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General Info - Octopussy (1983)

Bond returns for a sleeker, more entertaining film with Roger Moore at the helm for a sixth time. Threats of his resignation from the role had proved groundless as Moore signed on the dotted line. The usual production crew was back for another crack at Bond suggesting at some continuity. This would only partly be the case - the resultant cash was not far diminished from the previous film, the resultant film, however, would return to the mould of The Spy Who Loved Me and even Goldfinger. Decadence allied with competence - but was this James Bond's real all time high?

The Plot

Consider the situation in the early 1980's -The Cold War is fizzling away leaving many to wonder what to do. Not so General Orlov, who wants to attack NATO in their apparently weak state due to easing tensions. Rejections from Moscow force Orlov to ally with Kamal Khan in a win-win partnership - on one side, through Khan's unsuspecting associate Octopussy (and her circus), a nuclear bomb can be brought into West Germany for Orlov whilst at the same time, Orlov can get jewels from the Russian archive to aide Khan's smuggling operation, also into Europe. The bomb is to be set off at the circus inside a US military base, the blame subsequently being pinned on the US as an accident, with US forces having to withdraw from Europe leaving the door open to Orlov's megalomaniac plans. Bond, who allies with Octopussy, discovers this plan and de-activates the bomb, just, at the performance and then jets off to India to rescue her from Khan which, of course, is done successfully but with the help of Octopussy's gymnasts.

Budget: $25m - Gross: $184m - Fastrac007 Rating: 73%