Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) The Man with the Golden Gun, Paco, Pistols Age Francisco Scaramanga is the main villain in the James Bond film and novel The Man with the Golden Gun . Scaramanga was played by the late English actor Christopher Lee , who was also Ian Fleming 's cousin. Contents Film biography Background Francisco Scaramanga was a British national born in a traveling circus. His father was the ringmaster, a former Cuban national and his mother was a snake charmer. By the age of ten, he was part of the circus as a trick-shot pistol marksman; a skill which he put to use when he shot and killed an abusive animal trainer after the man killed an elephant that had befriended Scaramanga. By fifteen, he was a gunman in Rio de Janeiro. He was recruited there by the KGB and trained in Eastern Europe where for many years he was basically just another overworked and underpaid assassin for the KGB. He quit the KGB in the late 1950s, becoming an independent hitman-for-hire.

All of Scaramanga's dealings go through his diminutive accomplice Nick Nack , which allows Scaramanga to remain anonymous. No photographs of him exist, but he has unusual anatomy: a third nipple . As in the novel, it is shown that Scaramanga makes love prior to killing in the belief that it 'improves the eye'. During the events of the film, he is at the very apex of his career. Consequently, Scaramanga lives very well, drawing from the exorbitant sums of money he charges to carry out his assassinations ("Current price, one million dollars", according to Bond's briefing), and has built his home on his own private island somewhere off the coast of south-eastern China (apparently part of a deal with the Chinese to carry out assassinations in return). Scaramanga lives alone, accompanied only by Nick Nack, Andrea Anders (his kept woman), and a mechanic named Kra who is in charge of maintenance and security. Scaramanga also uses some of his wealth to finance research and development of technologies that rival those developed by MI6's Q Branch . Such technologies include his infamous Golden Gun , a car that transforms into an aircraft and a solar-powered laser cannon.

In addition, Scaramanga also has a private junk, which Bond later steals to get off the exploding island. The Solex Agitator Hiding on a rooftop, Scaramanga prepares to kill Gibson. In addition to his career as an assassin, Scaramanga is also a junior partner in Hai Fat Enterprises and personal assassin to the company's owner, multimillionaire industrialist Hai Fat . Prior to the film's events, a British scientist named Gibson was employed by Hai Fat to develop a solution to the world's ongoing energy crisis . With the help of Fat's construction company, a highly efficient solar powerplant is constructed on Scaramanga's island. However, following its completion, Gibson attempts to return to Britain; bargaining for immunity with a critical component of the powerplant: the Solex Agitator unit. Having outlived his usefulness, Francisco is dispatched by Hai Fat to assassinate the scientist and recover the Solex. After meeting with his British contact at a Hong Kong club, Gibson is assassinated and his invention is stolen from the crime scene by Nick Nack.

Scaramanga initially returns the device to Fat, but following James Bond 's interference, he instead decides to kill his employer and take the Solex, powerplant and company for himself. With Hai Fat's assets in his possession, the assassin plans to sell Gibson's solar technology to the highest bidder, which was a huge concern given the recent events of the 1973 oil crisis. Criminality was of no concern to Scaramanga; anyone who paid up would be the new owner. Clash of the Titans Bond and Scaramanga meet for the first time. "My name is Scaramanga, Francisco Scaramanga. I feel I know you, although I never thought we should ever meet. It's a very great pleasure for me, Mr Bond, thanks to Miss Anders." Top 10 James Bond Villains Top 10 James Bond Villains Summary With over twenty Bond movies released through five decades, the James Bond series has had more than its fair share of great villains. Many have been parodied and copied over the years, and their influence can't be overstated. But which ones really stand out, as the most memorable and iconic villains of the series? Here is our list of the top 10. Enjoy!

#10 Le Chiffre No list of villains would be complete without including Le Chiffre from Casino Royale . He brought a much needed freshness to the reboot of the series, and was one of the better villains of the post-80s era. The intense battle on and off the poker table was reminiscent of some of the climactic gambling scenes in the Ian Fleming novels. With his creepy eye, sly demeanour, and--as if anyone could forget--his comical torture scene , Le Chiffre is the perfect place to start this article, and well deserving of 10th place. Le Chiffre was played by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who reprised the role in the 2008 first-person shooter Quantum of Solace, providing his voice and likeliness for the character. #9 Francisco Scaramanga Christopher Lee had originally been put forward for the role of Dr. No by his step cousin, Ian Fleming. Unfortunately for him, the producers had already cast Joseph Wiseman , but Lee got his chance again twelve years later. He accepted the role of Fransisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun . Lee was perfect for the role of Scaramanga.

He was the spitting image of Fleming's original character, and was received very well by fans and critics alike. His effortless charm, million dollar contracts, golden gun, and third nipple are all memorable parts of the film. Scaramanga has also proved to be a popular character in the 007 video games. #8 Nick Nack And of course, you can't list Scaramanga without immediately thinking of his small butler and sidekick. He may only have two nipples, but he's still a hell of a guy. His cheeky attitude added a lot of humour to the film, and he worked surprisingly well alongside Christopher Lee. From a mini-gun and peanuts, to suitcases and bottles of wine, there is no shortage of entertainment with Nick Nack around. It is also to his credit that he was the inspiration behind Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films. Nick Nack was played by French actor Herve Villechaize, who would go on to play the role of Tattoo in the American series Fantasy Island. #7 Mr. Big/Kananga American actor Yaphet Kotto joined the Bond series in 1973, playing politician Dr. Kananga and big time gangster Mr. Big in Live and Let Die .

Dr. Kananga was a calm Prime Minister of San Monique, an island used to grow drugs that were to be smuggled into America. He would don a rubber face mask to become his alter ego Mr. Big, the ruthless gangster who controls most of Harlem. He played the two characters well, and brought a unique contribution to the series. Kananga, alongside his taro reading mistress Solitaire, remains a popular and well known villain amongst fans. His death by a co2 filled bullet was a little cheesy though. #6 Jaws Jaws is the quintessential bigger than life bad guy, and without doubt the most well known of the Bond villains. Introduced in The Spy who Loved Me , 7 foot tall Richard Kiel brought to life the steel giant, lending the film a unique charm. He proved so popular that the producers brought him back for the next film, Moonraker . His second appearance came with a rather cheesy love affair, but Jaws remains a favourite among fans, and has gone down in history as one of the best villains in cinema history. He has appeared in many of the James Bond video games, as both playable characters and as part of the story.

Villains :: MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007 Organisations & Alliances: Nic Nac , Hai Fat “Mr. Fat has just resigned. I'm the new chairman of the board.” Profile Francisco Scaramanga, known to the security services simply as “The Man With The Golden Gun”, is an elite assassin – demanding one million dollars per assasination. Highly sought after by crime syndicates all over the world, Scaramanga travels the globe, carefully selecting his ‘hits’. An intelligent yet arrogant man, whose immense success in his chosen industry makes him overconfident when it comes to his showdown with 007 . Generally polite and used to being in control, Scaramanga lives a low profile life on a remote island in Thailand. "My golden gun against your Walther PPK, each of us with a 50-50 chance." Scheme Scaramanga has developed a high-powered monopoly on the latest energy device – the British-made “Solex Agitator”. With the power to harness and store vast amounts of solar energy, the concept should bring end to any nations energy crisis - provided they place the highest bid.

