Moonraker
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
- Albert R. Broccoli
- Alfie Bass
- Anne Lonnberg
- Arthur Howard
- Benoît Ferreux
- Bernard Lee
- Blanche Ravalec
- Brian Keith
- Catherine Serre
- Claude Carliez
- Corinne Cléry
- Desmond Llewelyn
- Dominique Hulin
- Emily Bolton
- Geoffrey Keen
- Georges Beller
- Guy Delorme
- Irka Bochenko
- Jean-Pierre Castaldi
- Jean Rupert
- Jean Tournier
- Ken Adam
- Leila Shenna
- Lewis Gilbert
- Lois Chiles
- Lois Maxwell
- Marc Mazza
- Marc Smith
- Michael G. Wilson
- Michael Lonsdale
- Mike Marshall
- Patrick Floersheim
- Richard Kiel
- Roger Moore
- Toshiro Suga
- Walter Gotell