Moonraker

1979/Action, Rated-PG, 2Discs/3:55:07
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Crew: Directors and cast members (includes IMDB links)
Details: (Netflix summary)
Content:
Disc 1 Theatrical Version 2:06:20
- Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore
- Commentary Featuring Director Lewis Gilbert & Members of the Cast & Crew
Disc 2 - Extras ~1:48:47
- 007 in Rio Original 1979 Production Featurette 12:45
- Bond '79 12:17
- Ken Adam's Production Films 12:03
- Learning to Freefall Skydiving Test Footage 3:55
- Skydiving Storyboards 1:21
- Circus Footage 1:18
- Cable Car Alternative Storyboards 1:23
- Inside Moonraker 41:59
- The Men Behind the Mayhem Special Effects Documentary 18:59
- Theatrical Archive: Release Trailer 3:47
- 97 Image Database (Slideshow) Includes: 1. The Filmmakers (9), 2. Portraits (13), 3. Pinewood (5), 4. The Great Chamber (7), 5. The Control Room (4), 6. Chateau Vaux-Le-Vicomte (7), 7. Monastery of San Nicolo (9), 8. Venice (2), 9. Rio (1), 10. Meanwhile, Back in France (18), 11. Front Projection (3), 12. Zero G (2), 13. Michael Wilson's Cameo (1), 14. Around the World with 007 (16)
Eggs: (Eeggs, Eggs, DVD Town)
Musical Highlights: Shirley Bassey-Moonraker
Factoids: (IMDB, Mistakes, BondMovies, Wiki) Mi6
1. At the conclusion of the fox hunt, the bugler blows the first three notes to "Also Sprach Zarathustra," from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
2. In his original 1955 novel, Ian Fleming describes Drax as "a Lonsdale figure". Twenty-four years later, Drax was portrayed in this film by Michael Lonsdale.
3. Continuing an in-joke used in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker marks the second appearance of Victor Tourjansky as the "man with bottle". He would return a third and final time in the next Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), as the "man with wine glass."
4. Roger Moore arrived a few days late for the shoot Rio due to a kidney stones attack in France.
5. The only Roger Moore Bond film where he does not draw his Walther PPK.
6. The scene where Bond is riding to M's temporary headquarters in a South American hacienda is accompanied by Elmer Bernstein's theme from The Magnificent Seven (1960).
7. According to writer Tom Mankiewicz there was a scene featuring Drax meeting his co-financiers in the Amazon lair; they use the room located just below the space shuttle launch pad that Bond and Holly later escape from. This scene was shot but later cut out.
8. Bond does not drive a car in this movie.
9. The painting that James Bond shoots with the wrist activated dart is that of King William III of England.
10. Since new Tax Laws were announced in Great Britain, the Producers decided not to use the 007-Stage which they just had erected for the previous Bond Movie. Instead the interiors by Ken Adam were mostly filmed at 3 sound-stages in France. The condition from the filmmakers to the French Film Industry was, that they could overtake literally all Soundstages in Paris. (This didn't make them all too popular with other Filmmakers)
11. An internet hoax started rumors about a lost 1956 version of Moonraker by Orson Welles, and a James Bond website website repeated it as an April Fools Day 2004 as a hoax. Supposedly, this lost film recently was discovered as 40 minutes of raw footage with Dirk Bogarde as Bond, Welles as Drax, and Peter Lorre as Drax's henchman.
12. Hugo Drax was modeled after Adolf Hitler, and one of Drax's agendas was a master race that will repopulate Earth after nerve-gassing the entire planet.
13. Error in geography, a Mayan pyramid appears in the Brazilian jungle.
Comments: B. The Ultimate Collectors Edition adds 45:02 new material to approximately 1:03:45 of older material.