The Hong Kong millionaire, Hai Fat, provided the financial backing for the project. With full control of the “Solex Agitator” the villainous assassin can bribe any nation for any price. Any government unwilling to deal may meet with the full power of Scaramanga’s new solar powered weapon. I've Been Expecting You “Personally, I've got nothing against you, Mr. Bond, and to keep it that way, let us hope our paths never cross again. Please don't try to follow me.” After 007 receives a death threat from this world-class assassin Bond eventually traces down Scaramanga and comes face to face again at a local kickboxing event. Bond is seconds too late to save the life of Scaramanga’s ill-kept mistress, but is able to trace the gunman back to his private island hideout for one last showdown... Headquaters At one million a job, Scaramanga can afford to live the high life, although the nature of his profession means the assassin must keep a low profile. His remote island in Phuket, Thailand proves the ultimate, luxurious hideaway.

The multi-million dollar establishment has room for expansive dining rooms, living rooms, art galleries and Scaramanga’s “fun-house” - a maze of mirrors, dummies and spooky sound effects designed to keep the assassin’s eye and gun-arm in practice. The amazing establishment contained it's own self-sufficient solar power plant, run by one technician. Nick Nack served as the cook, waiter and housekeeper. Gadgets & Vehicles When on the move, Scaramanga travels onboard his Chinese Junk – commonly moored in Hong Kong harbour. The Junk has recently been updated to become fully automated and is packed with a well stocked bar. Dress Code With immense pride in his appearance, Scaramanga invests in well-tailored suits, often in cream or white tones - offset with a black tie. For the more casual look, Scaramanga opts for a tropical style button-up shirt and plenty of gold jewelry, as a brash reflection of his wealth. Goodbye, Mr Bond "You see, Mr Bond, like all great artists I want to create one indisputable masterpiece: the death of 007." Scaramanga’s building obsession with James Bond leads him to challenging 007 to a duel - pistols at ten paces.

Bond has no choice but to accept the challenge after the assassin destroys Bond's only means of escape, the sea-plane he arrived in. Back to back on the beach of Scaramnga’s Taiwanese island Bond and this million-dollar-man face down in the true battle for gentlemen. Scaramanga’s downfall comes in the mirror room of his own “fun-house” and at the hand’s of 007’s Walther PPK. Biography Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born on May 27, 1922, in London England. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffry Trollop, Lee spent much of his childhood in Switzerland, after the separation of his parents. On his mother’s second marriage the family returned to London where Lee attended Wellington College before taking a job as an office clerk at a shipping line. Lee volunteered to serve in the Finnish army during the Winter War and went on to serve in the RAF during the Second World War. He trained as fighter pilot but never flew in battle due to eyesight problems. In 1946, Lee returned to England and in pursuit of an acting career. He won his first film role in 1948.

The film was soon-to-be James Bond director Terence Young ’s “Corridor of Mirrors”. From the beginning, Lee had strong connections to the James Bond family. Christopher Lee worked with Peter Cushing worked together on “Hamlet” in that very same year and thus forging the beginning of long friendship and close association on screen. Soon, Lee had a steady career onboard classic style action and horror flicks before making his name in 1957’s Hammer horror “The Curse of Frankenstein” – again with Peter Cushing. He had a steady career on Hammer horror productions for over 20 years and it took several more to shake the stereotype of Dracula. It was through films like James Bond’s “ The Man With The Golden Gun ”, 1975’s “Tommy” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy that secured Lee’s name as a true legend of the silver screen. Francisco Scaramanga | Villains Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Big Bad / Titular Villain / Terrorist “ My name is Scaramanga. Francisco Scaramanga. I feel I know you, although I never thought we would ever really meet.

But it has been a pleasure for me to finally meet you Mr. Bond, thanks to Miss Anders here. „ ~ Scaramanga introducing himself to Bond. Francisco Scaramanga is the titular main antagonist of the James Bond novel and film adaptation The Man with the Golden Gun. He is a powerful and ruthless freelance assassin equipped with a special gun made of pure gold. In the movie he was portrayed by the late Sir Christopher Lee , step-cousin of James Bond's creator Ian Fleming, who also portrayed Count Dooku , Count Dracula and Saruman . Contents [ show ] The Man with the Golden Gun Francisco Scaramanga is a high-priced assassin, supposedly the best in the world, charging one million dollars per kill. He's best known for being "The man with the golden gun", because he only uses bullets made of gold in a fictitious, 4.2 mm cartridge. All of Scaramanga's dealings go through his henchman Nick Nack , which allows Scaramanga to be anonymous. Francisco Scaramanga was a British national born in a travelling circus. His father was the ringmaster, a former Cuban national and his mother was the snake charmer.

By age 10, he was part of the circus as a trick-shot pistol marksman. At age 15, he became an international assassin-for-hire. He was recruited some years later by the KGB while living in Ipanema, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and trained in Eastern Europe where for many years he was basically just another "overworked and underpaid assassin" for the KGB. He quit the KGB in the late 1950s, becoming an independent hitman-for hire. No photographs of him exist, but he has unusual anatomy: a third nipple. This information later comes in handy to Bond, who uses Scaramanga's anonymity and only known physical feature to get into contact with Scaramanga's current employer, the crime lord Hai-Fat — though Scaramanga is already at Hai-Fat's estate, and Hai-Fat quickly guesses who Bond really is. Later in the film, Scaramanga reveals to Bond that as a boy living in the travelling circus, he shot and killed an abusive animal trainer for killing an elephant that he had befriended.

Scaramanga also demonstrates his marksmanship to Bond by using a Colt Single Action Army to shoot the cork off a bottle of champagne from long range (Scaramanga's golden gun in the novel is a gold-plated Single Action Army), claiming later that it was a toy. Scaramanga lives very well, drawing from the exorbitant sums of money he charges to carry out his assassinations, and has built his home on his own personal island somewhere off the coast of south-eastern China - paying for lease of the island and protection through assassinations ('favors') for the Chinese. Despite his assertion that "science was never [his] strong point," the island utilizes many aspects of modern technology, including its own self-sufficient solar power plant. In addition to the power plant, Scaramanga's home also includes a section which is something between a labyrinthine maze and a funhouse, where Scaramanga and his foes duel to the death. Nick Nack hires assassins to kill Scaramanga as a challenge to keep him on his toes. Scaramanga is well aware of and approves of Nick Nack's efforts, and wishes him better luck next time when his hired guns fail.

