The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 spy film and the ninth in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. A loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's posthumously published 1965 novel of the same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga, the "Man with the Golden Gun". The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the Solex. "The Man with the Golden Gun" was the fourth and final film in the series directed by Guy Hamilton.
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The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
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Originally, the role of Scaramanga was offered to Jack Palance, but he turned the opportunity down. Christopher Lee, who was eventually chosen to portray Scaramanga, was Ian Fleming's step-cousin and Fleming had suggested Lee for the role of Dr. Julius No in the 1962 series opener "Dr. No". Lee noted that Fleming was a forgetful man and by the time he mentioned this to Broccoli and Saltzman they had cast Joseph Wiseman in the part. Due to filming on location in Bangkok, his role in the film affected Lee's work the following year, as director Ken Russell was unable to sign Lee to play The Specialist in the 1975 film "Tommy", a part eventually given to Jack Nicholson.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Casting
The trailers featured some of the cut scenes.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Filming
"The Man with the Golden Gun" met with mixed reviews upon its release. Derek Malcolm in "The Guardian" savaged the film, saying that "the script is the limpest of the lot and ... Roger Moore as 007 is the last man on earth to make it sound better than it is." There was some praise from Malcolm, although it was muted, saying that "Christopher Lee ... makes a goodish villain and Britt Ekland a passable Mary Goodnight ... Up to scratch in production values ... the film is otherwise merely a potboiler. Maybe enough's enough." Tom Milne, writing in "The Observer", was even more caustic, writing that "This series, which has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for some time, is now through the bottom ...
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Contemporary reviews
Christopher Lee's portrayal of Scaramanga as a villain of similar skill and ability to Bond was praised, but reviewers criticised the film as a whole, particularly its comedic approach and the performances of Moore and Britt Ekland. Whilst profitable, the film is the 4th lowest-grossing in the series and its relatively modest returns by comparison with those of "Live and Let Die" (1973) reportedly placed the continuation of the franchise in jeopardy. It was the last Bond film to be co-produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, with Saltzman selling his 50% stake in Danjaq, LLC, the parent company of Eon Productions, after the release of the film.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Introduction
Three Golden Gun props were made; a solid piece, one that could be fired with a cap and one that could be assembled and disassembled, although Christopher Lee said that the process "was extremely difficult." The gun was "one of the more memorable props in the Bond series" and consisted of an interlocking fountain pen (the barrel), cigarette lighter (the bullet chamber), cigarette case (the handle) and cufflink (the trigger) with the bullet secured in Scaramanga's belt buckle. In the film, the gun was designed to accept a single 4.2-millimetre, 23-carat gold bullet produced by Lazar, a gunsmith in Macau who specialized in custom weapons and ammunition.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Golden Gun prop
Hamilton decided to put Marc Lawrence, whom he had worked with on "Diamonds Are Forever", to play a gangster shot dead by Scaramanga at the start of the film because he found it an interesting idea to "put sort of a Chicago gangster in the middle of Thailand".
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Casting
After escaping with the aid of Hip and his nieces, Bond speeds away on a motorised sampan along the river and reunites with his assistant, Mary Goodnight. Scaramanga subsequently kills Hai Fat with his golden gun and assumes control of his empire, taking the Solex with him.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Plot
Academy Award winner Oswald Morris was hired to finish the job after cinematographer Ted Moore became ill. Morris was initially reluctant, as he did not like his previous experiences taking over other cinematographers' work, but accepted after dining with Broccoli. Production wrapped in Pinewood in August 1974. One of the main stunts in the film consisted of stunt driver Loren “Bumps” Willert (as James Bond) driving an AMC Hornet leaping a broken bridge and spinning around 360 degrees in mid-air about the longitudinal axis, doing an "aerial twist"; Willert successfully completed the jump on the first take, and was given a $30,000 bonus on the spot.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Filming
The Golden Gun ranked sixth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll of the most popular film weapons, which surveyed approximately 2,000 film fans. On 10 October 2008, it was discovered that one of the golden guns used in the film, which is estimated to be worth around £80,000, was missing (suspected stolen) from Elstree Props, a company based at Hertfordshire studios.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Golden Gun prop
A sample from one of the songs, "Hip's Trip", was used by The Prodigy in the "Mindfields" track on the album "The Fat of the Land".
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Music
The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 spy film and the ninth in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. A loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's posthumously published 1965 novel of the same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga, the "Man with the Golden Gun". The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the Solex. "The Man with the Golden Gun" was the fourth and final film in the series directed by Guy Hamilton.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Introduction
The Legend of the Golden Gun is a 1979 television Western film, starring Jeff Osterhage, Hal Holbrook, Carl Franklin, and Robert Davi.
