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Moonraker (1979)
Country of Origin: UK/France ("a
Franco-British co-production" - on screen credit)
Year of Production: 1979
Running Times: 126m
Length:
Format: 35mm/70mm (blow-up)/filmed in Panavision (anamorphic)
Format: Technicolor
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: recorded in Dolby Stereo
DIRECTION
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
CREW
 PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MCMLXXIX [1979] Danjaq S.A.
Production Company: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (logo) United Artists
(logo) Albert R. Broccoli presents
Made by: Les Productions Artistes Associés (Paris) and Eon Productions
(London)
Executive Producer: Michael G. Wilson
Produced by: Albert R. Broccoli
Associate Producer: William P. Cartlidge
Production Managers: Jean-Pierre Spiri-Mercanton and Terence Churcher
Unit Managers: (France) Robert Saussier; (U.K.) Chris Kenny
Asst. Unit Manager (France): Robert Boulic
SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Christopher Wood
Novel: Ian Fleming (credited with a possessive above the title)
Script Editor: Vernon Harris
DIRECTION
2nd Unit Directors: Ernest Day and John Glen
Assistant Director: Michel Cheyko
Asst. Directors (2nd Unit): Peter Bennett, Meyer Berreby
Asst. Director (Models): Gareth Tandy
2nd Asst. Director: Chris Carreras
Continuity: Elaine Schreyeck, Jose Fulforo, Gladys Goldsmith
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jean Tournier
2nd Unit Cameraman: Jacques Renoir
Camera Operators: Alec Mills. Michel Deloire, Guy DeLattre, John Morgan,
James Devis
Gaffer: Jacques Touilland
Key Grip: René Strasser
Camera Grip: Chunky Huse
Stills Photographer: Patrick Morin
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: John Glen
Assembly Editor: John Grover
Asst. Editors: Michael Round, Peter Davies, Luce Gruenwaldt
Film Processing by: Laboratoires Franay (L.T.C.) and Technicolor
MUSIC
Music by: John Barry
Music Recording at: Studio Davout (Paris)
SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
Title song "Moonraker"
Performed by Shirley Bassey
Composed by John Barry
Lyrics by Hal David
"The James Bond Theme"
Written by Monty Norman
"Theme from The Magbificent Seven"
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Published by United Artists
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Daniel Brisseau
Sound Assts: Gerard de Legarde, Jean Labourel
Chief Re-recording Mixer: Gordon K. McCallum
Re-recording Mixers: Graham V. Hartstone, Nicholas Le Messurier
Sound Re-recording by: S.I.M.O. (Paris) and Pinewood Studios (London)
Dubbing Editor: Allan Sones, Colin Miller,
Dino Di Campo
Dialogue Editor: Catherine Kelber
Sound Effects: Jean Pierre Lelong
Dolby Consultant: John Iles
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designer: Jacques Fonteray
Wardrobe Master: Jean Zay
Wardrobe Mistress: Colette Baudot
Make-up Artists: Monique Archambault, Paul Engelen
Hairdresser: Pierre Vade
Roger Moore's Hair by: Mike Jones
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: John Evans, John Richardson, Rene Albouze, Serge Ponvianne,
Charles Assola
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Derek Meddings
Visual Effects Art Director: Peter Lamont
Visual Effects Cameraman: Paul Wilson
Visual Effects (France): Jean Berard
Process Consultant: Bill Hansard
Process Effects (France): Louis Lapeyre
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Title Designer: Maurice Binder
Optical Effects Cameraman: Robin Browne
Optical Effects (France): Michel Francois Films
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Design by: Ken Adam
Art Directors: Max Douy, Charles Bishop
Space Art Director: Harry Lange
Asst. Art Directors: Marc Frederix, Jacques Douy, Serge Douy, Ernie
Archer, John Fenner
Set Decorators: Peter Howitt
Set Dressers: Pierre Charron, Andre Labussiere
Buyers: John Lanzer, Alain Guyard, Jean-Pierre Nossereau
Props: Raymond Le Moibne, Pierre Roudeix
Construction Managers: Louis Duquenne, Michael Redding
OTHER CREW
Production Controller: Reginald A. Barkshire
Production Accountant: Brian Bailey
Production Accountant (France): Paul Beugin
Production Secretary: Simone Escoffier
Production Assistant: Marguerite Green
Producer's Secretary: Dominique Bach
Unit Publicists: Steve Swan, Gilles Durieux
Space Consultant: Eric Burgess
LOCATIONS
Made at Studio de Boulogne, Paris-Studios-Cinema, Eclair Studios (Paris)
and Pinewood Studios (London) and on location in Italy [Venice, Veneto],
Brazil [Iguaçu Falls, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná; Rio de Janeiro, Rio de
Janeiro State], Guatemala, U.S.A. [Kennedy Space Center, Florida; Los
Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California; Palmdale, California;
St Lucie County, Florida, USA] and outer space! [Paris, France;
Vaux-Le-Viconte, France; London, England, UK - all uncredited]
Location Managers: (Brazil) Frank Ernst; (Italy) Philippe Modave;
(U.S.A.): John Comfort
Asst. Location Manager (Brazil): Andy Armstrong
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Producers gratefully acknowledge the assistance and cooperation
of: Rockwell International Space Division; National Aeronautics and
Space Administration; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Maribe Corps; Department
of National Parks (Brazil); Government of Argentina; Florida State Film
Commission; Paris Airport; Glastron Boat Company; Seiko Watches; Bollinger
Champagne; Air France; Seven Up; Marlboro; Christian Dior; Canon Cameras;
British Airways; Varig Airways
STUNTS
Action Sequences Arranged by: 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
CASTING
Casting Directors: Margot Capelier, Weston Drury Jr
CAST
Roger Moore as James Bond 007
Starring
Lois Chiles (Holly Goodhead)
Michael Lonsdale as [Hugo] Drax
Richard Kiel as Jaws
and
Corinne Clery (Corinne Dufour)
Featuring
Emily Bolton (Manuela)
Geoffrey Keen (Frederick Gray)
Toshiro Suga (Chang)
Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
Irka Bochenko (blonde beauty)
Nicholas Arbez (Drax's boy)
Bernard Lee as 'M'
And
Desmond Llewelyn (Q)
Blanche Ravalec (Dolly)
Anne Lonnberg (museum guide)
Michael Marshall (Col. Scott)
Jean Pierre Castaldi (pilot private jet)
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 (Drax's technician)
Claude Carliez (gondolier)
Georges Beller (Drax's technician)
Denis Seurat (officer Boeing 747)
Chichinou Kaeppler, Christina Hui, Francoise Gayat, Nicaise Jean-Louis,
Catherine Serre,
Beatrice Libert (Drax's girls)
UNCREDITED CAST
Albert R. Broccoli, Lewis Gilbert, Michael G. Wilson (men in St Marks
Square)
Dana Broccoli
(woman in St Mark's Square)
Marc Mazza (lab technician)
Victor Tourjansky (man with bottle)
Michael G. Wilson (NASA technician/Captain Scott's co-pilot)
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
MPAA: 25614
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
PERIODICALS
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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