In addition, Scaramanga also has a private junk, which Bond later steals to get off the exploding island. Scaramanga also uses some of his wealth to finance research and development of technologies that rival those developed by MI6's Q Branch. Such technologies include a car that transforms into an aircraft and a solar-powered laser cannon. Scaramanga was hired by Hai-Fat to assassinate a British scientist named Gibson, thought to be in possession of solar energy information and technology crucial to solving the energy crisis. Gibson is assassinated and his invention, the solex agitator, is stolen from the crime scene by Nick Nack. The solex agitator is a critical component of Gibson's solar energy device. However, instead of turning the device over to Hai-Fat, Scaramanga instead kills Hai-Fat with his golden gun and takes the device for himself. With it in his possession, it allows for him to sell the device to the highest criminal bidder or use it to power his personal solar energy cannon. Scaramanga also desires to test his skills against the famed James Bond, whom he regards as the only man capable of being his superior.

Besides the profit and/or power the solex agitator can give him, Scaramanga's scheme in acquiring the device is also intended to lure Bond to Scaramanga's private island so that the two of them can engage in one final, decisive duel (Although Bond is using his eight-bullet .32 Walther PPK pistol while Scaramanga uses the golden gun, Scaramanga states that he 'only needs one', Bond's superior number of bullets being offset by Scaramanga's advantages of fighting on his own ground). After taking Goodnight (Bond's semi-partner in the film) hostage, Scaramanga lures Bond to his private island. Scaramanga seems excited about Bond's visit and gives him a tour about his plan for solar power. Bond has lunch with Goodnight and Scaramanga but Bond presses his luck which provokes him and Scaramanga into a duel. Once in the funhouse, Bond takes the place of a dummy "James Bond" and tricks Scaramanga into coming out in the open to look for Bond with his pistol drawn. Before he can react to the deception, Bond shoots Scaramanga in the heart with his .32 Walther PPK pistol.

Scaramanga stares at Bond in disbelief, before collapsing to the ground, dead. Henchmen The Man With the Golden Gun: Great Villain, Lousy Bond Movie | Den of Geek Search The Man With the Golden Gun: Great Villain, Lousy Bond Movie Roger Moore comes up against the excellent Christopher Lee in our look back at The Man With The Golden Gun... tumblr The Film: Lousy, quite frankly. Throws away a brilliant premise and the best villain of the series. A decent if uninspiring first act slides into an utterly shambolic second. Clarity is left by the wayside, dignity jettisoned swiftly after. The Solex Agitator must be the dullest MacGuffin in cinema, the villain’s lair is a solar power plant operated by a single henchman (who looks highly unqualified in thermal energy). Potentially strong scenes are sabotaged by nonsensical additions: Goodnight in the wardrobe, the ‘whoop’ noise as the car corkscrews over the river. The Villain: Destroys the received wisdom that a Bond film is measured by its antagonist. Were that the case, The Man With the Golden Gun would be a stone cold classic.

Francisco Scaramanga is the baddie benchmark. He is far more compelling than Bond and certainly the one I’m rooting for during the final duel. Christopher Lee deserved better. He elevates a terrible film into something vaguely watchable but a wonderful actor is totally squandered. Arguably the biggest crime perpetuated in a Bond flick. The Girl: Despite lucking out on the villain, the film gets the heroine it deserves. Mary Goodnight is the kind of Bond girl who gives the others a bad name. Blonde, incompetent, besotted with Bond and shoved aside at every opportunity, she exists only as eye-candy and unfunny comic relief. That Goodnight supersedes the far superior Andrea Anders doesn’t help her cause. Were Britt Ekland not an actress of genuine charm, Goodnight would be utterly unbearable. Instead she is highly irritating. Progress! Some Bond films I love, some I tolerate, some I actively dislike. But this is the only Bond that makes me angry. Granted, it is a relative anger: my nights are not paced away, the moon is left unhowled at. Perhaps ‘bitterness’ is more apt word; or maybe ‘despair’ fits snuggest.

Semantics aside, the key point is Golden Gun (I shun TMWTGG: ridiculous) stirs dark feelings within, feelings best left unstirred. And then I rewatched the thing in order to write a 2500 word retrospective on it! Oh joy. What riles me so? The waste! Such a waste of a brilliant premise and a brilliant performance by Christopher Lee. Bond and his dark mirror-image locked in a fatal struggle for supremacy. Scaramanga – the most Bond-villain name imaginable – a hitman who requires only one shot, obsessed with the only man he sees as his equal. The seemingly invincible 007, finally outmatched…? How. Could. You. Mess. That. Up? The answers include Mary Goodnight, fighting schoolgirls, Sheriff Pepper, Bond being a dick to everyone, and a plot involving an energy crisis that occurred in 1973. The first 45 minutes isn’t good but is certainly tolerable. And compared to the following one-hour-15 it’s Casablanca. The pre-credits scene is actually very strong.

We experience the Funhouse through the eyes of the befuddled gangster whose assassination mission just got seriously weird. Obviously Scaramanga must win, but his lack of weapon and the madness of the Funhouse create a highly engaging scene – far more engaging than the climatic duel itself. This is partly unavoidable: once we know what’s coming – Al Capone et al – the Funhouse loses its mystery and the inevitably successful Bond is a less effective companion than the doomed gangster. The logic of horror films applies: the real thrills come when the monster strikes. Bond tracking down the bullet supplies a brief sense of purpose (how incredibly fortunate the belly dancer decided to stick it in her navel rather than bin or flog it). The soft-spoken gunsmith Lazar is a wonderfully creepy figure: one of those memorable minor roles Bond does so well. You can view Bond threatening Lazar with his own weaponry as either refreshingly tough or needlessly spiteful. I err towards the former but concede Bond plays a risky game by firing a bullet through Lazar’s legs. Shooting your only lead in the groin is rarely a wise move. It seems strange to laud a scene as unpleasant as Bond’s interrogation of Andrea in her hotel room.

He bullies and threatens her into supplying information. Physical violence occurs: Andrea’s arm is twisted and her face slapped. I completely understand dislike toward this scene and agree a line is crossed. But there is also an edge present so patently lacking from the rest of the film – and indeed Moore’s entire output. He is cold, vicious and entirely single-minded. When he snarls of Scaramanga, “I want him there” he sounds like the killer of Connery and Craig. ‘There’ is the Bottoms Up club. In one of the few remaining scenes of tension, Bond waits fruitlessly outside for Scaramanga to appear. Instead Gibson, creator of the utterly underwhelming Solex Agitator, is shot by Scaramanga from a window. Serves you right, Gibson! Why didn’t you create a shark bomb or a Death Star? Might as well tackle the Solex. The plot derives from the 1973 energy crisis because in no way would that date the film. And gee, you don’t get more exciting than renewable energy!

