Additional information for Moonraker, which has a domestic theatrical release set for June 29, 1979. The film is being distributed by United Artists and has not yet been rated. Moonraker has a total running time of 126 minutes.
G
Canada
PG
Ireland
15
South Korea
12
Brazil
12
Germany
16
West Germany
M/12
Portugal
Atp
Argentina
PT
Peru
PG
Australia
K-16
Finland
16
Norway
15
Sweden
A
UK
PG
USA
PG
Singapore
12
Netherlands
126min
15min
Moonraker
Argentina
Moonraker
Canada
Moonraker
Denmark
Moonraker
France
Moonraker
Peru
Moonraker
Poland
Moonraker
Spain
007: Misión espacial
Mexico
007: Misión espacial
Mexico
007 - Aventura no Espaço
Portugal
007 Contra o Foguete da Morte
Brazil
007: Moonraker
Australia
Agente 007, Moonraker: operazione spazio
Italy
Ay harekâti
Turkey
Holdkelte
Hungary
Ian Fleming's Moonraker
UK
James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Streng geheim
West Germany
James Bond, praktor 007: Epiheirisis Moonraker
Greece
Kuuraketti
Finland
Måneraketten
Norway
Munrejker-Operacija svemir
Serbia
Operacija vesolje
Slovenia
June 26, 1979
UK
June 28, 1979
UK
June 29, 1979
USA
July 12, 1979
Netherlands
July 18, 1979
South Africa
July 26, 1979
Australia
August 01, 1979
Hong Kong
August 13, 1979
Denmark
August 17, 1979
Finland
August 17, 1979
Norway
August 18, 1979
Sweden
August 29, 1979
Kenya
August 31, 1979
Austria
August 31, 1979
West Germany
September 06, 1979
Portugal
September 09, 1979
Spain
September 20, 1979
Argentina
September 27, 1979
Italy
October 10, 1979
France
October 11, 1979
Mexico
December 08, 1979
Japan
December 11, 1979
Philippines
January 07, 1981
South Korea
September , 1982
Turkey
Moonraker Is Out Of This World
Where all the other Bonds end . . . this one begins!
Now outer space now belongs to James Bond 007 [Variety ad]
Roger Moore James Bond 007
The James Bond 007 phenomenon continues [Variety ad]
The girls are out of this world [US banner poster ; Style C]
Now that's out of this world! [Reissue poster]
The action is out of this world [US banner poster ; Style A]
James Bond 007
The villains are out of this world [US banner poster ; Style B]
Outer space now belongs to 007
From the most exotic locations on Earth, MOONRAKER will take you out of this world!
The 1st part of the pre-title teaser shows a space shuttle (called a "Moonraker") being carried on a large cargo plane. Inside the shuttle, two men emerge from hidden compartments and start launch procedures for the shuttle. They fly off, destroying the cargo plane they were being ferried on. The shuttle was built for the British government and was en route there when it was stolen. M, head of MI6, orders Miss Moneypenny to contact his best agent, James Bond, and have him report in. Moneypenny says that Bond is currently in flight, returning from a mission in Africa. On board the private jet, Bond is betrayed by the flight attendant and the plane's captain, who both escape wearing parachutes. As Bond watches them escape, he is pushed out of the plan by Jaws (who returns from The Spy Who Loved Me). Bond plummets and is able to catch the pilot and wrestles the man's chute from him. As he puts it on and free-falls, he is attacked by Jaws. Bond pulls the chord on his own chute; Jaws tries the same but his chute doesn't open. He is seen falling into a circus tent; the first animated image of the opening title sequence suggests he fell into the high-wire safety net inside.Bond reports to M's office where Q and Minister of Defense Gray are waiting. They report that the shuttle went missing somewhere over the Yukon Territory in Western Canada and, while the plane wreckage has been found, there's no sign of the Moonraker. Bond is ordered to begin his investigation of the shuttle's disappearance at the industrial complex where it was built by the Drax Corporation. Before he leaves, Bond is given a new wristwatch by Q that can fire specialized darts - one type are steel-tipped and armor piercing, the others contain cyanide.Bond arrives at the Drax complex in California. He is taken by Corinne Dufour to industrialist and billionaire, Hugo Drax, for a brief meeting. Drax thanks Bond for appearing in person to apologize for the loss of his shuttle however Bond is not and, though he asks about the mysterious disappearance of the shuttle, he receives no conclusive answers. Bond is taken to meet Dr Holly Goodhead, who gives him a tour of the facilities. She suggests that Bond try out the g-force training vehicle. While he rides in it, Drax' personal bodyguard, Chang, refits the control panel and attempts to kill Bond with a fatal amount of g-force. Bond disables the machine by shooting one of the darts given to him by Q into the control panel. While Goodhead apologizes, Bond sees Chang leaving the control room.Later that evening, Bond meets Miss Dufour and they have sex. He sneaks out of her room and into Drax' private office. Dufour discovers him there but does not attempt to stop him. Bond finds Drax' safe and photographs engineering schematics for a small electronic device and a larger pod of some sort both made by a glass company