James Bond 007, Moonraker. Declassification of the 11th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked off the back of the jet transporting it. Pushed out of personal jet with no parachute by Jaws, steals parachute off of pilot's back, puts it on, and avoids being bit in the leg by Jaws by pulling his own chute while Jaws' chute fails

Title Song/Credits

• "Moonraker" by Shirley Bassey
• naked silhouetted women flying and tumbling through air and space

Villains

• Hugo Drax, space shuttle builder who hijacks his own shuttles back from the U.S. government and is set on eradicating mankind on Earth with globes from space carrying deadly toxic nerve gas (Michael Lonsdale)
• Chang, Drax's martial artist bodyguard (Toshiro Suga)
• Jaws, bodyguard with metal teeth (Richard Kiel)

Girls

• Dr. Holly Goodhead, Drax's doctor and undercover CIA agent (Lois Chiles)
• Corinne Dufour, Drax's helicopter pilot (Corinne Clery)
• Manuela, Bond's assistant in Rio (Emily Bolton)
• private jet hostess (Leila Shenna)

Gadgets

• space station with radar jamming system, gravity simulator, life support system and laser gun
• fleet of space shuttles, one with laser gun
• space jet packs
• hand-held laser guns
• speedboat with mine ejector, torpedo launcher and roof that converts to hang glider
• motorized gondola that turns into a hovercraft
• deadly toxic nerve gas derived from rare Brazilian orchids
• nerve impulse activated wrist gun that shoots armor-piercing and cyanide-poisoned darts
• rock that ejects whomever is standing on it into snake pool
• conference table and chairs that collapse and fold into floor
• plastic explosive wrist watch
• cigarette case safe cracker
• miniature camera
• syringe pen
• dart-gun daily diary
• flame-throwing perfume sprayer
• radio purse
• safe hidden beneath rising pedestal clock
• video screens hidden behind sliding mirror and painting

Chases

• speedboat chased by bomb-lobbing speedboats on the rivers of Brazil, with one boat taken out with mines, one with a torpedo and ending with Bond hang gliding away as Jaws' boat goes over Iguazú Falls
• motorized gondola chased by motorboat through the canals of Venice, ending with gondola turning into hovercraft and escaping through the streets of Venice

Binds

• pushed out of personal jet with no parachute by Jaws, steals parachute off of pilot's back, puts it on, and avoids being bit in the leg by Jaws by pulling his own chute while Jaws' chute fails
• trapped in a centrifuge sabotaged by Chang and running into fatal levels above 10 Gs, uses his wrist gun to shoot instruments and stop the centrifuge
• attacked by Chang in glass museum, defends himself with glass-handled sword and throws Chang through stained-glass clock into a piano below
• in fist fight with Jaws atop cable car, pushes Jaws down into car and escapes by hanging a chain over the cable and sliding down the cable holding onto the chain
• tied to a stretcher in an ambulance en route to Drax, slides ropes off bars of stretcher and sends the guard out the back doors on a stretcher down the street and into a billboard
• chased by speedboats to the edge of Iguazú Falls, coverts boat roof to hang glider and hang glides to safety
• being constricted by huge snake in pool, uses syringe pen to kill snake
• trapped in chamber beneath where shuttle is to launch, uses plastic explosive wrist watch on air vent and escapes through air duct
• with Drax launching nerve gas globes at Earth from space station, disables radar jamming system which begins a laser gun battle as U.S. space shuttle arrives to investigate
• at laser gunpoint by Drax, uses wrist gun to shoot Drax in the chest, then discharges him into space through an airlock chamber
• with docking release system jammed and space station under destruction, gets Jaws (who had turned against Drax when he realized he would not be part of Drax's superhuman race) to manually disengage their shuttle
• with three nerve gas globes headed toward Earth, uses space shuttle laser gun to destroy them

One-liners

• "I fell out of an airplane without a parachute," when Miss Moneypenny asks him why he is so late
• "Very novel, Q - you must get them in the stores for Christmas," after issued deadly wrist gun
• "I like it already," to Corinne's "Welcome to California, Mr. Bond"
• "He seems to have an eye for a good investment," after Corinne points out Drax's astronaut trainees who are female
• "The trouble is there's never a 70-year old around when you need them," after Holly reassures him that a 70-year old can take 3 Gs, the pressure of a space shuttle liftoff
• "Did I? As you said, 'Such good sport,'" to Drax's "You missed, Mr. Bond," after missing pheasant but hitting sniper hiding in tree instead
• "Well, I like to keep abreast of things," when Holly asks him how he knew where she was staying in Venice
• "Play it again, Sam," after throwing Chang through stained-glass clock into piano below
• "How do you kill five hours in Rio if you don't samba?" as he unties Manuela's robe
• "It's become distinctly chilly since Venice," when seeing Holly again in Rio after they had a one-night stand in Venice
• "The thought had occurred to me," to Holly's "Hang on, James," as he is hanging over the side of a cable car
• "Only my tailor's heart," to Holly's "Have you broken anything?" after they dropped off of cable onto ground below
• "Remind me to do it more often," after Holly thanks him for saving her life by kissing him
• "I discovered he had a crush on me," when asked by Drax why he killed his snake
• "Hmm, bang on time," looking at watch after using it to detonate explosives on an air vent
• "He had to fly," when Holly asks where Drax is after Bond discharged him into space
• "I think it may be time to go home," to Holly as they make out in the shuttle in zero gravity

Locations

• Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
• Iguazú Falls, Brazil
• Guatemala
• Venice, Italy
• France
• California, United States

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