Home / For Your Eyes Only / Chaim Topol
- Actor
- Chaim Topol
- Character
- Milos Columbo
- Watch
- Unidentified watch
- Status
- Unidentified
For Your Eyes Only brought Bond back to earth after Moonraker sent him into orbit. John Glen, directing his first feature, stripped out the gadget excess and put Roger Moore in something closer to a spy thriller, with a plot about recovering a sunken encryption device before the Soviets. Chaim Topol plays Milos Columbo, a Greek smuggler who turns out to be Bond's most useful ally, a character lifted along with his rival Kristatos from Ian Fleming's short story "Risico." Topol, best known as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, gives Columbo real warmth, and he seems to be enjoying the spy game more than anyone else in the film. The pistachios were his idea. He suggested them as the character's trademark, and the film puts them to work in the warehouse assault, where they tell Columbo's men where to shoot.
Columbo wears a stainless steel dive watch with a black dial, luminous hour markers, and a tapered steel bracelet. It shows best in the climactic scenes, when he is dressed in black leather with a chunky gold ring, its squared face engraved, on his left hand. For a Greek smuggler who spends his time on boats, it's the right call. The brand hasn't been identified.
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