Moonraker (1979)
Moonraker (1979)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Roger Moore
James Bond
Lois Chiles
Holly Goodhead
Michael Lonsdale
Hugo Drax
Richard Kiel
Jaws
Corinne Cléry
Corinne Dufour
Bernard Lee
M
Geoffrey Keen
Sir Frederick Gray
Desmond Llewelyn
Q
Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny
Emily Bolton
Manuela
Toshirô Suga
Chang
Blanche Ravalec
Dolly
Lewis Gilbert
Director
Christopher Wood
Writer
Irka Bochenko
Blonde Beauty
Mike Marshall
Col. Scott
Albert R. Broccoli
Producer
John Barry
Composer
Leila Shenna
Hostess Private Jet
Anne Lonnberg
Museum Guide
Jean Tournier
Cinematographer
John Glen
Editor
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Pilot Private Jet
Walter Gotell
General Gogol
Margot Capelier
CastingDirector
Douglas Lambert
Mission Control Director
Weston Drury Jr.
CastingDirector
Ken Adam
ProductionDesigner
Arthur Howard
Cavendish
Alfie Bass
Consumptive Italian
Brian Keith
U.S. Shuttle Captain
George Birt
Captain Boeing 747
Kim Fortune
R.A.F. Officer
Lizzie Warville
Russian Girl
Guy Di Rigo
Ambulanceman / Stunts
Chris Dillinger
Drax's Technician
Claude Carliez
Gondolier
Georges Beller
Drax's Technician
Denis Seurat
Officer Boeing 747
Chichinou Kaeppler
Drax's Girl - Signora de Mateo
Christina Hui
Drax's Girl
Françoise Gayat
Drax's Girl - Lady Victoria Devon
Nicaise Jean-Louis
Drax's Girl
Catherine Serre
Drax's Girl - Countess Lubinski
Benoît Ferreux
Moonraker Pilot #2 (uncredited)
Michael G. Wilson
Man Outside Venini Glass / NASA Technician / Man on Bridge (uncredited) / Executive Producer
Jenny Arasse
Bit Part (uncredited)
Michel Berreur
Venice Boat Pilot (uncredited) / Stunts
Dana Broccoli
Woman at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)
Jacques Fonteray
Costume Design
Charles Bishop
Art Direction
Max Douy
Art Direction
William P. Cartlidge
Producer
Bob Simmons
Stunts
Barbara Broccoli
Assistant Director
Ian Fleming
Novel
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 26, 1979
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 6m
Content RatingPG
Budget$34,000,000
Box Office$210,308,099
Filming LocationsFlorida · Los Angeles · California, United States · Pinewood Studios, United Kingdom · Venice, Italy · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Guatemala
Genres
Wiki.
Moonraker is a 1979 spy-fi film, the eleventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, and Richard Kiel. Bond investigates the theft of a Space Shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon rainforest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and to recreate humanity with a master race.The story was intended by author Ian Fleming to become a film even before he completed the novel in 1954; he based it on a screenplay manuscript he had devised earlier. The film's producers had originally intended to make For Your Eyes Only, but chose Moonraker owing to the rise of the science fiction genre in the wake of the Star Wars phenomenon. Budgetary issues led to the film being shot primarily in France; other locations included Italy, Brazil, Guatemala and the United States. The soundstages of Pinewood Studios in England, traditionally used for the series, were only used by the special effects team.
Moonraker had a high production cost of $34 million, more than twice as much as The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and it received mixed reviews. However, the film's visuals were praised, with Derek Meddings being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and it eventually became the highest-grossing film of the series at the time with $210.3 million worldwide, a record that stood until 1995's GoldenEye.
This was Bernard Lee's final outing as M. Lee was scheduled to reprise his role in For Your Eyes Only, but was admitted to hospital in November 1980, diagnosed with stomach cancer. He then died in January 1981 before any of M's scenes could be filmed.