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Moonraker is a 1979 spy-fi film, the eleventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, and Richard Kiel. Bond investigates the theft of a Space Shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the Shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon rainforest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and to recreate humanity with a master race.

The story was intended by author Ian Fleming to become a film even before he completed the novel in 1954; he based it on a screenplay manuscript he had devised earlier. The film's producers had originally intended to make For Your Eyes Only, but chose Moonraker owing to the rise of the science fiction genre in the wake of the Star Wars phenomenon. Budgetary issues led to the film being shot primarily in France; other locations included Italy, Brazil, Guatemala and the United States. The soundstages of Pinewood Studios in England, traditionally used for the series, were only used by the special effects team.

Moonraker had a high production cost of $34 million, more than twice as much as The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and it received mixed reviews. However, the film's visuals were praised, with Derek Meddings being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and it eventually became the highest-grossing film of the series at the time with $210,300,000 worldwide, a record that stood until 1995's GoldenEye.

Storyline[]

Plot[]

Agent 007 (Roger Moore) blasts into orbit in this action-packed adventure that takes him to Venice, Rio De Janeiro and outer space. When Bond investigates the hijacking of an American space shuttle, he and beautiful CIA agent Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) are soon locked in a life-or-death struggle against Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), a power-mad industrialist whose horrific scheme may destroy all human life on earth!

Genres[]

  • Action
  • Romance
  • Spy
  • Science fiction
  • Adventure
  • Action/Adventure
  • Thriller

Motion Picture Rating[]

  • 13 (Argentina)
  • M (Australia)
  • 12 (Brazil)
  • PG (Canada)
  • 15 (Denmark) (DVD and Blu-ray rating)
  • K-16 (Finland)
  • K-15/13 (Finland)
  • K-16/13 (Finland)
  • Tous publics (France)
  • 12 (Germany)
  • II (Hong Kong)
  • 12 (Hungary)
  • A (India) (1980, original rating)
  • 12 (Ireland)
  • T (Italy)
  • PG-12 (Japan)
  • 18PL (Malaysia) (original rating)
  • P13 (Malaysia) (re-rating)
  • B (Mexico) (original rating)
  • A (Mexico) (re-rating)
  • 12 (Netherlands)
  • M (New Zealand)
  • 15 (Norway) (DVD and Blu-ray rating)
  • 16 (Norway) (1979, cinema rating)
  • 12 (Norway) (recommended rating)
  • Apt (Peru)
  • PG-13 (Philippines)
  • 12 (Poland)
  • M/12 (Portugal)
  • 12+ (Russia)
  • PG (Saudi Arabia)
  • PG13 (Singapore)
  • A (South Africa)
  • 15 (South Korea)
  • A (Spain) (ICAA)
  • 15 (Sweden)
  • 12A (UK)
  • 12 (UK) (DVD rating)
  • PG-13 (USA)
  • 16 (West Germany)

Images[]

Cast and Crew[]

Director[]

  • Lewis Gilbert

Writing Credits[]

  • Christopher Wood (screenplay by)

Cast[]

  • Roger Moore - James Bond
  • Lois Chiles - Holly Goodhead
  • Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax
  • Richard Kiel - Jaws
  • Corinne Cléry - Corinne Dufour (as Corinne Clery)
  • Bernard Lee - M
  • Geoffrey Keen - Sir Frederick Gray
  • Desmond Llewelyn - Q
  • Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny
  • Toshirô Suga - Chang (as Toshiro Suga)
  • Emily Bolton - Manuela
  • Blanche Ravalec - Dolly - Jaws' Girlfriend
  • Irka Bochenko - Blonde Beauty
  • Mike Marshall - Col. Scott (as Michael Marshall)
  • Leila Shenna - Hostess Private Jet
  • Anne Lonnberg - Museum Guide
  • Jean-Pierre Castaldi - Pilot Private Jet (as Jean Pierre Castaldi)
  • Walter Gotell - General Gogol
  • Douglas Lambert - Mission Control Director
  • Arthur Howard - Cavendish
  • Alfie Bass - Consumptive Italian
  • Brian Keith - U.S. Shuttle Captain
  • George Birt - Captain Boeing 747
  • Kim Fortune - R.A.F. Officer
  • Lizzie Warville - Russian Girl
  • Johnny Traber's Troupe - Funambulists
  • Nicholas Arbez - Drax's Boy
  • Guy Di Rigo - Ambulanceman
  • Chris Dillinger - Drax's Technician
  • Claude Carliez - Gondolier
  • Georges Beller - Drax's Technician
  • Denis Seurat - Officer Boeing 747
  • Chichinou Kaeppler - Drax's Girl - Signora Del Mateo
  • Christina Hui - Drax's Girl
  • Françoise Gayat - Drax's Girl - Lady Victoria Devon (as Francoise Gayat)
  • Nicaise Jean-Louis - Drax's Girl (as Nicaise Jean Louis)
  • Catherine Serre - Drax's Girl - Countess Lubinski
  • Béatrice Libert - Drax's Girl - Mademoiselle Deradier (as Beatrice Libert)

