The Man With The Golden Gun | Roger Moore, Christopher Lee

The Man With The Golden Gun | Roger Moore, Christopher Lee | Thrilling, exotic, fun, sexy...

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	The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore, Christopher Lee MGM (Video & DVD), 2007 average customer review:based on 147 reviews view larger image
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Scaramanga is a hit-man who charges a million dollars per job. He becomes linked to the death of a scientist working on a powerful solar cell and James Bond is called in to investigate. As he tracks down Scaramanga he realises that he is highly respected by the killer but will this prove to be an advantage in the final showdown?Run Time: 126 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG UPC: 027616073990 Manufacturer No: M107401

A Good James Bond Movie

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN is a good James Bond movie. I like it because it is a lot of fun. In a world of so much stress it is good to sit down and relax and watch an uplifting movie like this. We all know who James Bond is or we just know what he's all about. This movie plays off the James Bond mystique and just has a good time with it. The result is very enjoyable.

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Thrilling, exotic, fun, sexy...

Bond is sent after the Solex Agitator - a device which can harness the power of the sun. He teams up with agent Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) against Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) - The Man with the Golden Gun. The action culminates in a duel between the two men.
The issue of energy was of big concern at the time of the energy crisis of 1973-1974, when this movie was filmed, caused by Arab manipulation of oil supply and prices, in the wake of the Arab agression of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

This is everything a James bond thriller is meant to be, lots of riveting action, and humour, sexy girls galore, and exotic locations.
The gadgets were quite ingenious for the early 70s, Britt Ekland was extremely cute and sexy as Mary Goodnight, one of the hottest Bond girls
The others being Solitaire (Jane Seymour) in Live and Let Die, Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) in The Spy Who Loved Me, Honey Rider (Ursula Andress) in Dr No, Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) in You Only Live Twice, Bibi Dahl ( Lynn-Holly Johnson) in For Your Eyes Only, Stacey Sutton (Tanya Roberts) in A View to a Kill, Kara Milovy (Maryam d'Abo) in The Living Daylights, Pam Bouvier (CArey Lowell) in Licence to Kill, and Jinx (Haile Berrie) in Die Another Day.

My favourite parts were when Bond stole the golden bullet charm from belly-dancing Lebanese temptress Saida (Carmen du Sautoy) in Beirut, and she cries 'I've lost my charm'. Bond quips 'Not from where I'm standing you haven't'.
The other scene where were Lieutenant Hip's (Soon-Tek Oh) nieces show their karate experise after they beat up Hai Fat's (Richard Loo) gang of goons.
Christopher Lee was one of the best villains in the series artfully portraying the psychopathic assassin Francisco Scaramanga, and his creepy midget henchman Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize) combined the perfect combination of comedy and sinister wiles.
The action and intrigue takes Bond from Beirut to Macao, Hong Kong and Thailand.
All in all a classic action adventure of the series and one of the best.
Still as thrilling for audiences today as it was in 1974.

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Man with the Golden Gun

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Moore and Lee Keep It Alive

Aside from the superb title song and the espresso maker gag (punchline delivered with exquisite understatement by Bernard Lee), Live and Let Die was largely a waste of celluloid. Man With the Golden Gun, on the other hand, gave me hope for the franchise. Christopher Lee as a Bond villain was an absolutely perfect casting choice, and it's rather a puzzle to me that it wasn't made much earlier in the series. And Roger Moore, for his part, was bringing the role of Bond into his comfort zone enough so that he could even pull off Bond's ruthless side - which, frankly, was seldom seen to such good effect during the rest of Moore's tenure. Herve Villechaize's Nick Nack struck me as an obvious inversion of Oddjob - but with the intriguing wrinkle of being as much of an adversary to his employer, Bond's nemesis Scaramanga, as to Bond himself, and was certainly unforgettable. These three, as actors and characters, seemed to have a rappore that was very natural and fluid, giving the film a level of easy energy that compensated for some fairly mediocre material.

Some things were cringe inducing, such as the return of the redneck sheriff from the previous film, the swallowing of the golden bullet that killed 002, and the sound effect during the signature car stunt. And there were disappointments such as the underwritten Lt. Hip, which made less than full use of Soon-Tek Oh, Maud Adam's inability to convey any of the depth of her character's motivating conflict, and Britt Ekland's airhead version of Mary Goodnight. And let's face it, staging the car chases using AMC vehicles of the period was not the best way to deliver the visual thrill these scenes deserved.

Even so, this film had some unique touches. For once the main villain confessed to perpetrating his fiendish plot using facilities and technology he didn't really understand, and kept his operation admirably bare bones in terms of personnel. Maud Adams did play her final scenes well - and I'm not begin facetious, the effect she produced was downright eerie. As for Mary Goodnight, it was refreshing that Bond's leading lady was someone he already knew from work, and that as such, instead of being shunted aside and/or killed during the proceedings, actually stayed in the game and landed the big lug. Perhaps the character's ditziness was overcompensation for the previous outing's dour Solitaire, but give credit where credit is due; no Bond girl before or since has ever shown herself so adept at opening locked car trunks.

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This is a weird film. A reviewer once said of TMWTGG it was as if it were made by someone who had never actually seen a Bond film but had had one described to him by a very excited person. This was the last one with Broccoli & Saltzman on the credits. (Their relationship had deteoriated to the point where they rotated principal producing responsibilities -- Saltzman primarily responsible for LIVE AND LET DIE, as well as the selection of Roger Moore to succeed Sean Connery and Broccoli on GOLDEN GUN. Sean Connery once described Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman as "Two guys seating across a desk from each other and each one thinking, 'That bugger's got half of what should all be mine.'") This film represents another attempt to put Moore in the Connery mold -- smacking Maude Adams and twisting her arm. Of course at a crucial moment in a boat chase through the klongs of Bangkok who should appear on vacation? But of course, Sheriff J.W. Pepper (New York actor Clifton James) from LIVE AND LET DIE. "I know you! You're that agent, that English secret agent from England!" They don't write dialog like that anymore. There's Herve ("the plane!") Villechese as Nick Nack, Britt Ecklund as the lovely but incompetent Mary Goodnight. On the positive front an extremely effective performance by Christopher Lee as Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga.

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