Attending the Shooting of ' Octopussy ' ...

Exclusive pics taken during the actual shooting of Octopussy in 1983 .

Despite what some of us may think the Octopussy crew didn't go to East Germany to shoot the famous sequence where General Gogol ( Walter Gotell ) discovers the treachery of General Orlov ( Steven Berkoff ) and runs to try to stop him provoking armagueddon ...

The John Glen crew settled the cameras in the Neneh Valley , right in the heart of the British countryside ...

A few of my British friends managed to sneak in , and took pictures like frenzy ...

In those days , security wasn't so tight on shooting sets ,apparently !

( you can clearly see a crowd of curious inhabitants on the bridge overseeing the recovered Mercedes ...)

Coming soon : shooting of another classic sequence of Octopussy ...

Many thanks to Ross Hendry ,for kindly giving me copies of the photos he took this very day - and permission of using them .

Those pics have all been embedded with a micro dot ( courtesy of Photoshop ) , enabling me to trace them ,should anyone decide to reproduce the pics without permission . You've been warned .