The Legend of the Golden Gun | Introduction
The stunt was shown in slow motion, for the scene was otherwise too fast. Composer John Barry added a slide whistle sound effect over the stunt, which Broccoli kept in despite thinking that it "undercouped the stunt". Barry later regretted his decision, thinking the whistle "broke the golden rule" as the stunt was "for what it was all worth, a truly dangerous moment, ... true James Bond style". The sound effect was described as "simply crass". The writer Jim Smith suggested that the stunt "brings into focus the lack of excitement in the rest of the film and is spoilt by the use of 'comedy' sound effects." Eon Productions had licensed the stunt, which had been designed by Raymond McHenry.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Filming
Nearly all gadgets in this film belong to the main villain, Francisco Scaramanga.
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The script was written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. The film was set in the face of the 1973 energy crisis, a dominant theme in the script. Britain had still not yet fully overcome the crisis when the film was released in December 1974. The film also reflects the then-popular martial arts film craze, with several kung fu scenes and a predominantly Asian location, being set and shot in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macau. Part of the film is also set in Beirut, Lebanon, but it was not shot there. The film was met with mixed reviews, and some critics described it as the lowest point in the canon up to that time.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Introduction
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Man with a Gun (1995 film) | Introduction
Saltzman and Broccoli can still produce such slick and inventive entertainment". Arthur Thirkwell, writing in the "Sunday Mirror"s sister paper, the "Daily Mirror", concentrated more on lead actor Roger Moore than the film itself: "What Sean Connery used to achieve with a touch of sardonic sadism, Roger Moore conveys with roguish schoolboy charm and the odd, dry quip." Thirkwell also said that Moore "manages to make even this reduced-voltage Bond a character with plenty of sparkle." Judith Crist of "New York Magazine" gave a positive review, saying "the scenery's grand, the lines nice and the gadgetry entertaining", also describing the production as a film that "capture[s] the free-wheeling, whooshing non-sense of early Fleming's fairy tale for grown-ups orientation".
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Contemporary reviews
For one of the two main aspects of the plot, the screenwriters used the 1973 energy crisis as a backdrop to the film, allowing the MacGuffin of the "Solex agitator" to be introduced; Broccoli's stepson Michael G. Wilson researched solar power to create the Solex. While "Live and Let Die" had borrowed heavily from the blaxploitation genre, "The Man with the Golden Gun" borrowed from the martial arts genre that was popular in the 1970s through films such as "Fist of Fury" (1972) and "Enter the Dragon" (1973). However, the use of the martial arts for a fight scene in the film "lapses into incredibility" when Lt Hip and his two nieces defeat an entire "dojo".
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Writing and themes
After retrieving a spent golden bullet from a belly dancer in Beirut and tracking its manufacturer to Macau, Bond forces the gun maker to show him how he delivers the bullets. Seeing Andrea Anders, Scaramanga's mistress, collecting the shipment of golden bullets at a casino, Bond follows her to Hong Kong and, in her Peninsula Hotel room, pressures Anders to expose information about Scaramanga, his appearance and his plans; she directs him to the Bottoms Up Club. The club proves to be the location of Scaramanga's next hit, Gibson, from whom Scaramanga's dwarf henchman Nick Nack steals the "Solex agitator", a key component of a solar power station.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Plot
The Golden Bullet is a 1917 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
The Golden Bullet (1917 film) | Introduction
In Ian Fleming's novel, the Golden Gun was a long-barrelled, gold-plated, single-action Colt Peacemaker .45 calibre revolver that fired silver-jacketed bullets with a solid gold core and a cross-cut tip for additional wounding due to the dum-dum effect. However, in the film, it was a single-shot weapon that fired a custom-made 4.2-millimetre dum-dum bullet made of 23-carat gold with traces of nickel, which Scaramanga carried on his belt buckle. The movie gun could be disassembled and its components disguised as a fountain pen (the barrel), a cigarette lighter (breech), cuff-link (trigger), and a cigarette case (the grip), all gold-plated. Scaramanga used the Golden Gun in numerous assassinations of officials, political enemies, gangsters, and a 00-agent, Bill Fairbanks (002).
Francisco Scaramanga | The Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1985 role-playing game adventure for "James Bond 007" published by Victory Games.
The Man with the Golden Gun (adventure) | Introduction
The Academy Film Archive preserved "The Man with the Golden Arm" in 2005.
The Man with the Golden Arm | Preservation
Some Bond music fans consider Lulu's brassy vocal to be effective in setting the tone for the film's female characters.
