Octopussy [WS] [Ultimate Edition]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

This (13th) time around, "007" receives the usual call to come and visit "Mother" when another agent drops off a fake Faberge jeweled egg at the British embassy in East Berlin and is later killed at a traveling circus. Suspicions mount when the assistant manager of the circus Kamal (Louis Jourdan), outbids Bond for the real Faberge piece at Sotheby's. Bond follows Kamal to India where the superspy thwarts many an ingenious attack and encounters the antiheroine of the title (Maud Adams), an international smuggler who runs the circus as a cover for her illegal operations. It does not take long to figure out that Orlov (Steven Berkoff), a decidedly rank Russian general is planning to raise enough money with the fake Faberges to detonate a nuclear bomb in Europe and then defeat NATO forces once and for all in conventional warfare. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 2
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Audio: DTS
• Encoding: NTSC
• Screen: Color
• Subtitle: French, English, Thai, Spanish
• Features:
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  • Feature film with Frame-by-Frame Digital Restoration and DTS 5.1 Audio
  • Audio Commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore
  • Audio Commentary featuring Director John Glen
  • Inside Octopussy- An Original Documentary
  • Designing Bong-Peter Lamont
  • Storyboard Sequences
  • Shooting Stunts: Crashing Jeeps & The Aeroplane Crash
  • "All Time High" Music Video
  • Ken Burns On-Set Movies
  • On location with Peter Lamont
  • Testing the limits-The Aerial Team
  • James Brolin Original Screen Tests
  • James Bond in India-Original 1983 featurette
  • Brolin on Bond
  • Interactive guide into the World of Octopussy
  • Original Theatrical Trailers

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  John Glen

• Producer:

  Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson

• Screen Story:

  George MacDonald Fraser

• Screenwriter:

  George MacDonald Fraser

• Screen Story:

  Richard Maibaum

• Screenwriter:

  Richard Maibaum

• Screen Story:

  Michael G. Wilson

• Screenwriter:

  Michael G. Wilson

• Cinematographer:

  Alan Hume

• Composer (Music Score):

  John Barry

• Songwriter:

  John Barry

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Derek Ball

• Editor:

  Peter Davies, John Grover, Henry Richardson

• Production Designer:

  Peter Lamont

• Art Director:

  John Fenner

• Associate Producer:

  Tom Pevsner

• Executive Producer:

  Michael G. Wilson

• Set Designer:

  Jack Stephens

• Costume Designer:

  Emma Porteous

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Derek Ball

• Makeup:

  Eric Allwright, George Frost, Peter Robb-King

• First Assistant Director:

  Anthony Waye

• Singer:

  Rita Coolidge

• Stunts:

  Billy Burton, Dorothy Ford, Jim Dowdall, Martin Grace, Remy Julienne, Paul Weston, Jazzer Jeyes, Christopher Webb, Clive Curtis, Del Baker, Pat Banta, Wayne Michaels, Nick Hobbs, Malcolm Weaver

• Second Unit Director:

  Arthur Wooster

• Lyricist:

  Tim Rice

• Special Effects Supervisor:

  John Richardson

• Short Story Author:

  Ian Fleming

• Musical Performer:

  Don Lusher

REVIEW:

• Octopussy is one of the cleaner and more entertaining of Roger Moore's Bond films, despite a title that tends to elicit blushes. Bond films are always a miniature world tour, but this one's plot carries off the usual jet-setting with more finesse than some of its predecessors and some that followed. It's got a colorful slate of villains, starting with Louis Jourdan's slippery Kamal Kahn and Steven Berkoff's vain-popping Russian general Orlov, and continuing with such minions as the bodyguard who can crush dice in his fist, the twin circus knife throwers, and the man with the yo-yo razor blade. Memorable set pieces include a dangerous ride through an Indian marketplace and the safari game hunt in which Bond is the target. But the film's lingering image is of Bond sliding down an ornate banister, machine gun blazing, just barely blowing off the decorative flourish at the bottom to keep his privates from getting pulverized. Ever perfecting that playful grin and dry wit, Moore makes his sixth and penultimate Bond film, one of the series' more satisfying. Octopussy was one of eight Bond films that John Glen either directed or edited. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi