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	Moonraker
		Moonraker is far from being the best of the Bond franchise, but remains a decently entertaining film for all that.
		Cubby Broccoli decided that the Bond franchise needed to go where Star Wars went and so in almost frantic mode, For Your Eyes Only was shelved and a new film based upon Ian Fleming's third book, Moonraker, was fast-tracked, and to be honest, the entire film shows it in my view.
		That film was deferred as the result of some minor little film released in 1977, a film that put science fiction back into the mainstream of film, as well as pushing the envelope of special effects by a serious quantum measure.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Moonraker.html (2636 words)

	Moonraker - VHS - Title M Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Moonraker has to be one of my favourite bond films.
		Film: Moonraker Film Number: 11 Year: 1979 Bond: Roger Moore Bond Girl: Holly Goodhead Villain(s): Hugo Drax Sidekick(s): Jaws Song: Shirley Bassey Director: Lewis Gilbert M: Bernard Lee Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell Pre title scene: The film opens with the hijacking of a...
		And this time it's the turn of Moonraker, placing us firmly in the middle of Moore's overlong reign as the saviour of Britain.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-m/moonraker (289 words)

	Review: Moonraker
		Indeed, while parts of Moonraker are rather silly (a trend during Roger Moore's tenure), solid special effects, well-executed action sequences, and a strict reliance upon the "Bond Formula" keep this film among Moore's better entries as the British superspy.
		Moonraker marked Bernard Lee's final appearance as M. The actor died while preparing for the next Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.
		While Moonraker's centerpiece is the final half-hour, which takes place aboard an Earth-orbiting space station, this is actually the least entertaining portion of the film.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/moonraker.html (651 words)

	GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Exclusive Multiplayer Footage - Moonraker Level - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot
		As this is the 25th anniversary of Moonraker, we've got scenes taken from a map based on that film's shuttle launch facility.
		Rogue Agent's Moonraker level will stay true to the style of the film of the same name.
		The Moonraker map contains a number of areas, including a launch tower, blast chambers, a fuel-control room, and two shuttles.
	www.gamespot.com /ps2/action/jamesbond007goldeneye2/preview_6101433.html (540 words)

	The Bond Film Informant: GoldenEye
		Anything else?: The film is dedicated to the memory of Derek Meddings, who was the miniature effects supervisor on this and many previous Bond films including Moonraker for which he was Oscar nominated.
		It was claimed by MGM's website that at the start of the film Caroline is evaluating Bond in order to determine whether he is fit to fit to return to MI6 after his exploits in Licence To Kill, although this is not supported by any dialogue.
		In the main action there is something similar in his watch (a similar gadget appeared in the unofficial film Never Say Never Again), which also provides a remote control to an explosives detonator (this is old technology, since Trevelyan knows of it).
	www.mjnewton.demon.co.uk /bond/ge.htm (540 words)

	MOONRAKER: The "Forgotten" 1956 Film Version? - James Bond 007 - CommanderBond.net - James Bond At Its Best
		Ever since I first heard about the Rank Organization optioning the Moonraker rights back in the '50s, I've tried to imagine the film that might have resulted.
		The article claims 40 minutes of the film was recently discovered in the estate of the late Rank Organization producer Dayton Mace, along with the complete shooting script.
		The film is said to star Dirk Bogarde as 007, Peter Lorre as henchman Willy Krebs, Brenda Bright as Gala Brand, and Welles himself as Sir Hugo Drax.
	commanderbond.net /Public/Stories/2323-1.shtml (540 words)

	Moonraker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey.
		With the exception of the name "Moonraker" and the character of Sir Hugo Drax, little else from this book made it into the 1979 film.
		When a Moonraker space shuttle is stolen while in transport on the top of an airliner, James Bond is sent by M to investigate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moonraker (2577 words)

	CD Baby: MOONRAKER: Peeg Vater
		Brooklyn, NY based Moonraker formed in Boston during 2000 when two film students, David Moltz and Kody Akhavi, and their roommate, drummer Dan Mintzer, began experimenting with electronic music.
		Directed and inspired by the nature of an organic groove, a pulse that somehow feels familiar to your cells, Moonraker bridges the surreal and spacious quality of dreamy colors with the earthy and grounded solidity of naturally-occuring rhythms.
		In addition to Moonraker's debut LP Nada Brahma, the band has released an EP, a live CD and the self-titled 2003 CD on Immergent Recordings.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/moonraker4 (1201 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- MOONRAKER
		MOONRAKER ($25) has always struck me as a rather weak and goofy entry in the James Bond series, that is until I saw MGM's THX certified DVD edition of the film.
		MOONRAKER was released in 1979 and judging by the plot, it’s rather obvious that the producers wanted to cash in on the outer space frenzy created by the STAR WARS phenomenon.
		During the pre-credit sequence, an American space shuttle named Moonraker is hijacked during a piggyback transport flight to Great Britain.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/moonraker-dvd.htm (586 words)

	Moonraker '78: Behind-The-Scenes Of A Classic Fan Film
		Sir Hugo Drax who created and financed the Moonraker satellite program through a joint co-op with the British and the Americans, has now hijacked it and plans to destroy major cities around the globe including London and Washington.
		I chose to update the story by changing Moonraker from a nuclear rocket to a killer satellite orbiting the moon.
		This was crucial when it came to the Moonraker satellite model.
	shatterhand007.com /Moonraker78/Moonraker78.html (2565 words)

	MI6 :: Moonraker (1979) :: James Bond 007
		Moonraker is the story of how megalomaniac Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) plans to create a master race of superior human specimens in outer space on his space station while wiping out the entire world population using a toxic nerve gas.
		Moonraker is a true gem in the series, like other Bond of course it has it's let downs but also has it's peaks.
		Moonraker, the 11th Bond movie suffers most from wanting so much to be TSWLM, right down to bringing back the imposing giant henchman, Jaws.
	www.mi6.co.uk /sections/movies/mr_reviews.php3?t=mr&s=mr (2758 words)

	Moonraker
		"Moonraker" is perhaps the most lavishly bizarre and absurd of the James Bond adventures.
		From here onward, the film finds Bond engaging the aid of a NASA specialist, the sultry and ironically intellectual (I say ironically because Bond girls of this vintage were usually nothing more than half-naked wallpaper for our hero to bed and betray) Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles).
		As with "The Spy Who Love Me," "Moonraker" gets the deluxe visual presentation via MGM's restoration efforts from the mid-1990s for the laserdisc format.
	www.mediascreen.com /m/moonraker.htm (340 words)

	Moonraker (Remastered) - Music from the Movies
		Perhaps the power of better remastering is offset by the fact that the first Moonraker CD was cut when the tapes were only nine years old, compared to their twenty-four year age today.
		When it came out in 1979, the Moonraker soundtrack album, at a mere thirty minutes, was the shortest of all the James Bond albums.
		The film is famously let down by an excess of light humour, almost justifying a subtitle of 'Carry On James Bond'.
	www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=1384 (661 words)

	SMR DVD Review: Moonraker
		One menu page, "Moonraker Declassified", allows direct access to some of the films gadgets and special vehicles, as well as the film's villians and, of course, the beautiful Bond women.
		Instead of continuing in chronological order, MGM has elected to follow the first three with one of the later films in the Roger Moore era, Moonraker.
		Considered by many one of the silliest of the Moore Bonds (and that's saying something), Moonraker is also one of the most elaborate.
	www.smr-home-theatre.org /dvd/reviews/Moonraker.html (449 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Moonraker
		For many "Moonraker" is the worst Bond film, not least because the adventure culminates in a massive laser battle above the planet.
		Opening with an enjoyable freefall skirmish, "Moonraker" crams in as many stunts, gadgets, and exotic locations as possible.
		Besides this farther-than-far-fetched effort to capitalise on the late 70s taste for SF, such inanities as Bond driving round St Mark's Square in a gondola-turned-hovercraft don't help much either.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/07/27/moonraker_1979_review.shtml (363 words)

	The Bond Film Informant: Moonraker
		Using the title: Moonraker is the somewhat uncharacteristically poetic name given to Drax's space shuttles, one of which is hi-jacked at the start of the film.
		His company builds the Moonraker space shuttle for NASA, but he is also carrying out his own scheme to wipe out humanity from space using a highly toxic nerve gas developed from a rare orchid and repopulate Earth with his own perfect race.
		When one of his own shuttles has a malfunction he is forced to reclaim another vessel that has been lent to the British, resulting in Bond's investigation and eventually to Drax's death when Bond shoots him with a poison dart and ejects him into space.
	www.mjnewton.demon.co.uk /bond/mr.htm (1233 words)

	Moonraker
		Moonraker features the last appearance of Bernard Lee as M due to Lee's death prior to For Your Eyes Only.
		The Moonraker is actually the US Space Shuttle.
		Subsequent films would move Fleming's name from the film title to the name of Bond (so that the actor is credited as playing "Ian Fleming's James Bond").
	www.users.nac.net /delliott/007/moonraker.htm (246 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Bond Films (Virgin Film S.)
		Each film was a product of its time - "Moonraker", for example, was made because of the success of "Star Wars"- and was influenced by whichever director was drafted in to move James Bond through his many assignments.
		The Bond films are the longest-running and the most financially successful movie franchise in the history of cinema and have entered popular culture.
		James Bond's answer to a request for his name, "Bond, James Bond", topped a poll of the greatest film quotes of all time, and if you mention a Martini to anyone old enough to drink one, they're bound to come out with the immortal line "shaken not stirred".
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0753507099/854 (246 words)