The Man with the Golden Gun (soundtrack) | Introduction
The film, adapted and directed by Daniel Adams, stars David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Angelica Torn, Christy Scott Cashman, Charles Durning, Julie Harris (without dialog, as a melodeon player in one scene), Stephen Russell, and singer-songwriter Jonathan Edwards, who also scored the film. Two of Norman Mailer's sons are attached to the film: Michael Mailer is one of the producers, and his younger brother Stephen Mailer plays one of two local ne'er-do-wells, along with actor Donald Foley. The original cast was to have included Martin Landau, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Anne Archer, and Peter Boyle, according to Adams.
The Golden Boys | Production
Similarly, Fleming used the name of the secretary of the Royal St George's Golf Club, Mark Nicholson, for the CIA representative at the hotel. Tony Hugill, the sugar planter mentioned in the novel, was named after a member of Fleming's 30 AU unit who managed the Tate & Lyle plantations in the West Indies after the war and the book's main villain, Francisco Scaramanga, was named after George Scaramanga, an Etonian contemporary of Fleming's: the pair are said to have fought at school.
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) | Background
Bond is subsequently assigned to retrieve the agitator and assassinate Scaramanga. Bond meets with Hai Fat, a wealthy Thai entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder, and is captured, but subsequently escapes. He tracks Scaramanga to an island in Red Chinese waters, where the two men fight and Bond kills the assassin.
List of James Bond films | "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974)
The cast included: James "Cannonball" Green plays Chocolate Drop, Joe's final opponent, in an uncredited role.
Golden Boy (1939 film) | Cast
Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman intended to follow "You Only Live Twice" with "The Man with the Golden Gun", inviting Roger Moore to the Bond role. However, filming was planned in Cambodia, and the Samlaut Uprising made filming impractical, leading to the production being canceled. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was produced instead with George Lazenby as Bond. Lazenby's next Bond film, Saltzman told a reporter, would be either "The Man with the Golden Gun" or "Diamonds Are Forever". The producers chose the latter title, with Sean Connery returning as Bond. Broccoli and Saltzman then decided to start production on "The Man with the Golden Gun" after "Live and Let Die".
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Production
A 1974 AMC Hornet X was used for the "corkscrew" stunt which was first tested as a computer-simulation (the first of its kind) by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory. It was then performed as a live-action stunt, successfully filmed in one take. The stunt was performed by Loren “Bumps” Willert.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Car stunts
"The Man with the Golden Gun" is an adventure in which the player characters must prevent a scientist from defecting to the Soviet Union.
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It was initially conceived at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (CAL) in Buffalo, New York as a test for their vehicle simulation software. After development in simulation, ramps were built and the stunt was tested at CAL's proving ground. It toured as part of the All American Thrill Show as the Astro Spiral before it was picked up for the film. The television programme "Top Gear" attempted to repeat the stunt in June 2008, but failed. The scene where Scaramanga's Matador flies was shot at Bovington Camp, with a model inspired by an actual car plane prototype. Bond's duel with Scaramanga, which Mankewicz said was inspired by the climactic faceoff in "Shane", was shortened as the producers felt it was causing pacing problems.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Filming
The Gun is a made-for-television film, of the suspense-thriller type, which ABC-TV aired as a "Movie of the Week" on November 13, 1974. It starred David Huffman, Ron Thompson, Richard Bright, Pepe Serna, Lee de Broux, and Stephen Elliott, and was written directly for television by Jay Benson, Richard Levinson, and William Link and directed by John Badham, then a working director of television productions. Levinson and Link were also the producers of the film. "The Gun" was inspiration for the song "Golden Ring", recorded by George Jones and Tammy Wynette in 1976. The song would reach number-one on the Billboard Country Singles chart later that year.
The Gun (1974 film) | Introduction
The Man with the Gun () is a 1938 Soviet history drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich.
The Man with the Gun | Introduction
The film "Next", a very loose adaptation of "The Golden Man", was released in 2007. It was directed by Lee Tamahori and stars Nicolas Cage as Cris Johnson and co-stars Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, and Peter Falk.
The Golden Man | Film adaptation
The Two-Gun Man is a 1926 American silent western film directed by David Kirkland and starring Fred Thomson, Spottiswoode Aitken and Olive Hasbrouck.
The Two-Gun Man | Introduction
Additional footage of this sequence was shot of Bond walking straight towards the camera, putting his face into view, seen in the theatrical trailer. The dots that start the gun barrel in "The Man with the Golden Gun" are blue but in subsequent releases the dots are white. It is the last gun barrel sequence until "Quantum of Solace" where Bond wears a business suit.
Gun barrel sequence | 1973–1974
Francisco Scaramanga is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond novel and film version of "The Man with the Golden Gun". Scaramanga is an assassin who kills with his signature weapon, a pistol made of solid gold. In the novel, the character is nicknamed "Pistols" Scaramanga and is also called "Paco" (a Spanish diminutive of Francisco). In the film, the character was played by Christopher Lee (the real-life step-cousin of James Bond creator Ian Fleming).
