- "What do you know about a man called Scaramanga, 007?"
"Scaramanga? Oh yes, The Man With The Golden Gun." - ― M and James Bond
The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 spy film, and the ninth official James Bond film, as well as the second to star Roger Moore as British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. The Man with the Golden Gun was made by EON Productions and is a loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1965 novel of the same name. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and was the final Bond film to be co-produced by Saltzman as his partnership with Broccoli dissolved after the film's release. Saltzman's 50% stake in EON Productions parent company, Danjaq, was then purchased by United Artists. The resulting legalities over the Bond property delayed production of the next Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me for three years in 1977. The interval would be the longest break in the series until the six-year hiatuses between Licence to Kill in 1989 and GoldenEye in 1995, and again between Spectre in 2015 and No Time to Die in 2021.
Plot summary[]
An American gangster, Rodney, visits famed and notorious sharpshooter hitman Francisco Scaramanga (who charges $1 million) to kill him and collect a bounty at the hands of his assistant, Nick Nack, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate. Despite attempting to move through corners, Rodney is easily shot by Scaramanga using his deadly single-shot gold-plated pistol named the Golden Gun, which is capable of always killing a target with only one bullet.
In London, a golden bullet etched with "007" (James Bond's codename) into its surface, is mailed to Her Majesty's Secret Service, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). It is believed by Military Intelligence that Scaramanga has been hired to assassinate James Bond and has sent the bullet to intimidate his new target. Because no one knows of his appearance outside of having a third nipple, M (Bond's 'control' officer in MI6) relieves Bond of his current mission involving tracking an energy scientist named Gibson.
Bond meeting Andrea Anders.
Now officially "on leave" from his duties, Bond sets out to find Scaramanga before the assassin finds him. After gaining information from Miss Moneypenny, 007 travels to Beirut. By retrieving a golden bullet from the belly button of a belly dancer which was used to assassinate another 'Double-0 agent' sometime previously, Bond is led to Lazar, the man responsible for supplying Scaramanga with his unusual golden ammunition in Macau, and then Andrea Anders, Scaramanga's mistress.
At her Peninsula Hotel room, he coerces her to expose information about Scaramanga, his appearance and his plans. She directs Bond to the Bottoms Up Club where Scaramanga snipes Gibson when he steps outside, and Nick Nack steals a small device called the Solex Agitator off his body. Bond, who had pulled out his pistol outside the club, is arrested by Hong Kong police lieutenant Hip. Instead of going to the station, he is transported to the wreck of RMS Queen Elizabeth in the harbor where he meets M and Q, and is assigned to work with Hip to retrieve the Solex.
Bond next travels to Bangkok to meet Hai Fat, a wealthy Thai entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder. Posing as Scaramanga by showing off his fake third nipple, Bond is invited to dinner, but his plan backfires because unbeknownst to him, Scaramanga himself is operating inside Hai Fat's estate. Bond is captured and placed inside Hai Fat's martial arts academy, where the students duel to the death and then are instructed to kill him. Escaping with the aid of Hip and his nieces, Bond speeds away on a motorized sampan along the river, and reunites with his assistant, Mary Goodnight. Scaramanga subsequently kills Hai Fat with his Golden Gun and assumes complete control of his empire and the Solex.
Anders later meets Bond and confesses that it was she who sent the golden bullet to MI6; to lure 007 to kill Scaramanga for her, and promises to give him the Solex as they spent the night together. At a Muay Thai boxing event the next day, Bond finds Anders sitting and staring silently, dead from a bullet (as she was actually shot by Scarmanga). Scaramanga suddenly arrives and casually introduces himself to Bond, but Bond is able to smuggle the Solex to Hip, who passes it to Goodnight. When Goodnight follows Nick Nack to place a homing device on Scaramanga's car, the assassin instead traps her in the car's boot.
Bond discovers Scaramanga driving off and steals an AMC Hornet from a showroom to give chase, coincidentally with the holidaying J.W. Pepper (the Louisianan sheriff Bond encountered in Live and Let Die) sitting inside, and even did a stunt of jumping over a broken bridge in a spiral. The chase concludes when Scaramanga's AMC Matador Coupé hides in a building and then transforms into a plane that flies off.
Scaramanga, Goodnight and Bond having dinner.