Other Cast (in alphabetical order)[]

  • Ken Adam - Man at St. Marks Square (uncredited)
  • Jean-Louis Airola - Drax Radarman 2 (uncredited)
  • S. Newton Anderson - Samuel (uncredited)
  • Jenny Arasse - Bit Part (uncredited)
  • Michel Berreur - Venice Boat Pilot (uncredited)
  • Daniel Breton - Fighting Monk / Spatial Base Guard (uncredited)
  • Albert R. Broccoli - Man at St. Marks Square (uncredited)
  • Dana Broccoli - Woman at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)
  • George Lane Cooper - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Jack Cooper - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Guy Delorme - Tree Assassin (uncredited)
  • Eddie Eddon - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Benoît Ferreux - Moonraker Pilot (uncredited)
  • Patrick Floersheim - Moonraker Pilot (uncredited)
  • Dorothy Ford - Woman in Gondolia (uncredited)
  • Terry Forrestal - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Adele Fátima - Deleted scenes (uncredited)
  • David Gabison - Technician in Drax Launching Site (uncredited)
  • John Gant - Venice Coffin Assassin (uncredited)
  • Lewis Gilbert - Man at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)
  • Richard Graydon - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Rika Hofmann - Model (uncredited)
  • Peter Howitt - Rio de Janeiro Hotel Manager (uncredited)
  • Dominique Hulin - (uncredited)
  • W.C. 'Chunky' Huse - Sailor at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)
  • David Jalil - Drax's Boy (uncredited)
  • Gilles Kohler - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Carlos Kurt - Airport Metal Detector Guard (uncredited)
  • George Leech - Drax's Minion (uncredited)
  • Melinda Maxwell - Drax's Girl (uncredited)
  • Marc Mazza - Technician in Venini Laboratory (uncredited)
  • Alexandra Middendorf - Moonraker Launch Technician (uncredited)
  • Patrick Morin - Painter at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)
  • Ralph G. Morse - Astronaut (uncredited)
  • Daniel Perche - Drax Radarman 1 (uncredited)
  • Claude Pillas - Venice Speedboat Gunman (uncredited)
  • Jacques Pisias - Waiter at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)
  • Jean Rupert - Technician in Venini laboratory (uncredited)
  • Bob Sherman - Moonraker Mission Control (voice) (uncredited)
  • Bob Simmons - Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
  • Marc Smith - Tannoy (voice) (uncredited)
  • John Sullivan - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Victor Tourjansky - Man with Bottle (uncredited)
  • Jean Tournier - Painter at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)
  • Nikki Van der Zyl - Corinne Dufour (voice) (uncredited)
  • Herma Vos - Astronaut (uncredited)
  • Malcolm Weaver - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Paul Weston - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  • Michael G. Wilson - Man Outside Venini Glass / NASA Technician / Man on Bridge (uncredited)

Producers[]

  • Albert R. Broccoli (produced by)
  • Michael G. Wilson (executive producer)
  • William P. Cartlidge (associate producer)

Details[]

Countries[]

  • UK
  • USA

Language[]

  • English
  • Italian

Release Dates[]