At one point M helpfully recounts the problems with alternative energy forms: “Coal and oil will soon be depleted, uranium is too dangerous, geothermal tidal control too expensive…” Can you feel the stakes rising? Hence the importance of the Agitator, described by Q as “the essential unit to convert radiation from the sun into electricity on an industrial basis!” As quotes go it isn’t exactly “No Mr Bond I expect you to die!” but I guess it makes Greenpeace happy. Although anybody whose attention strays during this monumentally dull scene is doomed to spend the remainder of the film wondering why Bond and Scaramanga are fighting over a Game Boy. From Russia With Love also involves a MacGuffin (the Lektor) and the planned death of Bond as its plot. But From Russia had the sense to treat the Lektor solely as a plot device. Instead the film focused on Bond’s fight for survival against SPECTRE; a simple and effective narrative. Golden Gun is obsessed with the Solex. It turns up again and again, passed from one character to another, lost and recaptured.

Unforgivably, after Scaramanga’s death, we endure five minutes of Bond attempting to pry the Solex from some random machine, unwittingly at risk of getting lasered because Goodnight sat on a button. It would be hilarious if he actually died that way. Accidentally executed by Goodnight’s straying arse. Poor Goodnight. Britt Ekland is charming in the role but she fights a losing battle with the script. Indignity upon indignity is poured upon Goodnight’s pretty blonde head. She’s infatuated with Bond, while he treats her like a woodlouse in a burger. She’s meant to be a work colleague for crying out loud! Although incompetent doesn’t do Goodnight justice. She is a greater threat to Western civilisation than Scaramanga and SPECTRE combined. How desperate is MI6 for agents in Hong Kong? The qualification process must have involved basic weapons training and a Word Search. The dojo bit is just weird. Understandably, villains – here Hai Fat, an identical role to Osato in You Only Live Twice – will opt for an excessively unpleasant, eminently escapable execution when Bond is at their mercy. This is only natural.

Being arrogant psychopaths means simply shooting Bond would be unsatisfactory for them and problematic for the franchise as a whole. But death by kung fu school? Really? Why not just get one of the sumos to sit on him? But as many astute commentators have noted (hi guys!), the franchise, especially in the Moore years, wasn’t afraid of appropriating popular trends. And martial arts films were big in the '70s. So off to the dojo we go! Fortunately Bond is better at kung fu than people who’ve spent their lifetime practising it. He beats up two of them and jumps through a window just as Lieutenant Hip and his nieces arrive. Oh yeah – Hip. Hip is a police officer who collars Bond after Gibson’s murder and takes him to M. Only for some reason Hip neglects to share this information, offering sinisterly vague answers to Bond’s inquiries. So Bond shoots him. Nah, he actually just escapes for two seconds – but my version is funnier. Hip resurfaces several times over the film and steadfastly refuses to say or do anything interesting. Thus Hip. Unfortunately Hip brings his teenage nieces on a rescue mission. Because, why not?

The two schoolgirls then beat up the entire kung fu class in a scene that mortally wounds the film’s credibility and is among the most ludicrous of the series. If it appeared in Austin Powers it would look heavy-handed. The family Hip then contrive to leave Bond behind, rendering the entire sequence narratively pointless. Fortunately there’s a boat. Because after Live And Let Die we could all do with another boat chase. Indeed, the crossovers from the previous film are just bizarre. Did Broccoli and Saltzman want out? HS: ‘What was the worst bit of Live And Let Die?’ AB: ‘Sheriff Pepper, obviously.’ HS: ‘Right. What about the second worst bit?’ AB: ‘Well that boat chase didn’t half go on…’ HS: ‘Gotcha. The next film shall feature Sheriff Pepper and a boat chase. I’m sick of this goddamn franchise.’ Well, Harry went and Albert stayed. This was the last Bond film Saltzman produced. Although Broccoli(s) remain the totem of the franchise, and Michael G Wilson long surpassed Saltzman for longevity, all Bond fans owe Harry a debt of gratitude. Vodka martinis raised! Tonally the film is a mess.

Does it want to be a hardboiled tale of rival assassins, a kung fu rip off homage, a silly romp, a complex exploration of Bond and his evil mirror-image, a bedroom farce…? Now not all of the above need be mutually exclusive, but any film that juxtaposes Bond coldly threatening to break a woman’s arm with two schoolgirls beating up a dojo is clearly suffering from an identity crisis so severe it’s on the verge of quitting its high-powered job in the city and going to live in a yurt. Occasionally these separate identities converge within the same scene, like separate cars converging on the same roundabout. The consequences aren’t pretty. A particularly gory example is Andrea unexpectedly arriving in Bond’s hotel room for a nocturnal rendezvous. Their exchange should be powerful: she pleads Bond to kill her hated boyfriend Scaramanga, he demands she recover the Solex Agitator first. The only detraction from the gravitas of the scene is that Mary Goodnight is hiding under the bedsheets. You see Mary, having rebuffed Bond over dinner, promptly changes her mind and trundles to Bond’s room in a nightdress. Why the initial rebuff then?

Well it means their tryst is not a partnership of equals but something Bond has ‘won.’ “I’m weak!” sighs Goodnight like a cheerleader on prom night, yielding to a particularly caddish jock. The notion Bond might be the weak one for sleeping with such a useless airhead whom he patently can’t stand is never touched upon. Only then Andrea turns up. So Bond pulls a sheet over his fellow agent and hopes Andrea won’t notice it breathing. Then, once Andrea has retired to the bathroom, Bond quickly hurries Goodnight out of the room. Oh, no he doesn’t. He bundles her into a wardrobe. Despite the wardrobe and the bedroom door being literally right next to each other. Presumably we’re meant to chuckle at Goodnight’s attempt to get some kip while her unrequited crush ravishes another woman three metres away. Ha. Ha. Ha. For Andrea offers herself to Bond: “I’m not unattractive.” Now the business-like Bond of earlier surely rejects the advance and stresses the importance of the Agitator. Andrea herself is a sweetener Bond doesn’t require. Plus, logistically, the presence of Goodnight makes this a bad time.

But rather than brush off the hardly enthusiastic offer, Bond smirks like a cat overdosed on Jersey Double while listening to Eric Clapton. “At last you’re beginning to tell the truth,” he purrs. It is a horrible misstep but sadly consistent for the film. (Nearly as horrible is Bond saying to Mary Goodnight, as he realises her from the wardrobe: “Your turn will come, I promise.” Not the line itself but the fact she doesn’t fly kick his nuts immediately afterwards.) Typically, the worst scene of the film is followed by its best. The long-awaited meeting of Bond and Scaramanga,with a suitably macabre backdrop provided by Andrea’s clothed corpse (would a dead body sit up like that?). Anyway, let me indulge in some Lee love. Scaramanga is sexy, sophisticated, sinister and suave – a lot of ‘S’ words except the one that describes the film (although Bond claims otherwise). The idea of an ‘Evil Bond’ was introduced in From Russia - Red Grant - and would be explored further with GoldenEye and Alec Trevelyan, but Scaramanga is the most compelling of the trio.

