Today’s movie is an espionage thriller with a scene that happens on October 18. Watch and enjoy this film tonight.
OCTOPUSSY
After MIG agent 009 is found dead in Berlin holding a fake Faberge egg, James Bond 007 is sent to a Sotheby’s auction of the real item. Bond switches the fake for the real egg. He then goes to India to investigate the buyer Kamal Khan. Bond beats Kamal Khan in a backgammon games, winning 200,000 rupees and Q plants a homing device and a bug in the fake egg. On October 18, 1983 [43:18 – 59:22] Bond hooks up with Maghda, an associate of Kamal, who steals the egg. Bond is captured by Kamal and learns Kamal is tied in with Orlov a war-mongering Soviet general. Bond escapes and goes to the Floating Palace, owned by another Kamal associate, Octopussy who leads an all-female criminal syndicate. She is grateful that Bond allowed her disgraced father time to commit suicide as an alternative to arrest and disgrace. Kamal tries to have Bond and Octopussy killed, but fails. Orlov has been supplying imperial Russian treasures to Kamal who in partnership with Octopussy, use her circus to smuggle them into the west. This time Orlov and Khan replace the jewels with an atomic bomb that will detonate at a US Air force base in West Germany leading to European calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Bond discovers this races to the base and convinces Octopussy that Kamal has double-crossed her. This allows Bond to disarm the bomb with no time to spare. Octopussy and her girls raid Kamal’s palace and he tries to escape in a plane. Holding Octopussy hostage. Bond follows and after a fight outside the plane while it is in flight kills Gobinda, Kamal right-hand man. The plane crashes, killing Kamal and injuring Bond who is nursed back to health by Octopussy.
The date is given in the film at 45:36 as Tuesday the 18th. In 1983 October 18 was a Tuesday.
Producer - Albert R. Broccoli
Director - John Glen
Screenwriters - George MacDonald Fraser, Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum
Runtime – 2 hours 11 minutes
Released – June 6, 1983
Starring –
Roger Moore as James Bond 007
Maud Adams as Octopussy
Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan
Kristina Wayborn as Magda
Kabir Bedi as Gobinda
Steven Berkoff as General Orlov
David Meyer & Anthony Meyer
as Mischka & Grischka
as Mischka & Grischka
Desmond Llewelyn as Q
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