007 # 13 Octopussy

Action, Adventure, Thriller

Roger Moore	James Bond
Maud Adams	Octopussy
Louis Jourdan	Kamal
Kristina Wayborn	Magda
Kabir Bedi	Gobinda
Steven Berkoff	Orlov
David Meyer	Twin One
Tony Meyer	Twin Two
Desmond Llewelyn	Q
Robert Brown	M
Vijay Amritraj	Vijay
Desmond Llewellyn
Lois Maxwell	Miss Moneypenny
Hugo Bower	Karl
Andy Bradford	009

Director	John Glen (II); John Glen
Producer	Albert R. Broccoli; Tom Pevsner
Writer	Michael G. Wilson; George MacDonald Fraser; Richard Maibaum; Ian Fleming

Roger Moore was nearing the end of his reign as James Bond when he made Octopussy, and he looks a little worn out. But the movie itself infuses some new blood into the old franchise, with a frisky pace and a pair of sturdy villains. Maud Adams--who'd also been in the Bond outing The Man with the Golden Gun--plays the improbably named Octopussy, while old smoothie Louis Jourdan is her crafty partner in crime. There's an island populated only by women, plus a fantastic sequence with a hand-to-hand fight that happens on a plane--and on top of a plane. The film even has an extra emotional punch, since this time out 007 is not only following the orders of Her Majesty's Secret Service, but he is also exacting a personal revenge: a fellow double-0 agent has been killed. Two Bond films were actually released in 1983 within a few months of each other, as Octopussy was followed by Sean Connery's comeback in Never Say Never Again. The success of both pictures proved that there was still plenty of mileage left in the old license to kill, though Moore had one more workout--A View to a Kill--before hanging it up. And that title? The franchise had already used up the titles to Ian Fleming's novels, so Octopussy was taken from a lesser-known Fleming short story. --Robert Horton