Moonraker (1979)

MI6
M
M
Played by Bernard Lee
M receives an urgent call from the Prime Minister saying that a Drax Industries Space Shuttle disappeared and that he wants 007 to investigate. As in the previous movie, M quickly asks Moneypenny if Bond has returned from his mission in Africa.

 

Moneypenny
Moneypenny
Played by Lois Maxwell
Moneypenny appears at the beginning of Moonraker, answering M’s inquiry about 007’s current status – his “last leg” on his African mission. She also laughs at Bond’s gaucho outfit later in the movie.

 

Frederick Gray
Frederick Gray
Played by Geoffrey Keen
The Minister of Defense assists M in briefing Bond on the status and background of the lost Moonraker space shuttle.

 

Q
Q
Played by Desmond Llewelyn
Q delivers several useful gadgets to 007 in Moonraker and also explains the nerve gas Drax is planning to use to exterminate all humans, but not animals, on Earth.

 

Girls
Holly Goodhead
Holly Goodhead
Played by Lois Chiles
Goodhead is one of the most intelligent Bond girls, as she is a NASA trained astrophysicist working for the CIA. In Moonraker she teams up with Bond to save the world from Hugo Drax’s madness and pilots the shuttle to the villain’s hidden space station.

 

Corinne Dufour
Corinne Dufour
Played by Corinne Clery
Another helicopter pilot, Corinne is Hugo Drax’s assistant in Moonraker. She helps Bond find a secret safe in Drax’s compound. Mr. Drax, however, does not appreciate her sweet nature and has her hunted down with a pack of vicious dogs.

 

Henchmen
Chang
Chang
Played by Toshiro Suga
In Moonraker, Chang puts Bond in a memorable predicament when he accelerates the speed at which Bond circles in the velocity machine.

 

Villains
Hugo Drax
Hugo Drax
Played by Michael Lonsdale
Another megalomaniac, Drax saw his future in outer space. This psychotic millionaire wanted to annihilate the inhabitants of Earth by nerve gas in favour of his own “super-race”. Of course, Bond was the only man able to stop him. The ‘space’ plot of Moonraker was used to rival the opening of the Star Wars movies.

 

Animals
Drax's Dogs
Drax’s Dogs
Drax’s doberman pinscher and what looks like a pinscher mix are ultra obediant of their master, waiting to eat raw meat given to them until Drax snaps his fingers. Drax also commands them to kill Corinne Dufour, who Drax knows has been siding with 007.

 

Pigeon
Pigeon
This most infamous bird in all Bond movies does a double-take (yes, a double-take) when it sees James Bond travel on land in his hovercraft gondola.

 

Lab Rats
Lab Rats
Under the Venini Glass company guise, Drax’s lab houses these rats that are likely used to test out his poisonous gas.

 

Dog
Dog
This content dog calmly watches as Bond travels though the crowd in a hydrofoil gondola.

 

Anaconda
Anaconda
Bond gets in a water wrestling match with this deadly anaconda after getting distracted by Drax’s women and falling down a small bridge’s trap door. Luckily for Bond, he kills the snake with a needle pen.