Francisco Scaramanga | Introduction
In the film "The Man with the Golden Gun", Scaramanga is a high-priced assassin, supposedly the best in the world, charging one million dollars per kill. He is best known for being "the man with the golden gun", for using only bullets made of gold in a (fictional) 4.2 mm cartridge with a disassemblable golden handgun made of a gold cigarette case, gold cigarette lighter, gold fountain pen and gold cufflink as the gun's trigger. All of Scaramanga's assassination contracts are arranged through his henchman Nick Nack, which allows Scaramanga to be anonymous. His specialized ammunition is made by a custom gunsmith in Macau, who provides for its delivery to Scaramanga's lover, Andrea Anders, at a casino in Hong Kong.
Francisco Scaramanga | Film biography
Who? is a 1974 film based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Algis Budrys. It was directed by Jack Gold and stars Elliott Gould, Trevor Howard, and Joseph Bova. Some video releases were retitled "The Man in the Steel Mask" or "Roboman".
Who? (film) | Introduction
Gentlemen with Guns is a 1946 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patricia Knox, Steve Darrell, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Budd Buster and Frank Ellis. The film was released on March 27, 1946, by Producers Releasing Corporation.
Gentlemen with Guns | Introduction
Opinion on "The Man with the Golden Gun" has for the most part remained the same as it was in 1974 and as of September 2020, film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 41% out of 51 critical reviews about the film were positive, with an average score of 5.26/10. The website's critical consensus states, "A middling Bond film, "The Man With the Golden Gun" suffers from double entendre-laden dialogue, a noteworthy lack of gadgets, and a villain that overshadows 007." Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 43 out of 100 based on 11 reviews from mainstream critics, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Reflective reviews
In "The Man with the Golden Gun", Bill Tanner is only seen briefly in the film and is not mentioned by name until the end credits. He appears in M's office with M and Colthorpe, discussing Francisco Scaramanga, who has sent a bullet to MI6 printed with Bond's ID number. He explains Scaramanga's fingerprints on the bullet were verified by the CIA, and that Scaramanga is attempting to provoke a battle with MI6. This leads to Bond being sent to find Scaramanga. In "For Your Eyes Only", Bill Tanner (now played by James Villiers due to Michael Goodliffe's death in 1976) is given a bigger role, as Bernard Lee, who played M, had died.
Bill Tanner | Film appearances
Man with a Gun is a low-budget 1958 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully from a screenplay by Michael Winner. It starred Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson and John Le Mesurier.
Man with a Gun (1958 film) | Introduction
The film takes place during the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, when the army is approaching the army of General Krasnov. Ivan Shadrin, A peasant who became a soldier, goes to Petrograd in order to convey a letter to Vladimir Lenin with questions that concern his comrades.
The Man with the Gun | Plot
"The Man with the Golden Gun" was premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on , with general release in the United Kingdom the same day. The film was made with an estimated budget of $7 million; despite initial good returns from the box office, "The Man with the Golden Gun" grossed a total of $97.6 million at the worldwide box office, with $21 million earned in the US, making it the fourth lowest-grossing Bond film in the series. The promotion of the film had "one of the more anaemic advertising campaigns of the series" and there were few products available, apart from the soundtrack and paperback book, although Lone Star Toys produced a "James Bond 007 pistol" in gold; this differed from the weapon used by Scaramanga in the film as it was little more than a Walther P38 with a silencer fitted.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Release and reception
Alice Cooper wrote a song titled "Man with the Golden Gun" to be used by the producers of the film, but they opted for Lulu's song instead. Cooper released his song in his album "Muscle of Love". Barry had only three weeks to score "The Man with the Golden Gun" and the theme tune and score are generally considered by critics to be among the weakest of Barry's contributions to the series, an opinion shared by Barry himself: "It's the one I hate most ... it just never happened for me." "The Man with the Golden Gun" was also the first to drop the distinctive plucked guitar from the theme heard over the gun barrel opening.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Music
In London, a golden bullet with James Bond's codename '007' etched into its surface is received by MI6. It is believed that it was sent by the famed assassin Francisco Scaramanga, who uses a golden gun, to intimidate the agent. Due to the perceived threat to the agent's life, since Scaramanga has never been photographed and no one knows where he lives, M relieves Bond of a mission revolving around the work of the solar energy scientist named Gibson, thought to be in possession of information crucial to solving the energy crisis with solar power. At a hint from M, Bond sets out unofficially to locate Scaramanga.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Plot
Man of Gold () is a 1919Hungarian silent drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Oszkár Beregi, Gábor Rajnay and Margit Makay. The movie is based on the novel "The Man with the Golden Touch" by Mór Jókai.
