14 Facts About Octopussy

Octopussy is a 1983 British spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions; the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

In Octopussy, Bond is assigned the task of following a megalomaniacal Soviet general who is stealing jewellery and art objects from the Kremlin art repository.

Octopussy was produced by Albert R Broccoli and Michael G Wilson; it was released four months before the non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again.

Octopussy has a personal connection with Bond: her father is the late Major Dexter-Smythe, whom Bond arrested for treason.

Little of the plot of the short story "Octopussy" is used with its events simply related by Bond as the family backstory for one of the main characters.

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Sybil Danning was announced in Prevue magazine in 1982 as being Octopussy, but was never actually cast, later explaining that Albert R Broccoli felt "her personality was too strong".

Octopussy is the first film to feature Robert Brown as M, following the death of Bernard Lee in 1981.

The Monsoon Palace served as the exterior of Kamal Khan's palace, while scenes set at Octopussy's palace were filmed at the Lake Palace and Jag Mandir, and Bond's hotel was the Shiv Niwas Palace.

Octopussy premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 6 June 1983, with Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales in attendance.

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post felt Octopussy was "one of the snazziest, wittiest productions" of the film series, in which he praised John Glen's direction, Louis Jourdan's performance, and the screenplay.

In Octopussy Moore relaxes a bit and, just as important, his role is subordinated to the film's many and extremely exciting action scenes.

Octopussy has the most sustained excitement in a Bond film since You Only Live Twice.

At 2 hours and 10 minutes, Octopussy seems a good 20 to 30 minutes too long for light escapist fare.

GQ writer David Williams said Octopussy was "one of the best 'Bad Films' of the franchise", praising the entertaining characters but finding the silliness and Moore's advanced age problematic.