The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 77

Friday June 10 1983Part VI 9 floa Angeles Stone MOVIE REVIEW 'OCTOPUSSY' FULFILLS THE 007 FORMULA After a night with in her satin octopus she begins to see the light In his second 007 directorial assignment John Glen veteran editor and second -unit director of various previous Bonds keeps things moving bit writers George MacDonald Fraser Richard Maibaum and Michael Wilson have given him too much to unravel kt 2 hours and 10 minutes "Octopussy" seems a good 20 to 30 minutes too long for light escapist fare The familiar chases and old-time serial-type cliff-hanging crises come fast but a mite too thick Of course the film a handsome business richly photographed (by Alan Hume) with many sumptuous Indian locales and lots of interiors (by Peter Lamont) (The film's single most disturbing image is a map in a Soviet war room showing just how immense colored Please see 007 Page 15 17TH SMASH WEEK! smuggler-entrepreneur Octopussy (Maud Adams) and an exiled Afghan prince Louis Jourdan) Jourdan lives in a fabulous mountain lair in India Adams lives nearby in an equally opulent lakeside palace with a retinue of lovelies the Octopussy Girls who are karate champs circus performers and of course highly decorative Berkoff is crazy Jourdan evil and Adams is your standard good-bad girl who's not above making a shady buck but has no desire to help provoke World War III UA CINEMA CENTER Westwood475-944l Dally: 2:30 7:25 pm Exclusive Engagement NO PASSES ACCEPTED FOR ENGAGEMENT MNIVaKMAL STUDIOS TOUR ImffANMCAcouHMvtoifHtMiir rotsoo CMKJilil" on By KEVIN THOMAS Times Staff Writer In the seven-minute pre-credit sequence of "Octo-pussy" James Bond (Roger Moore) is at a horse show apparently in Cuba where his disguise as a military officer is suddenly unmasked No matter As his curvaceous aide provides a diversion he overwhelms his captors leaps aboard the horse trailer she is hauling and yanks aside a fake horse to reveal a tiny jet plane in which he makes his but not before blowing up some sort of weapons installation and escaping through the closing doors of a hangar Running out of fuel he pulls up to a gas station and says "Fill 'er up!" 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