	RCA Acquires Rights to 11 James Bond Films for its 'SelectaVision' VideoDisc Catalog
		The 11 films are: "Dr. No," "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," "Diamonds Are Forever," "Live And Let Die," "The Man With The Golden Gun," "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Moonraker."
		The plot of this popular film revolves around a spectacular planned heist of the gold deposits at Fort Knox, Ky. -a heist thwarted by the daring exploits of the incomparable James Bond.
		The James Bond films are characterized by scenes of derringdo, lavish on-location photography, dazzling special effects and great tongue-in-cheek fun.
	www.cedmagic.com /museum/press/release-1981-01-06.html (246 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Space Shuttle program [EncycloZine]
		One of the first fictional uses of the space shuttle was in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker in which a fleet of privately-produced shuttles was used to ferry personnel to a space station operated by the evil Sir Hugo Drax.
		In the 1998 film "Armageddon" two modified Shuttles are launched on a mission to intercept an asteroid with modified footage of actual shuttle launches being used.
		A version of the shuttle also appeared in the comedy film Airplane II: The Sequel in the early 1980s, in which it was used as a passenger liner between Earth and the Moon.
	encyclozine.com /Space_Shuttle_program (4677 words)

	Firefox (1982)
		The 'Firefox' plane was designed by John Dykstra, who had provided special effects for Star Wars, Star Trek and Moonraker.
		ABC-TV, which usually makes big cuts to Eastwood films for television, actually added 16 minutes of footage to the film.
		At $21 million, this ranks as one of Clint's most expensive films.
	www.clinteastwood.net /filmography/firefox.htm (177 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Moonraker (1979)
		Moonraker's goofiness was judged artistically wrong, and however much money it had made, the next film would be more like Bond's more serious roots.
		The return of Jaws, from the previous film, was a good idea, but doing what they did with the character was not.
		It was certainly the intent of the producers to cash in on the space film craze.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/moonraker.1979.shtml (437 words)

	Batman & Robin (1997)
		(1963) and Goldfinger (1964) with Tim Burton's two entries, to the nadir of Roger Moore era - The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Moonraker (1979) - within the space of three films.
		Unfortunately a Batman out of the shadows looks all too sadly just like a character in a rubber-costume - his appearance at a charity gala is an unbelievably sad reduction of the dark mystery and power the character has in the comic-books and first two films.
		Here though Barbara becomes Alfred's niece who spends most of the film cracking a cd to discover the Batcave, where she finds a recording from Alfred awaiting her: "I thought you would find this and made you up a costume," which reveals that the cd was left as a dupe to lure her there.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/batman4.htm (1795 words)

	RE: Worst James Bond(Not Including Casino Royale(1967))
		ONLY for the title song by Duran Duran, she was a HUGE fan of Duran Duran, as if owning the single wasn't enough she had to see the film as well, ONLY for the song, I don't know what she thought of the film though...
		But, there are long patches of no action, and some of the film feels more like a bad action film made by Cannon Films, rather than a Bond film.
		Moonraker. I don't know whether it's based on a book or not, but it seemed like a lame attempt at cashing in on the success of Star Wars.
	www.empireonline.com /forum/tm.asp?m=58520&mpage=2&key=& (2612 words)

	Dragon*Con Biography: [Blanche Ravalec]
		Although Blanche has over a dozen other film credits and many TV appearances to her name, it is forever as Dolly in Moonraker that she will be best remembered.
		The following year, with a few more credits under her belt, she was cast in her first English-speaking film (though she didn't have any dialogue!) in the role of Jaws' girlfriend, Dolly, in the James Bond film Moonraker.
		Originally, film-makers wanted to cast a 7' tall actress to play opposite 7' 2" Richard Kiel, but it was decided that a more "realistic" relationship would perhaps present itself if a petite actress was cast.
	www.dragoncon.org /people/ravaleb.html (2612 words)

	The Living Daylights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Living Daylights is the first Bond film since Moonraker to not have its title announced in the end credits of the previous film, nor has any Bond film since had its title announced in the end credits of the previous film.
		According to a research by the Christian Science Monitor, The Living Daylights is an example of a film which ignores Islamic stereotypes.
		For the original short story collection that inspired the film, see Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Living_Daylights (2567 words)

	Casino Royale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At one point, Die Another Day was rumored to be an adaptation of Fleming's novel (however, that film ended up being more a loose adaptation of Moonraker).
		In 2004, American Quentin Tarantino supposedly went to EON Productions attempting to lobby for a "proper" film adaptation of Fleming's novel, based on a screenplay he had written starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
		In February 2005, EON Productions announced that the twenty-first official film in the Bond franchise, due for release in 2006 will be another adaptation of Casino Royale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casino_Royale (2567 words)

	Lois Chiles
		She subsequently landed high-profile roles in The Way We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), and Coma (1978), but it was her role of the suggestively named NASA scientist (and, of course, James Bond love interest) in Moonraker that truly got the attention of audiences.
		A former top model who went on to utilize her smoldering sensuality as Bond girl Holly Goodhead in 1979's Moonraker, actress Lois Chiles crafted a successful onscreen career with roles in such acclaimed indies as Diary of a Hit Man (1991) and Curdled (1996).
		Although Chiles had originally been offered a role in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, she had turned it down while taking some time off from the silver screen.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+12846 (314 words)

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