Not one shot fired, not one weapon even drawn, yet it's still a riveting scene. Gotta love the classic Bond era.

I love this kind of scene. It's slow paced and subtle but there's still a good amount of tension

As someone has mentioned deeper in the comments, at 0:29 the auctioneer says "the property of a lady" which is the name of a short story by Ian Fleming where Bond is at an auction trying to flush out a Russian agent. I like when they throw in those touches.

One of my favourite scenes. The money being bid, the outfits, the dialogue... and Roger Moore of course!

The best thing about these old movies is that the talking may be barely a whisper, but you can hear what is being said.

I think Khan is often a very underrated villain, at least in lists of best Bond villains. I love his classy style about him and his soothing voice which makes him charming yet also chilling and subtly threatening. Little gestures as well when he gets angry or when he's bidding adds to it a lot. He's not just a raging lunatic strangely enough, not like the general Orlov lol, but he's also awesome.

This is what 007 is really all about.

The way Bond examined the egg, I thought for sure he was swapping it for a decoy.

Ah, I miss the days where you would outbid your enemies for a Fabergé egg

Douglas Wilmer was incredible here. Right mixture of seriousness and nervous breakdown.

This is an epic scene - roger Moore was incredible bond - pure class

4 legends: Sir Roger, Douglas Wilmer, Kristina Wayborn and Louis Jordan. Wonderful ❤

This is such a great Bond moment. Him testing the suspected bad guy, pushing the bid up higher and higher just to see how high the other guy will go, how badly he wants/needs the egg. This kind of scene feels like it's too often missing from the newer Bond movies. All car chases, explosions and sexy women, not enough intrigue.

The way everyone is waiting with bated breath as Bond examines the egg, only for him to ask his counterpart if he too wants a look - "... Jim?" 😂 😂 Moore was gold as Bond

I remember when Roger Moore became Bond. He was my generation. Everyone for many years had a favourite and the two top boys were of course Roger Moore and Sean Connery. I was always a Sean Connery guy but I've found a new appreciation for Moore lately. He made it his own. And his Bond is every bit as cool as Sean Connery's. RIP Sir Roger.

Roger Moore is outstanding in this scene. He knew exactly how to play it.

I love scenes like this where there's the shocked, gasping crowd of rich people at an auction when someone bids really high.

Such a great and well-made scene, with Moore in top-form.

Fun fact, when the Auctioneer says "Property of a Lady". It's a direct reference to one of Fleming's novels and was originally supposed be Timothy Dalton's 3rd film.

I find eggs in the supermarket to be a bit cheaper.

Old Rog had that Je ne sais quoi! Always feels good flicking through the channels and catching Sir Roger Moore as Bond,doesn't matter which one,I'll watch it!

These are the scenes that make Bond great. Much more tension and excitement than the chases and shooting.

The lady accepting the bid, wearing purple with the hat on, is so gorgeous.

I love the auctioneer's voice.

Classic Bond knowing exactly how to push it. Such class

Between this scene and the backgammon game later, Bond’s trolling costs Khan an absolute fortune!

This is really one of the best Bond films ever! It only ranks low because people are too lazy to look at it properly! It literally has everything you came to excpect in a classic Bond movie! A great villain, a great leading girl, probably the deadliest henchmen in the series (Lets face it: Knife Twins, Gobinda, Yo-yo-saw killers, Indian assassins! Who would wanna mess with any of these guys?!), great one liners, some of the best stunt work in the series, beautiful locations, an amazing plot, an action packed pre-title sequence, an underrated title song and a nice and sadly widely unreleased soundtrack! You cannot put more classic Bond stuff into a Bond movie! This and The World Is Not Enough are easily the most overlooked and underrated films in the series! For me its the best Roger Moore film!

I just love the stinkeye Khan gives Bond, as he walks away. He knows he was being trolled, but he was forced to play along.

Wow. I wanted that the movie continue, OMG this is so a great scene! I was imediatly captured by the atmosphere

Jim was hilarious freaking out over Bond bidding for that egg and switching it. He had to buy.

What helps make this scene work is the slight fuddy duddy who goes with Bond. It helps make Bond look even cooler and more daring to have this shocked official forced to go along with it.

Such an iconic scene, just timeless!

Next Lot. is number 49. A valuable painting by Banksy in an elegant frame. Priceless and should never be cut to ribbons. We'll start the bidding.

Such a good scene, and Moore's Bond and the Jim Fanning character work really well together

We never see classic scenes like this anymore in the newer bland Bond movies.

Beautifully filmed, great old school lighting and set design

Beautiful scene and such a great Bond film!!!!

That last hand...nearly killed me

2:47 after my 3rd plate at thanksgiving when my grandma asks me if I want another plate.

Thank you for this. Brings back good memories. I know there is a never-ending debate about the actors that played Bond, but having grown up with Roger Moore makes him my favorite. I will concede that, having read some of the books, he might not have been the closest to character. However he was a beautiful man and will always be my Bond.

1:06 the gentleman here (Louis Jourdan) was also in a very good Colombo episode where he played a well-known food critic who used poisonous fish as the murder device. (Episdoe: Murder Under Glass, 1978)

Beautiful scene and such a great Bond film. Probably ranks 4th or 5th on my all-time (high!) list.

Absolutely brilliant writing. Especially because of the eventual payoff. Wow.

Sir Roger Moore was the perfect class act. RIP.

as a woman ROGER MOORE is my favorite bond character.

