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For Your Eyes Only
Film poster by Bill Gold
James Bond	Roger Moore
Also starring	Julian Glover Carole Bouquet Chaim Topol Lynn-Holly Johnson
Directed by	John Glen
Produced by	Albert R. Broccoli
Novel/Story by	Ian Fleming (stories)
Screenplay	Michael G. Wilson Richard Maibaum
Cinematography by	Alan Hume
Music by	Bill Conti
Main theme	For Your Eyes Only
Composer	Bill Conti Michael Leeson
Performer	Sheena Easton
Editing by	John Grover
Distributed by	United Artists
Released	June 24, 1981 (UK) June 26, 1981 (USA)
Running time	128 min.
Budget	$28,000,000
Worldwide gross	$195,300,000
Preceded by	Moonraker (1979)
Followed by	Octopussy (1983)
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For Your Eyes Only (1981) is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The screenplay takes its characters from and combines the plots of two short stories from Ian Fleming's collection For Your Eyes Only: the title story and Risico. It also includes elements inspired by the novels Live and Let Die (the keelhauling sequence), Goldfinger (the identigraph sequence) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the opening at the graveyard). In the film, Bond and Melina Havelock become tangled in a web of deception spun by rival Greek businessmen against the backdrop of Cold War spy games. Bond is after a missile command system known as the ATAC (a MacGuffin introduced to tie together the original stories' plots), whilst Melina is out to avenge the murder of her parents. As well as seeing a conscious return to the style of the early Bond films and the works of 007 creator Fleming, and therefore a more gritty, realistic approach (following the science-fiction Bond film Moonraker), the film is perhaps unusual for the Bond series in having a strong narrative theme: revenge and its personal consequences.

The film was released on both June 24th (in the United Kingdom) and June 26th (in the United States) of 1981 (two weeks after the release of blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark) and was both a critical and monetary success, generating $195.3 million worldwide.

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