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Parallel Bond 5: 1983 is the battleground for Rigg vs Munroe. Despite her "never again", Rigg was persuaded out of retirement for one more outing. Writer, Maureen Duffy, an intimate of Fleming's through the canalboat scene, had retained the rights to a co-devized screenplay.
Ingrid Bergman turns up as Blofeld, Team Munroe missing a trick over the last ten & Claudia Cardinale vicious as Largo. Bond's love-to-hate-you boy is nasty Sean Penn (Rigg despatches him with a pen) but it's Christopher Lambert's Domino that is won over to the right side (& bed)
No doubt Rigg pulls it off. She's still got the she-knows-better smile and is still pretty limber. But then she's got a few years on Carmen Munroe who's spent the last few battling evil everywhere, even space. So it's gratifying that her outing that year bested at the box office.
Octopussy polarises but Munroe's to-camera wit is at its best due to Caryll Churchill's script (enhanced by her turn as blue-eyed, low-on-ham baddy, General Orlov. As for Maud Adams as boss of a criminal entrepot, she was a last minute recast following Michael Douglas' withdrawal
Wherever you stand, Munroe proved her muscle in her last Bond outing performing her own stunts on the Eiffel Tower & Golden Gate Bridge in the Churchill-scripted View to a Kill. Grace Jones is the psychovillain & Michael J Fox her toady sidekick who comes good -& dead- in the end