  • June 27, 1979 (UK)
  • June 29, 1979 (USA)
  • July 6, 1979 (Ireland)
  • July 12, 1979 (Netherlands)
  • July 18, 1979 (South Africa)
  • July 26, 1979 (Australia)
  • August 1, 1979 (Colombia)
  • August 1, 1979 (Hong Kong)
  • August 9, 1979 (Argentina)
  • August 13, 1979 (Denmark)
  • August 17, 1979 (Finland)
  • August 17, 1979 (Norway)
  • August 18, 1979 (Sweden)
  • August 28, 1979 (Greece)
  • August 29, 1979 (Kenya)
  • August 31, 1979 (Austria)
  • August 31, 1979 (West Germany)
  • September 5, 1979 (Brazil)
  • September 6, 1979 (Portugal)
  • September 9, 1979 (Spain)
  • September 13, 1979 (Uruguay)
  • September 27, 1979 (Italy)
  • October 10, 1979 (France)
  • October 11, 1979 (Mexico)
  • October 18, 1979 (Belgium) (Gent)
  • December 8, 1979 (Japan)
  • December 11, 1979 (Philippines) (Davao)
  • January 7, 1981 (South Korea)
  • September 1982 (Turkey)
  • December 21, 1982 (Iceland)
  • May 16, 2000 (Canada) (DVD premiere)
  • May 22, 2007 (Singapore) (DVD premiere)

Also Known As[]

  • Moonraker (original title)
  • Moonraker: Misión espacial (Argentina)
  • 007: Moonraker (Australia) (alternative title)
  • Moonraker (Australia)
  • Ian Fleming's Moonraker (UK) (alternative title)
  • Moonraker (UK)
  • Ian Fleming's Moonraker (USA) (alternative title)
  • Moonraker (USA)

Production[]

The end credits for the previous Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, said, "James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only". However, following the box office success of the 1977 space-themed film Star Wars, the producers chose the novel Moonraker as the basis for the next film. For Your Eyes Only was postponed and ended up following Moonraker in 1981.

Filming[]

Production began on 14 August 1978. The main shooting was switched from the usual 007 Stage at the Pinewood Studios to France, because of the high taxation in Britain at the time. Only the cable car interiors and space battle exteriors were filmed at Pinewood. The massive sets designed by Ken Adam were the largest ever constructed in France and required more than 222,000 man-hours to construct (roughly 1,000 hours by each of the crew, on average).

Drax's mansion, set in California, was actually filmed at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, about 55 kilometres (34 mi) southeast of Paris, for the exteriors and Grand Salon. The remaining interiors, including some of the scenes with Corinne Defour and the drawing room, were filmed at the Château de Guermantes. Much of the film was shot in the cities of London, Paris, Venice, Palmdale, California, Port St. Lucie, Florida, and Rio de Janeiro. The production team had considered India and Nepal as locations, but after scouting trips these were rejected as impractical to work into the script, particularly considering the time constraints. They decided on Rio de Janeiro relatively early on, a city that producer Albert R. Broccoli had visited on holiday, and a team was sent there in early 1978 to capture initial footage from the Carnival, which featured in the film.

At the Rio de Janeiro location, many months later, Roger Moore arrived several days later than scheduled for shooting, owing to recurrent health problems and an attack of kidney stones that he had suffered while in France. Upon arrival, Moore was immediately whisked off the plane for hair and make-up work before reboarding the plane to film the sequence with him arriving as James Bond in the film. Sugarloaf Mountain was a prominent location in the film, and during filming of the midair cable car sequence in which Bond and Goodhead are attacked by Jaws, stuntman Richard Graydon slipped and narrowly avoided falling to his death. For the scene in which Jaws bites into the steel tramway cable with his teeth, the cable was actually made of liquorice, although Kiel was still required to use his steel dentures.

Iguazu Falls, in the south of Brazil, was used in the film, although as Q notes, the falls were supposedly somewhere in the upper basin of the Amazon River. The second unit had originally planned on sending an actual boat over the falls. However, on attempting to release it, the boat became firmly embedded on rocks near the edge. Despite a dangerous attempt by helicopter and rope ladder to retrieve it, the plan had to be abandoned, forcing the second unit to use a miniature at Pinewood instead. The exterior of Drax's pyramid headquarters in the Amazon rain forest near the falls was actually filmed at the Tikal Mayan ruins in Guatemala. The interior of the pyramid, however, was designed by Ken Adam at a French studio, in which he purposefully used a shiny coating to make the walls look plastic and false. All of the space centre scenes were shot at the Vehicle Assembly Building of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, although some of the earlier scenes of the Moonraker assembly plant had been filmed on location at the Rockwell International manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California.

