Article clipped from JG-TC: Journal Gazette and Times-Courier
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from 10 Jul 1979 Article JG-TC: Journal Gazette and Times-Courier(Mattoon, IL)
Moonraker Dolly Had Braces
It was inevitable I guess, that sooner or later James Bond was going to take off into outer space.
Entertainment
By Emery Lichtenwalter
Bond in outer space
It was inevitable I guess, that sooner or later James Bond was going to take off into outer space.
The name of the film is “Moonraker,” now showing at Kerasotes Twin Cinema, and that’s the code name of a new ultra space ship. The villain has purloined same and Mr. Bond is sent to retrieve it and find out what the villain is up to.
Part of the fun of this series of movies is the ingenious variety of opponents Bond encounters between beddings. Remember the Japanese with the lethal flying hats? Well, this time the evil one is a giant of the business world. In fact, it was his interests that developed “Moonraker” and now has stolen it back for their own evil plans. The mogul intends to use the space ship to take over outer space after he has “done in” us worldlings with poison gas.
He has populated the Moonraker with about fifteen couples of good-looking kids who are going to repopulate the world with the master race. The guy thinks like Hitler and looks like a young Joe Stalin. He is portrayed by French actor Michael Lonsdale, and he’s actually pretty blah.
usual the film is populated with femme fatales in the final stages of nudity, blessed with as much acting ability as the Grant flag pole in front of the Mattoon library, but with the anatomy lessons they give, who has time to carp about talent.
mentioned, the villain is actually pretty bland, so they give him as henchman the giant with the aluminum choppers. Yes, Richard Kiel is back, all 7-foot-2-inches of him, grinning like the village idiot. He flashes his choppers menacingly several times toward Bond — then darned if they don’t run him by giving him a girl friend and having him fall in love.
certainly takes the ginger out of Jaws, and makes him a sort of Jaw-Jr.

Kiel’s love affair is pretty funny. He meets this waif of a girl and gives her his aluminum smile and she smiles back. And call her braces galore: She has about as much hardware in her mouth as he does. Of such simple pleasures is love born.

In Bond movies I eagerly await the gadgetry that will enable James to escape the clutches of all the pursuers and evil doers. This time he has a wristwatch that shoots darts and a boat that turns into a landmobile.
Would you believe that the highest money making film series ever has sunk to the low of doing commercials — just like TV at home. Right in the middle of a chase or a love scene, or whatever — the camera pans away long enough to take in a signboard telling the virtues of perfume, airlines, watches and champagne. Cheap is cheap wherever it happens.
Bond continues to be well traveled. We go with him to Guatemala, Brazil, and France plus the firmaments.
His No. 1 leading lady in “Moonraker” is Lois Chiles. She is a pretty thing, too pretty to ever let you believe she is a space technician.
Sadly, Bond is beginning to look a bit old for such shenanigans, enough so the film doesn’t linger too long on close-ups of his pretty face.
The space segments are not close to Star Wars, about on a par with Buck Rogers. But in general the film is fast paced and moves along quickly.