'Petrified' Roger Moore relied on booze and Valium on James Bond set sabotaged by monks

This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Trailer for classic Bond film For Your Eyes Only After sending James Bond into space for Moonraker, 1981’s For Your Eyes Only grounded Roger Moore ’s 007 in a much more classic Cold War mission. This time the spy would be attempting to locate a missile command system before it finds its way into the hands of the Russians.

Filming took the cast and crew to the cliffs of Meteora in Greece, where the star met his match during one death-defying stunt. Moore seriously struggled with vertigo despite the worst for him only being hung above a four feet drop, while his stuntman Rick Sylvester had a twenty-foot one to contend with. He had previously performed the famous opening ski jump at the start of The Spy Who Loved Me, but even he was terrified of how dangerous this was to pull off.

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Next James Bond odds favourite ‘has attracted over 70 per cent of all bets’ 'Petrified' Roger Moore relied on booze and Valium on James Bond set sabotaged by monks (Image: GETTY) In this For Your Eyes Only scene, Sylvester had to act as Bond falling off the side of a cliff, which involved a sudden rope jerk right down by the bottom that could be fatal. The stunt worked without any problems, but at the time he said: “From where we were [shooting], 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.