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Octopussy(1983) is the thirteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bondfilm series, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6agent James Bond.

Thefilm\'s title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming\'s 1966 shortstory collection Octopussy and TheLiving Daylights, although the film\'splot is original. It does, however, include a scene inspired by theFleming short story \"The Property of a Lady\" (included in1967 and later editions of Octopussy andThe Living Daylights), while the eventsof the short story \"Octopussy\" form a part of the titlecharacter\'s background and are recounted by her.

Bond isassigned the task of following a general who is stealing jewels andrelics from the Soviet government. This leads him to a wealthy Afghanprince, Kamal Khan, and his associate, Octopussy, and the discoveryof a plot to force disarmament in Europe with the use of a nuclearweapon.

Octopussywas produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and wasreleased in the same year as the non-Eon Bond film NeverSay Never Again. The film was writtenby George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, and Michael G. Wilson,and was directed by John Glen.

Whiletrying to escape from East to West Berlin, British agent 009 isfatally wounded and dies after reaching the residence of the BritishAmbassador, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergéegg. MI6 immediately suspects Soviet involvement and, after seeingthe real egg appear at an sale in London, sends James Bond toinvestigate and find out the identity of the seller. At the sale,Bond is able to swap the real egg with the fake and engages in aofferding war with exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan, forcing Khan to pay£500,000 for the fake egg. Bond follows Khan back to his palace inRajasthan, India, where Bond defeats Khan in a game of backgammon.Bond escapes with his contact Vijay, foiling the attempts of Khan\'sbodyguard Gobinda to kill the pair. Bond is seduced by one of Khan\'sassociates, Magda, and notices that she has a blue-ringed octopustattoo. Bond permits Magda to steal the real Fabergé egg fitted withlistening and tracking devices by Q, while Gobinda captures and takesBond to Khan\'s palace. After Bond escapes from his room he listens inon the bug in the Fabergé egg and discovers that Khan is workingwith Orlov, a Soviet general, who is seeking to expand Soviet controlinto West-Central Europe.

Afterescaping from Khan\'s palace, Bond infiltrates a floating palace inUdaipur, India, and there finds its owner, Octopussy, a wealthybusiness woman and smuggler, and an associate of Khan. She also leadsthe Octopus cult, of which Magda is a member. Octopussy has apersonal connection with Bond: she is the daughter of the late MajorDexter-Smythe, whom Bond was assigned to arrest for treason. Bondallowed the Major to commit suicide rather than face trial, andOctopussy thanks him for offering her father an honorablealternative, whilst inviting Bond to stay on as her guest. Earlier inKhan\'s palace and later in Octopussy\'s palace, Bond finds out thatOrlov has been supplying Khan with priceless Soviet treasures,replacing them with replicas while Khan has been smuggling the realversions into the West via Octopussy\'s circus troupe. Orlov isplanning to meet Khan at Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) in East Germany,where the circus is scheduled to perform. Gobinda sends his comradesto kill Bond, but he and Octopussy gain the upper hand when thehenchmen break into the palace. Bond learns from Q that Vijay hasbeen killed by the goons.

Travellingto East Germany, Bond infiltrates the circus and finds out that Orlovreplaced the Soviet treasures with a nuclear warhead, primed toexplode during the circus show at a US Air Force base in WestGermany. The explosion would trigger Europe into seeking disarmamentin the belief that the bomb was a US one that detonated by accident,leaving its borders open to a Soviet invasion. Bond takes Orlov\'scar, drives it along the train tracks and boards the moving circustrain. Orlov gives chase, but is killed at the border by East Germanguards, after they mistake Orlov for a defector. Bond kills the twinknife-throwing assassins Mischka and Grischka to avenge the murder of009, and, after falling from the train, commandeers a car to get tothe airbase. Bond penetrates the base, and disguises himself as aclown to evade the West German police. He attempts to convinceOctopussy that Khan has betrayed her by showing her one of thetreasures found in Orlov\'s car, which she was to smuggle for him.Octopussy realizes that she has been tricked, and assists Bond indeactivating the warhead.

Bond andOctopussy return separately to India. Bond arrives at Khan\'s palacejust as Octopussy and her troops have launched an assault on thegrounds. Octopussy attempts to kill Khan, but is captured by Gobinda.While Octopussy\'s team, led by Magda, overpower Khan\'s guards, Khanand Gobinda abandon the palace, taking Octopussy as a hostage. Bondpursues them as they attempt to escape in their plane, clinging tothe fuselage and disabling the tailplanes. In a struggle with Bond,Gobinda takes a deadly plummet off the roof of the plane and Bondrescues Octopussy from Khan, the pair jumping onto a nearby cliffonly seconds before the plane crashes into a mountain, killing Khan.While M and General Gogol discuss the transport of the jewelery, Bondrecuperates with Octopussy aboard her private boat in India.

• Roger Moore as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.

