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This is now being issued as standard equipment
Strap it on your wrist
It's activated by nerve impulses from the wrist muscles
Like this?
Oh thankyou 007
Be careful will you
10 darts, 5 blue tips with armour piercing heads, 5 red tips cyanide coating
Causing death in 30 seconds
Very novel Q
You must get them in stores for Christmas
You're not a sportsman Mr Bond
Why did you break off the encounter with my pet python?
I discovered he had a crush on me
Mr Bond
You defy all my attempts to plan an amusing death for you
Allow me
Take a giant step for mankind
Oh he had to fly
Look after Mr Bond
See that some harm comes to him
My name is Bond, James Bond
I might have guessed
Not socially
His name's Jaws, he kills people
Why didn't he buy the Eiffel tower as well?
This is the first joint venture between our two countries
I'm having it patched directly to the Whitehouse and Buckingham Palace
Well I'm sure Her Majesty will be fascinated
My God, what's Bond doing?
I think he's attempting reentry Sir
The thought had occurred to me
Trust
Cooperation
Out of the question
Vodka Martini? Shaken, not stirred
Good afternoon
Yes my name is Bond, James Bond
I'm looking for Dr Goodhead
A woman


James Bond Roger Moore Also starring Michael Lonsdale Lois Chiles Richard Kiel Directed by Lewis Gilbert Produced by Albert R. Broccoli William P. Cartlidge Michael G. Wilson Novel/Story by Ian Fleming Screenplay Christopher Wood Cinematography by Jean Tournier Music by John Barry Main theme Moonraker Composer John Barry Hal David Performer Shirley Bassey Editing by John Glen Distributed by United Artists Released June 26, 1979 (UK) June 29, 1979 (USA) Running time 126 min. Budget $34,000,000 Worldwide gross $210,300,000[1] Preceded by The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Followed by For Your Eyes Only (1981) IMDb profile Moonraker, released in 1979, is the eleventh film in the James Bond series and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. In the film, Bond is set on the trail of a space shuttle that went missing during transport on the back of a plane. He visits Hugo Drax, billionaire owner of the shuttle manufacturers, to investigate further. After befriending space scientist Holly Goodhead and a narrow brush with a centrifuge, Bond follows the trail of clues from California to Venice, the Amazon rain forest and finally into outer space in a bid to prevent a genocidal plot to conquer the world. The end credits for the previous Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, said, 'James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only; however, the producers chose Moonraker as the basis for the next film, following the box office success of the 1977 space-themed film Star Wars. For Your Eyes Only was subsequently delayed and ended up following Moonraker in 1981. Contents [hide] * 1 Plot * 2 Cast * 3 Production o 3.1 Filming o 3.2 Music * 4 Release and reception * 5 Novelization * 6 Moonraker in popular culture * 7 Further reading * 8 References * 9 External links [edit] Plot A Drax Industries Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked in mid-air, causing the incineration of the carrier Boeing 747. Bond is recalled from South Africa to investigate. En route in a small plane, Bond is attacked by the pilot and crew. He is pushed out of the plane by henchman Jaws, but survives by stealing a parachute from the pilot in mid-air. Bond reports to MI6 headquarters in London, and is briefed by M and Q about the hijacking. It is agreed that the investigation should begin at the Drax Industries shuttle complex in Southern California. At Drax Industries, Bond is coldly greeted by the owner of the company Hugo Drax and henchman Chang. Bond also meets an astronaut, Dr. Holly Goodhead. Inadvertently aided by Drax's personal pilot, Corinne Dufour, Bond sneaks into Drax's study and finds blueprints for a glass vial made in Venice. The next morning, Dufour is fired by Drax and killed by two hunting dogs. Bond arrives at a glass museum in Venice; he again encounters Goodhead. He is chased through the canals by Drax's henchmen but his gondola transforms into a hovercraft and he escapes. That night, Bond returns to the glass factory and learns the vials are to hold a nerve gas fatal only to humans; Chang ambushes Bond but is killed (after Bond has seen packaging suggesting that Drax is moving his operation to Rio de Janeiro). Bond sneaks into Goodhead's hotel room, where he notices a flame-throwing perfume bottle, poisoned darts and a radio transmitter issued by the Central Intelligence Agency. He concludes that Goodhead is a CIA agent spying on Drax. They promise to work together, but quickly dispense with the truce. Bond has saved one of the vials he found earlier, giving it to M for analysis - M permits him to go to Rio de Janeiro. In Rio de Janeiro Bond learns that Chang has been replaced by Jaws. Bond encounters Goodhead and Jaws again at the top of the Sugar Loaf, the three fight atop a cable car. After Jaws' cable car crashes into the control centre, he is rescued by a short girl ("Dolly") and the two fall in love. Bond and Goodhead lying on the ground after the cable car event are captured by henchmen and sent off tied down in an ambulance. Bond however escapes. Bond reports to M's headquarters in Brazil and learns that the toxin comes from a rare orchid indigenous to the Amazon jungle. While deadly to humans, it is harmless to all other life. Bond then travels up the Amazon River looking