film information
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli
Directed by John Glen
Screenplay by George Macdonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum & Michael G Wilson
UK Release Date 6th June 1983
US Release Date 10th June 1983
Worldwide Box Office $183,700,000 US
Budget $27,500,000 US
Running Time 131 Minutes
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bond girls
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posters
vehicles
bond villains
Ken Norris (Colonel Luis Toro)
Steven Berkoff (General Orlov)
bond allies
locations
Unnamed Caribbean/South American country; London; East & West Berlin; East Germany; West Germany; Moscow; India.
actual locations
Sotherby's in London, England
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany
Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany
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James Bond replies in his usual manner when Kamal Khan asks 007 what his name is when he sits down with him to play backgammon.
behind the scenes
The gas station where James pulls up to refuel his mini Acrostar was constructed at Pinewood Studios - it was created on the same spot that Fort Knox was created for Goldfinger.
Michael G. Wilson appears in two cameo roles in Octopussy, he is a member of the Soviet Security Council, and present aboard the tour boat Bond boards after escaping Kamal Khan's 'Bond hunt'.
During the taxi chase in India, a man on a bicycle goes in between a car of thugs and Bonds Tuk-Tuk Taxi whilst the two are in a fight. This was not actually part of the script. The man didn't know anything about it - he just drove straight between the two!
The sequence aboard Octopussy's circus train was filmed at Nene Valley steam railway in Peterborough. It is exactly the same place where rock group Queen shot their music video ‘Breakthru’ six years later.
Vijay Amritraj is actually a tennis pro in real life. §