Man of Gold (film) | Introduction
Filming commenced on 6 November 1973 at the partly submerged wreck of the RMS "Queen Elizabeth", which acted as a top-secret MI6 base grounded in Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. The crew was small, and a stunt double was used for James Bond. Other Hong Kong locations included the Hong Kong Dragon Garden as the estate of Hai Fat, which portrayed a location in Bangkok. The major part of principal photography started on 18 April 1974 in Thailand. Thai locations included Bangkok, Thonburi, Phuket and nearby Phang Nga Province, on the islands of Ko Khao Phing Kan () and Ko Tapu ().
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Filming
Before Bond can assert his innocence in Gibson's death, he is taken away by Lieutenant Hip and transported to meet M and Q in a hidden headquarters in the wreck of the in the harbour. M assigns Bond to retrieve the Solex. Bond then travels to Bangkok to meet Hai Fat, a wealthy Thai entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder. Bond poses as Scaramanga, meets with Fat and is invited to dinner, but his plan backfires because unbeknown to him, Scaramanga himself is operating at Hai Fat's estate. Bond is captured by Nick Nack and a couple of henchmen when he returns for dinner and is placed in Fat's martial arts academy, where the students are instructed to kill him.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Plot
God's Gun (also known as Diamante Lobo) is a 1976 Italian–Israeli Spaghetti Western filmed in Israel directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer) and starring Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Leif Garrett and Sybil Danning. Palance plays the head of a malicious group of bandits and Van Cleef plays a double-role of brothers: a priest and a reformed gunfighter determined to stop them. Leif Garrett plays the main character in the film as Johnny, a fatherless kid who brings the reformed gunfighter to town.
God's Gun | Introduction
Golden Gun steals the cranium of China's only dinosaur fossil. Chow, starring as a hawker-secret-agent 007, is sent to Hong Kong by a high-ranking government official to recapture the cranium. When he arrives in Hong Kong, he meets Lee Heung-kam (Anita Yuen), who proposes to help him in his endeavor. However, Heung-kam turns out to be a subordinate of Golden Gun. Golden Gun is in actuality the government official who directs 007 to find the cranium. Golden Gun instructs Heung-kam to send 007 on a false lead and tells him that the cranium may have been stolen by a smuggler.
From Beijing with Love | Synopsis
The Gunman is a 1952 American western film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight and Rand Brooks.
The Gunman (1952 film) | Introduction
The government asks Yang Hu Yun (Sun Chien) to escort a cargo of gold to a famine stricken area. The vicious Chi Sha gang announces their intention to hijack it by killing one of Yang's employees. Yang describes to his men Chi Sha's four chiefs, each of whom has mastered a style of fighting: Golden Arm (Lo Mang), Silver Spear (Lu Feng), Iron Robe (Wang Lung Wei), and Brass Head (Yang Hsiung). To protect the gold, Yang hires swordsman Li Chin Ming (Wei Pai), Ming's girlfriend Miss Leng Feng (Helen Poon), Long Axe Yang Jiu (Shu Pei Sun), Short Axe Fang Shih (Chiang Sheng), and drunken master Agent Hai Tao (Kuo Chui).
Kid with the Golden Arm | Plot
Six Gun Gold is a 1941 Western film directed by David Howard and starring Tim Holt.
Six-Gun Gold | Introduction
Marta, 'The Master Gunfighter,' a splendid period re-creation, is awash with striking imagery that finds beauty even in chaos—just as in a samurai movie. Sometimes young Laughlin's pacing verges on the static, but the action sequences are excitingly staged." Gary Arnold of "The Washington Post" wrote, "You know you're in for a long, slow evening when the picture begins with a preamble of several hundred words, recited by Burgess Meredith over shots of the sun coming up. The opening sequences set a pattern of confused, incoherent action and stilted acting that is adhered to with a kind of kamikaze devotion for the duration of the movie.
The Master Gunfighter | Critical reception
It was adapted for the screen by Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer and Ben Hecht (uncredited), and directed by Otto Preminger. The film's initial release was controversial for its treatment of the then-taboo subject of drug addiction. It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Sinatra for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Joseph C. Wright and Darrell Silvera for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White and Elmer Bernstein for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Sinatra was also nominated for best actor awards by the BAFTAs and The New York Film Critics. The film is in the public domain.
