For Your Eyes Only (1981)

The 12th entry in the 007 franchise finds James Bond (Roger Moore) attempting to track down a transmitter that coordinates the Royal Navy's submarines. He joins forces with a Greek beauty (Carole Bouquet), who is avenging the death of her parents, since the missing transmitter and her parents' death are tied together. Bolstered by a strong narrative, this is one of the very best entries in the series. After the special effects laden, sci-fi approach of the previous entry MOONRAKER, director John Glen (whose feature film debut this is) and the film editor of three previous Bonds including MOONRAKER, grounds the film in a harsher, less cartoonish, reality closer to the early Connery Bonds. The film is still elegant with glamorous locales in Spain, Italy and Greece and two marvelous set pieces. One involving a chase through the Spanish mountains and the other a ski chase in Cortina, Italy which push the film's precision drivers and stuntmen to their limits. The bouncy score is by Bill Conti and the Oscar nominated song is sung by Sheena Easton, the only Bond singer who actually appears in the film's credit sequence. With Topol, Lynn Holly Johnson, Julian Glover, Jill Bennett, Charles Dance, Geoffrey Keen, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn and Cassandra Harris, whose husband Pierce Brosnan would later play Bond.