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Moonraker
1979
In the 11th installment of the 007 series, director Lewis Gilbert delivers a visually thrilling progression in filmmaking. Roger Moore returns as dashing secret service agent James Bond. This time around Bond must investigate the theft of a space shuttle with help from beautiful CIA agent Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) and .. Read more
| Starring | Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles, Richard Kiel |
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| Director | Lewis Gilbert |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Moonraker
In the 11th installment of the 007 series, director Lewis Gilbert delivers a visually thrilling progression in filmmaking. Roger Moore returns as dashing secret service agent James Bond. This time around Bond must investigate the theft of a space shuttle with help from beautiful CIA agent Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) and sexy Euro supermodel Corrine (Corrine Clery). Agent 007 discovers that genocidal maniac-millionaire Hugo Drax (Michel Lonsdale) plans to poison all of humanity from outer space and repopulate earth with only the most perfectly bred humans. A variety of traps and villains awaits Bond, including the recurring character Jaws (Richard Kiel, also featured in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME).
Filmed in such exotic locations as Southern California, Venice, and the Amazon, Gilbert delivers the formula Bond packet of girls, gadgets, and guns. However, he also goes further, sending Agent 007 into space. MOONRAKER takes great risks in blending the spy and science fiction genres. In spite of such an unruly coupling, the film rewards viewers with its finale of climactic plot twists and stellar special effects.
| Starring | Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles, Richard Kiel, Corinne Clery, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Desmond Llewelyn |
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| Director | Lewis Gilbert |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 6 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Blu-ray: Dutch, Czech, Norwegian, Finnish, French, English, German, Danish, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 03 Nov 2003 Blu-ray: 23 Mar 2009 Production year: 1979 |
| Format | DVD |
Moonraker (1979)
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The 11th Bond movie jettisons Ian Fleming's marvellous novel and sends 007 into space. Weighed down by its often clunky special effects and non-existent plotting, this movie seems to be merely an attempt to update Bond in the wake of Star Wars. Roger Moore is at his least convincing as Bond, Michael Lonsdale makes a lacklustre master criminal and Jaws, the towering sub-villain from The Spy Who Loved Me, makes a return appearance. Venice and Rio are also part of the package, but too much of the budget was wasted on overblown spectacle, without enough attention being given to the basics.
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After one bravura Superman parody, one space battle, half-a-dozen seductions, and a host of gags, you feel that Bond... read more on Time Out
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Out of this World
Another Bond classic. Hugo Drax is trying to eliminate all on earth apart from his 'master race', and yet again its up to Bond to save the day. Good special effects even by todays standards using multiple exposures and models (The space shuttle was still in production and hadn't yet had it's first launch)
Jaws swaps sides(due to overwhelming demand from fans) and finally talks !
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THIS FILM HAS SOME GREAT MOMENTS!
' Moonraker' is not a perfect film. the book by Ian Fleming was too out of date to adapt to the screen by it's original form so it was brought up to date for 1979. the book had some classic moments{ Bond & Hugo Drax fencing for instance was later used for 007: Die Another Day.} while there was lots more like Bond beating Hugo at game of Poker + much more. this film has it's own classic scenes: the opening has a thrilling duel in the sky which starts off with Roger Moore's James Bond 007 doing a HALO jump in the sky from an airplane. some great stunts which also features a circus camp down below & Jaws is in the sequence too. Shirley Bassey who sang the music for ' Goldfinger' & ' Diamonds Are Forever' did her third and final job at singing the music. must see. there's even a ' Sherlock Holmes: Hound Of The Baskervilles' type scenario.
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