• Maud Adams as Octopussy: A jewel smuggler and wealthy businesswoman.

• Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan: An exiled Afghan prince.

• Kristina Wayborn as Magda: trusted subordinate and henchman to Octopussy and Khan.

• Kabir Bedi as Gobinda: Khan\'s bodyguard.

• Steven Berkoff as General Orlov: A Soviet general who works with Khan to bomb a US airbase.

• David Meyer and Anthony Meyer as Mischka and Grischka: Orlov\'s knife-throwing henchmen who are performers in Octopussy\'s circus.

• Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6\'s gadget designer. Llewelyn was disappointed because he was unable to travel to India since his scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios.

• Robert Brown as M: Head of the British Secret Service and Bond\'s superior.

• Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M\'s secretary.

• Michaela Clavell as Penelope Smallbone: Moneypenny\'s assistant.

• Walter Gotell as General Gogol: KGB leader working to stop Orlov.

• Vijay Amritraj as Vijay: Bond\'s MI6 ally in India.

• Geoffrey Keen as Fredrick Gray: The British Minister of Defence.

• Douglas Wilmer as Jim Fanning: Antiquities expert who accompanies Bond at the Faberge sale.

• Albert Moses as Sadruddin: Head of MI6 station in India, assigned to assist Bond.

• Paul Hardwick as Soviet Chairman: presides over meeting between Orlov and Gogol.

• Eva Reuber-Staier as Rublevitch: Gogol\'s secretary.

• Peter Porteous as Lankin: Orlov\'s underling who has created the fake Faberge eggs.

• Andy Bradford as 009: Undercover 00 agent who has infiltrated Octopussy\'s circus. Killed by Mischka and Grischka.

GaryRussell plays one of the teenagers in the car that taunts Bond afterrefusing to give him a lift.

Thetitle \'Octopussy\' comes from the Ian Fleming collection of shortstories Octopussy and The LivingDaylights. Hardly any of the plot ofthe short story \"Octopussy\" is used, however, with itsevents simply related by Bond as the family backstory for one of themain characters. The scene at Sotheby\'s is, though, drawn from theshort story \"The Property of a Lady\" (included in 1967 andlater editions of the collection), while Kamal Khan\'s reactionfollowing the backgammon game is taken from Fleming\'s novelMoonraker.Due to a non-Eon Bond film, Never SayNever Again being released in 1983,Octopussysaw Roger Moore returning for the role, though he had shown interestin departing from James Bond after ForYour Eyes Only.

GeorgeMacDonald Fraser was hired to work on an early draft of the scriptand he proposed that the story be set in India.

FollowingFor Your Eyes Only,Roger Moore had expressed a desire to retire from the role of JamesBond. His original contract had been for three films, which wasfulfilled with The Spy Who Loved Me.Subsequent films were negotiated on a film-by-film basis. Given hisreluctance to return for Octopussy,the producers engaged in a semi-public quest for the next Bond, withboth Timothy Dalton and James Brolin being suggested. However, whenthe rival Never Say Never Againwas announced, the producers re-contracted Moore in the belief thatan established actor in the role would fare better against SeanConnery. Brolin\'s three screentests were publicly released for thefirst time as a special feature named JamesBrolin: The Man Who Would Be Bond inthe Octopussy Ultimate Edition DVD.

Theproducers were initially reluctant to feature Maud Adams againbecause her previous character was killed in TheMan with the Golden Gun. Sybil Danningwas announced in Prevuemagazine in 1982 as being Octopussy, but was never actually cast.Faye Dunaway was deemed too expensive. Barbara Carrera said sheturned down the role to take a part in the competing Bond film NeverSay Never Again. In the book AStar is Found: Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood\'s BiggestMovies, casting director Jane Jenkinsrevealed that the Bond producers told her that they wanted a SouthAsian actress to play Octopussy, so she looked at the only twoIndians in a then predominantly white Hollywood, Persis Khambatta andSusie Coelho. Afterwards, she auditioned white actresses, likeBarbara Parkins, who she felt could pass for Indian. Finally, AlbertR. Broccoli announced to her that they would cast Swedish-born MaudAdams, darken her hair, and change a few lines about how she wasraised by an Indian family. A different plotline, with Adams\' Britishfather exposed as a traitor, was used instead. As for Adams, sheasked to play Octopussy as a European woman and was granted this, buton the title character\'s name, she felt the producers \"went toofar\".

Octopussyis also the first film to feature Robert Brown as M, following thedeath of Bernard Lee in 1981. Desmond Llewelyn would get an expandedrole as Q in this film. One of Bond\'s MI6 allies in India was playedby Vijay Amritraj, a popular professional tennis player. Hischaracter not only shares the same first name with him, but he isalso a tennis instructor. He uses a tennis racket as a weapon duringthe auto rickshaw chase, which is accompanied by the sound of atennis ball being hit and scenes of onlookers turning their headsleft and right as if they are watching a tennis match.