The Man with the Golden Arm | Introduction
The film became famous for two vehicle stunts, one which made the Guinness Book of Records. As part of a significant product placement strategy, a number of vehicles from American Motors Corporation were featured in the movie. The flying car was the newly introduced AMC Matador Brougham Coupe in the Oleg Cassini edition, used by Francisco Scaramanga, along with Nick Nack, to kidnap Mary Goodnight. With the wings, the stunt car was long, wide, and high. A stuntman drove the "car plane" to a runway. It was not airworthy, so a -long remote controlled model, built by John Stears, was used for the aerial sequences.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Car stunts
In late April production returned to Hong Kong and also shot in Macau. Production had to move to studio work in Pinewood Studios—which included sets such as Scaramanga's solar energy plant and island interior.
Production of the James Bond films | "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974)
The theme tune to "The Man with the Golden Gun", released in 1974, was performed by Scottish singer Lulu and composed by John Barry. Tony Bramwell, who worked for Harry Saltzman's music publishing company Hilary Music, wanted Elton John or Cat Stevens to sing the title song. However, by this time the producers were taking turns producing the films; Albert Broccoli—whose turn it was to produce—rejected Bramwell's suggestions. The lyrics to the Lulu song were written by Don Black and have been described variously as "ludicrous", "inane" and "one long stream of smut", because of their sexual innuendo. Bramwell subsequently dismissed the Barry-Lulu tune as "mundane".
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Music
The Old Man & the Gun is a 2018 American biographical crime film written and directed by David Lowery, about Forrest Tucker, a career criminal and prison escape artist. The script is loosely based on David Grann's 2003 article in "The New Yorker" titled "The Old Man and the Gun", which was later collected in Grann's 2010 book "The Devil and Sherlock Holmes". The film stars Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits and Sissy Spacek. Redford announced his intent to retire from acting at age 82 after completion of the film; it is his penultimate release, preceding "".
The Old Man &amp; the Gun | Introduction
Doc, Hands of Steel (, , also known as "The Man Who Came to Kill" and "Man with the Golden Pistol") is a 1965 Spanish-Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Alfonso Balcázar.
Doc, Hands of Steel | Introduction
Some critics saw the film as uninspired, tired and boring. Roger Moore was also criticised for playing Bond against type, in a style more reminiscent of Sean Connery, although Lee's performance received acclaim. Danny Peary wrote that "The Man with the Golden Gun" "lacks invention ... is one of the least interesting Bond films" and "a very laboured movie, with Bond a stiff bore, Adams and Britt Ekland uninspired leading ladies". Peary believes that the shootout between Bond and Scaramanga in the funhouse "is the one good scene in the movie, and even it has an unsatisfying finish" and also bemoaned the presence of Clifton James, "unfortunately reprising his unfunny redneck sheriff from "Live and Let Die."" Chris Nashawaty of "Entertainment Weekly" argues that Scaramanga is the best villain of the Roger Moore James Bond films, while listing Mary Goodnight among the worst Bond girls, saying that "Ekland may have had one of the series' best bikinis, but her dopey, doltish portrayal was a turnoff as much to filmgoers as to fans of Ian Fleming's novels".
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Reflective reviews
With the introduction of Roger Moore, and the use of a 1.85:1 matted aspect ratio, a fourth sequence was shot. It was used for just two films: "Live and Let Die" and "The Man with the Golden Gun". Moore wears a business suit and, unlike Simmons, Connery and Lazenby, uses both hands instead of one hand to fire his gun, his left hand bracing his gun arm. It is worth noting that the gun barrel moves side-to-side only to the left of Bond, without alternating to the right. This is the first gun barrel sequence in which Bond is not wearing a hat.
Gun barrel sequence | 1973–1974
"TV Guide" called it a "so-so crime story. Despite some fast pacing in the direction, the script is too simplistic for the fare."
Man with a Gun (1958 film) | Critical reception
Roger Ebert, film critic writing for the "Chicago Sun-Times," liked the film, and wrote, ""Men With Guns" is immensely moving and sad, and yet because it dares so much, it is an exhilarating film. It frees itself from specific stories about this villain or that strategy, to stand back and look at the big picture: at societies in collapse because power has been concentrated in the hands of small men made big with guns." Critic Jack Mathews liked Sayles' straightforward unadorned style, and he wrote, ""Men With Guns" is a slow-paced trip, with a lot of translated conversation, and Sayles keeps it pure.
Men with Guns | Critical response
While not as epic as his last film, the masterful "Lone Star", it's still another bold triumph for one of America's most independent-minded filmmakers." The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 89% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on twenty-seven reviews.
Men with Guns | Critical response
Man or Gun is a 1958 American Western film directed by Albert C. Gannaway and written by Vance Skarstedt and James J. Cassity. The film stars Macdonald Carey, Audrey Totter, James Craig, James Gleason, Warren Stevens and Harry Shannon. The film, shot in Naturama was released on May 30, 1958, by Republic Pictures.