located in Venice, Italy. As he and Dufour slip out of the office, they don't notice that Chang sees them go. The next morning, before he's scheduled to leave, Bond is asked to join Drax for pheasant hunting. During the match, Bond kills an assassin planted nearby by Drax. He leaves just as Dufour arrives. Knowing of her betrayal, Drax tells her that she's fired; he lets his trained Beaucerons loose and they chase her through the forest, killing her.Bond arrives in Venice, going immediately to the Venini glass works indicated in the plans he stole. He finds several workers making small containers that match the dimensions of those in the schematics. Joining a tour of the factory, he sees Holly Goodhead, who quickly leaves. Bond catches up with her and asks to meet her later, which she refuses. Bond heads off in a gondola - while floating down a canal, he is attacked by a knife-throwing assassin in a coffin. Bond is able to kill him and activates the gondola's power motor and takes off. He is chased by two more men in a powerboat but eludes them by entering Venice's Grand Canal and activating the gondola's hovercraft which he rides into St. Mark's Square.Bond returns to Venini & finds a laboratory where two scientists are working in a private lab. He notices a pod that matches the schematics from Drax' safe that contains some of the small glass containers he'd seen earlier. In the small containers are small electronic devices that contain vials of a clear fluid. Hearing the scientists returning, he hides, leaving one of the devices with the vials where it falls to the floor and shatters when the men move the pod. The liquid quickly becomes aerosol and the room is automatically sealed. Both men die but the animals in cages in the room do not. As he leaves, Bond is attacked by a man wearing Japanese kendo gear, who is soon revealed to be Chang. The two carry their combat into the Venini glassware museum and destroy it. They fight further, ending up behind a glass clock overlooking a fine restaurant; Bond throws Chang through the clock headfirst into a grand piano, killing him.Bond arrives later at Goodhead's hotel and finds her in her room. He reveals his knowledge of her being a CIA agent. The two spend the night together after Bond finds an airline ticket in her name to Rio de Janeiro. Bond leaves early in the morning and escorts M and Minister Gray to the Drax laboratory he'd found the night before. When they enter, the lab has been cleared out and all traces of the pods, vials and other experimental equipment are gone; only Drax remains in a lavishly decorated office. Gray apologizes for the intrusion and, after leaving the office, orders M to take Bond off the case. Bond gives M the vial he'd kept from the previous night and tells M to have it tested by Q with "extreme caution" due to is deadly nature. M tells Bond to take two weeks leave and asks where he'll go; Bond says he'll go to Rio de Janeiro to follow Goodhead and several of the pods he'd seen during his fight with Chang.Bond arrives in Rio and begins to investigate again. He and his assistant, Manuela, find another storage facility owned by Drax, where Bond finds a shipping label from Drax Airfreight. In the street, Manuela is approached by a carnivale-goer in a large costume; it is Jaws, hired by Drax soon after Chang was killed. Jaws attacks her but is prevented from killing her by some passing carnivale celebrators. Bond arrives, though he is unable to fend off Jaws completely, but the henchman is whisked away by another passing group of celebrators.The next day, Bond takes a cable car to a observation platform overlooking Rio. He sees that planes belonging to Drax Airfreight are taking off from a nearby small airport. On the mountain, he once again finds Holly Goodhead, who tells him that the Drax planes have been departing frequently, every two hours. They both decide to return to Rio to investigate further, however, their cable car descent is interrupted by Jaws. Bond and Goodhead battle the thug and are able to escape when Bond loops a chain around a cable and they slide down. Jaws follows in one of the cars but is unable to stop, colliding with the station at the bottom. As he tries to remove a wheel from his neck, he meets a young blond woman with large glasses, Dolly, who helps him and the two fall instantly in love.Bond and Goodhead, having leaped from the chain before reaching the cable house, are picked up by an ambulance. The paramedics are likely Drax' men and the two are bound to their gurneys. Bond escapes his and is thrown from the ambulance, but Goodhead is unable to escape.Bond reports to the new headquarters M and Q have set up outside Rio; Q reports that his analysis of the fluid in the vial reveals that it came from a rare orchid from the Amazonian Jungle region. The fluid, which originally caused sterility in the native tribe that inhabited the area, has been modified to cause death in humans only. Bond travels in a highly specialized boat to the Amazon and is engaged once again by Jaws and several henchmen in boats. Bond