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Moonraker is a 1979 spy-fi film, 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.
A Drax Industries Moonraker space shuttle on loan is hijacked and Bond is ordered to investigate. Bond meets the owner of the company, Hugo Drax and one of Drax's scientists, Dr. Holly Goodhead. Bond follows the trail to Venice, where he establishes that Drax is manufacturing a nerve gas deadly to humans, but harmless to animals.
Drax, real name Graf Hugo von der Drache, is a "megalomaniac German Nazi who masquerades as an English gentleman", [4] while his assistant, Krebs, bears the same name as Adolf Hitler's last Chief of Staff. [5] In using a German as the novel's main enemy, "Fleming ... exploits another British cultural antipathy of the 1950s.
Doctor Holly Goodhead is a fictional character from the James Bond franchise, portrayed by Lois Chiles.She does not appear in any of the Ian Fleming novels, only in the film version of Moonraker (1979), but her character is similar to that of Gala Brand, the female lead in the original novel Moonraker (1955).
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Moonraker is the soundtrack for the eleventh James Bond film of the same name. [2] Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey. Frank Sinatra was considered for the vocals, before Johnny Mathis was approached and offered the opportunity. Mathis was unhappy about the song and withdrew ...
James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film Moonraker. ... Despite this, Wood's novel became a bestseller, [5] ...
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch [1] (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French and British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. [4]