Man or Gun | Introduction
Men with Guns () is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by John Sayles and starring Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Damián Alcázar and Mandy Patinkin. The executive producers were Lou Gonda and Jody Patton. Set in an unnamed Latin American country, it is the story of one man's discovery of what actually happened in the political history of his nation as well as his students. It was filmed in Mexico and most of the crew were Mexican.
Men with Guns | Introduction
The Golden God is a 1917 American film written by Robert Hage and Frederick Rath. The film stars Charles Hutchison, Alma Hanlon, Florence Short, and Mary Doyle. It premiered on June 19, 1917.
The Golden God | Introduction
"The New York Times" reviewer called the film "an engrossing adventure" and "several cuts above the norm for this genre."
Man with the Gun | Reception
The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film with elements of film noir, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren. It recounts the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. Although the addictive drug is never identified in the film, according to the American Film Institute "most contemporary and modern sources assume that it is heroin", in contrast to Algren's book which named the drug as morphine. The film stars Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin.
The Man with the Golden Arm | Introduction
Two Swedish models were cast as the Bond girls, Britt Ekland and Maud Adams. Ekland had been interested in playing a Bond girl since she had seen "Dr. No", and contacted the producers about the main role of Mary Goodnight. Hamilton met Adams in New York, and cast her because "she was elegant and beautiful that it seemed to me she was the perfect Bond girl". When Ekland read the news that Adams had been cast for "The Man with the Golden Gun", she became upset, thinking Adams had been selected to play Goodnight. Broccoli then called Ekland to invite her for the main role, as after seeing her in a film, Broccoli thought Ekland's "generous looks" made her a good contrast to Adams.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Casting
Orchestra conducted by Elmer Bernstein featuring:
The Man with the Golden Arm | Personnel
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman is a 1919 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey. Because only three reels of originally five or six are known to exist, this film is considered a partially lost film.
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman | Introduction
Golden Boy (German: Goldjunge) is a 1925 German silent film directed by H. Klynmann and starring Grete Reinwald and Carl Auen. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich.
Golden Boy (1925 film) | Introduction
The Golden Bullet () is a 1921 German silent adventure film directed by Robert Wuellner and starring Gertrude Welcker, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Otto Treptow. It premiered in Berlin on 24 March 1921.
The Golden Bullet (1921 film) | Introduction
No", "From Russia With Love", and "Thunderball". Christopher Lee appears in a minor role as the Captain of the Guard.
That Lady | Introduction
"The Man with the Iron Fists" premiered on October 25, 2012, at Mann's Chinese 6 theater in Hollywood. David Bautista attended in a yellow spandex suit, which he wore as a tribute to Bruce Lee, who wore a similar outfit in "Game of Death" (1972). The film was released in North America on November 2, 2012.
The Man with the Iron Fists | Release
Man with the Gun is a 1955 black and white Western film starring Robert Mitchum. The film was released in the United Kingdom as The Trouble Shooter and is also sometimes entitled Deadly Peacemaker. The supporting cast includes Jan Sterling and Karen Sharpe. The film was written by N. B. Stone Jr and Richard Wilson and directed by Wilson.
Man with the Gun | Introduction
Despite being the target of the failed assassination attempt, not only does M not press charges against Bond, he sends him out on further missions. According to Benson, the main adversary of the novel, Francisco Scaramanga, is more a henchman than a major adversary and "a second-rate, smalltime crook who happens to have gotten lucky with his shooting." Comentale, Watt and Willman note that Scaramanga had the same character profile as Herr von Hammerstein, the former Gestapo officer who is the chief of counterintelligence for the Cuban secret service in "For Your Eyes Only".
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) | Characters and themes
The Gentle Gunman is a black-and-white 1952 Ealing Studios drama film, directed by Basil Dearden and starring John Mills and Dirk Bogarde. The film is based on a 1950 play by Roger MacDougall that was televised by the BBC in September 1950.
The Gentle Gunman | Introduction
The Man Is Armed is a 1956 film noir crime film directed by Franklin Adreon starring Dane Clark, William Talman, May Wynn and Robert Horton.
The Man Is Armed | Introduction
The Golden Arrow (1936) is an American comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Bette Davis and George Brent. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon is based on a story of the same title by Michael Arlen published in the September 14, 1935 issue of "Liberty".
The Golden Arrow (1936 film) | Introduction
The Gunman is a 2015 action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson, Pete Travis and Sean Penn, based on the novel "The Prone Gunman" (French title: "La position du tireur couché") by Jean-Patrick Manchette. It stars Penn along with Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca and Ray Winstone. The film is about Jim Terrier (Penn), a mercenary who assassinates the Minister of Mining of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006 on orders from multinational mining companies. Eight years after Terrier has retired from mercenary work, he and the people close to him become the targets of hit squads sent by a powerful multinational security firm, and he must fight to stay alive.
