond responds (supposedly a line added by Roger Moore), “Well, if you’ll forgive me, I find that a little too scented for my palate. I prefer the Theotaki Aspero.”

Robola (in Italian Ribolla Giala) is a Cephalonian wine that is deliberately left to oxidize, which is what 007 means by “scented.” His preference is for a white wine from the Teotoky vineyard, also on Corfu.

The only other food references in the movie are to characters eating pistachios.


“For Your Eyes Only” was a short story by Ian Fleming, one of five in a collection entitled From a View to a Kill (1960), which was also the name of one of the stories, along with “Quantum of Silence,” “Risico” and “The Hildebrand Rarity.” Except for the last, the stories were intended for a TV series never made, but film producer Cubby Broccoli had bought the rights to most of Fleming’s Bond works and turned both “For Your Eyes Only” and “From a View to a Kill” into full-length movies.

The story begins in Jamaica and involves the murder of a British couple named the Havelocks for their refusal to sell their estate to a former Gestapo officer named von Hammerstein, now the chief of counterintelligence for the Cuban secret service. The killings are done by Cuban hitmen on orders from Major Gonzales, working for von Hammerstein. The killing of the Havelocks, who’d been good friends with Bond’s superior, M, cause him to ask 007 to act independently of MI6 to track down the killers.

Bond travels to Canada and Vermont to find von Hammerstein at his estate on Echo Lake. Also in the area is the Havelock’s daughter, an expert with a bow and arrow, out to avenge her parents’ murder. She succeeds in killing von Hammerstein, followed by a shoot-out between Bond and Gonzales and the two Cuban henchmen, whom Bond kills. He returns with the daughter to Canada.

Since no movies were made from “Risico” or “The Hildebrand Rarity,” I obviously won’t do my usual comparisons of them vs non-existent movies. I will in passing mention that in “Risico” Bond is in Rome, meeting his contact at the Hotel Excelsior and dining at a restaurant called Columba (fictitious) on melon and prosciutto and tagliatelle verdi with Genovese sauce. Bond also goes to Venice, where he drinks at Harry’s Bar and Caffé Florian on the Piazza San Marco. In “The Hildebrand Rarity,” whose title refers to a very rare fish caught off the Seychelles, he feasts on caviar, rosé Champagne and the fish.

There is no gourmandism in the story “For Your Eyes Only,” although Bond at one point remarks, “The best things in America are chipmunks, and oyster stew.”

The movie For Your Eyes Only (1981), with Roger Moore, bears little resemblance to the short story and none to its locations. Only the fact that the heroine, the Havelocks’ daughter Melina (played by French actress Carole Bouquet), is skilled at archery is retained. It was the twelfth Bond movie in the series, filmed in Greece, Italy and the Bahamas.

A British spy ship, the St. Georges, sinks in the Ionian Sea, and a marine archaeologist, Sir Timothy Havelock, is asked by MI6 to find it underwater, but he and his wife are murdered by a Cuban hitman named Hector Gonzales. Havelock’s daughter witnesses the murder and vows revenge.

Bond is sent to retrieve a transmitter for submarine ballistic missile launches and to find out who hired Gonzales, whom Melina kills with her bow and arrow. Bond finds out Gonzales’s enabler is a billionaire named Emile Leopold Locque in the Italian ski resort of Cortina, where 007 meets wealthy Greek businessman and intelligence informant Aris Kristatos, who informs Bond that Locque is employed by Greek gangster Milos Columbo, known as “the Dove.” After out-skiing a hit squad down a mountain, Bond flies to Corfu after Columbo.

He meets Kristatos for dinner at the casino as well as Columbo’s mistress, Countess Lisl von Schlaf , whom Bond seduces. The next day they are ambushed, Lisl is killed and Bond captured by Columbo, who informs him that Locque was actually hired by Kristatos, working for the KGB, to retrieve the transmitter. Bond and Columbo raid Kristatos’s Albanian opium-processing warehouses, where Bond finds naval mines like the one that sank the St Georges, then destroys the base and takes out after Locque and kills him.

Bond meets Melina, and they recover the transmitter from the sunken ship, but Kristatos captures them and takes the device. Bond and Melina escape and, with Columbo’s men, he attacks a mountain monastery, St. Cyril’s, and gets back the transmitter; Columbo kills Kristatos with a knife. Bond and Melina later spend the night aboard her father’s yacht.

In Cortina d’Ampezzo Bond stays at the Miramonti Majestic Grand Hotel (Suite 108), while Melina is in the Cristallo. Bond and Kristatos dine at the Casino Achillon Palace, built in the 19th century, where he orders “Preveza prawns, Savara salad and Bourdetto.” Preveza is a city in northwestern Greece; I have not been able to find anything called “savara,” but it might be Bond’s error in thinking savara means salad; Bourdetto is a seafood stew from Corfu made with scorpion fish cooked with onions and red pepper. Kristatos says, “Oh, an excellent choice, I’ll have the same. May I suggest a white Robola wine from Caponia, my home place?” Bond responds (supposedly a line added by Roger Moore), “Well, if you’ll forgive me, I find that a little too scented for my palate. I prefer the Theotaki Aspero.”

Robola (in Italian Ribolla Giala) is a Cephalonian wine that is deliberately left to oxidize, which is what 007 means by “scented.” His preference is for a white wine from the Teotoky vineyard, also on Corfu.

The only other food references in the movie are to characters eating pistachios.

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