Octopussy
James Bond	Roger Moore
Also starring	Maud Adams Louis Jourdan Steven Berkoff
Directed by	John Glen
Produced by	Albert R. Broccoli
Novel/Story by	Ian Fleming (stories)
Screenplay	George MacDonald Fraser Michael G. Wilson Richard Maibaum
Cinematography by	Alan Hume
Music by	John Barry
Main theme	All Time High
Composer	John Barry Tim Rice
Performer	Rita Coolidge
Editing by	{{{editing}}}
Distributed by	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
Released	June 6, 1983 (UK) June 10, 1983 (USA)
Running time	131 min.
Budget	$35,000,000
Worldwide gross	$187,500,000
Preceded by	For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Followed by	A View to a Kill (1985)
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Octopussy (1983) is the 13th film in the James Bond series, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond. The film's title is taken from Ian Fleming's 1966 short story "Octopussy". However, the film's story is original and the short story is narrated as a flashback by the main Bond girl Octopussy. In the film, Bond is assigned the task of following a general stealing jewels and relics from the Russian government. This leads him to a wealthy Afghan prince, Kamal Khan, and his associate, Octopussy. Bond uncovers a plot to force disarmament in Europe with the use of a nuclear weapon. 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Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, Octopussy was released in the same year as the non-EON Bond film Never Say Never Again. Written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, and Michael G. Wilson, the film was directed by John Glen. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Michael G. Wilson (born 1943) is the stepson of the late James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli and half brother to current James Bond producer, Barbara Broccoli. ... EON Productions is a film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. ... For the song by the Bee Gees, see Odessa (album). ... George MacDonald Fraser, OBE (born 2 April 1926 in Carlisle) is a British author of both historical novels and non-fiction books. ... Richard Maibaum (May 26, 1909 - January 4, 1991) was an American film producer, playwright and screenwriter best known for his adaptations of Ian Flemings James Bond novels. ... Michael G. Wilson (born 1943) is the stepson of the late James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli and half brother to current James Bond producer, Barbara Broccoli. ... John Glen is a noted film director, born May 15, 1932 in Sunbury-on-Thames, England. ...

Plot

The pre-title sequence involves Bond's mission to destroy technology which has fallen into the hands of Argentina and features him flying a nimble homebuilt Bede BD-5J aircraft.^[1] A Rutan Long-EZ homebuilt in 1984 in England Also known as amateur-built aircraft or kit planes, homebuilt aircraft are constructed by persons for whom this is not a professional activity. ... The BD-5 Micro is a small, single-seat homebuilt kit aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Company in the early 1970s. ...

When a fatally wounded British agent 009 stumbles into the British Embassy in East Berlin with a fake Fabergé egg, MI6 immediately suspect Soviet involvement. Fortunately, the real egg turns up at an auction in London. Bond is sent to find out who the seller is and subsequently why 009 was murdered. Bond switches the real egg with a fake one at the auction. When an exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan, pays a high price to buy the egg, Bond follows him to his palace in India to find out why. East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... The Moscow Kremlin egg, 1906 A Fabergé egg is any one of sixty eight [1] jewelled eggs made by Peter Carl Fabergé and his assistants for the Russian Tsars and private collectors between 1885 and 1917. ... The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... An Afghan or an Afghani is the name used to describe a person from the country of Afghanistan. ... Kamal Khan is a fictional character and villain in the James Bond film Octopussy. ... Kamal Khan at dinner in the palace in the lavish dining room The Monsoon Palace is a fictional palace in India created in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy. ...

A renegade Soviet, General Orlov, supplies Khan with priceless Soviet treasures, and replaces them in state depositories with replicas. Khan is in turn smuggling them into the west with help from Octopussy, a fabulously wealthy woman who lives in a floating palace in India, surrounded by women who are members of her "Octopus" cult. General Orlov is a fictional character and villain in the James Bond film Octopussy ,played by Steven Berkoff. ...

