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7 unusual facts about ''Octopussy''


Bhupal Singh

One of Bhopal Singh's palaces was Jag Niwas, on an island in Lake Pichola, since used for the filming of several films, including the James Bond film Octopussy (1983).

Flying guillotine

Other films in which flying guillotines are shown include Octopussy (1983), The Heroic Trio (1992), Iron Monkey 2 (1996), Seven Swords (2005), The Machine Girl (2008) and The Guillotines (2012).

Lake Pichola

Octopussy, a 1983 James Bond film, was filmed in the precincts of the Lake Palace and other two palaces in Udaipur (Shiv Niwas Palace and Monsoon Palace).

Martin Fong

Fong can be seen in photographs consulting on espionage on the set of the James Bond film Octopussy.

Michaela Clavell

She portrayed Penelope Smallbone in the James Bond film Octopussy, and "Teacher" in the 1982 television adaptation of her father's short story "The Children's Story".

Monsoon Palace

The Monsoon Palace was used as a major location for the filming of the 1983 James Bond film, Octopussy.

Satan's Mistress

It is about a sexually frustrated housewife, Lisa (played by actress Lana Wood), who having been distanced from her husband (Don Galloway as Carl) begins having nightly trysts with an apparition that gradually takes on the form of a tall, dark stranger (played by Kabir Bedi of Octopussy) who turns out to be a ghost from the other side.


Bede Aircraft

The tiny jet also appeared in two James Bond movies; Octopussy starring Sir Roger Moore, and later in a cameo appearance, hanging from the wall of Q's workshop in Die Another Day starring Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007.

BSA Scorpion Air Pistol

In the James Bond film 'Octopussy', Octopussy (Maud Adams) and her team use BSA Scorpion pistols loaded with tranquilizers to fight off Kamal's men.

Camille Montes

Maud Adams appeared in both The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy, but as two different characters (Andrea Anders and Octopussy, respectively).

Checkpoint Charlie

British spy James Bond (played by Roger Moore) passed through Checkpoint Charlie in the 1983 film Octopussy from the West of Germany to the east.

Eva Rueber-Staier

Her acting career contains a recurring James Bond credit: she played General Gogol's assistant Rubelvitch in the films The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, and Octopussy.

Horse's Neck

Ian Fleming, in the 1966 book Octopussy, describes the Horse's Neck as "the drunkard's drink"; he was also quite partial to them himself.

Mercedes-Benz W108

When its tires were punctured by a trap, Bond famously drove the car along a railway track in pursuit of a train carrying Octopussy's circus across the West/East German border (although the scenes were actually filmed in Cambridgeshire, England), and just before reaching the border Bond managed to jump upon the train just before the car collided head-on with another train and was sent flying into a river.

Persis Khambatta

She was considered for the title role in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983), but was passed over in favor of Maud Adams.

Poison pen letter

In the James Bond film Octopussy, Bond (Roger Moore) jokes that a new gadget, a pen with acidic ink, is "perfect for writing poison pen letters."

RAF Oakley

A hangar at RAF Oakley was actually used as a film set in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983, for the opening sequence (scripted as being in a Latin American country) in Roger Moore's penultimate appearance as Bond.

Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way

In the show she often used two commands: "walkies" and "sit"; the latter of which was parodied in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy where James Bond does a Woodhouse impersonation, puts his hand up in a command posture, repeats Woodhouse's catch-phrase to a tiger and the animal responds to it by obeying.


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