Mission
A power hungry Soviet general plots to oust the American military forces from Europe by detonating a nuclear weapon in West Germany and laying the blame on the United States. To stop him, Bond forms an unlikely alliance with an international jewel smuggler - the mysterious and beautiful Octopussy.

Release Data
UK: 6th June 1983 (PG)
USA: 10th June 1983 (PG)
World Premiere: 6th June 1983 (Odeon Leicester Square, UK)
UK TV Premiere: 30th January 1988, ITV
US TV Premiere: 2nd February 1986, ABC

Running Time: 125 minutes
Classification: PG (UK), PG (US)
Budget: $27.5m
Worldwide Box Office: $183.7m
US Box Office: $67.9m
US Admissions: 21.5 million
UK Box Office: N/A

Production
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli
Director: John Glen
Screenplay: George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson
Composer: John Barry

Locations
Unidentified South American republic (with English road signs); Checkpoint Charlie, East Berlin, Germany; London, UK; Moscow, Russia; Udaipur, India; West Berlin, Germany; Feldstadt, Germany.

Pre-Credits Sequence
007 teams up with a female agent to infiltrate an air base and plant a bomb. Disguised as a high-ranking officer, Bond plants the device but comes face to face with “himself”. With the help of his ally and her good looks, 007 escapes in his Acro-star Mini Jet. However, the news of his escape soon causes more trouble and a heat-seeking missile is launched to shoot Bond out of the sky. He shakes it off by flying back thought the air base hanger and as the door closes the Acro-star slips thought but the missile doesn’t. Bond escapes, the job successful after all.

Title
The title is taken from a short story by Ian Fleming which was published after his death. "Octopussy" is the nickname of the lead female character, who was named after a pet Octopus by her father (we never learn her real name).

Cut Scenes & Alternate Versions
The opening aerial action featuring the Acro-star Mini Jet was originally much longer, but was cut to keep pace in the pre-titles sequence.

Filmed for the teaser trailer, but not used in the film, was a scene of Bond and Magda making love. This is followed by Bond uttering the line "What I do for England". This line is a variation of another line used by Bond in "You Only Live Twice" (1967) where 007 uttered the line "The things I do for England".

Some countries have censored TV versions to hide some of the obvious nudity of women in the credits sequence.

Best Line
Vijay: "Is he still there?"
Q: "You must be joking. 007 on an island populated exclusively by women? We won't see him 'til dawn."