His silent, post-kill gun stroking of Andrea is deliciously creepy; the gleam as he describes his first kill more eloquent than any mad cackle or subordinate execution. Scaramanga clearly derives sexual satisfaction from the act of killing – but then sex and death are the twin hearts of Bond, both franchise and character. Bond’s first cinematic kill (Professor Dent) occurs after an extended liaison with Miss Taro. Of all villains, Scaramanga remains the one in whom Bond is most visible. Why does Scaramanga want the Solex though? He clearly doesn’t need the money. And is cornering the renewable energy market really the way disenchanted multimillionaire hitmen get their kicks? Far too much of Bond and Scaramanga’s island confrontation involves exposition on how the solar power plant works. “Thermoelectric generators to convert solar energy into electricity…” intones Bond. “Superconductivity coils cooled by liquid helium…” We get about five minutes of this. What should be the high point of tension turns into a GCSE science class. The relationship between Scaramanga and Nick Nack is intriguing but undeveloped. The idea of a henchman hiring assassins to keep his boss sharp is truly innovative.

And Nick Nack is a wonderful character: amusing, vicious yet strangely loveable, and highly competent until his final appearance where a lot of well-avoided indignities are regrettably unleashed. (Not the suitcase!) Quite why Scaramanga employs a midget as his one manservant is never explained. But multiple questions surround the duo. How did they meet? Do they socialise ever? Does Nick Nack really want Scaramanga dead - presumably not judging by his anguished attack on the boat. Some backstory would have been nice but then we’d miss out on Sheriff Pepper. I won’t expound long on JW because Den Of Geek doesn’t condone that type of language. Let us not speculate why the good sheriff holidays in Thailand, nor muse on his presence in the showroom car Bond promptly hijacks. I’m sure countless Louisianan lawmen flocked to the Far East in the 1970s, and once arrived they naturally purchased motor vehicles. Shipping costs be damned! Strangely, I find Pepper less objectionable than in Live And Let Die despite his appearance being more gratuitous and gurning than previously. Quality is the crux.

Whereas in Live And Let Die Pepper blights an otherwise fine outing, here he is just another poop in the toilet bowl. Subtract Pepper from Live And Let Die and the film rises a notch. Subtract Pepper from Golden Gun and the smell remains. It is remarkable Scaramanga and Pepper share the same series, let alone the same film. The mind boggles at a meeting between the pair. Yet if I could remove one, it would be Scaramanga. Christopher Lee deserved a thousand times better. Apparently the earlier screenplay focused much more on Scaramanga’s psychological duel with Bond, but this theme was sidelined during rewrites. Fools. Earlier I referred to a useful ‘S’ word that neatly summarised the film. And watching Lee goad Bond at the dinner table, and musing on the vast potential utterly squandered, I can’t hold back any longer. It makes me kind of sad. Best Bit: Scaramanga sharing his life story at the kickboxing. Worst Bit: Never has so great a villain suffered so crap a death. Final Thought: How come M has a direct line to Scaramanga’s boat? Surely this is information worth sharing with Bond.

“Nobody knows what Scaramanga looks like – but I do have his phone number, if that helps?” A final illogicality that shows how little anybody cared. Francisco Scaramanga | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Francisco Scaramanga is the villain in the James Bond film and novel The Man with the Golden Gun . In the novel, the character is nicknamed "Pistols" Scaramanga and is also called "Paco" (a Spanish diminutive of Francisco). Scaramanga was played in the corresponding film version of The Man with the Golden Gun by the late English actor Christopher Lee , who is also Ian Fleming 's cousin.

The Man with the Golden Gun Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 52 out of 67 people found the following review useful: Much better than its reputation from London, England 8 August 2005 The Man With the Golden Gun was producer Harry Saltzman's last hurrah before selling out his share in the Bond series to United Artists to ensure the maximum inconvenience to his detested partner Cubby Broccoli. It's certainly not premium Bond: at times it threatens to turn into an episode of The Avengers, what with Scaramanga's funhouse, his midget servant Nick Nack, it's human statues or the off-kilter angles of MI6's Hong Kong HQ located in the rusting wreck of the Queen Elizabeth, not to mention Roger Moore's more Steed-like Bond.

Although there are hints of the lows to come in Moore's tenure  Bond being saved by a pair of schoolgirls or defeating a villain by pretending to be a tailor's dummy  this is still recognisable an old-school Bond film, with thankfully few gadgets, although it's disappointing that the producers provide Scaramanga with an island lair and super-weapon to give Bond something to blow up at the end (a rather half-hearted effort to be sure: instead of a private army, Scaramanga simply has Herve Villachaize and a maintenance man). Britt Ekland's irritating 'typical silly woman' comic relief was a bit hard to take in 1974 and gets worse with each passing year, but Christopher Lee's Scaramanga is one of the more interesting Bond villains, not least because of his imagined empathy with his prey  he regards himself as Bond's moral and professional equal, the kind of pathological snobbery Fleming's books were full of but the films increasingly abandoned. Was the above review useful to you?

36 out of 45 people found the following review useful: Scaramanga's trademark weapon was a single-shot, gold plated, 4.2-caliber handgun 9 July 2005 *** This review may contain spoilers *** In Guy Hamilton's 'The Man With the Golden Gun', James Bond still enjoys a good cigar, and prefers Dom Perignon '62 above the '64 offered... He sure does love Swedish babes, and dares to kiss a talented dancer's 'magnificent' abdomen... He slaps a tall, graceful slim girl, and he slaps her hard... He attempts to overtake Scaramanga's car by crossing a canal with no bridge in sight, and pilots a small seaplane to let us see those incredible prehistoric islands off the coast of Thailand... Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) is a world's class assassin who has stolen a prize solar energy device, but who only needs one bullet to finish a job... He likes Tabasco sauce, gold jewelry, and a girl in a bikini... He caresses his lover with a golden gun, and loves to kill for a million dollars a shot... He has a 'sign' of great sexual prowess...

He perverse love/hate relationship with a mischievous French-speaking assistant, and admires Bond so much that he even keeps a mannequin of him at his island retreat... He claims to be an artist, and challenges 007 to 'a duel between titans' on the sunlit beach... A man of taste, his AMC Matador car suddenly sprouted wings and jetted off into the blue sky Britt Ekland spends most of the film either locked in the trunk of Scaramanga's flying car or stuck in the closet of Bond's hotel room while 007 makes love to Andrea (Maud Adams). Maud Adams remains the only exotic woman to have starred in two different Bond features, and would also have a brief cameo in "A View To A Kill." This Swedish beauty is sick of Scaramanga's sadistic games It was she who sent the gold bullet to M16 that set Bond on Scaramanga's tail Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize) perfectly proves that the smallest of Bond's adversaries can easily give 007 big trouble... He annoyed 007 right up until the very end of the mission His tiny mannerisms perfectly fitted the fantasy tradition of the Bond movies...