Kamal Khan

Bond defeats Khan in a game of backgammon and assisted by his ally Vijay, foils Khan's bodyguard Gobinda's attempts to kill them. But one of Khan's associates, Magda, seduces Bond and steals the Faberge egg. Bond is immediately captured by Gobinda and locked in Khan's palace, but using a pen containing aqua regia^[2], he cuts a window's iron bars and escapes. His Seiko watch fitted with a beacon traces the Fabergé egg. He thus hears through a microphone that Orlov is planning to meet Khan at Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany, where Octopussy's circus is scheduled to perform. Khan notices the microphone and orders Gobinda to "get Bond". Disguised as a corpse, Bond escapes. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Kamal Khan is a fictional character and villain in the James Bond film Octopussy. ... Freshly prepared aqua regia is colorless, but it turns orange within seconds. ... Seiko Corporation ) (TYO: 8050 ) is a Japanese watch company. ... Chemnitz (Sorbian/Lusatian Kamjenica, 1953-1990 called Karl-Marx-Stadt; Czech: Saská Kamenice) is a city in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. ... This article is about the state which existed from 1949 to 1990. ...

Bond infiltrates Octopussy's island and confronts her, only to find out that she feels indebted to him for letting her father, a British Major, commit suicide rather than face the shame of a court martial when Bond was sent after him for smuggling and murder some years before. Khan now plans to replace a jewellery canister being smuggled through Octopussy's circus with a nuclear bomb. The warhead is primed to explode during a circus show at a US Air Force base in West Germany. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Seal of the Air Force. ...

Bond and Octopussy.

In East Germany Bond tries to stop the train with the bomb on board from leaving the Soviet base. He confronts Orlov, who escapes after revealing that the nuclear attack would be interpreted as an accident, and Europe would insist on nuclear disarmament rendering itself defenceless against an attack from Soviet forces. Bond then follows the train by car, which he even manages to drive on the rails. When Orlov realizes that Bond is aboard, he runs after the train, past the GDR border guards who shoot him dead. Bond is soon attacked by Gobinda and forced to get off. He pursues the train on foot and by taking an Alfa-Romeo. Khan and Gobinda know about the bomb and leave, passing Bond by the road on their way out, but Khan thinks they will get rid of Bond too. Bond is chased by the police for stealing the car but finally makes his way into the circus disguised as a clown. He is captured trying to explain that there is a bomb on the base, but Octopussy shoots open the canister containing the bomb. The guards let Bond go and he manages to defuse the bomb just in time. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Octopussy is a fictional character in the James Bond film of the same name. ... “East Germany” redirects here. ... The Alfa Romeo Alfetta was a rear-wheel drive executive saloon car and fastback coupé produced from 1972 until 1984 by Alfa Romeo. ...

Back in India, Khan is preparing to leave his palace. But Octopussy, Magda and their cult members arrive, followed by Q and Bond in a hot air balloon. They overpower the guards, although Gobinda captures Octopussy. Gobinda and Octopussy arrive to a dirt road to ride to an airplane by horseback. Octopussy tries to get away, but Gobinda grabs her and slaps her, knocking her unconscious. Bond reaches the plane by riding a horse, battles Gobinda and throws him out. Bond and Octopussy manage to jump onto a cliff as the plane crashes, killing Khan.

Cast

• Roger Moore as James Bond: A British agent, who replaces 009 on a mission which takes him to India.
• Maud Adams as Octopussy: A jewel smuggler and wealthy businesswoman.
• Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan: An exiled Afghan prince with a penchant for food, liquor, jewels, and atomic weaponry.
• Steven Berkoff as General Orlov: A Soviet General who works with Khan to bomb a US Air Base.
• Kristina Wayborn as Magda: Octopussy's and Khan's trusted subordinate.
• Robert Brown as M: The strict head of the British Secret service who sends Bond on his mission.
• Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary.
• Michaela Clavell as Penelope Smallbone: Moneypenny's assistant.
• Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's Gadget designer who gives Bond various devices that help along his mission. Llwelyn was dissapointed because he wanted to travel to India but all his scenes were filmed at Pinewood studios.^[3]
• Kabir Bedi as Gobinda: Khan's strong and loyal bodyguard.
• Vijay Amritraj as Vijay: Bond's ally in India.
• David Meyer & Anthony Meyer as Mischka & Grischka: Khan's henchmen, skilled in knife throwing at Octopussy's circus.
• Geoffrey Keen as Fredrick Gray: Britain's Minister of Defence
• Walter Gotell as General Gogol: KGB leader, working to stop Orlov.
• Douglas Wilmer as Jim Fanning: Mi6's operative, having knowledge about artefacts including the Faberge egg.

