The Man with the Golden Gun - 1974
The world's greatest villain's have tried to kill James Bond. Now it's Scaramanga's turn to try!
Director(s)
Guy Hamilton
Writer(s)
Ian Fleming (novel)
Richard Maibaum (screenplay) and
Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay)
Producer(s)
Albert R. Broccoli producer
Charles Orme associate producer
Harry Saltzman producer
Cast
Roger Moore - James Bond
Christopher Lee - Francisco Scaramanga
Britt Ekland - Mary Goodnight
Maud Adams - Andrea Anders
Hervé Villechaize - Nick Nack (as Herve Villechaize)
Clifton James - Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Richard Loo - Hai Fat
Soon-Tek Oh - Lieutenant Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)
Marc Lawrence - Rodney
Bernard Lee - M
Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny
Marne Maitland - Lazar
Desmond Llewelyn - Q
James Cossins - Colthorpe
Yiu Lam Chan - Chula
Carmen du Sautoy - Saida (as Carmen Sautoy)
Gerald James - Frazier
Michael Osborne - Naval Lieutenant
Michael Fleming - Communications Officer
Sonny Caldinez - Kra (uncredited)
Leslie Crawford - Cowboy in Fun House (uncredited)
Gordon Everett - Gibson (uncredited)
Michael Goodliffe - Bill Tanner (uncredited)
Ray Marioni - Al Capone (uncredited)
Joie Pacharintraporn - Cha, Hip's Niece #2 (uncredited)
Terence Plummer - Beirut Thug (uncredited)
George Silver - Fat Beirut Thug (uncredited)
Rocky Taylor - Beirut Thug (uncredited)
Francoise Therry - Chew Mee (uncredited)
Master Toddy - Martial Arts Student who fights Hip's Neices (uncredited)
Wei Wei Wong - Bottoms Up Waitress (uncredited)
Qiu Yuen - Nara, Hip's Niece #1 (uncredited)
Review by Theo Robertson
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The First Bond Movie I Saw,
I saw this in the Regal cinema in Rothesay in 1975 and can remember not being too taken by it. Maybe that explains why I’m not a great Bond fan. Having familiarised myself with the Bond series in later life it’s easy to see that THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN is one of the poorest Bond films, Moore makes a weak Bond, Britt Ekland plays a bimboesque Bond girl, the script is silly AND boring and Guy Hamilton doesn’t come close to the heights he reached in GOLDFINGER. I really get the impression that the film would have been so much better if the producers had stuck to the book and had Sean Connery back.
As a side note the Regal cinema closed in 1976, was knocked down in the mid 90s and a housing development was built in its place
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