film information
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli & Harry Saltzman
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum & Tom Mankiewicz
World Premiere 19th December 1974 (London, England)
US Release Date 19th December 1974
Worldwide Box Office $97,600,000 US
Budget $13,000,000 US
Running Time 125 Minutes
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bond girls
Britt Ekland (Miss Mary Goodnight)
q-branch
The Man With The Golden Gun gadgets
posters
The Man With The Golden Gun posters
vehicles
bond villains
Christopher Lee (Francisco Scaramanga)
bond allies
Clifton James (Sheriff J.W Pepper)
locations
London; Beirut; Macau; Hong Kong; Bangkok and surrounding areas; Scaramanga's island in Chinese territorial waters.
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Roger Moore does not introduce himself using his classic introduction, but introduces himself as Scaramanga to Hi Fat.
behind the scenes
One of the lowest-grossing Bond films.
Bonds amazing spiral car jump - in which the vehicle spins an entire revolution before landing on all four tires - was the result of months of intense planning and the skilful combination of mechanical engineering, physics calculations and high-performance driving.
Scaramanga's flying AMC Matador was actually two cars - a modified full-size vehicle (used in the transformation scene) and a detailed miniature (seen in the flying shots). §
