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What's the growth industry of 1970? Foreign spies trying to blow up space stations. With really great offices and large staff. Probably have their own parking spaces and everything, the lucky bastards.

It isn't uncommon to come across reviews of Project Moonbase that sneer at the "dirty Reds" in this film. Funny thing, they're never identified as Communists, Reds, Bolsheviks, or Butlin Red Coats; only as "enemies of freedom".

Surely that can't apply to the peace-loving Communists and their desire for universal brotherhood.

Their leader is the sinister, diminutive, and prematurely balding Mr. Roundtree

This was some years before he starred in Shaft.

This must be 1970; look at the technology this guys have at their fingertips. There are switches and knobs and everything. It's the most advanced... uh... radio? Intercom? Speakerphone? Boom box? Look at all the knobs and switches.

Mind you, their database of sinister doubles for leading space scientists needs a serious upgrade.

And sinister they are. Look at the fake Dr. Wernher here. He oozes sinister. He radiates sinister. He can't walk into a room without the whole house being permeated with sinister until the wallpaper reeks of sinister unless you leave the windows open all summer.

Come to think of it, for a spy this can be a bit of a drawback.

But like all spies, he's a sucker for the old forehead grab.

Forehead grab?

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