He's seen so quick on his feet as he plays with the controls that operate the 'fun house' on Scaramanga island 'The Man With the Golden Gun' remains thin and obvious 007 extravaganza with conventional expensive excitements... The boat and car chases merely reprise sequences in both 'Live and Let Die' and 'Diamonds Are Forever.' Last note: After being absent in 'Live and Let Die,' Desmond Llewelyn returns as the beloved Q, but provides 007 no fantastic gadgets and weapons this time... Was the above review useful to you? 41 out of 59 people found the following review useful: Beautiful landscapes in a so-so Bond adventure from Switzerland 4 October 2005 Let me say I like Roger Moore very much, because I grew up watching his films -he's the first Bond I've ever seen. Many people prefer Sean Connery, who is really unique, true... But how can I say Roger Moore is not good? I've also a lot of affection for Moore because I watched on TV, when I was a kid, "The Persuaders" series. Although that his second Bond outing is not very good.

That's not his fault at all, the screenplay is not good and the story itself is not very interesting. Everything is a little slower than usual, the film has neither the liveliness of "Live and let die" -the first Moore Bond flick- nor the liveliness of the previous episodes. Here Bond has to face a refined assassin -that's all, there isn't a real thrilling intrigue On the other hand landscapes and John Barry score are fantastic. Also the cast is strong, because Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland bring a lot of glamour. It's a pity that the movie doesn't match the usual standard. At the time producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman didn't get along well with each other any more. In '75 their partnership broke up and let Broccoli alone at the command of 007 empire. Maybe this tensions had an influence on "The man with the golden gun", who knows... Luckily in 1977 Bond came back with one of the best films of the series -"The spy who loved me", a real classic, the definitive Roger Moore entry as Bond. Was the above review useful to you?

31 out of 41 people found the following review useful: Enjoyable Bond adventure, but not one of the very best. from Todmorden, England 19 August 2003 The Man With the Golden Gun ditches the original novel almost completely (the book was set in Jamaica, for a start, whereas the film is located in the Far East). However, it is still a fairly entertaining entry is the long-running series, and features three strong reasons for tuning in: 1)a classic Bond villain in the shape of Francisco Scaramanga 2)a classic villain's henchman in the shape of psycho dwarf NickNack, and 3)a stunning Bond girl in the shape of Mary Goodnight. There'a also the most outrageous car stunt ever seen in a motion picture, rendered all the more impressive by the fact that it is not a computer enhanced sequence but was filmed for real (including that infamous loop-the-loop in the red sports car). Bond is played by Roger Moore for the second time. Moore is relaxed and easy-going in his usual manner, but shows a bit of the old Connery toughness during a couple of martial arts fight sequences.

His mission is simply to stay alive this time, having been targeted by world renowned hitman Francisco Scaramanga (chilling Christopher Lee). Moore decides that rather than waiting around to be shot, he will hunt for Scaramanga himself, and his search takes him to Beirut, Macao, Hong Kong and, finally, a privately owned Thai island. En route, he discovers that Scaramanga has bigger fish to fry than simply killing 007, as he also plans to use a powerful solar device to power-up a deadly laser gun that he has had built. It's a surprisingly slow-moving film for a Bond flick, with more talky scenes than is customary. However, the action when it comes is pretty memorable. The comedy relief provided by Clifton James (you may remember him as a mouthy cop from Live and Let Die) is somewhat irritating and hurts the film more than it helps it. Lulu's title song is dated, but catchy. I would rate this an an enjoyable Bond escapade, definitely worth catching for series completists and fans of action bonanzas, but it isn't really the best of the bunch and isn't even the best of Moore's films in the series.

If you're only going to see five minutes of the film, though, you simply must tune in for that afore-mentioned car stunt.... awesome! Was the above review useful to you? 50 out of 83 people found the following review useful: No doubt one of Roger Moore's best from Järvenpää, Finland 4 December 2002 I just recently watched "The Man with the golden gun" for the millionth time and it was day after I saw "Die another day" which I found massively disappointing. The difference between the two is just inconceivable! It's hard to believe both movies are actually part of the same series. When I watched "Die another day", most of the time I felt that I'm not even watching a Bond movie. It was so deliriously refreshing to once again look out what a traditional, true first-rate Bond classic looks like and let me tell you: it always looks good. I can't understand people who claim "The Man with the golden gun" is one of the worst Bond films. Why the hell's that?

To me it has always been one of Roger Moore's finest efforts as 007, he unfortunately started to be a bit too old anyway in his last films. This is an extremely splendid film: entertaining, exotic and fascinating James Bond movie - just like "Live and let die". Funny, gripping and just simply irresistible and not boring for a single second. Christopher Lee's Scaramanga is certainly one of the greatest villains in a Bond movie ever. His servant Nick Nack (as played by Hervé Villechaize who sadly committed suicide 19 years later) is also one of the best of the classic sidekicks Bond's enemies has had - he's right in the company of Oddjob and Jaws. Excellent 007-adventure! Was the above review useful to you? 24 out of 34 people found the following review useful: Underrated Moore Bond from hollywood 21 September 2006 Altho there's a lot of hate for this second Moore 007, I never understood it. For a change, most of the witty dialogue works well. I think it's one of Moore's best Bond performances.

So let's break it down: The Good: - Roger Moore is witty and action ready. His fight scene in the belly dancer's room is pretty good. Tough and violent. Don't know about that cigar, but it adds a little extra somethin'. - Herve Villechieze as Knick Knack. Not threatening, but a fun memorable sidekick with lots of playful malevolence. I love it when he shushes Bond. - Christopher Lee. Nuff said, tho they didn't build up this character to the level they could have. Where are those deleted scenes between him and Moore (from the trailer and photos)that obviously exist? - John Barry. Yes, Lulu's song is ridiculous. Still, I love the brassy music and this is one of Barry's most memorable catchy Bond scores. Especially during the karate scenes and the jazzy swing of Scaramenga's fun parlor. - Kung fu. The Bond films always lucked out when it came to latching onto the culture of the day. 1974 was the height of kung fu exploitation and Bond was there. Still have BLACK BELT magazine featuring this on the cover... The Bad: - Miss Goodnight.

Giving Bond a ditzy helper...well, bad night. - Lack of compelling plot. The energy cell and Scaramanga are too loosely tied together and the film shouldn't have tried to pull a Blofeld at the end. - Production design. Ken Adams is sorely missing here. And what's with that ONE GUARD in the massive solar laser set? Missed opportunity there. The Ugly: - JW Pepper. from St. Louis, Missouri 22 June 2006 You don't review James Bond movies, you evaluate them, rate them according to how well they meet expectations. There are certain things one has come to expect, even demand of a Bond film and each individual effort either delivers or it doesn't. So, here are ten elements that make a Bond film a Bond film and how THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN rates on a scale of 1 to 10: Title: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN: Exceedingly lame, the title might be an accurate description of the film's villain, but it is almost embarrassing in its attempt at sexual innuendo. 4 points.

