Moonraker (1979) is the eleventh
spy film in the
James Bond series, and the fourth to star
Roger Moore as the fictional
MI6 agent
James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by
Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars
Lois Chiles,
Michael Lonsdale,
Corinne Cléry, and
Richard Kiel. Bond investigates the theft of a
space shuttle, leading him to
Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, and the
Amazon rainforest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and to re-create humanity with a
master race.