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Production

The title 'Octopussy' comes from the collection of short stories Octopussy and The Living Daylights, however it hardly uses any of the plot of the short story 'Octopussy'. Although the scene at Sotheby's is drawn from the Ian Fleming short story "The Property Of A Lady", little of the actual plot remains with the short story "Octopussy" used merely as the family back story for one of the main villains. Due to a a non-EON Bond film, Never Say Never Again being released in 1983, Octopussy saw Roger Moore returning for the role, though he showed interest in departing from James Bond after For Your Eyes Only.^[4] Octopussy and The Living Daylights (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. ... Sothebys (NYSE: BID) is the worlds second oldest international auction house in continuous operation. ... For the song by the Bee Gees, see Odessa (album). ...

Casting

James Brolin's screentest as James Bond with Vijay Amritraj, who plays Vijay.

Following For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore had expressed a desire to stop playing James Bond. His contract had been for five films, with an option for another. Given his reluctance to return, the producers engaged in a semi-public quest for the next Bond, with names including Timothy Dalton and James Brolin being suggested.^[4] However, when the rival Never Say Never Again was announced the producers re-contracted Moore in the belief that an established actor in the role would fare better against Sean Connery.^[4] Brolin's three screentests were publicly released for the first time as a special feature named James Brolin: The Man Who Would Be Bond in the Octopussy Ultimate Edition DVD.^[4] The producers were initially reluctant to feature Maud Adams again because her previous character was killed in The Man with the Golden Gun. Sybil Danning was announced in Prevue magazine as being Octopussy in 1982, but was not cast. It is also the first movie to have Robert Brown as Bond's boss M, which was due to the death of Bernard Lee in 1981. Desmond Llewelyn would get a larger role as Q in this film. One of Bond's allies was played by Vijay Amritraj, who was a professional tennis player. His character not only shares the same first name, but is also a tennis pro at Kamal Kahn's club ("Well, my backhand's improved.") and uses a tennis racket as a weapon during the car chase. Image File history File links Brolin. ... Image File history File links Brolin. ... James Brolin (born July 18, 1940) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning American television, film, character actor, producer, and director. ... Vijay in a scene from Octopussy Vijay Amritraj (Hindi: विजय अम्रित्रज, Urdu: وِجے اَمرِترج), born December 14, 1953, in Madras, India, is a former tennis champion and actor. ... Timothy Peter Dalton (born March 21, 1946[1]) is an English actor of stage and screen, best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989) and in his roles in Shakespearean related films and plays. ... James Brolin (born July 18, 1940) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning American television, film, character actor, producer, and director. ... For the song by the Bee Gees, see Odessa (album). ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930) is a Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... The Man with the Golden Gun, released in 1974, is the ninth film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional British secret agent James Bond. ... Sybil Danning (born May 24, 1947) is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B-movies, science fiction films, and action movies. ... Robert Brown as M in Licence to Kill Robert Brown (July 23, 1921 - November 11, 2003) was a British actor best known for his portrayal of M in the James Bond movies, succeeding Bernard Lee, who died in 1981. ... M is a fictional character in Ian Flemings James Bond series, as well as the films in the Bond franchise. ... Bernard Lee as M in The Man with the Golden Gun Bernard Lee (January 10, 1908 – January 16, 1981) was a British actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films. ... AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (September 12, 1913 – December 19, 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films. ... Q is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. ... Vijay in a scene from Octopussy Vijay Amritraj (Hindi: विजय अम्रित्रज, Urdu: وِجے اَمرِترج), born December 14, 1953, in Madras, India, is a former tennis champion and actor. ... For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ...

Filming

The filming of Octopussy began on August 10, 1982 with the scene in which Bond arrives at Checkpoint Charlie.^[5] Principal photography was done by Arthur Wooster and his second unit, who later filmed the knife-throwing scenes.^[1] Most of the film was shot in Udaipur, India and the Monsoon Palace was shot extensively in the film. In England the RAF Northolt, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Oakley were the main locations. The Karl-Marx-Stadt railways scenes were shot at the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough, while studio work was performed at the Pinewood Studios and 007 Stage.^[4] Most of the crew as well as Roger Moore had diet problems while shooting in India.^[3] is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Allied Checkpoint Charlie. ... Udaipur   (उदयपुर) is a city and a municipal council in Udaipur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. ... Kamal Khan at dinner in the palace in the lavish dining room The Monsoon Palace is a fictional palace in India created in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... RAF Northolt (IATA: NHT, ICAO: EGWU) is a Royal Air Force station in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in North West Greater London, England. ... RAF Upper Heyford was a Royal Air Force station located north-west of Bicester near the village of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England. ... RAF Oakley was a World War Two three-runway airfield between Oakley and Worminghall, Buckinghamshire. ... Wansford station viewed from the road A view of the station at Peterborough Swedish B Class No. ... This article is about the city in the United Kingdom. ... The gatehouse at Pinewood Studios Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. ... Albert R. Broccolis 007 Stage (formerly 007 Stage) is one of the largest sound stages in the world, and certainly the most famous. ...

