Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

06 December 2020

For Your Eyes Only (1981)


I want to say again how old Roger Moore looks in these Bond films. He wasn't much older than 50 when he made For Your Eyes Only, but they've paired him with women much younger than he, and he just can't match them, despite his (apparent) skiing abilities, much on display in this movie. Surprisingly, this film – like Thunderball from 1965, which I recently watched – has numerous underwater sequences. The ones in John Glen's film work much better, and For Your Eyes Only is an overall much tighter film than Thunderball

The real winner of this movie, though, is Topol, who, ten years after playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, is a fox in this movie.

Oh! There's also an extraordinary mockery of Margaret Thatcher at the film's end that is simultaneously misogynist and delightful. No woman can stay away from Bond, even Mrs Thatcher!

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