The early scene in which Jaws pushes Bond out of the aircraft without a parachute took weeks of planning and preparation. The skydiving sequence was coordinated by Don Calvedt under the supervision of second unit director John Glen and was shot above Lake Berryessa in northern California. As Calvedt and skydiving champion B.J. Worth developed the equipment for the scene, which included a 1-inch-thick (25 mm) parachute pack that could be concealed beneath the suit to give the impression of the missing parachute, and equipment to prevent the freefalling cameraman from suffering whiplash while opening his parachute, they brought in stuntman Jake Lombard to test it all. Lombard eventually played Bond in the scene, with Worth as the pilot from whom Bond takes a parachute, and Ron Luginbill as Jaws. Both Lombard and Worth became regular members of the stunt team for aerial sequences in later Bond films. When the stuntmen opened their parachutes at the end of every shoot, custom-sewn velcro costume seams separated to allow the hidden parachutes to open. The skydiver cinematographer used a lightweight Panavision experimental plastic anamorphic lens, bought from an old pawn shop in Paris, which he had adapted, and attached to his helmet to shoot the entire sequence. The scene took a total of 88 skydives by the stuntmen to be completed. The only scenes shot in studio were close-ups of Roger Moore and Richard Kiel.

Since NASA's Space Shuttle program had not been launched, Derek Meddings and his miniatures team had to create the rocket launch footage without any reference. Shuttle models attached to bottle rockets and signal flares were used for take-off, and the smoke trail was created with salt that fell from the models. The space scenes were done by rewinding the camera after an element was shot, enabling other elements to be superimposed in the film stock, with the space battle needing up to forty rewinds to incorporate everything. The climactic scenes of the space station disintegrating were created by Meddings and other members of the special effects team shooting the miniature model with shotguns.

As James Bond is arriving at the scene of the pheasant shoot, a trumpet is sounded playing the first three brass notes from Also sprach Zarathustra, referencing the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

Release and reception[]

Moonraker premiered on 26 June 1979, in the Odeon Leicester Square, United Kingdom. Three days after the UK release, it went on general release in the US, opening in 788 theatres with 900 prints struck; it was United Artists' widest opening at the time. It grossed $14,744,718 in its first week from 900 bookings. On the mainland of Europe, the most common month of release was in August 1979, opening in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Sweden between 13 and 18 August. Given that the film was produced largely in France, and it involved some notable French actors, the French premiere for the film was relatively late, released in that country on 10 October 1979. It saw a record attendance of 413,314 in its first week in France. Moonraker grossed a worldwide total of $210,300,000, making it United Artists' highest-grossing film at the time, surpassing The Spy Who Loved Me.

Moonraker received a mixed reception by critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 59% approval rating based on 54 reviews, with an average rating of 5.50/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Featuring one of the series' more ludicrous plots but outfitted with primo gadgets and spectacular sets, Moonraker is both silly and entertaining." On Metacritic the film has a score of 66% based on reviews from 13 critics.

The New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called Moonraker "one of the most buoyant Bond films of all. Almost everyone connected with the movie is in top form, even Mr. Moore. Here he's as ageless, resourceful, and graceful as the character he inhabits." Canby subsequently said the film was, alongside Goldfinger, the best of the series.

The Globe and Mail critic Jay Scott said Moonraker was second only to Goldfinger. "In the first few minutes – before the credits – it offers more thrills than most escapist movies provide in two hours." During the title sequence, "the excitement has gone all the way up to giddy and never comes down." Scott admired the film's theme song and cited with approval the film's location work. He also singled out Ken Adam's sets, dubbing them "high-tech Piranesi."

Frank Rich of Time felt "The result is a film that is irresistibly entertaining as only truly mindless spectacle can be. Those who have held out on Bond movies over 17 years may not be convinced by Moonraker, but everyone else will be."

Reviewers such as James Berardinelli praised the visual effects and stunts, and film scholar James Monaco designated the film a "minor masterpiece" and declared it the best Bond film of them all.

