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Octopussy (1983)

Octopussy poster
Directed by
John Glen
Genre
action film, adventure film, thriller film, spy film
Country
Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
2h 11m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 2,242 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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James Bond investigates a Soviet general who is stealing art treasures. He uncovers a plan involving a nuclear weapon and a woman named Octopussy.

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What happens

Octopussy is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the MI6 agent James Bond and the second to be directed by John Glen. The screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson. The film's title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming's 1966 short story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Although the events of the "Octopussy" short story form part of the title character's background, the film's plot is mostly original. It does, however, contain a scene adapted from the Fleming short story "The Property of a Lady" (included in 1967 and later editions of Octopussy and The Living Daylights) In Octopussy, Bond is assigned the task of hunting a megalomaniacal Soviet general (Steven Berkoff) who is stealing jewellery and art objects from the Kremlin art repository. This leads Bond to the exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan), and his associate Octopussy (Maud Adams), and the discovery of a plot to force disarmament in Western Europe with the use of a nuclear weapon. Octopussy was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and executive-produced by Michael G. Wilson; it was released four months before the non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. The film earned $187.5 million against its $27.5 million budget and received mixed reviews. Praise was directed towards the action sequences and locations, with the plot and humour being targeted for criticism; Adams's portrayal of the titular character also drew mixed responses. Octopussy was followed by A View to a Kill in 1985. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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