In “Moonraker,” Drax’s base is the most extravagant yet, giving Ken Adams the chance to build the interior of an enormous space station to host the film’s intergalactic finale — a ...

The third Bond book ever published, Moonraker starts with Bond and M trying to figure out why Hugo Drax, a self-made millionaire, is bothering to cheat at cards.After a tense game of bridge ...

) From space, the Moonraker shuttles will unleash a disease that will wipe out most people on Earth, after which point the planet will be repopulated by a hand-selected group of Drax’s “ideal ...

Whilst Double-0 Seven had flirted with outer space before, Sir Roger Moore’s James Bond proved that the sky was not the limit in Moonraker (1979)! When an American aircraft transporting a ...

My Review for Moonraker. Bond and Beyond. Review Opinion. By cdristic - Apr 06, 2012 12:04 PM EST. Filed Under: Other. Source: ...

Drax doesn’t hide his disdain for Bond and pretty much admits to everything right away. Still, ... the last 30 minutes of Moonraker are a straight-up space opera.

Elsewhere Corinne’s pursuit by Drax’s hounds is the grimmest, ... THE FINAL FRONTIER Key to the sci-fi-spiced iconography of Moonraker is the space shuttle.

Well, we’ve come a long, long way since From Russia With Love. Moonraker: a film that redefined the possibilities of the James Bond franchise if only by sheer scale of stupidity. The space bits ...

It concludes with a deep-space shoot-out between the forces of fascist billionaire Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) and a platoon of interstellar US marines (with the assistance of 007).

Michael Lonsdale, who starred as the mad villain Hugo Drax in the Bond film 'Moonraker' and the dogged detective in the Fred Zinnemann-directed crime thriller 'The Day of the Jackal,' has died.