Tracking Goodnight's homing beacon, Bond takes a seaplane and flies to Scaramanga's island in the Red Chinese waters. Scaramanga welcomes and shows Bond the solar power plant facility that he has taken over, a technology for which he intends to sell to the highest bidder. While demonstrating the equipment, Scaramanga uses the solar-powered energy beam to destroy Bond's plane, preventing him from escaping. During lunch, Scaramanga proposes a pistol duel with Bond on the beach after the two engage in a classy argument that resulted in the professional assassin pulling his Golden Gun out faster than the spy could with his Walther PPK (but mercifully refuses to kill 007).
With Nick Nack officiating, the two men take twenty paces, but when Bond turns and fires, Scaramanga has vanished. Nick Nack leads Bond into Scaramanga's manor and funhouse section. Despite the villain's skills rivaling the 00 Agent, Bond, however, eventually outwits and ultimately kills Scaramanga by wisely posing as his mannequin replica and shooting into his heart with a single shot while he is off-guard. Goodnight kills Scaramanga's security chief, Kra, but the latter's fall into a liquid helium vat causes the plant's temperature to spiral out of control.
Bond retrieves the Solex unit just before the plant is destroyed, and they escape unharmed in Scaramanga's Chinese junk. After Bond fends off one final attack by a vengeful Nick Nack, he romances with Goodnight, completing his deadly mission of defeating arguably the most dangerous man alive.
Development[]
Concept poster art. Based on George Lazenby
EON producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman originally intended The Man with the Golden Gun to follow the 1967's You Only Live Twice, but production was cancelled, because it was to have been filmed in Cambodia, the ongoing Vietnam War in the region made filming impractical. Roger Moore had been invited to be Bond in the 1969 version, but was unable to take to role, as he still had obligations to The Saint TV series. Instead, EON Productions pursued On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with George Lazenby cast as Sean Connery's first successor for the Bond role.
Even before the release of 1973's Live and Let Die, United Artists had already greenlit another James Bond film after viewing rushes for the film. Although Live and Let Die turned out to be a big success - out-grossing Diamonds Are Forever, which starred the original Bond actor Sean Connery - the production of The Man with the Golden Gun was not as favorable as its predecessor's.
The production for the The Man with the Golden Gun faced several production challenges, including creative differences, financial troubles for producer Harry Saltzman, and issues with the script and the overall tone.[1]
Indeed, during the production, Saltzman faced variety of personal and financial difficulties, leading to him selling his share of the Bond franchise. This ultimately led to the separation of the Broccoli-Saltzman partnership that had been a cornerstone of the Bond films up to that point.
Writing[]
Tom Mankiewicz - who had written the prior two Bond movies - was tasked to submit a script for the project by late 1973. Although he had written a few drafts for the film, he felt that he could no longer delivered the best material he could and left the project. With Mankiewicz's exit, Broccoli called series veteran Richard Maibaum to rework Mankiewicz drafts into something filmable.
There were quite severe creative differences between screenwriter Richard Maibaum and director Guy Hamilton during the writing and pre-production stages.
Filming[]
The scenes featuring the island hideout of Scaramanga were filmed in Phang Nga province in Thailand, north of the city of Phuket. One of the islands seen in the film is known as the "Nail" island (or Ko Khao Tapoo) — in the film, this island houses the solar panels. Scaramanga's hideout is actually Ko Kow-Phing-Khan — both islands are now tourists attractions.
Cast & Characters[]
This is the first of three movies to feature Maud Adams. In 1983 she plays a different character, Octopussy, in the film of the same name. She would later have a cameo in the Bond movie A View to a Kill. This is also the second movie with Clifton James playing the role of Sheriff J.W. Pepper. He first appeared in Live and Let Die.
