Moonraker 1979

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 126 min

genre: action

theme: spy

director: Lewis Gilbert

Score: 6 / 10

Moonraker is a 1979 spy film and 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.

Plot

A Drax Industries Moonraker (a VTHL spaceplane based on the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter) on loan to the United Kingdom is hijacked in midair while on a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, which is destroyed, but no wreckage of the Shuttle is found. M, head of MI6, assigns James Bond, Agent 007, to investigate. En route to England, Bond is attacked and pushed out of an airplane by the mercenary assassin Jaws (whom he previously met in The Spy Who Loved Me). He survives by stealing a parachute from the pilot, whilst Jaws lands on a trapeze net within a circus tent.

Cast

More details

author	Christopher Wood Ian Fleming
contentLocation	California Iguaçu Falls Moonraker space station Rio de Janeiro Venice
director	Lewis Gilbert
editor	John Glen
events	spaceflight
genre	action adventure science fiction thriller
keywords	amazon jungle amazon river assassination attempt attack burned alive cable car capture car crash central intelligence agency centrifuge chamber champagne cia cia agent circus tent cloaking device ejects drax into space escape pod factory flying trapeze high-g training hijack jaw kill m manned maneuvering unit marine meet mi6 mmu move nasa nerve gas pet dog radar jamming radar jamming and deception rescue rio carnival saint shuttle carrier aircraft snoop space exposure space shuttle space shuttle orbiter space station spaceplane stained glass steal sugarloaf cable car the spy who loved me trapeze united kingdom united states marine corps vthl young woman zero gravity
musicBy	John Barry
nomination	Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
producer	Albert R. Broccoli
productionCompany	Eon Productions United Artists
publisher	United Artists
recordedAt	California Florida Guatemala Los Angeles Pinewood Studios Rio de Janeiro Venice
theme	science fiction action science fiction adventure sequel spy