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2 unusual facts about Moonraker


Moonraker

Moonrakers, a colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, England

James Bond and Moonraker, a 1979 novelization of the film by Christopher Wood


Alfie Bass

He has had many cameo roles, such as the Indian restaurant doorman in The Beatles' movie Help! (1965), as Clouseau's seafaring informant in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), and in Moonraker (1979).

Anne Lonnberg

Lonnberg is best remembered for playing the museum guide and one of Drax's girls in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979).

Back to the Heavyweight Jam

"Keyser Soze" samples the alien-contacting theme from the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also known as the noise programmed to unlock a door in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.

Goodwin Sands

Ian Fleming refers to the Goodwin Sands in Moonraker, one of the James Bond novels, as well as making them a major plot point in his children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Le Boulet

The Turk's bodyguard (played by Gary Tiplady) is a reference to the notorious hitman known as "Jaws" played by Richard Kiel in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

Love 4 Unity

Both "Moonraker" and "Baby Come Back" were released as singles in Germany.

Toshiro Suga

He had a brief career in cinema, thanks in part to his student Michael G. Wilson, where his best known part was as Chang in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.


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