Crew[]
- Directed by: Guy Hamilton
- Written by: Ian Fleming
- Screenplay by: Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz
- Produced by: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
- Composed by: John Barry
- Cinematography by: Ted Moore, Oswald Morris
- Production Design by: Peter Murton
- Art direction by: Peter Lamont
Soundtrack[]
- Main article: The Man with the Golden Gun (soundtrack)
Equipment[]
Gadgets[]
- Main article: List of Gadgets
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Solex Agitator - Designed by the scientist Gibson as a means of harnessing the sun's power, the Solex Agitator was stolen by Francisco Scaramanga. |
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Prosthetic Nipple - Bond confesses that it's "a bit kinky", but he gets Q to create a false third nipple so that Bond can impersonate Scaramanga, who has the same physical anomaly. |
Weapons[]
- Main article: List of Firearms
Major firearms[]
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Walther PPK - James Bond's sidearm, insinuated to be the .380 ACP variant with the 6-round capacity. |
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Browning Hi-Power - Rodney uses one with a suppressor to try kill Scaramanga at the start of the film. |
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Beretta 950 Minx - carried by Andrea Anders. She holds Bond up with it, when the latter tries to intrude on her while she is at the shower. |
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Remington 1866 Derringer - used by Nick-Nack to hold up Bond at the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium. |
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Colt New Service - used by Lieutenant Hip at Hong Kong. |
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Smith & Wesson Model 10 - carried by Thai police. |
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Colt Single Action Army - used by Scaramanga to shoot the cork off Bond's bottle at the former's island hideout. |
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Golden Gun - Scaramanga's titular weapon of choice. The gun can be assembled and disassembled into a gold cigarette lighter, a gold cigarette case, a gold cuff link, and a gold pen to evade security. The bullet is concealed on his belt's golden buckle. |
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Thompson M1928 - used by the Gangster doll turrets at Scaramanga's fun-house. |
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M16 Rifle - carried by guards at Hai Fat's palace estate. |
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Lazar's Custom Rifle - created by Lazar for a client with three fingers. Bond uses it to try intimidate information out of Lazar. |
Background/low presence firearms[]
- Colt Detective Special (Scaramanga's gun cabinet)
- Smith & Wesson Model 29 (Scaramanga's gun cabinet)
- Colt Python (Scaramanga's gun cabinet)
Other objects of interest[]
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Rolex Submariner (ref.5513) - worn by Bond, its the same model as in Live and Let Die, thought there isn't much to imply that its the same Magnetic/Buzzsaw Wristwatch from that film. |
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Rolex Cellini King Midas - worn by Scaramanga. |
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Golden Bullet - A custom-made 4.2-millimeter golden (23-carat gold with traces of nickel) dum-dum bullet specially made for Scaramanga's pistol. Manufactured by Lazar and smuggled to the assassin in a pack of cigarettes. |
Vehicles[]
- Main article: List of James Bond vehicles
Major vehicles[]
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AMC Hornet - Bond steals this car in Thailand, unknowing that Sheriff J.W. Pepper was in it looking to test drive it. It was used for the famous corkscrew jump, a computer-designed stunt that was captured in one take. |
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AMC Matador Coupé - Francisco Scaramanga and Nick Nack use this car to kidnap Mary Goodnight and make their escape. |
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1968 Mercedes-Benz 220 D (W115) - driven by Lt. Hip in Thailand. |
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AMC Matador Sedan - driven by Thailand Police |
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Car Plane - Based on a 1974 AMC Matador coupe, owned by Scaramanga. During a car chase with Bond, Scaramanga drives the Matador into a disused barn, which was housing the plane section (two wings and a jet engine). Scaramanga clamps the plane section onto the top of the Matador and uses it to fly away from Bond. |
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Republic RC-3 Seabee - Used by Bond to reach Scaramanga's Island. |
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Bangkok Boat – Used by Bond to escape Chula and the other henchmen from the Fighting School. |
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Thai Longboat – used by Chula and the martial arts school thugs to chase Bond's boat at the Bangkok river. |
