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Rated R. "Moonraker" is the 11th installment in the most successful film series in history. It is also, of course, in the grand Bond tradition. The basic form of the James Bond thrillers has been firmly established since the beginning; they're as predictable in style as the kabuki theater.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Agent 007 (Roger Moore) blasts into orbit in this action-packed adventure that takes him to Venice, Rio De Janeiro and outer space.
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- Lewis Gilbert
- PG
- Roger Moore
The story starts when a Moonraker type space-shuttle is stolen in midair from a shuttle carrier aircraft (The carriers exist in real life and are modified Boeing 747s). James Bond is set to investigate this and starts by asking billionaire Hugo Drax whose Drax Industries build the shuttle for help.
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- Lewis Gilbert
- PG
- “Note-Perfect”
- “Never Takes Itself Too Seriously”
- “Most Outrageous”
This was the last Bond of the seventies and Bernard Lee’s final performance as M, so it’s rather poignant. The main course is a feast of thrills and spills as Bond tracks down industrialist Hugo Drax at his chateau in the ‘States’ (though it’s obviously France). Michael Lonsdale gives a note-perfect performance as the bad guy. He’s sinister, dry-wi...
John Barry’s score is easily one of his best, from the Samba-inflected version of the main theme to the dreamy ‘Bond Lured to Pyramid’, and phenomenal later stuff in space. Though the sacrificial pawn, Corinne Dufour (Corinne Clery) is stunning but a tad weak, at least the heroine, Holly Goodhead makes up for it. Lois Chiles (who was cast after sit...
As this was production designer Ken Adam’s final Bond movie, he also went out on a high with some outstanding sets, including Drax’s mission control, and that space station interior, which takes my breath away every time I see it. While the mix of Barry, Meddings, Adam and director Lewis Gilbert is superb, it’s obviously Roger Moore that keeps thin...
Oct 25, 2012 · “What he doesn’t own, he doesn’t want.” After one of their space shuttles is stolen, mid-flight, Bond is dispatched to investigate the billionaire industrialist Hugo Drax, whose company built the shuttle.
“Moonraker” is thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end and is one of the best of Roger Moore's 7-movie stint in the series. The plot revolves around 007 investigating Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) after a space shuttle on loan to the British is stolen.
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Moonraker. 1979. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Synopsis. Where all the other Bonds end, this one begins! 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.
