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Behind the Scenes: Moonraker - Aerial Skydiving Stunt 
This is a behind the scenes of how they made the aerial skydiving intro scene in 1979 Moonraker, followed by the actual theatrical segment.

Moonraker was written by Ian Fleming, screenplay by Christopher Wood, directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Roger Moore as James Bond, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery and Richard Kiel as Jaws. 

A space shuttle is stolen enroute to London and M sends 007 out to apologize to the shuttle creator - billionaire Hugo Drax. While visiting Drax’s estate several attempts are made on Bond’s life, making Drax himself the number one suspect. Bond also meets Dr. Holly Goodhead, a NASA scientist who is also a CIA agent investigating Drax. Their investigations lead Bond to discover a plot to murder the world’s population so that Drax can repopulate the planet in his image. The chase takes Bond all over the world - California, Brazil, the Amazon Jungle and, finally, to Drax’s huge space-city over the Earth. Drax, meanwhile, has hired a old friend of Bond to take care of any problems - the steel-toothed killer Jaws…… Written by Lee Horton. permalink

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