“It’s a bit like going into a country club and they say ‘we require a shirt with a collar’, you don’t talk about it, this is what we do, this is the set menu. “There was perhaps some nervousness on my part, let’s say…” recalls Conti. I have no objections.” Standing apartĬonti’s score is somewhat unique in the Bond canon as it’s distinguishable by its disco-infused sound, whilst evoking memories of previous Bond films On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me, with a particularly memorable skiing action sequence. ![]() Cubby says to me ‘Bill, I’d like you to do it in England,’ and I say ‘well, I have a family – a wife and two daughters – I’d rather not leave my family for three months.’ So he says ‘oh no… I’d like you to bring your family with you.’ So I said ‘okay, I can do that. “Then that puts you in touch with Cubby Broccoli and his family – and of course they’re wonderful. So, he recommended me and that was wonderful because I was a James Bond fan.” I mean, John Barry created the James Bond musical language. “I mean, you want a good movie, right? You’re all looking for movies to do and that was his account. “It’s not that we all want each other’s jobs, which we do,” says Conti as he grins with a glint in his eye. The inhabitants of the other monasteries, none too keen on the intrusion of a film crew, reportedly hung out their washing to disrupt shooting.As a result, he recommended Conti for composing duties to James Bond producer (Cubby) Albert R Broccoli. The monastery featured in the film is Aghia Triatha (Holy Trinity), reached by a circular staircase of 139 steps. They can now be visited (by those with a good head for heights and suitably restrained clothing – which can be hired, if your Bermuda shorts are a bit too risqué) via steps and ramps. They were built in such inaccessible places during the Serbian-Byzantine wars of the 14th century, when the only access was by removable wooden ladders. There are actually five of the original 24 monasteries remaining perched on vertiginous pinnacles. The dazzling mountaintop monastery is at Meteora, 2 km north of Kalambaka in central Greece. The location used for ‘St Cyril’s’ is far less accessible. First stop is a wedding party staged at Bouas-Danilia Village, an authentic-looking, but fake, tourist attraction, which stood about five miles north of Corfu Town, off the Paleokastrita Road, but has since closed. As was the now unused Olympic Ski Jump and the Bobsleigh Run which feature in the ensuing chases.Īfter a brief sojourn on the island of Corfu, Bond and Melina set off in search of ‘St Cyril’s’. He meets arch-baddie Kristatos ( Julian Glover) at the Olympic Ice Stadium, Via dello Stadio, built, like many of Cortina’s facilities, for the 1956 Winter Olympics. ![]() On to Greece, where Melina’s parents are gunned down on their yacht in Corfu Harbour.Īt north Italian winter sports resort Cortina d’Ampezzo (location for the original Pink Panther), in the Dolomites, Bond stays at the Miramonti Majestic Grand Hotel, localita Pezie 32043. Those really are the ministry’s reassuringly solid doors on Whitehall Court, London SW1, which you can see again in Tom Cruise sci-fi Edge Of Tomorrow (Live Die Repeat). The mining of a spy ship in the Ionian Sea upsets the British Ministry of Defence. For Your Eyes Only location: the mining of a ship causes concern: Ministry of Defence, Horseguards Avenue, London
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