Octopussy (1983)
1983 John Glen Bond film with Moore in India. Maud Adams as Octopussy, jewel-smuggling circus train, Soviet nuclear plot.
Writer: George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser wrote the Flashman novels, which take the bully from Tom Brown’s Schooldays and follow him through nineteenth century history as a coward who keeps being decorated, and brought the same historical precision to his screenwriting.
The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, shot together by Richard Lester, are his, and they are unusually accurate about period detail while remaining broad comedy.
He also wrote Octopussy and Royal Flash, and served in Burma during the war, which he wrote about in Quartered Safe Out Here.
