Movie Information
(Moonraker)

Year of Production: 1979
Date of Release: 26 June 1979 (UK), 29 June 1979 (US)
Running Times: 122 mins
Format: Technicolor Panavision [anamorphic] 35mm 70mm [blow-up]
Classification: PG (UK), R (US)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: 5.1 Dolby

Cast

Roger Moore [James Bond]
Lois Chiles [Dr Holly Goodhead]
Michael (rn: Michel) Lonsdale [Hugo Drax]
Richard Kiel [Jaws]
Corinne Clery [Corinne]
Emily Bolton [Manuela]
Toshiro Suga [Chang]
Irka Bochenko [blonde beauty]
Geoffrey Keen [Frederick Gray]
Lois Maxwell [Miss Moneypenny]
Nicholas Arbez [Drax's boy]
Bernard Lee [M]
Desmond Llewelyn [Q]
Anne Lonnberg [museum guide]
Jean-Pierre Castaldi [pilot, private jet]
Blanche Ravalec [Dolly]
Michael Marshall [Colonel Scott]
Leila Shenna [hostess, private jet]
Walter Gotell [General Gogol]
Douglas Lambert [mission control director]
Arthur Howard [Cavendish]
Alfie Bass [consumptive Italian]
Brian Keith [US shuttle captain]
George Birt [captain, Boeing 747]
Kim Fortune [RAF officer]
Lizzie Warville [Russian girl]
Johnny Traber's Troupe [Funambulists]
Guy Di Rigo [ambulanceman]
Chris Dillinger, Georges Beller [Drax's technicians]
Claude Carliez [gondolier]
Denis Seurat [officer, Boeing 747]
Chichinou Kaeppler, Christina Hui, Francoise Gayat, Nicaise Jean-Louis, Catherine Serre,
Beatrice Libert [Drax's girls]
Albert R. Broccoli, Lewis Gilbert, Michael G. Wilson [men in St Marks Square - uncredited]
Dana Broccoli [woman in St Mark's Square - uncredited]
Marc Mazza [lab technician - uncredited]
Victor Tourjansky [man with bottle - uncredited]
Michael G. Wilson [NASA technician / Captain Scott's co-pilot - uncredited]

Production

Production Company: Eon Productions / Danjaq / Les Productions Artistes Associés
Executive Producer: Michael G. Wilson
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli
Associate Producer: William P. Cartlidge
Production Controller: Reginald A. Barkshire
Production Manager [France]: Jean-Pierre Spiri-Mercanton
Production Manager [UK]: Terence Churcher
Unit Manager [France]: Robert Saussier
Assistant Unit Manager [France]: Robert Boulic
Unit Manager [UK]: Chris Kenny
Production Co-Ordinator: Reginald A. Barkshire

Script: Christopher Wood
Novel: Ian Fleming
Script Editor: Vernon Harris

Director: Lewis Gilbert
2nd Unit Director: John Glen, Ernest Day
Assistant Director: Michel Cheyko, Chris Carreras
2nd Unit Assistant Director: Peter Bennett, Meyer Berreby
Assistant Director [Models]: Gareth Tandy

Director of Photography: Jean Tournier
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Jacques Renoir
Camera Operators: Alec Mills. Michel Deloire, John Morgan, Guy DeLattre, James Devis
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Jacques Renoir
Assistant Cam [Effects Unit]: Mike Bulley
Aerial Photography: Rande DeLuca [uncredited]
Key Grip: René Strasser
Camera Grip: Chunky Huse
Gaffer: Jacques Touilland
Stills: Patrick Morin

Editor: John Glen
Assembly Editor: John Grover, Alan Strachan [uncredited]
Assistant Editors: Luce Gruenwaldt, Peter Davies, Michael Round

Music: John Barry
Additional Music: Elmer Bernstein [from The Magnificent Seven [1960] - uncredited]; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [Overture-Fantasy from Romeo and Juliet - uncredited]; John Williams [from Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1978] - uncredited]; Frédéric Chopin [Raindrop Prelude [opus 28, number 15 in D flat Major] - uncredited]
Lyrics: Hal David (Moonraker)
Song Performed By: Shirley Bassey [Moonraker]
Scoring Mixer: Dan Wallin [uncredited]

Sound Recording: Daniel Brisseau
Sound Re-Recording: Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicholas Le Messurier
Sound Editor: Allan Sones, Colin Miller, Dino Di Campo
Sound Effects: Jean-Pierre Lelong
Dolby Consultant: John Iles

Make Up: Monique Archambault, Paul Engelen
Costume Designer: Jacques Fonteray
Wardrobe Master: Jean Zay
Wardrobe Mistress: Colette Baudot

Visual Effects Supervisor: Derek Meddings
Visual Effects [France]: Jean Berard
Visual Effects Photography: Paul Wilson
Special Effects: John Evans, John Richardson, Rene Albouze, Serge Ponvianne
Optical Effects Photography: Robin Browne
Optical Effects [France]: Michel Francois Films
Process Effects [France]: Louis Lapeyre
Process Consultant: Bill Hansard

Production Designer: Ken Adam; Anton Furst [uncredited]
Art Director: Max Douy, Charles Bishop
Art Director [Visual Effects]: Peter Lamont
Art Director [Space]: Harry Lange
Title Designer: Maurice Binder
Set Decorators: Peter Howitt, Pierre Charron, Andre Labussiere
Buyers: Alain Guyard, Jean-Pierre Nossereau, John Lanzer

Continuity: Elaine Schreyeck, Gladys Goldsmith, Jose Fulforo
Aviation Consultant: J.W. 'Corkey' Fornof [uncredited]
Space Consultant: Eric Burgess
Production Accountant: Brian Bailey
Production Accountant [France]: Paul Beugin
Production Assistant: Marguerite Green
Production Secretary: Simone Escoffier
Secretary To Producer: Dominique Bach
Unit Publicists: Gilles Durieux, Steve Swan

Location Manager [Brazil]: Frank Ernst
Assistant Location Manager [Brazil]: Andy Armstrong
Location Manager [Italy]: Philippe Modave
Location Manager [Florida, USA]: John Comfort

Action Sequence Arranger: Bob Simmons
Stunt Arranger [France]: Claude Carliez
Stunts: Claude Carliez, Martin Grace, Richard Graydon, Dorothy Ford, Michael Berreur, Daniel Breton, Guy Di Rigo, Paul Weston

Locations

Guatemala; Iguaçu Falls, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil; Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA; London, England, UK; Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, USA; Palmdale, California, USA; Paris, France; Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil; St Lucie County, Florida, USA; Vaux-Le-Viconte, France; Venice, Veneto, Italy

Alternative Titles

Moonraker: Top Secret - Germany, Moonraker: Operation Space - Italy, Moonrocket - Finland.