Intelligence Ship Under Attack | For Your Eyes Only (1981)

British intelligence service vessel St. Georges is deployed somewhere in Adriatic Sea. The ship is equipped with 'Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator' (ATAC), the system used by the Ministry of Defense to communicate with and co-ordinate the Royal Navy's fleet of Polaris submarines. St. Georges is made up looking as a fishing vessel from outside. In this clip, the fishermen on it catch something suspicious and heavy in their fishing net. It is an old naval mine, which explodes immediately after it touches the vessel, causing severe damages throughout the ship. Despite tireless efforts by the crews, St. Georges sinks down along with the ATAC system ...

Film : For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Directed by : John Glen
Produced by : Albert R. Broccoli
Distributed by : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (United Artists)

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[tansilver]

A whole intelligence office inside a fishing vessel. Interesting at all.

[bcrunch]

I like the reveal that the mine wasn't random and that it was from Kristatos and Locque's warehouse.

[isaacdarnford]

According to early 80's technology, the graphics is quite marvelous. Nailed It.

[ricardocantoral]

Using a fishing boat as part of a masquerade, the greek locations, and the climbing sequence all strongly recall The Guns of Navarone.

[ricardocantoral]

The ATAC was a perfect macguffin. There was no imminent danger if the Soviets obtained the machine but it would have meant a terrific blow to the defense of the west.

[henrytoddanlok]

It's called ATAC, a mechanism to aecretly comunicate with each other

[michaeleverest]

Im sure I read that duringthe Warehouse battle scene later in the film that the mine was one of Locques as hehas warehouse full of them and that he was involved in the St Georges..If true then not sure its easily made out!

[arnanmtabal]

This is the beginning scene of the movie 'for your eyes only'

[KarlSturmgewher]

Soldiers chained to the self-destruct will have be a lot faster than the sea mine. Damn!

This is freaky!

[donweatherwax]

You know, besides the mines seen in the background at Kristatos' warehouse in Albania, I just noticed another clue that the sinking was a deliberate attack. It's the very first shot of the sequence, with the camera's POV starting below the waves, then surfacing off the _St. Georges'_ aft starboard quarter.

It's a dramatic reveal, sure... but to me, it also looks like we're meant to assume (perhaps unconsciously) that what we are seeing is the view from a submersible's periscope — just breaking the surface and verifying the _St. Georges'_ position.

Do Kristatos' many resources include a submarine? If you've seen the movie, the answer is, of course he does — that nasty little yellow job, the _Mantis, _ that attacks Bond and Melina's larger minisub _Neptune_ after they've retrieved the A.T.A.C. from the _St. Georges'_ wrecked hull.

Not only that: this would explain another detail. I always wondered why the _Mantis_ had those manipulator arms, which the pilot used to tear at the exterior wiring of the _Neptune._ Obviously, there's a good "movie logic" reason: to put the good guys at greater risk. (If the _Neptune_ hadn't also happened to have slightly more powerful screws, enabling them to push the _Mantis_ backwards at the crucial moment, Bond and Melina would've been goners.) But there was no obvious "in-world" reason for the _Mantis_ to have those little manipulator appendages, with pliers and drill attachments. I believe we're meant to assume that Kristatos — having figured out somehow that the St. Georges was a British spy ship, and observing that its elaborate "cover" (as a fishing trawler from nearby Malta) involved actual Maltese fishermen casting actual fishnets — simply used the _Mantis_ to wrap the _St. Georges'_ fish net around a deadly mine, so it would be reeled in and strike the hull, and hopefully sink it so he could salvage its secret equipment for sale to the U.S.S.R. In fact, Kristatos' men might have already entered the hulk of the _St. Georges_ and seen the A.T.A.C., but Kristatos wasn't sure how to disarm he destruct system. How helpful of Bond to do that part for him.

(Obviously, I'm not sure that Kristatos' plan would actually work in real life, but I mean, two films back we had fake oil tankers that could swallow nuclear subs, and a submersible Lotus Esprit. For a Bond film, Kristatos' plan is _extremely_ realistic.)

One possible objection: perhaps the pilot of the _Mantis_ was hired by General Gogol to try to salvage the A.T.A.C.? But this is very unlikely. Not only would this imply that the KGB knew exactly where the A.T.A.C. was (in which case why would he need to pay Kristatos as a middleman?); in the visual storytelling of the Bond franchise, there would definitely have been some subtle clue (Cyrillic lettering on the _Mantis, _ perhaps) signifying Soviet involvement.

(By the way, the terrific submersible fight in _The Abyss_ [1989] was clearly inspired by the terrific submersible fight in _For Your Eyes Only_ [1981]. Just another example of the weirdly pervasive influence exerted by the most sneaky-good Bond movie.)

[josephmassaro]

I wonder what kind of below decks set up an actually spy trawler looks like?

[deacondavis]

For Your Eyes Only (1981) was directed by John Glen!!!!

[edTelevision]

One way of preventing unauthorised tea, coffee, meal, cigarette and toilet breaks at 1:30!

[plissken]

James Cameron borrowed elements heavily from this movie and recycled them in 1989's The Abyss. Not only this opening, but also the battle between the two mini-submersibles later on.

[shuboy]

Anyone else notice the St. Georges was built with TARDIS technology? The interior of the secret spy section is clearly bigger than the fishing trawler part on the outside!

[FormulaPunRacer]

@2:30 Now why didn't the guy at the winch handle shut off the winch when he saw the mine coming?

[simonclaus]

why they put handcuffed while operating.

[TheBorderlandsman]

was the mine from ww2 or from the villain its kind of hard to understand

[yackawaytube]

What language were the sailors speaking in?