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While she never achieved the star luster equal to sister Natalie, we always felt LANA WOOD
had
her
own bewitching beauty and allure.
As Plenty O’Toole (one of the more subtle handles to be handed a Bond maiden – surrrreeeee), she was right purty eye candy for the Vegas casino sequences.
Tis interesting, tho, when the film was shown on ABC, her midnight Bond liaison fell victim of those nefarious nitwits at profoundly prudish Network Practices:
Still, before being the obligatory Sacrificial Lamb,
she registered quite positively on our Bond scale (years later, she confessed to taking reel-life into Real-life via her off-camera affair with The Great Scot who, according to Ms. Wood, more than lived – um – up to his on-screen legendary status).
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MUCHOS GRACIAS.
We never knew ... 
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It also out-performed NSNA at the box-office (then again, according to all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans that plagued NSNA, it's a bloody miracle the damn thing ever was released in the first place, if we're to believe The Gospel According to Sean - after all, in His Testament, only HE knows how to make the perfect Bond film).
[ Of historical interest, too, is it's the second time The Battle of the Bonds occurred, if you recall the 1967 release of YOLT and that abominable Royale called Casino. ].
We agree Roger ought to have bailed on Bond around that time (tho his high point, in our ever UnHO, is The Spy Who Loved Me - which we'll get around to eventually, also).
As the upcoming visuals will attest to, however, we firmly believe NSNA is far more enticing than Octopussy was ...
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Ironically, by coming out in 1983, NSNA was a film that demonstrated that *at that point in time* Roger Moore played the part better. "Octopussy" is a much better film than NSNA, IMO and Moore should have gone out from the series on top than sticking around for one film too many.
Sad, but true.
NEVER is unwatchable
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