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MoonrakerMoonraker is both a James Bond book by Ian Fleming first published in 1955, and a 1979 movie adapted from the book. The title comes from "moonraker," a synonym for moonsail, the highest sail carried by sailing ships. Plot Warning: Plot details follow. In the book Bond is asked privately to come and observe Hugo Drax, who is winning money playing bridge at M's club, and who M suspects is cheating. Bond confirms him as a cheater, and manages to 'cheat the cheater', winning a large amount of money and infuriating Drax. Drax is also the backer of the (fictional) 'Moonraker' missile being built to defend the UK. Partly because of the cheating episode, M then asks Bond to inflitrate Drax' missile-building organisation on the coast of England. Bond uncovers a dreadful and fiendish plot which he foils with the assistance of a junior female (and, of course, attractive) fellow MI6 agent. In the 1979 movie, Drax' lair is relocated to outer space, although the plot remains equally fiendish. In the movie, Drax has converted a toxin found in a species of orchid found in the Amazon River basin, which in its natural state causes sterility, into a lethal nerve agent. He plans to destroy all human life (the toxin affects only humans) by launching a series of 50 globes containing the toxin from a space station; the toxin would be dispersed when each globe broke up during reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Before launching the globes, Drax transported several hundred carefully selected young men and women to the space station. They would live there until Earth was safe again for human life; these people would be the seed for a Hitleresque master race. Bond reaches the villain's orbital lair by means of the space shuttle (which was soon to be launched for real when the movie was released). Widely considered to be one of the most juvenile Bond movies, it is, unexpectedly, the first where Bond's female companion is on a more or less equal footing with him. The "Bond girl", Dr. Holly Goodhead (played by Lois Chiles), is a CIA agent who competently wards off bad guys and pilots the space shuttle. Miscellaneous info The Jaws character (played by Richard Kiel) makes a return, although in Moonraker the role is played for laughs, unlike the killing machine that he was in The Spy Who Loved Me. In Moonraker, his pre-credits attempt to kill Bond in a daring free-fall stunt ends in disaster when his parachute fails and he conveniently plunges into a circus tent, to emerge again, as usual, completley unscathed. Moonraker was the third of the three Bond movies for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey. External links James Bond movies Dr. No | From Russia with Love | Goldfinger | Thunderball | You Only Live Twice | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Diamonds are Forever | Live and Let Die | The Man with the Golden Gun | The Spy Who Loved Me | Moonraker | For Your Eyes Only | Octopussy | A View to a Kill | The Living Daylights | Licence to Kill | GoldenEye | Tomorrow Never Dies | The World Is Not Enough | Die Another Day Casino Royale | La Resurrection du Dragon | The Green Jade Mahjongg | Never Say Never Again | The Property of a LadyThe above article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Moonraker by Ian Fleming Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent Moonraker (The James Bond Classic Library) by Ian Fleming Moonraker by Ian Fleming Moonraker by Ian Fleming Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent James Bond and Moonraker by Christopher Wood MOONRAKER'S BRIDE by Madeleine Brent Moonraker by Ian Fleming James Bond. Moonraker. by Ian Fleming Moonraker (James Bond 007) by Ian Fleming Moonraker by Ian Fleming Moonraker (James Bond 007) by Ian Fleming Moonraker by Ian Fleming Music Directory: Classical Music, Country Music, Jazz , Popular Music ( F-TO-L, M-TO-S, T-TO-Z ), Rock & Roll Bibliographic Resources Updates and comments at Essential Facts blog Are you interested in Feng Shui? World Class Photographers Top PDF and eBook Downloads |
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