Most critics consider Moonraker one of the lesser films in the series, largely because of the extent and absurdity of the plot which takes James Bond into space, some of the ploys used in the film for comedic effect, and its extended dialogue. In November 2006, Entertainment Weekly ranked Moonraker fourteenth among the Bond films, describing it as "by far the campiest of all 007 movies" with "one of the worst theme songs". IGN listed it eleventh, calling it outlandish and saying that despite the actors "trying what they can to ground the film in reality, the laser gun/space station finale pretty much undercuts their efforts". Norman Wilner of MSN chose it as the fourth worst film of the series, considering that the film "just flat-out sucks".

Critic Nicholas Sylvain said "Moonraker seems to have more than its share of little flaws and annoyances which begin right from the opening pre-credit sequence. The sheer idiocy (and impossibility) of having a fully fueled shuttle on the back of the Boeing during the trans-Atlantic crossing should be evident, and later in the film, the whole Jaws-falls-in-love and becomes a 'good guy' routine leaves me rather cold, and provides far too much cheesy comedy moments, as does the gondola driving through the square scene."

The exaggerated nature of the plot and space station sequence has seen the film parodied on numerous occasions. Of note is the Austin Powers spoof film The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) which while a parody of other James Bond films, makes reference to Moonraker by Dr. Evil's lair in space. The scene in which Drax is shot by the cyanide dart and ousted into space is parodied by Powers' ejection of Dr. Evil's clone Mini-Me into outer space in the same way.

Sean Connery, who had played James Bond in six of the first seven films in the series, stated in an interview that: "I went in London to see Moonraker with Roger and I think it's departed so much from any sort of credence from the reality that we had [in my six films]." He also criticized the film for: "such a dependence on the effects and there's no substance."

However, the opening skydiving sequence, in which Bond is pushed out of an aeroplane by Jaws, and must obtain a parachute from the pilot skydiving below him, has come to be considered one of the series best pre-title sequences. It is frequently lauded by critics and fans as one of the most spectacular action sequences in the Bond series.

Company Credits[]

Production Companies[]

  • Les Productions Artistes Associés (A Franco-British Co-Production) (as Les Productions Artistes Associes {Paris})
  • Eon Productions (A Franco-British Co-Production) (as Eon Productions Ltd. {London})

Distributors[]

Special Effects[]

  • Les Films Michel François (optical effects: France) (as Michel Francois Films)

Technical Specs[]

Runtime[]

  • 126 mins

Color[]

  • Color

Sound Mix[]

  • Dolby Stereo (35 mm prints, original release)
  • 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Aspect Ratio[]

  • 2.20:1 (70mm prints)
  • 2.39:1
  • 4:3 (Pan & scan prints, along with the opening and closing credits in proper scope aspect ratio with black bars)

Trivia[]

