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Moonraker (1979)
Country of Origin: UK / France
Year of Production: 1979
Running Times: 126 mins
Format: Technicolor Panavision
(anamorphic) 35mm 70mm
(blow-up)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby
CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Company: Eon Productions / Danjaq / Les Productions Artistes
Associés
Executive Producer: Michael G. Wilson
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli
Associate Producer: William P. Cartlidge
Production Controller: Reginald A. Barkshire
Production Manager (France): Jean-Pierre Spiri-Mercanton
Production Manager (UK): Terence Churcher
Unit Manager (France): Robert Saussier
Assistant Unit Manager (France): Robert Boulic
Unit Manager (UK): Chris Kenny
Production Co-Ordinator: Reginald A. Barkshire
SCRIPT
Script: Christopher Wood
Novel: Ian Fleming
Script Editor: Vernon Harris
DIRECTION
Director: Lewis Gilbert
2nd Unit Director: John Glen, Ernest Day
Assistant Director: Michel Cheyko, Chris Carreras
2nd Unit Assistant Director: Peter Bennett, Meyer Berreby
Assistant Director (Models): Gareth Tandy
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jean Tournier
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Jacques Renoir
Camera Operators: Alec Mills. Michel Deloire, John Morgan, Guy DeLattre,
James Devis
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Jacques Renoir
Assistant Cam (Effects Unit): Mike Bulley
Aerial Photography: Rande DeLuca (uncredited)
Key Grip: René Strasser
Camera Grip: Chunky Huse
Gaffer: Jacques Touilland
Stills: Patrick Morin
EDITING
Editor: John Glen
Assembly Editor: John Grover, Alan Strachan (uncredited)
Assistant Editors: Luce Gruenwaldt, Peter Davies, Michael Round
MUSIC
Music: John Barry
Additional Music: Elmer Bernstein (from The Magnificent Seven
(1960) (uncredited)); Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Overture-Fantasy from
Romeo and Juliet (uncredited)); John Williams (from Close Encounters
of the Third Kind (1978) (uncredited)); Frédéric Chopin (Raindrop
Prelude (opus 28, number 15 in D flat Major) (uncredited))
Lyrics: Hal David (Moonraker)
Song Performed By: Shirley Bassey (Moonraker)
Scoring Mixer: Dan Wallin (uncredited)
SOUND
Sound Recording: Daniel Brisseau
Sound Re-Recording: Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicholas
Le Messurier
Sound Editor: Allan Sones, Colin Miller,
Dino Di Campo
Sound Effects: Jean-Pierre Lelong
Dolby Consultant: John Iles
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Monique Archambault, Paul Engelen
Costume Designer: Jacques Fonteray
Wardrobe Master: Jean Zay
Wardrobe Mistress: Colette Baudot
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Derek Meddings
Visual Effects (France): Jean Berard
Visual Effects Photography: Paul Wilson
Special Effects: John Evans, John Richardson, Rene Albouze, Serge Ponvianne
Optical Effects Photography: Robin Browne
Optical Effects (France): Michel Francois Films
Process Effects (France): Louis Lapeyre
Process Consultant: Bill Hansard
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Ken Adam; Anton
Furst (uncredited)
Art Director: Max Douy, Charles Bishop
Art Director (Visual Effects): Peter Lamont
Art Director (Space): Harry Lange
Title Designer: Maurice Binder
Set Decorators: Peter Howitt, Pierre Charron, Andre Labussiere
Buyers: Alain Guyard, Jean-Pierre Nossereau, John Lanzer
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Elaine Schreyeck, Gladys Goldsmith, Jose Fulforo
Aviation Consultant: J.W. 'Corkey' Fornof (uncredited)
Space Consultant: Eric Burgess
Production Accountant: Brian Bailey
Production Accountant (France): Paul Beugin
Production Assistant: Marguerite Green
Production Secretary: Simone Escoffier
Secretary To Producer: Dominique Bach
Unit Publicists: Gilles Durieux, Steve Swan
LOCATIONS
Locations: Guatemala; Iguaçu Falls, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil; Kennedy
Space Center, Florida, USA; London, England, UK; Los Angeles International
Airport, Los Angeles, California, USA; Palmdale, California, USA; Paris,
France; Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil; St Lucie County,
Florida, USA; Vaux-Le-Viconte, France; Venice, Veneto, Italy
Location Manager (Brazil): Frank Ernst
Assistant Location Manager (Brazil): Andy Armstrong
Location Manager (Italy): Philippe Modave
Location Manager (Florida, USA): John Comfort
STUNTS
Action Sequence Arranger: Bob Simmons
Stunt Arranger (France): Claude Carliez
Stunts: Claude Carliez, Martin Grace, Richard Graydon, Dorothy Ford,
Michael Berreur, Daniel Breton, Guy Di Rigo, Paul Weston
CAST
Roger Moore (James Bond)
Lois Chiles (Dr Holly Goodhead)
Michael (rn: Michel) Lonsdale (Hugo Drax)
Richard Kiel (Jaws)
Corinne Clery (Corinne)
Emily Bolton (Manuela)
Toshiro Suga (Chang)
Irka Bochenko (blonde beauty)
Geoffrey Keen (Frederick Gray)
Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny)
Nicholas Arbez (Drax's boy)
Bernard Lee (M)
Desmond Llewelyn (Q)
Anne Lonnberg (museum guide)
Jean-Pierre Castaldi (pilot, private jet)
Blanche Ravalec (Dolly)
Michael marshall (Colonel Scott)
Leila Shenna (hostess, private jet)
Walter Gotell (General Gogol)
Douglas Lambert (mission control director)
Arthur Howard (Cavendish)
Alfie Bass (consumptive Italian)