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Scaramanga's Junk – owned by Scaramanga and docked at his island hideout. Used by Bond and Goodnight to escape the island after getting the Solex back. |
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RMS Queen Elizabeth – British ocean-liner that was capsized by Hong Kong harbor in 1972. It now hosts a secret MI6 station. |
Other notable vehicles[]
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1973 MG B Roadster (ADO23) - driven by Mary Goodnight |
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1973 Toyota Celica (RA21) - Francisco Scaramanga shortly can be seen driving a grey 1973 facelift Toyota Celica in Hong Kong. |
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1968 Mercedes-Benz (W115) - black one is used by Lt. Hip and his associate in Hong Kong. |
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1971 Datsun 200C - taxi taken by Bond |
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1955 Chevrolet Two-Ten |
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1972 Fiat 132 |
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1967 Land-Rover 109" Series II Station Wagon |
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1969 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow I - operated by Hong Kong Peninsula Hotel |
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Mystery Fighter Jet (Fokker-Aviolanda/Hawker Hunter F6) - hull of a fighter jet from a communist country (possibly China) that's being secretly extracted to the sunken RMS Queen Elizabeth. |
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Royal Hong Kong Police Patrol Boat - used to passage Bond to the wreckage of RMS Queen Elizabeth. |
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Flying Sandpiper - hydrofoil that Bond takes to reach Hong Kong from Macao. |
Background vehicles[]
- 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super
- 1968 Austin 1100 MkII
- 1971 BMW 2500 (E3)
- 1965 Buick Skylark
- 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle
- 1954 Commer BF
- 1960 Daihatsu Midget
- 1954 Daimler CVG5DD
- 1966 Datsun 1300 Van
- 1966 Datsun Bluebird
- 1969 Datsun 2000
- 1969 Datsun Truck
- 1970 Datsun Sunny
- 1973 Datsun 140J
- 1973 Datsun Cherry 100A
- 1956 Fiat 1100
- 1963 Fiat 1500 L
- 1967 Fiat 125
- 1968 Fiat 850 Sport Coupé
- 1969 Fiat 124 S
- 1971 Fiat 125 Special
- Ford R-192
- 1957 Ford Escort Estate
- 1959 Ford Zodiac MkII
- 1965 Ford Cortina Estate MkI
- 1966 Ford Corsair
- 1967 Ford Cortina MkII
- 1968 Ford Custom 500
- 1968 Ford Escort MkI
- 1970 Ford Escort MkI
- 1971 Ford Taunus
- 1963 Guy Arab V
- 1967 Guy Arab V
- 1968 Hino BM
- 1969 Hino KM
- 1970 Holden Kingswood (HG)
- 1970 Holden Torana (LC)
- 1962 Isuzu Bellel
- 1964 Isuzu TXD
- 1971 Lancia Fulvia
- Leyland Comet
- 1970 Leyland FG 1½Ton
- Mahindra CJ-4
- Mazda Familia Pick-up
- 1965 Mazda 800 Van
- 1966 Mazda Bongo
- 1968 Mazda Familia
- 1970 Mazda Familia Coupé
- 1972 Mazda 808
- 1956 Mercedes-Benz 220 S (W180.010)
- 1968 Mercedes-Benz (W115)
- 1969 Mercedes-Benz Lang (W115)
- 1963 Mercury Comet
- 1967 Nissan Cedric
- 1968 Nissan Junior
- 1969 Nissan Echo
- 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass
- 1956 Opel Caravan
- 1966 Opel Kadett Coupé (B)
- 1946 Packard Clipper Six
- 1956 Plymouth Belvedere
- 1956 Plymouth Plaza
- 1965 Pontiac Bonneville
- 1971 Renault 12 Break
- 1967 Simca 1301
- 1971 Simca 1501
- 1969 Subaru FF-1
- 1969 Sunbeam Stiletto
- 1960 Toyopet Crown
- 1961 Toyota ToyoAce
- 1964 Toyota Crown
- 1968 Toyota Corona
- 1968 Toyota Crown
- 1968 Toyota HiAce
- 1970 Toyota Corolla
- 1970 Toyota Corona
- 1970 Toyota Crown
- 1971 Toyota HiAce
- 1972 Toyota Corona
- 1973 Toyota Corolla
- 1966 Triumph 1300
- 1964 Volkswagen De Luxe Sedan (Typ 1)
- 1966 Volkswagen 1300 (Typ 1)
- 1953 Willys Jeep CJ-3
Locations[]
Film Locations[]
- Hong Kong
- London
- Beirut
- Bangkok and Thailand
- Portuguese Macau
- People's Republic of China (Scaramanga's island)
One of the more interesting locations is the use of a real life derelict cruise liner, the RMS Queen Elizabeth, as a top-secret MI6 base in Hong Kong Harbour. All the cabins on board the ship are slanted.
Shooting locations[]
- Pinewood Studios — London, England
- Hong Kong
- Macau
- Thailand
Map[]
Gallery[]
Legacy[]
First debuting in December of 1974, The Man with the Golden Gun is considered one of the more "troubled" installments of the series. Although the movie has its fans - primarily thanks to Christopher Lee's striking villain - it is generally regarded as one of the lesser movies in the James Bond movie pantheon. The cause of its critical and financial disappointment is usually pointed towards the troubled production, which resulted in a flawed end product and a disorganized marketing campaign.
Made with $7 million, same as the preceding Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun ended up grossing $97.6 million at the box-office, compared to the preceding move's $161.8 million -- there being a roughly 40% decrease in box-office profits. According to Lee Pfeiffer and Dave Worrall's book "The Essential Bond", the movie's promotional campaign was "one of the more anaemic" ones in the film series' history.