Monsoon Palace

Hollywood stunt pilot and aerial coordinator J.W. "Corkey" Fornoff, who piloted a 12 foot Acrostar Jet through an open hangar at more than 150 miles per hour, has said, "Today, few directors would consider such a stunt. They'd just whip it up in a computer lab."^[6] Having collapsible wings, the plane was shown hidden in a horse trailer; however, a dummy was used for this shot.^[7] Filming inside the hangar was achieved by attaching the aircraft to an old Jaguar car by a steel pole with the roof torn off and driving along.^[1] The second unit were able to add enough obstacles including people and objects inside the hangar to hide the car and the pole and make it look as though Moore was flying inside the base. For the explosion after the mini jet escapes however, a miniature of the hangar was constructed and filmed closely. The exploding pieces of the hangar were in reality only four inches in length.^[4] A Mercedes Benz saloon car was stolen by Bond and used to chase the train — having had his tires shot out, Bond drove on the rails and entered the train. During filming, the car had intact tires in one scene so as to avoid any mishap.^[7] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 1600 pixel, file size: 227 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Sajan Garh in Udaipur File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Octopussy Udaipur... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 1600 pixel, file size: 227 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Sajan Garh in Udaipur File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Octopussy Udaipur... Kamal Khan at dinner in the palace in the lavish dining room The Monsoon Palace is a fictional palace in India created in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy. ... The BD-5 Micro is a small, single-seat homebuilt kit aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Company in the early 1970s. ... For other uses, see Jaguar (disambiguation). ... Mercedes-Benz W114/W115 coupe Mercedes-Benz 220 (W115) saloon 1972 250C The Mercedes-Benz W114 (and similar W115) Stroke-8 midsize cars were produced from 1968 through to 1976. ...

Acrostar from Octopussy seen at a convention.

Stunt co-ordinator Martin Grace suffered an injury while shooting the scene where Bond climbs down the train to catch Octopussy's attention.^[8] During the second day of filming, Grace – who was Roger Moore's stunt double for the scene – carried on doing the scene longer than he should have, due to a miscommunication with the second unit director, and the train entered a section of the track that the team had not properly surveyed. Shortly afterwards, a concrete pole fractured Grace's left leg.^[4] This affected morale in the camp for some time.

The bicyclist seen passing in the middle of a swordfight during the tuk tuk chase sequence was in fact a bystander who passed through the shot, oblivious to the filming; his intrusion was captured by two cameras and left in the final film as an unscheduled stunt. ^[4] Cameraman Alan Hume's last scene was that of Octopussy's followers rowing. That day, little time was left and it was decided to film the sunset at the eleventh hour when Hume reacted, "Oh just shoot the bloody thing!"^[9] Tuk-tuk waiting for passengers in Bangkok The tuk-tuk (ตุ๊กตุ๊ก or ตุ๊กๆ in Thai) is the Southeast Asian version of a vehicle known elsewhere as an auto rickshaw or cabin cycle. ...

The Fabergé egg in the film is real, it was stolen in 1897 and is called the Coronation Egg, although the egg in the film is named in the auction catalogue as Property of a Lady", which is the name of one of Ian Fleming's short stories released in more recent editions of the collection Octopussy and the Living Daylights. The Moscow Kremlin egg, 1906 A Fabergé egg is any one of sixty eight [1] jewelled eggs made by Peter Carl Fabergé and his assistants for the Russian Tsars and private collectors between 1885 and 1917. ... The Imperial Coronation Egg The Imperial Coronation Egg is a jewelled Fabergé egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1897 by Fabergé ateliers, Mikhail Perkhin and Henrik Wigstrom. ... Octopussy and The Living Daylights (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. ... Octopussy and The Living Daylights (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. ...

In a bit of diegesis that "breaks the fourth wall", Vijay signals his affiliation to MI6 by playing the James Bond Theme on a recorder while Bond is disembarking from a boat in the harbour near the Taj Mahal. Like his fictional counterpart, the real Vijay had a distinct fear of snakes and found difficulty holding the basket during filming.^[4] According to Gerald Prince in A Dictionary of Narratology, diegesis is (1) The (fictional) world in which the situations and events narrated occur; (2) Telling, recounting, as opposed to showing, enacting. ... The fourth wall is the imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theater, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. ... The James Bond Theme is one of the signature themes for the James Bond films. ... For other uses, see Taj Mahal (disambiguation). ...

