Overview:
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.| Status: | Released (1979-06-26) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 6 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $70,308,099 |
| Screen: | Christopher Wood, Ian Fleming, Gerry Anderson |
| Productions: | United Artists, EON Productions, Danjaq, Les Productions Artistes Associés |
| Production Countries: | France, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Italiano |
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Casts
- 10222: Roger Moore - James Bond
- 10475: Lois Chiles - Dr. Holly Goodhead
- 2369: Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax
- 10460: Richard Kiel - Jaws
- 10476: Corinne Cléry - Corinne Dufour
- 9874: Bernard Lee - M
- 10462: Geoffrey Keen - Sir Frederick Gray
Crews
- 10076: Lewis Gilbert - Director - Directing
- 10466: Christopher Wood - Screenplay - Writing
- 9861: Albert R. Broccoli - Producer - Production
- 10467: William P. Cartlidge - Producer - Production
- 10470: Jean Tournier - Director of Photography - Camera
- 10179: John Glen - Editor - Editing
- 10471: Margot Capelier - Casting - Production
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**THE BIGGEST BOND OF ALL!** Moonraker is a joy from beginning to end. Huge spectacle, stunning locations, lashings of humour, superb stunts, sexy ladies, a despicable and memorable villain, great special effects and of course, the legendary Sir Roger Moore as James Bond. Elem ....
Continue reading ->Wuchak
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One of the best of the Moore era I steered clear of “Moonraker” (1979) for years because critics almost unanimously said it was awful. So when I finally sat down to view it I fully expecting a dog. Wrong! “Moonraker” is thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end and is one of ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Now my geography isn't great, but I am not sure you can actually fly from the Yukon to the British coast in fifteen minutes! That's how this outing for Roger Moore begins, and it's symptomatic of the rather weak storyline and sloppy production that seems intent on getting "James Bond ....
Continue reading ->GenerationofSwine
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They can't all be winners. I mean, yeah it was action packed and the fight over the parachute was really cool. And Bond did have space elements in the movies before... but Moonraker kind of felt like it was jumping the shark a bit here. Thankfully it recovered, but this was a l ....
Continue reading ->drystyx
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This has the great 007 elements, but misses a bit. We get the wit, we get the beautiful women, we get the gadgets, we get the non stop action, and we even get Jaws, a fan favorite, back. Jaws even gets to speak. Maybe it was in the contract. What is missing is the exotic locations ....
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