Octopussy [Blu-ray]

Director: John Glen, John Glenn

Overview

This (13th) time around, 007 (once again played by Roger Moore) receives the usual call to come and visit M when another agent drops off a fake Faberge jeweled egg at the British embassy in East Berlin and is later killed at a traveling circus. Suspicions mount when the assistant manager of the circus Kamal (Louis Jourdan), outbids Bond for the real Faberge piece at Sotheby's. Bond follows Kamal to India where the superspy thwarts many an ingenious attack and encounters the antiheroine of the title (Maud Adams), an international smuggler who runs the circus as a cover for her illegal operations. It does not take long to figure out that Orlov (Steven Berkoff), a decidedly rank Russian general is planning to raise enough money with the fake Faberges to detonate a nuclear bomb in Europe and then defeat NATO forces once and for all in conventional warfare. John Glen returns again to handle directing duties, the second of five Bond films he lensed.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/15/2015
UPC:	0883904334019
Original Release:	1983
Rating:	PG
Language:	English
Sales rank:	17,521

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Roger Moore	James Bond
Louis Jourdan	Kamal Khan
Maud Adams	Octopussy
Kristina Wayborn	Magda
Kabir Bedi	Gobinda
Steven Berkoff	Orlov
Desmond Llewelyn	Q
Robert Brown	M,Actor
Lois Maxwell	Miss Moneypenny
Vijay Amritraj	Vijay
Walter Gotell	Gogol
Suzanne Jerome	Gwendoline
Cherry Gillespie	Midge
Albert Moses	Sadruddin
Douglas Wilmer	Fanning
Michaela Clavell	Penelope Smallbone
Philip Voss	Auktion?r
David Meyer	Zwilling,Twin
Bruce Boa	U.S. General
Anthony Meyer	Twin Two
Richard Parmentier	U.S Aide
Geoffrey Keen	Minister of Defense
Cheryl Anne	Octopussy Girl
Paul Hardwick	Soviet Chairman
Dermot Crowley	Kamp
Peter Porteous	Lenkin
Eva Reuber-Staier	Rublevitch
Jeremy Bullock	Smithers
Tina Hudson	Bianca
William Derrick	Thug with YoYo
Stuart Saunders	Maj. Clive
Patrick Barr	British Ambassador
Gabor Vernon	Borchoi
Hugo Bower	Karl
Ken Norris	Col. Toro
Gertan Klauber	Bubi
Brenda Cowling	Schatzl
David Grahame	Petrol Pump Attendant
Brian Coburn	South American VIP
Michael Halphie	South American Officer
Susanne Dando	Gymnast Supervisor
Roberto Germains	Circus Ringmaster
Richard Graydon	Francisco the Fearless
Mary Stavin	Octopussy Girl
Carolyn Seaward	Octopussy Girl
Carole Ashby	Octopussy Girl
Jani-Z	Octopussy Girl
Julie Martin	Octopussy Girl
Joni Flynn	Octopussy Girl,Gymnast
Kathy Davies	Octopussy Girl
Helene Hunt	Octopussy Girl
Gillian De Terville	Octopussy Girl
Louise King	Octopussy Girl
Tina Robinson	Octopussy Girl
Alison Worth	Octopussy Girl
Lynda Knight	Octopussy Girl
Teresa Craddock	Gymnast
Kirsten Harrison	Gymnast
Christine Cullers	Gymnast
Lisa Jackman	Gymnast
Christine Gibson	Gymnast
Tracy Llewellyn	Gymnast
Ravinder Singh Revett	Thug
Gurdial Sira	Thug
Michael Moor	Thug
Sven Surtees	Thug
Peter Edmund	Thug
Ray Charles	Thug
Andy Bradford	009
Talib Johnny	Thug
John Barry	Composer
Richard LeParmentier	U.S. Aide
Jeremy Bulloch	Smithers
Tony Arjuna	Mufti
Josef Richter	Circus Personnel
Shirley Fossett	Circus Personnel
Ravinder Reyett	Thug
Ken Burns	East German Bodyguard
Sally Dewhurst	Circus Personnel
Nick Hobbs	South American Soldier
Derek Lyons	US Air Force Base Officer
Lenny Rabin	Bidder at Sotheby's
Gary Russell	Boy Teen in Car
Nicola Stapleton	Little Girl at Circus
Michael G. Wilson	Actor
George Fraser	Actor
Louis Jordan	Actor

Technical Credits

Richard Maibaum

Michael G. Wilson

George MacDonald Fraser

Ian Fleming

Richard Maibaum	Screenwriter
Michael G. Wilson	Screenwriter,Executive Producer,Producer
George MacDonald Fraser	Screenwriter
Del Baker	Stunts
Pat Banta	Stunts
Albert R. Broccoli	Producer,Producer
Bill Burton	Stunts
Clive Curtis	Stunts
Jim Dowdall	Stunts
Martin Grace	Stunts
Nick Hobbs	Stunts
Jazzer Jeyes	Stunts
Remy Julienne	Stunts
Wayne Michaels	Stunts
John Richardson	Special Effects
Malcolm Weaver	Stunts
Christopher Webb	Stunts
Paul Weston	Stunts
John Evans	Special Effects
Derek Ball	Sound Effects
Leslie Dear	Special Effects
Ken Barker	Sound Effects
Derek Holding	Sound Effects
Mike Hopkins	Sound Effects
Jean-Pierre Lelong	Sound Effects
Ian Fleming	Screenwriter
Tom Pevsner	Producer
Norman Baillie	Special Effects
Ron Cartwright	Special Effects
Dave Holland	Stunts
Darryl Wooten	Stunts
Dorothy Ford	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Octopussy is one of the cleaner Roger Moore Bond films, despite a title that tends to elicit blushes. Bond films are always a miniature world tour, but this one's plot carries off the usual jet-setting with more finesse than some of its predecessors and some that followed. It's got a colorful slate of villains, starting with Louis Jourdan's slippery Kamal Kahn and Steven Berkoff's vain-popping Russian general Orlov, and continuing with such minions as the bodyguard who can crush dice in his fist, the twin circus knife throwers, and the man with the yo-yo razor blade. Memorable set pieces include a dangerous ride through an Indian marketplace and the safari game hunt in which Bond is the target. But the film's lingering image is of Bond sliding down an ornate banister, machine gun blazing, just barely blowing off the decorative flourish at the bottom to keep his privates from getting pulverized. Ever perfecting that playful grin and dry wit, Moore makes his sixth and penultimate Bond film, one of the series' more satisfying. Octopussy was one of eight Bond films that John Glen either directed or edited.