For Your Eyes Only was considered one of Roger Moore’s two private favorite James Bond movies, together with 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me.

The movie was a monster hit, grossing $195million on a $28milllion finances and continues to entertain, again on our screens this weekend on ITV on Sunday.

It signalled a return to extra grounded motion sequences after its space-race predecessor Moonraker was closely criticised for outlandish plots and devices.

The movie’s main man might need appreciated the grittier tone, however he was not anticipating to be fairly so traumatised by a few of the ensuing scenes he needed to shoot.

Finding himself somewhat shaken and stirred, he resorted to alcohol and drugs to assist him cope. Scroll down to observe the scene.

As at all times with 007’s death-defying adventures, For Your Eyes Only already featured some hair-raising scenes.

Moore is pictured along with his fingers tied, prepared on set for a scene the place Bond is dragged by way of shark-infested waters.

In one other prolonged adrenalised sequence, he was lashed to a sled dashing down a cliff edge with co-star John Wyman who later stated: “You feared for your life. You might think this was the end of it… we could have both gone off the cliff had the guy (directing the sled) turned the wrong way.”

In reality, through the movie shoot, 23-year-old stuntman Paolo Rigoni died through the filming of the bobsleigh chase.

Moore himself, at all times essentially the most self-deprecating of stars, always performed down his personal efforts and using stunt doubles.

He joked:”I’m doubled in love scenes. I’m not good after the third take,” whereas insisting stunts have been one other matter: “I do all of them actually… I do all my own lying.”

However, he was positively not severe when he stated, “I did some of the stunts like jumping off a cliff with a parachute but I always had a double for the kissing scenes,” as a result of he had one huge worry, better than another.

Moore will need to have been horrified when he noticed {that a} main a part of the film was going to be filmed at a monastery excessive within the Meteora Mountains.

His issues have been nearly solved when the monks began overlaying the buildings with sheets and items of plastic, making an attempt to halt the making of a movie they believed immorally promoted violence.

The case was settled by the Greek Supreme Court, which decreed that the monks solely rights over the interiors of the monastery.

Filming resumed and Moore needed to face his biggest worry, in a scene that even the veteran stuntman Rick Sylvester stated made him worry for his life.

In the motion sequence, Bond dangles from a skinny rope calmly utilizing his bootlaces to assist him climb up, whereas a villain rappels all the way down to kick out his helps earlier than 007 takes him out with a thrown knife.

Sylvester stated: “From where we were, you could see the local cemetery; and the box [to stop my fall] looked like a casket. You didn’t need to be an English major to connect the dots.”

These scenes filmed across the vertiginous cliffs have been an absolute horror for Moore who suffered from vertigo. He later admitted he drained tall glasses of beer and took valium earlier than filming.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY IS ON ITV AT 3PM ON SUNDAY, JULY 9