Roger Moore was the most universally “beloved” bond from the bunch.

Roger Moore had so many good scenes as Bond. I love the understated, sophisticated gamesmanship in this one...still so bad assed. Cheers! 🍸

1) I highly doubt anyone would have let him take the egg under the table 2) Louis Jordan was such a great actor

The John Barry soundtrack always took you on a journey with Bond, awesome composer

Can you imagine a bond film nowadays without 3 minutes of shooting? This is pure class

I love how always 007 will do something extremely risky, not just to stir, but to shake things up. Shaken, not stirred, is apparently his moto not just his drink looool

It's a good thing no one was paying attention to what he was doing.

Half a million for an egg. That's a little high. All time high

I'd like to think Roger Moore is bidding away in OO7 heaven right now.

"Let's see how badly he wants it."

In 1982 the exchange rate was .57 sterling per US $. 250,000 would be worth around $427,000 today. That means buying this at egg would be a great investment.

Love this scene! I'd always heard bad things about Octopussy (from critics) so I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It has two of my favorite Bond babes, Maud Adams and Kristina Wayborn.

Ahhh for the days to return when Bond had a sense of humor. Really enjoyed Moore's interpretation. This latest guy acts like he's afraid his face would crack if he smiles.

My favorite of Roger Moore's 'James Bond' movie.

For anybody curious, 500,000 pounds is $656,817 U.S. dollars

Always loved that scene.

How I feel the last 5 minutes of a $10 ebay auction

the real 007 Sir Roger Moore.

And today all we got is explosions, explosions, more explosions, extreme explosions, more extreme explosions, mega explosions, extreme mega explosions, more extreme mega explosions, extreme mega super explosions, more extreme mega super explosions............................. and THE END! I sure miss Sean and Roger!!!

One of the best scenes of the movie...

I can't get enough of watching this scene, which is one of my favorites from Sir Roger Moore in Octopussy (the other is in the game of backgammon). Moore knew how to give elegance that necessary combination with the bondgirls; and although there is no denying the beauty and seduction of Kristina Wayborn (Impressive, when I came out of Moore's balcony after he let himself steal Fabergee's egg); Maud Adams will always consider her as the best, not for nothing was she a bondgirl twice. And no one like her comes up with the phrase "ohhh, James ...." that seems to be saying it in your ear.

I like to participate in antique auctions and sometimes I remember that scene; by the way, I was lucky enough to meet Roger Moore and chat with him and his wife for about 10 minutes.

the stress I had from thinking he might actually get the egg was off the charts!! hahahah

If you ever find Bond at an auction, just get back home: he likes to troll

I like the way Roger Moore played the character, smooth, elegant and classy.

That last hand...nearly killed me HA!

You can tell money was worth something back then.

I was a kid when I first saw this, so me, being ignorant of Louis Jourdan, actually thought he was an Afghan.

M: “You had no business bidding for that egg!” Robert Brown was a decent M, but Bernard Lee was the definitive M. May he continue to rest in peace.

It's an early 1980s movie but the way it looks (with all those drab colors and set design) it makes it look like a 1970s movie. Compare that to how "A View to a Kill" looks just a couple of years later.

Ahhh the time when the movies had things that ~apparently~ don't exist in the movies anymore... they called it a "plot", and it was part of a "story", that was made by a "writer"...

The wit and intelligence of Roger Moore as James Bond is highly manifest across his seven Bond movies. Such feat was never exemplified by Connery, Lazenby, etc.

If the producers of Airplane and Naked Gun made a parody the item up for auction would have been a velvet Elvis painting. I would have loved to have seen that.

"Let's see how badly he wants it" In a sense he was learning about him.

If I remember this movie correctly, I think Bond switches the egg for a fake one when he takes the egg and moves it under the table and book.

The old, 'swap the real egg with the fake egg under the magazine' routine. Very nice!!!!

500,000 British Pounds was the equivalent of around $651,000 US dollars in 1983. That's around $1.7 million today.

Great stuff...!

eye brow flex from Rog...

I really like this Bond scene in the auction house. It seems to be taken from the Ian Fleming short 007 story, 'The Property of a Lady' in which Bond is sent to....sorry, I forgot. No spoilers.

love this scene and the backgammon scene in octopussy

I would like to go to that auction. Looks fun.

UGG I CANT STAND IT PUT THE EGG BACK ON THE PODIUM JAMES!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I keep waiting for Daryl from Storage Wars to show up and say "Watch me dump this egg on the English fart!".

In 1983 Fabergé eggs were still cheap and the English pound was still strong. Adn auctions were still an elegant and fun affair.

Back in the 80s I was investing in beanie babies; little did I know I could have put my money in Fabergé eggs.

Pretty close to what the actual egg looks like. The real one is yellow and the coach model inside is 4 inched long. Belongs to a private collection.

2:28...he can't handle it...priceless reaction.

Poor Jim almost had a heart attack!!!!!

I think about this scene everyday

That look at the end, Wrath of Khan indeed. Louis Jourdan made a very classy bad guy.

Roger was a class act brilliant

Great scene.. I have a Faberge gold egg.. about 7 inch long and 5 inches wide. I think it might be broken as it's got a slight rattle. Should be an easy fix. The gold peels off and it can be split doon the middle... chucked the packaging so it's just the egg.. might no get the £500,000 for it.. but open to offers.

Superbly delicious escapism xx

Extremely underrated bond film