Octopussy (1983)
Adventure, Action, Thriller • 2h 11m
Director: John Glen
Cast: Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi, Steven Berkoff, Vijay Amritraj, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Robert Brown, David Meyer, Walter Gotell, Albert Moses, Tony Meyer, Michaela Clavell, Geoffrey Keen, Douglas Wilmer, Andy Bradford, Philip Voss, Bruce Boa, Richard LeParmentier, Paul Hardwick, Suzanne Jerome, Cherry Gillespie, Dermot Crowley, Peter Porteous, Eva Rueber-Staier, Jeremy Bulloch, Tina Hudson, William Derrick, Stuart Saunders, Patrick Barr, Gabor Vernon, Hugo Bower, Ken Norris, Tony Arjuna, Gertan Klauber, Brenda Cowling, David Grahame, Brian Coburn, Michael Halphie, Mary Stavin, Carole Ashby, Cheryl Anne, Jani-Z, Julie Martin, Joni Flynn, Julie Barth, Kathy Davies, Helene Hunt, Gillian De Terville, Safira Afzal, Louise King, Tina Robinson, Alison Worth, Janine Andrews, Lynda Knight, Richard Graydon, Michael Moor, Peter Edmund, Eugene Lipinski, Ingrid Pitt, Nicola Stapleton, Michael G. Wilson, Michael Leader, Egbert Sen, Gito Santana, Jennifer Hill
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About the film
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
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Director: Guy Hamilton
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
(for original forced subtitles font)
IMAX sequences have not been released on home video to date
Directors: Val Guest & Ken Hughes & John Huston & Joseph McGrath & Robert Parrish
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
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An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
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Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering; WB 4K early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed. Comparison between Criterion and WB.
6-Track 70mm mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set), 1997 MGM LaserDisc, 1998 MGM DVD
35mm Mono Mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Matrixed Stereo Remix: MGM Japan LaserDisc (1985) [G158F5509]
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Victor Fleming
3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: James Cameron
2013 MGM Blu-ray, or 4K Blu-ray if you MUST have the mono mix, 1997 Image DVD/2001 MGM DVD for a purist version with original colors and the international mono mix
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2013 MGM Blu-ray for non AI transfer, 1997 Image DVD/2001 MGM DVD for a purist version with original colors and the international mono mix
1991 Image Entertainment LaserDisc for the US mono mix, 2001 MGM DVD for the International mono mix
Comparison between the US and International mixes: https://vimeo.com/246332731
The 4K Blu-Ray and the 2001 MGM DVD have exclusive extras.
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