Pre-Credit Teaser: A forty-year-old stereotype of a gangster (black shirt, white tie, fedora, etc.) is lured into a cheesy funhouse, that wouldn't even cut the muster at a fifth rate carnival, to do battle with Scaramanga, the world's highest paid professional assassin. This is supposed to foreshadow a duel of the titans confrontation between Scaramanga and Bond. Instead it introduces us to the rather tacky quality of the entire movie. 5 points. Opening Credits: Same old same old from Maurice Binder. 4 points. Theme Song: As bad as the title is, the attempt to turn it into a theme song is even worse. The music itself is catchy enough, I suppose, and the instrumental theme that pops up on the soundtrack now again is decent. But the lyrics are just plain awful in their attempt to cross themes of sex and violence: "His eye may be on you or me. Who will he bang? We shall see." Ouch! Even pop diva Lulu can't do much with such numbingly bad material. 1 point.

"Bond, James Bond": Were it not for the bits of campy humor peppered throughout the film, I suspect that Roger Moore would just nod off. It's only his second film and already he seems bored -- but with this material, who can blame him? 5 points. Bond Babes: As Scaramanga's mistress, Maud Adams is surprisingly poignant as a woman trapped in a corrupt world and controlled by an abusive man. She shows more depth than we have come to expect from a Bond Girl, but predictably her character is killed off far too soon. And, unfortunately, the film's heroine becomes Mary Goodnight, played by Britt Ekland, the one-time Mrs. Peter Sellers. Though we are supposed to believe she is a British agent, Goodnight is a one-joke ditz of the sort that suddenly became a Bond cliché. The two cancel each other out. 5 points. Bond Villain: It is said that Ian Fleming wanted his cousin, famed screen Dracula, Christopher Lee, to be the villain in the first Bond film, DR. NO. That didn't work out, but it is hard to say if it was worth the wait to see him here.

Lee is a class act and one of the legendary screen villains of all time. Unfortunately, he is saddled with playing one of the dullest Bond villains of all time. Scaramanga seems to be as noted for his good manners as for his bloodlust. Lee seems to be enjoying the role and there is nothing intrinsically wrong with his portrayal, it is just that Scaramanga doesn't seem all the threatening. Why doesn't Bond just shoot him and be done with it? 5 points. Bond Baddies: As sort of a Mini-Me version of Goldfinger's Oddjob, Nick Nack is apparently an all purpose butler, henchman, adorable sidekick and source of comic relief. At less than four feet tall, Hervé Villechaize is certainly not very threatening, but pound for pound and inch for inch, he is probably one of Bond's more memorable adversaries. 8 points. Sinister Plot: The world's most notorious hired assassin apparently has a contract to kill 007, though considering Bond dodges three or four assassins in every one of his adventures, it's hard to see what the big deal is.

Anyway, Bond is working on an assignment involving a missing scientist involved in harnessing solar energy and it turns out that Scaramanga is trying to take control of the world using solar energy. Wow, what a coincidence! And how lame. 3 points. Production values: Whatever ill that can be said about the film as a whole, it will always be cherished by Bondophiles for the infamous spinning car jump. In an attempt to jazz up their image, the carmaker AMC somehow persuaded the Bond producers to let them supply the cars for TMWTGG (just as Fords costarred in GOLDFINGER and Chevys in LIVE AND LET DIE), which is the only possible reason that Scaramanga would be driving a Matador. Anyway, it is also the only possible reason that Bond would commandeer an AMC Hornet to give chase. After a fairly well staged chase through the streets of Bangkok, Bond must catch up with Scaramanga by crossing a river via a half-collapsed bridge. Thus, the car trick from two ramps twisted in opposite directions. A neat trick. And if all Matadors could sprout wings and fly like Scaramanga's, maybe AMC would still be in business. 10 points.

Bonus Points: Clifton James, as the big-bellied, tobacco-spitting, none-too-bright southern sheriff, J.W. Pepper, is back and for no apparent reason beyond being a desperate attempt to repeat a joke that fell flat when used in LIVE AND LET DIE. Minus 5 points. Summary: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN was used as evidence that the Bond series was wearing out its welcome. Despite trying new things with the character and the formula, the film seems listless and uninspired. It is a low point, but it is also the lull before the rebirth that would come with THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. Bond-o-meter Rating: 45 points out of 100. Was the above review useful to you? 15 out of 20 people found the following review useful: Golden Gun is Golden Surprise! from United States 6 January 2006 Roger Moore's second outing as Agent 007 puts him against the evil trick shot artist/assassin, Scaramanga (Christopher Lee).

Hailed by many Connery fans as the film that marked the downfall of the 007 franchise, 'The Man With The Golden Gun' turns out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of the entire series and one of the 'better' Roger Moore films. 'Gun' does take some getting used to, in fact, more times than not, you need to see it a few times to really begin to enjoy the film. The cast is great, one of the better ones of the entire series. There are two leading ladies in this film, the wonderful Maud Adams, who would later star in Octopussy (1983), and the terrible Britt Ekland who just acts so dumb and hopeless that it almost angers viewers. The villain Scaramanga is top notch as well as his comical, yet silently evil assistant, Nick Nack, played by French painter Herve Villechaize. The plot of the film is very interesting, the locals are exotic (which is always an extremely important part of a bond film), and Roger Moore continues to develop his character from a Connery-clone to putting his own, charming spin on 007.

All-in-all, 'Gun' is another good 007 adventure and is quite possibly the 4th best Roger Moore Bond film. Any fan of the series should give it a second look before they hail it as 'bad'. Was the above review useful to you? 9 out of 9 people found the following review useful: Bond #9: Scaramanga turns on the light from Hamburg, Germany 9 July 2008 The killer Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) uses a special golden gun for his assignments and has a rare birthmark on his chest. That's about the only things the movie has in common with the novel which played in the Caribbean region whereas the movie takes us to Thailand where Scaramanga secretly works with solar energy. Casting Herve Villechaize was an attempt to create a sidekick for Scaramanga like Oddjob had been to Goldfinger - a bit too silly in the end. Being a child of its time, "The Man With the Golden Gun" couldn't resist some kung fu - you see better martial arts in Hong Kong productions, though. Somehow parts of the movie seem too artificial, especially the mirror labyrinth where Scaramanga likes to practice the art of killing.

But the beautiful islands will stick to your memory, and there is the most fabulous car stunt so far! There's an interesting promo photo for the movie, by the way: Lee and Moore back to back, gun in hand. This is not just a duel, this is also illustrating the idea of Scaramanga being a "dark Bond", his mirror image as a bad guy with the same skills, but different ideology. "We have so much in common, Mr Bond", Scaramanga says. "Ours is the loneliest profession." Was the above review useful to you? 20 out of 31 people found the following review useful: Goodnight, Sir. from The Penumbra 8 May 2007 The nefarious (I've no idea what that means, but I know it works) super-assassin Francisco Saramanga is out to kill Bond. Because he's like that. Scaramanga charges a million dollars a hit and is the only person in the world who has a slim chance of getting to Bond. Concerned for his safety, M takes Bond off active duty.