Points of contention[]
Although James Bond series is continually criticized for its sexist and misogynistic content, The Man With the Golden Gun tends to be considered the most flagrant example in the series, with instances that go overboard even by the series' usual standards. Notably, James Bond's assistant, Mary Goodnight, portrayed as a stereotypical blonde buffoon who is nearly useless to him. On the other hand, when Bond is fleeing an enemy dojo, chased by martial artists, he offers to protect two girls who were being menaced by them, only to have them demonstrate their superior fighting skill by easily thrashing Bond's pursuers.
Additionally, Roger Moore's portrayal of James Bond in this film has been scrutinized, as Moore's Bond acts uncharacteristically aggressive in this film (a portrayal closer to Sean Connery's Bond) despite being more of a "gentleman spy" in the rest of his movies -- including in the preceding movie Live and Let Die.
Trivia[]
Similarities with You Only Live Twice[]
The film still shares notable similarities with You Only Live Twice - with this movie originally planned to follow that movie, instead of 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. These include:
- Both films are loosely adapted from original novels by Ian Fleming which were published posthumously, with the main storylines and villains' plots differ greatly from the original iterations.
- Both films feature predominantly Asian locales as the setting, with portions of some scenes being set in Hong Kong. You Only Live Twice is mainly set in Japan; Bond is dispatched there to eventually locate Blofeld and SPECTRE's involvement in the space race issue after faking his own assassination in Hong Kong as depicted in the pre-title sequence. The Man with the Golden Gun departs from its original Carribean setting and features Bond tracking down Scaramanga from Beirut to Macau, Hong Kong, and eventually to Thailand in order to prevent Scaramanga from using the stolen Solex Agitator for personal gains; during his stint in Hong Kong he witnessed the murder of Solex's scientist Gibson by Scaramanga and then later MI6 contact Lt. Hip escorted him into MI6 headquarters, covered by the shipwreck of RMS Queen Elizabeth, for a briefing with his superiors including M.
- Due to the films being mainly set in Asia, both feature notable martial arts scenes.
- There are entrepreneur characters, each working as an associate for the main villains in both films (You Only Live Twice has Osato working for Blofeld, while The Man with the Golden Gun has Hai Fat working for Scaramanga). Osato and Hai Fat would later end up being shot dead by their respective superiors.
- In these two films, Bond had arranged appointment in a fighting tournament with female allies who would later be killed during the progress of his missions. In You Only Live Twice, he encountered Aki for the first time in a sumo wrestling match, and Aki would later be poisoned to death by a ninja assassin in league with SPECTRE during Bond's incognito job at the ninja academy in preparation of his raid to the SPECTRE hideout. In The Man with the Golden Gun, Scaramanga's mistress Andrea Anders was supposed to deliver Bond the stolen Solex at a Thai kick boxing match, when Bond discovered she was already shot dead by Scaramanga.
- Both films feature seclusive island that holds the main villain's hideout. In You Only Live Twice, SPECTRE's base of operations is uncovered beneath a "lake" inside an extinct Japanese volcano which would be raided by Bond and a squat of Japanese SIS ninja operatives to its eventual destruction. In The Man with the Golden Gun, Scaramanga's "funhouse" is secluded beneath the rocks of Khao Phing Kan island and would later be destroyed after Bond managed to retrieve the Solex and upset the reactors volatile.
- MI6 headquarters are being shown inside a vessel in both films. You Only Live Twice features scene where Royal Navy frogmen retrieves Bond's "corpse" and bring him inside a Royal Navy submarine fleeting beneath the waters of Hong Kong. Bond soon awakes from his apparent "death" for an audience with M. After escaping from a supposed custody in The Man with the Golden Gun, Bond jumps into the shipwreck of RMS Queen Elizabeth and is greeted by a Royal Navy officer, who then takes him into M's office.
Other trivia[]
- The film refers the then-recent 1973 oil crisis. Britain had not yet fully overcome the crisis when the film was released, and North Sea oil was not as well exploited as today.
- The "nail" island seen in the film is known by locals as James Bond Island in all tourist literature. The site was extremely hard hit by a tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Originally, Ha Long Bay off the coast of Vietnam was considered but the effects following the Vietnam War - the Phang Nga filming location was revisited again in 1997 for Tomorrow Never Dies substituting for Ha Long Bay. Today, it is famously known as James Bond Island.