for Drax's research facility, and soon encounters Jaws and other henchmen again in a speedboat chase. Bond escapes via a hang glider from the speedboat just as it passes into the Iguacu Falls. Bond land in a forest and is intoxicatingly lured into an ancient Incan pyramid by a group of beautiful women. An attempt to kill him by him falling into the centre pool with a snake however is unsuccessful, as he kills the python. Captured by Jaws again, Bond is taken to Drax's adjacent control room, where he sees four Moonrakers lifting off. Drax confirms Bond's theory that he himself stole the Moonraker because another in the fleet had developed a fault during assembly. Bond is reunited with Goodhead in a blast pit underneath Drax's personal shuttle set for lift off. He and Goodhead escape and pose as pilots on the sixth shuttle. All shuttles then dock with Drax's space station, which is invisible from Earth. Drax plans to destroy all human life by launching 50 globes containing the toxin into the earth's atmosphere. Before launching the globes, Drax also transported several dozen young men and women (many of which Bond had encountered in the Inca pyramid) of varying race which he regarded as genetically perfect to the space station. They would live there until Earth was safe again for human life; their descendents will be the seed for a "new master race." Bond persuades Jaws and Dolly to switch allegiance by getting Drax to admit that that anyone not measuring up to his physical standards would be exterminated (Dolly's glasses and Jaws' metal teeth being traits that exclude them both). James Bond and Holly Goodhead in the space station. James Bond and Holly Goodhead in the space station. A radar-jammer hides the space station's orbital presence from observers on Earth; 007 and Goodhead disable it. The U.S. send a platoon of Marines in a military shuttle. On arrival, a laser battle ensues. During the battle, Bond shoots Drax with a cyanide-coated dart attached to his watch, pushes him to an airlock, and ejects him into outer space. Before the battle, Drax launched three of the globes towards Earth. Victorious, the Americans leave when Bond says their mission is completed. The space station is heavily damaged and begins to fall apart. Jaws helps Bond and Goodhead escape in Drax's space shuttle. In celebration, Jaws opens a champagne bottle and he and Dolly toast (in his only spoken line: "Well, here's to us!"). They too escape the space station as their module breaks away before the station explodes. Goodhead and Bond track the three poison gas globes, and Bond uses Drax's shuttle lasers to destroy them. The two return to Earth after making love in space (prompting the memorable line from Q: "I think he's attempting re-entry Sir!"). [edit] Cast * Roger Moore as James Bond: An MI6 agent assigned to look into the theft of a shuttle from the "Moonraker" space programme. * Michael Lonsdale as Sir Hugo Drax: An industrialist who plans to poison all humans on earth and establish a civilization in space. * Lois Chiles as Holly Goodhead: A CIA agent who joins Bond and flies with him to Drax's space station. * Toshiro Suga as Chang: Drax's bodyguard, skilled at martial arts. * Richard Kiel as Jaws: A henchman, afflicted by giantism and has a set of stainless steel teeth, whom Drax hires as a replacement for Chang. He helps Bond defeat Drax after learning that hormonally abnormal humans would be killed by the latter. * Corinne Clery as Corinne Dufour: Drax's personal pilot. She is killed by Drax's doberman pinschers after she inadvertently aides Bond. * Bernard Lee as M: The strict head of MI6. * Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary. * Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's "quartermaster" who supplies Bond with multi-purpose vehicles and gadgets useful for the latter's mission. * Geoffrey Keen as Fredrick Gray: The British Minister of Defence * Walter Gotell as General Gogol: The head of the KGB * Emily Bolton as Manuela: Bond's local contact in Rio. * Blanche Ravalec as Dolly: Jaws's Girlfriend The Jaws character (played by Richard Kiel) makes a return, although in Moonraker the role is played more for laughs than in The Spy Who Loved Me. Jaws was supposed to be a villain, but director Lewis Gilbert stated on the DVD documentary that he got much fan mail from small children saying "Why can't Jaws be a goodie not a baddie", and as a result Gilbert decided to make Jaws gradually become Bond's ally at the end of the film.[2] Executive Producer Michael G. Wilson continues a tradition in the Bond films he started in the film Goldfinger where he has a small cameo role: he appears twice in Moonraker, first as a tourist outside the Venini Glass shop in Venice, then at the end of the film as a technician in the NASA control room. [edit] Production Moonraker holds the record for largest number of zero gravity wires in one scene. Moonraker holds the record for largest number of zero gravity wires in one scene. In 1955, the film rights to Moonraker were initially sold to the Rank Organisation for £10,000. Fleming eventually bought back the rights in 1959. Tom Mankiewicz had written a screenplay of Moonraker that was eventually discarded. Some scenes from his script were later used in subsequent films, including the Acrostar Jet sequence used in the pre-credit sequence for Octopussy, and the Eiffel Tower scene in A View to a Kill. As with several previous Bond films, the story from Ian Fleming's novel is almost entirely dispensed with, here in favour of a film more in keeping with the era of science fiction. The 2002 Bond film Die Another Day makes further use of some ideas and character names from the novel. In February or March 2004, an Internet hoax stated rumours about a lost 1956 version of Moonraker by Orson Welles, and a James Bond web site repeated it on April Fool's Day 2004 as a hoax. Supposedly, this recently discovered lost film was 40 minutes of raw footage with Dirk Bogarde as Bond, Welles as Drax, and Peter Lorre as Drax's henchman.