Never perturbed (not really sure of that word either), Bond still investigates and soon discovers that Scaramanga has stolen the 'priceless' Solex Agitator. Oh yeah, one of those! A mere MacGuffin and no more. In his mission to retrieve said 'agitator' Bond travels to Thailand and Hong Kong and gets into many silly fights, one involving a midget butler. He even finds time stress-out hillbilly Sheriff JW Pepper once more and...erm...'roger' his gorgeous assistant Mary Goodnight. It's very dumb and thoroughly unsophisticated but it's all in the name of fun and Roger Moore's light, somewhat innocent way of playing Bond just keeps you smiling all the way through. I also liked John Barry's score, despite the fact he claims it's his weakest effort on the series. TMWTGG was the last Bond film to be shot in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio and I do feel that if it was shot in Panavision then it would have more slick and polished look. 33 years on, TMWTGG looks too grainy and dated and appears older than it is.

I'm not sure why Guy Hamilton chose to film it this way when 4 previous Bond films had already been made in Scope widescreen. Definitely one of the lesser Bond movies but saved by sense of humor and never-ending fun. Rent this one. Was the above review useful to you? Page 1 of 27: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The Man with the Golden Gun ( 1974 ) PG | James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

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Director: John Glen James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. Director: John Glen James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him. Director: John Glen Edit Storyline 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? Written by Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk> Taglines: The world's greatest villains tried to kill James Bond. Now it's Scaramanga's turn to try See more » Genres: 20 December 1974 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know?

Trivia In the fight in the dancer's dressing-room, Roger Moore sprays one of the villains in the face with an aerosol can of what is clearly Brut-33, a nod to the Fabergé company with which Moore was associated. See more » Goofs After the Bottoms Up Club scene, Lieutenant Hip tells Bond that they are going to "Kowloon side." He then says "We're going to the New Territories" as they ride the boat across Victoria Harbor. But the Bottoms Up Club is actually located in Kowloon, and Kowloon is part of the New Territories. See more » Quotes Francisco Scaramanga : Nick Nack! Tabasco! Nick-nack : Right away, Monsieur Scaramanga. See more » Crazy Credits THE END of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN James Bond will return in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME See more » Connections (St. Louis, Missouri) – See all my reviews You don't review James Bond movies, you evaluate them, rate them according to how well they meet expectations. There are certain things one has come to expect, even demand of a Bond film and each individual effort either delivers or it doesn't.

So, here are ten elements that make a Bond film a Bond film and how THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN rates on a scale of 1 to 10: Title: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN: Exceedingly lame, the title might be an accurate description of the film's villain, but it is almost embarrassing in its attempt at sexual innuendo. 4 points. Pre-Credit Teaser: A forty-year-old stereotype of a gangster (black shirt, white tie, fedora, etc.) is lured into a cheesy funhouse, that wouldn't even cut the muster at a fifth rate carnival, to do battle with Scaramanga, the world's highest paid professional assassin. This is supposed to foreshadow a duel of the titans confrontation between Scaramanga and Bond. Instead it introduces us to the rather tacky quality of the entire movie. 5 points. Opening Credits: Same old same old from Maurice Binder. 4 points. Theme Song: As bad as the title is, the attempt to turn it into a theme song is even worse. The music itself is catchy enough, I suppose, and the instrumental theme that pops up on the soundtrack now again is decent.

But the lyrics are just plain awful in their attempt to cross themes of sex and violence: "His eye may be on you or me. Who will he bang? We shall see." Ouch! Even pop diva Lulu can't do much with such numbingly bad material. 1 point. "Bond, James Bond": Were it not for the bits of campy humor peppered throughout the film, I suspect that Roger Moore would just nod off. It's only his second film and already he seems bored -- but with this material, who can blame him? 5 points. Bond Babes: As Scaramanga's mistress, Maud Adams is surprisingly poignant as a woman trapped in a corrupt world and controlled by an abusive man. She shows more depth than we have come to expect from a Bond Girl, but predictably her character is killed off far too soon. And, unfortunately, the film's heroine becomes Mary Goodnight, played by Britt Ekland, the one-time Mrs. Peter Sellers. Though we are supposed to believe she is a British agent, Goodnight is a one-joke ditz of the sort that suddenly became a Bond cliché. The two cancel each other out. 5 points.

Bond Villain: It is said that Ian Fleming wanted his cousin, famed screen Dracula, Christopher Lee, to be the villain in the first Bond film, DR. NO. That didn't work out, but it is hard to say if it was worth the wait to see him here. Lee is a class act and one of the legendary screen villains of all time. Unfortunately, he is saddled with playing one of the dullest Bond villains of all time. Scaramanga seems to be as noted for his good manners as for his bloodlust. Lee seems to be enjoying the role and there is nothing intrinsically wrong with his portrayal, it is just that Scaramanga doesn't seem all the threatening. Why doesn't Bond just shoot him and be done with it? 5 points. Bond Baddies: As sort of a Mini-Me version of Goldfinger's Oddjob, Nick Nack is apparently an all purpose butler, henchman, adorable sidekick and source of comic relief. At less than four feet tall, Hervé Villechaize is certainly not very threatening, but pound for pound and inch for inch, he is probably one of Bond's more memorable adversaries. 8 points.

Sinister Plot: The world's most notorious hired assassin apparently has a contract to kill 007, though considering Bond dodges three or four assassins in every one of his adventures, it's hard to see what the big deal is. Anyway, Bond is working on an assignment involving a missing scientist involved in harnessing solar energy and it turns out that Scaramanga is trying to take control of the world using solar energy. Wow, what a coincidence! And how lame. 3 points. Production values: Whatever ill that can be said about the film as a whole, it will always be cherished by Bondophiles for the infamous spinning car jump. In an attempt to jazz up their image, the carmaker AMC somehow persuaded the Bond producers to let them supply the cars for TMWTGG (just as Fords costarred in GOLDFINGER and Chevys in LIVE AND LET DIE), which is the only possible reason that Scaramanga would be driving a Matador. Anyway, it is also the only possible reason that Bond would commandeer an AMC Hornet to give chase. After a fairly well staged chase through the streets of Bangkok, Bond must catch up with Scaramanga by crossing a river via a half-collapsed bridge.

Thus, the car trick from two ramps twisted in opposite directions. A neat trick. And if all Matadors could sprout wings and fly like Scaramanga's, maybe AMC would still be in business. 10 points. Bonus Points: Clifton James, as the big-bellied, tobacco-spitting, none-too-bright southern sheriff, J.W. Pepper, is back and for no apparent reason beyond being a desperate attempt to repeat a joke that fell flat when used in LIVE AND LET DIE. Minus 5 points. Summary: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN was used as evidence that the Bond series was wearing out its welcome. Despite trying new things with the character and the formula, the film seems listless and uninspired. It is a low point, but it is also the lull before the rebirth that would come with THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. Bond-o-meter Rating: 45 points out of 100. 16 of 19 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes

Question: Scaramanga was the villain of which Bond film?
Answer: The Man With The Golden Gun