James Bond lands at LAX in Moonraker (1979) and is met by Drax employee and helicopter pilot Corinne Dufour to be flown to Drax's estate.
The Château appears in Moonraker (1979) as the estate of villain Hugo Drax. In the film it is superimposed onto the Mojave desert where it was supposedly transported "brick-by-brick".
When James Bond is being shown around Drax's spacecraft manufacturing facility in Moonraker (1979), Holly Goodhead's office is in fact in the Centre Pompidou.
Internal shots of Hugo Drax's space shuttle hangar in Moonraker (1979) were filmed inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral.
Besides the Château Vaux-le-Vicomte, some interior scenes of Drax's residence were shot at Château des Guermantes in Moonraker (1979); including the safe-cracking scene with Bond and Corinne Dufour.
James Bond joins Hugo Drax shooting pheasant near the Statue of Hercules in the grounds of Vaux-le-Vicomte in Moonraker (1979). Bond foils another assassination attempt with his shotgun.
James Bond pays a few visits to the Piazza San Marco in Moonraker (1979). Firstly when investigating the Venini glass works, then again later via hovercraft gondola!
James Bond visits Venini Moonraker (1979) to investigate hexagonal glass tubes detailed in plans stolen from Drax. A fight in the showroom broke the record for most smashed sugar glass!
After a boat chase around Venice, James Bond's would-be assassins turn tail and flee towards San Giorgio Maggiore in Moonraker (1979).
James Bond surprises Dr Goodnight just outside the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Moonraker (1979).
James Bond follows Dr Goodhead across Venice and through the courtyard at the Conservatorio de Musica "Benedetto Marcello" in Moonraker (1979). Read more.
Ca' Rezzonico featured in Moonraker (1979) as the interior of Drax's biological weapons lab, but only once it is emptied and appears as his office. The actual lab' scenes were filmed in the studio.
James Bond, Sir Frederick Gray and M walk along the Fondamenta de la Fernice in Moonraker (1979) discussing the Bond's failure to identify Drax's biological weapons laboratory.
James Bond fights with Hugo Drax's henchman, Chang, at the Torre dell'Orologio in Moonraker (1979). Chang is thrown through the clock face and falls head first through a grand piano below.
CIA Agent Holly Goodhead stays at the Hotel Danieli in Moonraker (1979). It is here that James Bond confirms she isn't a NASA scientist, but is investigating the disappearance of the spacecraft too.
James Bond lands here in Moonraker (1979). Legend has it Roger Moore was late to shooting and had just enough time for hair and make-up before shooting his arrival again, this time as James Bond.
James Bond and CIA Agent Holly Goodhead bump into each other on top of Sugarloaf Mountain while watching Air Drax planes take off from the airport across the bay in Moonraker (1979).
James Bond watches a Drax Air Freight plane take off from Santos Dumont in Moonraker (1979). He follows it using a telescope from Sugarloaf Mountain where he runs into Dr Goodnight again.
James Bond and Holly Goodhead are attacked by villain Jaws during their descent of Sugarloaf Mountain by cable car in Moonraker (1979). They escape by sliding down the cables, only to be recaptured.
The ambulance carrying James Bond and Holly Goodhead travels up this road in Moonraker (1979). Their guard ends up with his head stuck through a British Airways billboard.
In the James Bond film Moonraker (1979) a parachuteless villain Jaws falls through a circus tent, the interiors of which were shot at the Hippodrome de Longchamp. A model was used for the exterior.
James Bond rides up to these buildings on horseback in Moonraker (1979). Inside is the Brazilian MI6 HQ, although interiors were shot at Monastero San Nicolò in Venice.
Interiors of the 'Brazilian' MI6 training camp in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979) were in fact filmed in the courtyard of the Monastero San Nicolò.
James Bond avoids plummeting down the Iguaçu falls by paragliding from his speedboat in Moonraker (1979). His pursuer, Jaws, isn't so lucky. Bond discovers Drax's launch facility somewhere nearby.
Drax's secret space shuttle launch facility is located among the Tikal National Park in Moonraker (1979), although of course all of the interior shots were done in the studio.
While shots of the entrance to Hugo Drax's Space Centre were done in the studio, James Bond's fight with the python in Moonraker (1979) was shot here at Silver Springs Nature Park.
A large portion of the catacombs, which is not open to the public, was used as a gypsum quarry and featured in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979) as the tunnels under Hugo Drax's base of operations.
