1983

Directed by John Glen
Screen Story and screenplay by George MacDonald Fraser and Richard Maibaum & Michael G Wilson
Produced by Albert R Broccoli
Executive producer Michael G Wilson
Associate producer Thomas Pevsner
Production designed by Peter Lamont
Second unit directed and photographed by Arthur Wooster
Director of photography Alan Hume
Supervising editor John Grover
Special visual effects John Richardson
Action sequences arranged by Bob Simmons
Main title designed by Maurice Binder

James Bond Roger Moore; Octopussy Maud Adams; Prince Kamal Khan Louis Jordan; Magda Kristina Wayborn; Gobinda Kabir Bedi; General Orlov Steven Berkoff; Twins (Mishka and Grishka) David Meyer, Anthony Meyer; Q Desmond Llewelyn; M Robert Brown; Miss Moneypenny Lois Maxwell; Penelope Smallbone Michaela Clavell; General Gogol Walter Gotell; Vijay Vijay Amritraj; Sadruddin Albert Moses; Minister of Defence (Frederick Gray) Geoffrey Keen.

After bringing Bond back to reality in FYEO, this film gets the same treatment, however some comical elements are introduced, such as Bond training a wild tiger to sit. Octopussy again uses a lot of Fleming from two more short stories, Octopussy and The Property of a Lady. The Octopussy short story is tied in with this movie beautifully, the only time that a book and movie show a real continuity.

Good for a Saturday afternoon with the kids.

Trivia

• Maud Adams is the first actress to play two different roles in two different Bond films. She was in Golden Gun

• Michaela Clavell (Penelope Smallbone) is the daughter of novelist James Clavell

• Octopussy went up against Never Say Never Again... Warner Bros. 007 film starring Sean Connery

The End of Octopussy but

James Bond Will Return in

A View To A Kill

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