Behind the Scenes - A 4th Gallery

Moonraker - Art (1979)

There he is; Roger Moore, the main man himself in a publicity still from James Bond's Moonraker.

And here are three examples of the film's publicity artwork which was used on the promotional posters

 

To the best of my knowledge all of them are by Dan Gouzee and they are rather brilliant, even if the film itself is not.


Steve

Moonraker (1979) Space battle

As promised, here's the space battle from Moonraker.  Loads of goodguys and badguys Star-Wars'ing it up at a time when that seemed like a good idea.

 

Steve

Moonraker (1979)

Bond.  James Bond.... in a spacesuit.

We'll come back to Moonraker again at some point to look at the space battle.  This space battle..

but in more detail.

Steve

You Only Live Twice (1967)

A spaceship that eats other spaceships and a plot to start a war between the Superpowers.  This is Bond at its most fantastically bonkers.

With space capsules going missing on either side, both the Americans and the Russians are blaming each other.  The world stands paused on the brink of a nuclear war.

The good old British Secret Service knows better of course, and sends Agent  007; James Bond, to a small island off Japan where Blofeld and the forces of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. are lurking as the masters of this grand manipulation.

Now you know Bond is going to win the day but along the way we get gun battles with helicopters of varying sizes, beautiful girls being bedded and beautiful girls being killed and an army of deadly ninjas storming a secret base that’s hidden inside an extinct volcano.

It’s almost too much and so you might well be forgiven for forgetting that there was anything so dull as a few spacemen sitting in spaceships somewhere at the start of this yarn. .. but not anymore.

Steve

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Diamonds are Forever was the 7th of the James Bond films and Sean Connery's penultimate performance as the iconic spy.  I'm not going to go into any great length about the film it self except to say that, unsurprisingly, it has diamonds at the centre of its plot.  Diamonds that are to be used in a giant laser in a scheme orchestrated by the evil Blofeld.

And somewhere in all of this there is a scene where Bond interrupts what appears to be the faking and filming of a moon exploration before eventually nicking off with a Moon Buggy for a chase around the desert outside the moon themed hanger.

 

Is there a subtext here for those lunar landing sceptics or is it just a bit of fun?  I personally think it's just an excuse for a car chase with some visually unusually vehicles.

Cool or what!

Steve