- Christopher Lee, Ian Fleming's step-cousin, was Fleming's choice for the role of Dr. Julius No in the film Dr. No. According to Bond film historians, Lee also was considered for the role of James Bond.
- The Bottoms Up Club (the bar where Gibson, the man who created the Solex meets Lt. Hip, MI6's main agent in Hong Kong) is actually a real bar that was still open well after the film's release until it eventually closed down in 2009. It even has a notice on its sign that it was featured in this movie.
- Like the main antagonist Francisco Scaramanga himself, his Golden Gun quickly proved popular enough in the fanbase of the film as well as the James Bond community as a whole that it became featured in various James Bond video games, including GoldenEye 007, as a rare, suitably incredibly powerful weapon. In every game except for one case, the Golden Gun counts as an instant kill, reflecting that Scaramanga never missed. The golden weapon is also found in different media as well.
- Although her performance in the film is undistinguished, Mary Goodnight is a recurring character in several of Ian Fleming's Bond novels, even appearing in lieu of Miss Moneypenny; in the books, Goodnight is Bond's secretary.
- The famous cork-screwing car jump was first demonstrated on January 12, 1972 at the American Thrill Show which was held in Houston, Texas in the Astrodome where Jay Milligan drove an AMC Javelin. Cubby Broccoli contacted Milligan where he entered into negotiations - the producers took out copyrights and patents on the stunt in order to prevent it being used before they could integrate to a James Bond film; the jump was planned using computer modeling based on research at Cornell University on rollover collisions for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Stuntman Bumps Willard drove the AMC Hornet (modified by Milligan's stunt team with a center mounted steering wheel and powered with an AMC 258 (4.2L) inline six engine bolted to a Chrysler Torqueflite 904 transmission for reduced weight) when he performed the stunt with a center mounted steering wheel, and it was done in only one take during filming. Milligan also drove another similar looking AMC Hornet where he did perform the driving stunts in Bangkok including the J-turn (later known as a Rockford as seen in the TV series The Rockford Files) in one scene.
- Marc Lawrence, who plays a gangster called Rodney who was shot dead by Scaramanga at the start of the film, played a similar character in Diamonds Are Forever, although this film does not indicate whether Lawrence is playing the same character.
- The title sequence features the dancing of Carolyn Cheshire, later to be a renowned bodybuilder.
- While filming, Roger Moore used to tease Christopher Lee about his iconic role in Dracula (1958). Also, one time when they were filming on the island, Lee accidentally went into a cave and ironically startled a swarm of bats that flew out of the cave.
- Of all the films in the franchise so far, this movie sports the smallest kill count for Bond, just one, being Scaramanga himself.
- Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland also starred together around the same time in the cult Scottish horror film The Wicker Man (1973). Unlike this film, they share little screen time together in it.
- The squint doorways in Scaramanga's funhouse are a visual echo of the slanted cabins seen inside the Queen Elizabeth, the shipwreck MI6 headquarters in Hong Kong.
- M tells Bond, "if you must tour the world of Suzie Wong by night..." He is referring to The World of Suzie Wong (1960) a romantic drama based on a novel.
- This is the only Roger Moore James Bond film where James Bond is not submerged in water and to be released in an even-numbered year. The next film to be released in an even-numbered year is Die Another Day, which was released 28 years after this film in 2002.
- The film was released during the height of the Martial Arts and Kung Fu film craze of that was coming out of Hong Kong and Asia during the 1970s.
External links[]
- The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) at IMDb
- MGM Official website
- Ian Fleming bibliography of first editions
| James Bond films |
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| Sean Connery Dr. No (1962) • From Russia with Love (1963) • Goldfinger (1964) • Thunderball (1965) • You Only Live Twice (1967) • Diamonds Are Forever (1971) |
| George Lazenby On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) |
| Roger Moore Live and Let Die (1973) • The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) • Moonraker (1979) • For Your Eyes Only (1981) • Octopussy (1983) • A View to a Kill (1985) |
| Timothy Dalton The Living Daylights (1987) • Licence to Kill (1989) |
| Pierce Brosnan GoldenEye (1995) • Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) • The World Is Not Enough (1999) • Die Another Day (2002) |
| Daniel Craig Casino Royale (2006) • Quantum of Solace (2008) • Skyfall (2012) • Spectre (2015) • No Time To Die (2021) |
| Unofficial films Casino Royale (1954) • Casino Royale (1967) • Never Say Never Again (1983) |
| All Bond films on Archive |