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Moonraker is the soundtrack for the eleventh James Bond film of the same name. [2] Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey. Frank Sinatra was considered for the vocals, before Johnny Mathis was approached and offered the opportunity. Mathis was unhappy about the song and withdrew ...
After the war, Drax made a fortune from trading metals in Tangier and was able to start up his company, Drax Metals Ltd, which specialises and has a monopoly in the production of the metal ore columbite. Drax is also the backer of the 'Moonraker' missile project being built to defend the United Kingdom against its Cold War enemies. Alloys made ...
Drax takes Brand to London, where she discovers the truth about the Moonraker by comparing her own launch trajectory figures with those in a notebook picked from Drax's pocket. She is captured by Krebs, and finds herself captive in a secret radio homing station—intended to serve as a beacon for the missile's guidance system—in the heart of ...
Moonraker (1979) Airplane and circus Unnamed African country MI6 headquarters in central London United Kingdom: California "Drax's villa" United States: Venice Italy: Rio de Janeiro Brazil: Amazon: Tikal, Guatemala [5] The Kremlin, Moscow Soviet Union (now Russia) Drax's space station Outer space: For Your Eyes Only (1981) Stoke Poges ...
French actor Michael Lonsdale, who was known internationally for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film "Moonraker" and detective Claude Lebel in "The Day of the Jackal ...
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.
Deal is the setting for Ian Fleming's 1955 James Bond book Moonraker. Villain Hugo Drax has built his Moonraker rocket just outside Deal, where Bond has to go and investigate. Characters in the Aubrey–Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian frequently stay in Deal waiting for their ship to be ordered to sea.
Bond escapes from the ambulance speeding towards Drax's base, but leaves Goodhead behind. Bond meets Goodhead again once Drax puts them under the engines of Moonraker 5, to be incinerated by the lift-off. They escape and are able to pilot Moonraker 6. After following Drax to his space station, Goodhead and Bond listen to Drax's speech and leave ...