Brian Keith (US shuttle captain)
George Birt (captain, Boeing 747)
Kim Fortune (RAF officer)
Lizzie Warville (Russian girl)
Johnny Traber's Troupe (Funambulists)
Guy Di Rigo (ambulanceman)
Chris Dillinger, Georges Beller (Drax's technicians)
Claude Carliez (gondolier)
Denis Seurat (officer, Boeing 747)
Chichinou Kaeppler, Christina Hui, Francoise Gayat, Nicaise Jean-Louis,
Catherine Serre,
Beatrice Libert (Drax's girls)
Albert R. Broccoli, Lewis Gilbert, Michael G. Wilson (men in St Marks
Square (uncredited))
Dana Broccoli
(woman in St Mark's Square (uncredited))
Marc Mazza (lab technician (uncredited))
Victor Tourjansky (man with bottle (uncredited))
Michael G. Wilson (NASA technician / Captain Scott's co-pilot (uncredited))
PLOT SUMMARY
Alerted by the daring mid-air theft of a space shuttle, James Bond
takes on deranged industrialist Hugo Drax and his mad schemes to start
a new master race in his orbiting space station. Bond must race against
time to prevent Drax's germ warfare weapons from wiping out Mankind.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The beginning of the end for Roger Moore's incarnation of Bond though
he would limp through three more sorry adventures before finally calling
it a day. This is over-the-top nonsense, played almost entirely for
laughs, most of them at Bond's expense. How anything this big and noisy
could be so boring is nothing short of miraculous...
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Dist: United Artists
Rating: A
USA
Theatrical Distributor: United Artists
Video / Laserdisc Distributor: CBS/Fox; MGM
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Germany
Rating: 12
Norway
Rating: 15
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1979
June
16: USA - world premiere
29: USA - theatrical release
August
13: Denmark - theatrical release
17: Finland - theatrical release
18: Sweden - theatrical release
26: UK - theatrical release
28: West Germany - theatrical release
1982
December
27: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1984
September
2: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1985
December
25: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1988
February
13: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1990
December
25: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1999
July
28: UK - television broadcast (on ITV - part of 00 Heaven season)
2002
April
6: USA - television broadcast (on ABC)
POSTER TAGS
Where all other Bonds end... this one begins!
Outer space now belongs to 007
AWARDS
1979
Academy Awards
Best Visual Effects - nominated
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
007 - Aventura no Espaço - Portuguese
title
007 Contra o Foguete da Morte - Brazilian title
Agente 007, Moonraker: operazione spazio - Italian title
James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Streng geheim - West German
title
Kuuraketti - Finnish title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Dr No (1962)
From Russia with
Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice
(1967)
On Her
Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Diamonds Are Forever
(1971)
Live and Let Die
(1973)
The Man with the Golden
Gun (1974)
The Spy Who Loved Me
(1977)
SEQUELS
For Your Eyes Only
(1981)
Octopussy (1983)
Never Say Never
Again (1983)
A View to a Kill
(1985)
The Living Daylights
(1987)
Licence to Kill
(1989)
Goldeneye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies
(1997)
The World Is Not
Enough (1999)
Die Another Day
(2002)
Casino Royale
(2006)
SEE ALSO
2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968)
Close Encounters
of the Third Kind (1977)
Austin
Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
The James Bond Story
(1999)
Happy Anniversary
007: 25 Years of James Bond (1987)
Premiere Bond:
Die Another Day (2002)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
American Cinematographer vol.60 no.10
(October 1979) pp.1008-1009, 1054 (USA)
illustrated article
Cahiers du Cinema November 1979 p.59
Cinefantastique vol.8 no.4 (Summer 1979)
pp.36-38 (USA)
illustrated article
Cinefantastique vol.9 no.1 (Autumn 1998)
pp.40-41 (USA)
illustrated article
Films and Filming vol.26 no.5 (February
1980) p.41 (UK)
review (by Jenny Craven)
Films Illustrated vol.8 no.96 (August
1979) p.468 (UK)
review
GBCT News vol.1 no.12 (June 1979) pp.6-12
(UK)
article
Hollywood Reporter vol.271 no.20 (12
April 1982) p.3 (USA)
credits, review
The Listener vol.102 no.2618 (5 July
1979) p.26 (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.46 no.547 (August
1979) pp.179-180 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review (by Tim Pulleine)
Screen International no.197 (7 July 1979)
pp.6, 17 (UK)
notes
Sight and Sound June 1993 p.70 (UK)
note
Starburst vol.1 no.12 (1979) pp.24-29
(UK)
illustrated interview
Starburst April 1996 p.55 (UK)
illustrated note
Telerama 21 January 1998 p.74 (France)
illustrated credits, review
Vanity Fair November 1999 (USA)
illustrated article
Variety 27 June 1979 p.18 (USA)
review
BOOKS
The A-Z of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films p.186
review
The Incredible World of 007 pp.146
illustrated article
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Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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