  • The Jaws character (played by Richard Kiel) makes a return, although in Moonraker the role is played more for laughs than as the killing machine that he was in The Spy Who Loved Me. (See Jaws for more information on the character changes.)
  • Executive Producer Michael G. Wilson continues a tradition in the Bond films he started in the film Goldfinger where he has a small cameo role. He appears twice in Moonraker, firstly as a tourist outside the Venini Glass shop in Venice, then at the end of the film as a technician in the NASA control room.
  • Bernard Lee makes his final appearance as 'M'. The actor was in ill health at the time of filming. Although he was scheduled to appear in the next Bond film, he died during pre-production.
  • Tom Mankiewicz had written a screenplay of Moonraker that was eventually discarded. Some scenes from his script were later used in subsequent films, including the Acrostar Jet sequence used in the teaser for Octopussy, and the Eiffel Tower scene in A View to a Kill. Also, Nepal and India were considered for filming locations - the latter of which was used in Octopussy.
  • Lois Chiles had been first approached by the producers for the role of Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me but had turned down the role as she had planned to leave the acting profession at that time. She later shared an airline seat with director Lewis Gilbert during her brief retirement where she ended up in the film.
  • As the first truly science fictional Bond film, Moonraker pays homage to two SF classics. When Bond arrives at Drax's pheasant shoot, a man plays the first three notes of "Also sprach Zarathustra", the famous theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, on a bugle. Later, when Bond observes a Drax scientist entering an access code into a keypad, the tones heard coming from the keypad form the famous five-note "alien message" theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In another film reference, the song "Nobody Does it Better" - the theme from the previous Bond film - The Spy Who Loved Me, is also reprised on the soundtrack when Bond arrives at Drax's mansion in California.
  • Moonraker was at one point considered to be the Bond film to follow On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  • In 1955 the film rights to Moonraker were initially sold to the Rank Organization for £10,000. Fleming eventually bought back the rights in 1959. The Rank Organization never did anything with it.
  • In 2004, reports surfaced of a rumoured, lost 1956 version of Moonraker by Orson Welles. Supposedly, this lost film recently was discovered as 40 minutes of raw footage with Dirk Bogarde as Bond, Welles as Drax, and Peter Lorre as Drax's henchman. However, the film soon was revealed as an April Fool's Day joke. See here for more information.
  • In the end credits of the previous Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me it says "James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only, however after the tremendous box office success of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in 1977, the producers decided they wanted to cash in on the subsequent science fiction craze and make Moonraker instead, thus For Your Eyes Only was held back to become the next Bond film after Moonraker.
  • James Bond can only be seen holding his Walther PPK in the box art for publicity material for the film. Interestly he does not carry one in the film.
  • Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey.
  • Cubby Broccoli vacationed in Brazil where he visited Iguacu Falls - the location used in the film for the boat chase (the actual boat chase was filmed outside Jupiter, Florida doubling for the Amazon).
  • Drax's vehicle fleet seen at his French chateau (the real life Vaux-Le-Vicomte) consisted of American Motors and Jeep vehicles (from an AMC Concord, Jeep CJ-7, Jeep J10 light truck, and a Jeep Cherokee) - at the time of the film's release, American Motors and Jeep products were distributed in Europe by Renault since March 1978 (the French automaker previously collaborated with AMC during the mid-1960s when Renault assembled Ramblers in Europe and its Argentine subsidiary produced a version of the Rambler American as the IKA (later Renault) Torino. Renault would become the owner of AMC in the early 1980s until 1987 when financial affairs in France would lead to a divestment when its shares of AMC were sold to the Chrysler Corporation - Jeep (which became part of AMC back in 1970 after its previous owners Willys-Overland and Kaiser owned the brand) became a Chrysler division with Chrysler, Dodge, and Ram. AMC previously had a product placement in The Man With The Golden Gun.

Connections[]

Follows[]

Followed by[]

References[]

  • From Russia with Love (1963) - Music playing during the boat chase is from "From Russia with Love"
  • Murderers' Row (1966)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - The music for when the alien spaceship is landing is used as the music for the code to open a door

Referenced in[]

  • For Your Eyes Only (1981)
  • Point Break (1991)
  • I Spy (2002) - Kelly says "That's like swimming with Jaws". Given the Bond-spoof nature of the film, this could be a double reference to both Steven Spielberg's shark and 007's steel-dentured foe.
  • Die Another Day (2002) - Colonel Moon's hovercraft falls down by a large waterfall in a manner similar to Jaws' boat going over the Iguaçu Falls. Bond surfaces in a bubbling pool of water surrounded by much interior vegetation, similar to the scene with the giant python in Drax's headquarters. Both movies have characters named Chang. Bond's sword fight with Graves is much like the fight with Chang in the glass factory. Bond and a villain fight over a parachute.
  • Stormbreaker (2006) - A millionaire is working for the British government, purportedly to aid their country, but is secretly planning to bomb it and kill millions.
  • Marks and Spencer James Bond 'Die Another Day' Television Commercial (2006) (Video) - This James Bond theme television commercial feature's Pink's "Let's Get This Party Started" sung by Dame Shirley Bassey who previously sung the title song for this James Bond movie.
  • Cars 2 (2011) - Holly Shiftwell like Bond Girl Holly Goodhead
  • Skyfall (2012) - Bond falls down a huge waterfall, like Jaws to his presumed death.
  • Spectre (2015) - Mute or near mute henchman who is huge, intimidating and very strong, using metal protheses to kill and survives several fights with Bond; Nehru collarless jacket of main villain; Control room in SPECTRE lair HQ is shaped like Drax's; Love scene in Italian villa with baroque architecture; Cable car sequence
  • No Time to Die (2021) - Biological warfare weapon mass destruction genocide scheme of arch-villain.

Featured in[]

  • Moonraker: Circus Footage (2006) (Video) - Footage.

Spoofed in[]

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