film information
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay by Christopher Wood
World Premiere 26th June 1979 (London, England)
US Release Date 29th June 1979
Worldwide Box Office $202,700,000 US
Budget $34,000,000 US
Running Time 126 Minutes
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bond girls
Corinne Clery (Corinne Dufour)
Lois Chiles (Dr. Holly Goodhead)
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bond villains
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locations
Yukon Territory, Canada; aboard an aircraft traveling from Africa to London; London; Los Angeles; Southern California; Venice; Rio de Janeiro; Rio Tapirapé, Brazil; outer space.
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Bond introduces himself in the usual way when he is looking for Dr. Holly Goodhead.
behind the scenes
With a sizable budget of over $30 million (more than 30 times that of Dr. No), Moonraker actually became one of the most popular James Bond films ever, earning $203 million worldwide. This record would not be broken until Goldeneye that appeared at cinemas 16 years later.
When Jaws is seen to bite into the steel cable car wire, he is actually biting a custom made wire made out of liquorice.
One of Drax's beautiful women in the Temple was actually Melinda Maxwell, daughter of Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny).
Michael G. Wilson appears in three cameo roles in Moonraker, most clearly as a NASA Technician where he tells a superior officer that Drax's space station is over two hundred meters in diameter.
Jaws speaks his only line heard in a Bond film when he proposes a toast with Dolly - "Well, here's to us".
A scene was actually cut out of the final film in which Drax gives a meeting in the chamber below Moonraker 5. This is the reason why the computers in the room fold into the floor for a shuttle launch.
The producer did not think that viewers would accept the relationship between Jaws and Dolly due to the height difference between them. It was only when Richard Kiel pointed out that his actual wife was the same height as Dolly that they changed their minds. §
