![]() ![]() Pepper (the Louisianan sheriff Bond encountered in Live and Let Die) sitting inside. Bond discovers Scaramanga driving off and steals an AMC Hornet from a showroom to give chase, coincidentally with the holidaying J.W. When Goodnight follows Nick Nack to place a homing device on Scaramanga's car, Scaramanga traps her in the car's boot. Scaramanga arrives and introduces himself to Bond, but Bond is able to smuggle the Solex to Hip, who passes it to Goodnight. At a Muay Thai boxing event the next day, Bond finds Anders sitting and staring silently, dead from a bullet to the heart. She wants him to kill Scaramanga, and promises to give him the Solex as they spent the night together. Scaramanga subsequently kills Fat with his golden gun and assumes control of his empire and the Solex.Īnders reveals to Bond that she sent the bullet to London. Escaping with the aid of Hip and his nieces, Bond speeds away on a motorised sampan along the river, and reunites with his assistant, Mary Goodnight. Bond is captured and taken to Fat's martial arts academy, where the students duel to the death and then are instructed to kill him. 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 at Fat's estate. But instead of going to the station, he is transported to the wreck of RMS Queen Elizabeth in the harbour where he meets M and Q, and is assigned to work with Hip to retrieve the Solex.īond travels to Bangkok to meet Hai Fat, a wealthy Thai entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder. Bond, who had pulled out his pistol outside the club, is arrested by Hong Kong police lieutenant Hip. She directs Bond to the Bottoms Up Club where Scaramanga snipes Gibson when he steps outside, and Scaramanga's midget assistant Nick Nack steals a small device called the Solex Agitator off his body. In her Peninsula Hotel room, he coerces her to expose information about Scaramanga, his appearance and his plans. Bond follows the shipment carried to Hong Kong by Andrea Anders, Scaramanga's mistress. He traces the bullet to a gun maker in Macau, and forces him to reveal how he ships the bullets. In London, a golden bullet etched with '007' is received by MI6 it is believed to have been sent by Scaramanga, but because no one knows of his appearance outside of having a third nipple, M relieves Bond of his current mission involving the location of a solar energy scientist named Gibson.Īt a hint from Moneypenny, Bond sets out unofficially to locate Scaramanga, first by retrieving a spent golden bullet from a belly dancer in Beirut. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, with Saltzman selling his 50% stake in Danjaq, LLC, the parent company of Eon Productions, after the release of the film.Īn American gangster, Rodney, visits famed crack shot hitman Francisco Scaramanga to kill him and collect a bounty, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate, where Scaramanga eventually retrieves his golden gun and kills him. It was the last Bond film to be co-produced by Albert R. Whilst profitable, the film is the fourth lowest-grossing in the series, and its relatively modest returns by comparison with those of Live and Let Die (1973) reportedly placed the continuation of the franchise in jeopardy. Christopher Lee's portrayal of Scaramanga as a villain of similar skill and ability to Bond was praised, but reviewers criticised the film as a whole, particularly its comedic approach and the performances of Moore and Britt Ekland. The film was met with mixed reviews, and some critics described it as the lowest point in the canon up to that time. Part of the film is also set in Beirut, Lebanon, but it was not shot there. The film also reflects the then-popular martial arts film craze, with several kung fu scenes and a predominantly Asian location, being set and shot in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macau. The film was set in the face of the 1973 energy crisis, a dominant theme in the script Britain had still not yet fully overcome the crisis when the film was released in December 1974. The script was written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. The Man with the Golden Gun was the fourth and final film in the series directed by Guy Hamilton. The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the Solex. A loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's posthumously published 1965 novel of the same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator, a breakthrough technological solution to contemporary energy shortages, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga, the "Man with the Golden Gun". The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 spy film and the ninth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. ![]()
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