uses the defenses of his own boat to destroy most of them and escapes over a large grouping of waterfalls (they are actually the Iguazu Falls, hundreds of miles away near Argentina) by using a hang glider. Jaws winds up going over the falls in his boat. Bond crashes in the jungle where he spies a beautiful woman and follows her to a lagoon; he is cast into a pool where a large python is sent to kill him. Bond kills the snake with Goodhead's poison-tipped pen and is grabbed by Jaws. He is taken to Drax' control room where the launching of several Moonraker shuttles is being observed. Drax reveals that he'd originally ordered the stealing of the British Moonraker because one of the original fleet developed a malfunction. Drax orders Bond to be taken to a conference room directly below the launchpad of one of the shuttles where Goodhead is trapped. Drax leaves them there to be incinerated during the launch. They escape the room and assume the identities of two Moonraker crew members after rendering them unconscious. They board the last Moonraker and are launched into space on a programmed flight plan. Bond checks the cargo area and sees several young couples as passengers.In space, the Moonrakers arrive at a hidden space station. The station is activated and Drax begins his ultimate plans: he will launch the orchid's fluids into the atmosphere of Earth where they will exterminate human life, leaving vegetation and animal life behind. The couples that he has brought into space will breed and their descendants will return to Earth as a new race of humans to populate it. Bond and Goodhead find the station's radar jammer and deactivate it, making the station visible from Earth. The British government launches a shuttle with a strike team towards the station.Bond and Goodhead are discovered by Jaws who takes them to Drax. Bond remarks aloud that the only humans who will be allowed to live are those like Drax' "perfect specimens", IE, those who are physically fit and genetically superior. Jaws suddenly realizes that Drax' plan will not include either himself, because of his abnormal size and his steel teeth and Dolly because of her imperfect vision. Jaws decides to join forces with Bond and attacks the guards. A fight breaks out as the British shuttle arrives. Drax still orders the launching of the deadly pods. He is found escaping by Bond who fires one of his cyanide darts at Drax; he pushes the villain into an airlock and blasts him into space to his death. Meanwhile, the strike team has taken out the station team and fly away before the station, suffering catastrophic damage, explodes. Goodhead and Bond escape in Drax' shuttle, which is armed with a high-powered laser and pursue the pods. Jaws and Dolly plummet back to Earth in portion of the station; inside, Jaws opens a bottle of champagne and says "Well, here's to us!", his only spoken words in the Bond series.Bond and Goodhead race towards the pods, destroying them all with the laser. Bond is forced to destroy the last one without the weapon's computer targeting system, but succeeds. Back on Earth, M an Q try to locate Bond, who is orbiting the earth in the shuttle and enjoying a romantic tryst with Goodhead.
Lewis Gilbert
Director(s)
Ian Fleming
Christopher Wood
Writer(s)
Albert R. Broccoli
producer
William P. Cartlidge
associate producer
Michael G. Wilson
executive producer
Producer(s)
John Barry
Composer(s)
James Bond
Roger Moore
Dr. Holly Goodhead
Lois Chiles
Hugo Drax
Michael Lonsdale
Jaws
Richard Kiel
Corinne Dufour
Corinne Cléry
M
Bernard Lee
Sir Frederick Gray
Geoffrey Keen
Q
Desmond Llewelyn
Miss Moneypenny
Lois Maxwell
Chang (as Toshiro Suga)
Toshirô Suga
Manuela
Emily Bolton
Dolly - Jaws' Girlfriend
Blanche Ravalec
Blonde Beauty
Irka Bochenko
Col. Scott (as Michael Marshall)
Mike Marshall
Hostess Private Jet
Leila Shenna
Museum Guide
Anne Lonnberg
Pilot Private Jet (as Jean Pierre Castaldi)
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
General Anatol Gogol
Walter Gotell
Mission Control Director
Douglas Lambert
Cavendish
Arthur Howard
Consumptive Italian
Alfie Bass
U.S. Shuttle Captain
Brian Keith
Captain - Boeing 747
George Birt
R.A.F. Officer
Kim Fortune
Russian Girl
Lizzie Warville
Funambulists
Johnny Traber's Troupe
Drax's Boy
Nicholas Arbez
Ambulanceman
Guy Di Rigo
Drax's Technician
Chris Dillinger
Gondolier
Claude Carliez
Drax's Technician
Georges Beller
Officer - Boeing 747
Denis Seurat
Drax's Girl - Signora Del Mateo
Chichinou Kaeppler
Drax's Girl
Christina Hui
Drax's Girl - Lady Victoria Devon (as Francoise Gayat)
Françoise Gayat
Drax's Girl
Nicaise Jean Louis
Drax's Girl - Countess Labinsky
Catherine Serre
Drax's Girl - Mademoiselle Deradier (as Beatrice Libert)
Béatrice Libert
Man at St. Marks Square (uncredited)
Ken Adam
Drax Radarman 2 (uncredited)
Jean-Louis Airola
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
Director(s)
Christopher Wood
Writer(s)
producer
William P. Cartlidge
associate producer
Michael G. Wilson
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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