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MPAA Rating - PG

Length:
    126 Minutes

Genre:
    Adventure

Original Release Date:
    Feb 4, 1998

Director
    Lewis Gilbert

Cast
    Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michel Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Bernard Lee

 
Movie Summary
Ian Flemings 1955 James Bond novel Moonraker concerned itself with an experimental spaceship controlled by a megalomaniac. The 1979 film version of Moonraker pays lip service to the original plot, adding an up-to-date space travel wrinkle. This time, Bond (Roger Moore) must thwart the plans of Sir Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) to destroy the earth with an atomic-powered rocket. On surface level, Draxs scheme seems self-defeating, but he intends to raise a race of supermen on a distant planet. The girl in the case is American secret agent Holly Goodhead, intelligently played by Lois Chiles. Jaws, the steel-mouthed henchman played by Richard Kiel in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), makes a return appearance in Moonraker turning good-guy (complete with a girl friend of his own) in the process. Bernard Lee makes his last appearance as M in this most costly of James Bonds 1970s escapades. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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