the man with the golden gun reference guide

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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

james bond

Roger Moore

bond girls

Maud Adams (Andrea Anders)

Carmen du Sautoy (Saida)

Britt Ekland (Miss Mary Goodnight)

q-branch

The Man With The Golden Gun gadgets

posters

The Man With The Golden Gun posters

vehicles

Scaramanga's Junk

AMC Hornet

Flying AMC Matador

bond villains

Christopher Lee (Francisco Scaramanga)

Hervé Villechaize (Nick Nack)

Richard Loo (Hai Fat)

Chan Yiu Lam (Chula)

bond allies

Clifton James (Sheriff J.W Pepper)

Soon-Taik Oh (Lieutenant Hip)

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). §

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