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In 1983, we may have dodged a bullet. James Brolin (an American actor known for Hotel and Pensacola series and the films Amityville, The Car, Westworld and the very good Capricorn One) had passed his trials and was on the verge of becoming the new James Bond, after Roger Moore had shown little inclination to return for a 6th time in the dinner jacket of His Gracious Majesty's famous agent. But fate sometimes plays cruel tricks. While Brolin bought a house in England to establish his legitimacy as the new James Bond for at least a decade, Sean Connery announced that he would be returning as James Bond in a rival film called Never Again. Cubby sensed that his new star would be no match for the Scot and decided to make eyes at Roger Moore to get him to do it again, with Moore taking advantage of the situation to drive up the price. And Cubby had the wrong idea, because in the "battle of the bonds", it was his film that won at the box office, offering a colourful, exotic spectacle, full of action and suspense, and moving at 100 km/h. The screenplay for this film, which often verges on Hellzappopinesque delirium, is by George MacDonald Fraser, well known to our British friends as the author of a series of delirious books on the adventures of Harry Flashman (a film adaptation of which exists and which I recommend, available under the title Royal Flash).

So here's what the poster for Octopussy might have looked like (only available in another dimension)

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In 1983, we may have dodged a bullet. James Brolin (an American actor known for Hotel and Pensacola series and the films Amityville, The Car, Westworld and the very good Capricorn One) had passed his trials and was on the verge of becoming the new James Bond, after Roger Moore had shown little inclination to return for a 6th time in the dinner jacket of His Gracious Majesty's famous agent. But fate sometimes plays cruel tricks. While Brolin bought a house in England to establish his legitimacy as the new James Bond for at least a decade, Sean Connery announced that he would be returning as James Bond in a rival film called Never Again. Cubby sensed that his new star would be no match for the Scot and decided to make eyes at Roger Moore to get him to do it again, with Moore taking advantage of the situation to drive up the price. And Cubby had the wrong idea, because in the "battle of the bonds", it was his film that won at the box office, offering a colourful, exotic spectacle, full of action and suspense, and moving at 100 km/h. The screenplay for this film, which often verges on Hellzappopinesque delirium, is by George MacDonald Fraser, well known to our British friends as the author of a series of delirious books on the adventures of Harry Flashman (a film adaptation of which exists and which I recommend, available under the title Royal Flash).

So here's what the poster for Octopussy might have looked like (only available in another dimension)