Other Titles • The Man with the Golden Gun • Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) • James Bond 007 - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt (1974)
Synopses for The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
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James Bond (Roger Moore) may have met his match in Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), a world renowned assassin whose weapon of choice is a distinctive gold pistol. When Scaramanga seized the priceless Solex Agitator energy converter, Agent 077 must recover the device and confront the trained killer in a heart stopping duel to the death!
(56 votes)
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The British spy with a licence to kill takes on his dark underworld double, a classy assassin who kills with golden bullets at £1 million a hit. Roger Moore, in his second outing as James Bond, meets Christopher Lee's Scaramanga, one of the most magnetic villains in the entire series, in this entertaining but rather wan entry in the 007 sweepstakes. Bond's globetrotting search takes him to Hong Kong, Bangkok, and finally China, where Scaramanga turns his island retreat into a twisted theme park for a deadly game of wits between the gunmen, moderated by Scaramanga's diminutive man Friday Nick Nack (Fantasy Island's Hervé Villechaize). Britt Ekland does her best as an embarrassingly inept Bond girl, a clumsy, dim agent named Mary Goodnight who looks fetching in a bikini, while Maud Adams is Scaramanga's tough but haunted lover and assistant. Clifton James, the redneck sheriff from Live and Let Die, makes an ill-advised appearance as a racist tourist. He briefly teams up with 007 in what is otherwise the film's highlight, a high-energy chase through the crowded streets of Bangkok that climaxes with a breathtaking mid-air corkscrew jump. Bond and company are let down by a lazy script, but Moore balances the overplayed humour with a steely performance and Lee's charm and enthusiasm makes Scaramanga a cool, deadly, and thoroughly enchanting adversary. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
(54 votes)
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The usual gadgets and stunts take a back seat to humor in this installment of the popular spy series. Superagent 007 is pulled from a missing persons case in order to track down a legendary hit man using custom-made golden bullets to silence his targets. Lately the sniper has been stirring up a lot of trouble on the world scene, and Bond goes after him with an arsenal of wit, innuendo, and double entendres. But once he unearths the murderer's clandestine Hong Kong lair, our hero discovers that the two cases are hopelessly intertwined -- and connected to a dastardly plot for world domination.
(55 votes)
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