[3] [edit] Filming Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (September 2007) General view of Drax's château General view of Drax's château Main shooting was switched from the usual 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios to Paris, due to high taxation in England at the time; only the cable car interiors and space battle exteriors were filmed at Pinewood. Drax's mansion in California was actually filmed at Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, France. The cities filmed were London, Paris, Venice, Palmdale and Rio de Janeiro. Natural landmarks like Sugarloaf Mountain and the Iguazu Falls were also depicted. The exterior of Drax's pyramid headquarters in the Amazon rainforest were filmed in Guatemala. All of the space centre scenes were shot at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. [edit] Music Main article: Moonraker (soundtrack) Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey. The soundtrack was composed by John Barry. The film uses two versions of the song: a ballad version heard over the main titles, and a disco version heard over the end credits. The song failed to make an impact on the charts. The score for Moonraker marked a turning point in John Barry's output, abandoning the Kentonesque brass of his earlier Bond scores and instead scoring the film with slow, rich string passages - a trend which Barry would continue in the 1980s with scores such as Out of Africa and Somewhere in Time. An instrumental strings version of the title theme was used in 2007 tourism commercials for the Dominican Republic. Moonraker uses for the first time since Diamonds Are Forever a piece of music called "007" (on track 7), the secondary Bond theme composed by Barry which was introduced in From Russia with Love. The score was recorded in Paris - all previous John Barry Bond scores had been recorded at CTS Studios in London. It is available on CD. [edit] Release and reception Moonraker was released on June 26th, 1979 in the United Kingdom and was released three days later in the United States, grossing $210.3 million worldwide. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 64% "fresh" rating.[4] James Berardinelli of Reelviews.net said, "the solid special effects, well-executed action sequences, and a strict reliance upon the 'Bond Formula' keep this film among Moore's better entries."[5] However, many fans and critics believe this film to be one of the worst of the series, considering the film's over-reliance on plot and spectacle over character development and dialogue. But the film still maintains a heavy following. [edit] Novelization 1979 Triad/Panther British paperback edition. 1979 Triad/Panther British paperback edition. A novelization of the film was made by Christopher Wood. It was named James Bond and Moonraker to avoid confusion with Fleming's novel Moonraker. It was released in 1979. The screenplay of Moonraker differed so much from Ian Fleming's novel that EON Productions and Glidrose Publications authorised the film's screenwriter, Christopher Wood to write his second novelization based upon the film. His first novelisation, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, was based upon a script written by himself and Richard Maibaum for the film The Spy Who Loved Me, and released in 1977. In James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me there were many differences from the film including the villain's name, the re-emergence of the Soviet spy agency SMERSH, and the possible death of Stromberg's henchman, Jaws. The script for the film The Spy Who Loved Me went through several drafts before Wood was brought in. However, in James Bond and Moonraker Wood writes a straight novelisation of the screenplay most likely because he wrote the script completely. One noticeable difference between the novelization and the screenplay for Moonraker is that Jaws does not gain a girlfriend and stays true to Wood's description as being a mute. In addition, at the conclusion of the Venetian canal chase sequence, Bond's gondola does not sprout a flotation device and ascend to St. Mark's square. Glidrose Productions chose not to commission novelizations of the next few Bond films; the next film to be novelized would be Licence to Kill 10 years later, owing to it not having been based on an original Fleming novel. [edit] Moonraker in popular culture In the 2001 Kevin Smith movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, a billboard of "Moonraper", a fictional Miramax film starring Ben Affleck can be seen as Jay and Silent Bob are flying on a bicycle (a la E.T.) during their adventure to Hollywood. The fictional film is a play on words of the actual film's title. There is a debate as the most powerful gun in the James Bond films: it would be the golden gun, or the Moonraker laser in this film. [4] The "Moonraker Laser" is an available weapon in Goldeneye 007. [edit] Further reading * Wood, Christopher (2006). James Bond, The Spy I Loved. Twenty First Century Publishers. ISBN 1904433537.