The scene where Khan tries to cheat at backgammon is adapted from the Bond novel Moonraker, where Hugo Drax cheats at contract bridge. A line where Khan tells Bond to spend his money quickly is also a direct quotation from this novel (However, Drax address Bond as "Commander Bond" and Khan calls him "Mr. Bond"). Moonraker is the third James Bond novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series. ... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance (the relative proportions depend on the variant played). ...

Music

Main article: Octopussy (soundtrack)

The score was composed by John Barry, with the lyrics by Tim Rice.^[10] The opening theme, "All Time High" is sung by Rita Coolidge. It shows Coolidge in soft focus in what purports to be an Indian palace (it is in fact the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, England) and is one of four musical themes in the James Bond series that do not refer to the film's title, the other three being Dr. No (1962), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and the song "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale (2006). "All Time High" spent four weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary singles chart and reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100. Octopussy is the soundtrack for the eponymous thirteenth James Bond film. ... John Barry, OBE (born John Barry Prendergast on 3 November 1933 in York, England) is a renowned Golden Globe and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. ... Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award winning lyricist, author, radio presenter and television gameshow panelist. ... All Time High was a song sung by American singer Rita Coolidge. ... Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945, in Lafayette, Tennessee) is a Grammy Award winning American Singer. ... Dr. No is a 1962 spy film. ... For the Ian Fleming novel, see On Her Majestys Secret Service. ... James Bond theme chronology Die Another Day (2002) You Know My Name (2006) You Know My Name, performed by Chris Cornell, is the theme song to the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale. ... Casino Royale (2006) is the twenty-first film in the James Bond series and the first to star Daniel Craig as MI6 agent James Bond. ...

The original long playing record, released in 1985 by A&M Records, was recalled because of a printing error, and became a rarity. In 1997, the soundtrack was released by Rykodisc,^[11] with the original soundtrack music and some film dialogue, on an Enhanced CD version. The 2003 release, by EMI, restored the original soundtrack music without dialogue. A&M redirects here. ... Rykodisc Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... Enhanced Music Compact Disc logo/trademark Compact Disc Interactive logo/trademark Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM... For other uses, see EMI (disambiguation). ...

Release and reception

Bond disguised as a clown, a scene that was received harshly by most critics.

Octopussy's premiere took place at the Odeon Leicester Square on 6 June 1983 in the company of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales. Within five months of its premiere, it was released in 16 countries worldwide.^[12] The film earned more than For Your Eyes Only, grossing $183,700,000, with $67.8 million in the United States alone. It also performed better than Never Say Never Again. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Odeon Leicester Square The Odeon Leicester Square is a cinema which occupies the centre of the eastern side of Leicester Square, London, dominating the Square with its huge black polished granite facade and 120 feet high tower displaying its name. ... is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ... “Prince Charles” redirects here. ... Diana Spencer redirects here. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

The film, however, did not fare as well with reviewers, many of whom criticized Bond's clown costume,^[13] his gorilla outfit, and a stunt imitating Tarzan were criticised; additionally, the plot was stated as long and confusing.^[14] By contrast, Louis Jourdan's "suave" performance,^[15] the elegance of the film locations in India, and the stunts on aircraft and the train were appreciated.^[16] Jeffrey Westhoff at Rotten Tomatoes praised Roger Moore as being "sterling".^[17] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Octopussy was nominated for an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films award with Maud Adams nominated for the Saturn Award in the Best Fantasy Supporting Actress category. The film won the Golden Screen Award in Germany and the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing.^[18] Maud Adams (born in Luleå, Sweden February 12, 1945, as Maud Solveig Christina Wikström), is an actress and supermodel, most known for her roles in two James Bond movies. ... Founded in 1953, Motion Picture Sound Editors (M.P.S.E.) is an honorary society of motion picture sound editors. ...

Literary allusions

Literary critic Paul Simpson praised Jourdan as "cool" but said that Berkhoff was "so hammy you could string him up in a butcher's."^[19]

References

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• Ultimate Edition James Bond Site
• MGM's official Octopussy site

Fan and Other Sites

• Mi6's Octopussy Page