The Gunman (2015 film) | Introduction
Six Gun Man is a 1946 American Western film written and directed by Harry L. Fraser. The film stars Bob Steele, Syd Saylor, Jimmy Martin, Jean Carlin, I. Stanford Jolley, Brooke Temple, Bud Osborne and Budd Buster. The film was released on February 1, 1946, by Producers Releasing Corporation.
Six Gun Man | Introduction
The Man of Gold (Hungarian: Az aranyember) is a 1962 Hungarian historical film directed by Viktor Gertler and starring András Csorba, Ilona Béres and Ernö Szabó. It was based on the novel "The Man with the Golden Touch" by Mór Jókai which has been adapted for the screen several times.
The Man of Gold (film) | Introduction
The Man with the Cannon () is a 1977 Albanian film directed by Viktor Gjika based on the novel by the same title by Dritero Agolli.
The Man with the Cannon (film) | Introduction
Scaramanga and the other investors are also engaged in a scheme to destabilise Western interests in the Caribbean's sugar industry and increase the value of the Cuban sugar crop, running drugs into America, smuggling prostitutes from Mexico into America and operating casinos in Jamaica that will cause friction between tourists and the local people.
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) | Plot
"Gun Monkeys" has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.
Victor Gischler | Career
with depressing borrowings from Hong Kong kung fu movies, not to mention even more depressing echoes of the 'Carry On' smut." He summed up the film by saying it was "sadly lacking in wit or imagination." David Robinson, the film critic at "The Times", dismissed the film and Moore's performance, saying that Moore was "substituting non-acting for Connery's throwaway", while Britt Ekland was "his beautiful, idiot side-kick ... the least appealing of the Bond heroines." Robinson was equally damning of the changes in the production crew, observing that Ken Adam, an "attraction of the early Bond films," had been "replaced by decorators of competence but little of his flair." The writers "get progressively more naive in their creation of a suburban dream of epicureanism and adventure." Writing for "The New York Times", Nora Sayre considered the film to suffer from "poverty of invention and excitement", criticising the writing and Moore's performance and finding Villechaize and Lee as the only positive points for their "sinister vitality that cuts through the narrative dough." The "Sunday Mirror" critic observed that "The Man with the Golden Gun" "isn't the best Bond ever" but found it "remarkable that Messrs.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Contemporary reviews
In 1955, the book was made into a film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Frank Sinatra. Though author Nelson Algren was initially brought to Hollywood to work on the screenplay, he was quickly replaced by Walter Newman. Algren felt negatively about his experiences in Hollywood, the lack of compensation he received, and the liberties taken by the filmmakers (which included an entirely different ending from the novel). When photographer and friend Art Shay asked Algren to pose below the film's marquee, he is reported to have said "What does that movie have to do with me?"
The Man with the Golden Arm (novel) | Film adaptation
The central character of the novel is James Bond. In "The Man with the Golden Gun", he appears with a different personality from the previous stories and is robot-like, according to author of the "continuation" Bond novels, Raymond Benson. Benson also felt that Bond's character had not been developed any further than in the previous books. Academic Jeremy Black noted that when given two opportunities to kill Scaramanga in cold blood, he cannot bring himself to do it. The first time this happens, Bond sits in a car behind Scaramanga; the method of killing would be to shoot him in the back of the head and this is compared to the technique used by both the KGB and Nazis.
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) | Characters and themes
The Big Gundown () is a Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Sollima, and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian.
The Big Gundown | Introduction
Rapper U-God took his name (Golden Arms) from this film. The title of the movie is mentioned in Wu-Tang Clan's song "Gravel Pit".
Kid with the Golden Arm | Legacy
James Iglehart plays African-American prize fighter Cal Jefferson who is on honeymoon in Hong Kong with his new wife played by Shirley Washington. He comes across a drowning Chinese man who he jumps in the sea to save. This now revived and very grateful mute man turns out to be someone they cannot be rid of. They finally are rid of him or so it seems. They purchase an item in Hong Kong which becomes the center of a gang's attention. The gang led by Kenneth Metcalfe will stop at nothing to retrieve it. They leave Hong Kong for Manila in the Philippines and find themselves being attacked with the mute Chinese man coming to their assistance.
Bamboo Gods and Iron Men | Plot
In October 2016, it was announced that Robert Redford and Casey Affleck had joined the cast of the film, with David Lowery directing from his own script. James D. Stern, Jeremy Steckler, Dawn Ostroff, Redford, Anthony Mastromauro, and Bill Holderman served as producers on the film under their Endgame Entertainment and Condé Nast banners, respectively. Rocket Science handle international sales. In March 2017, Tika Sumpter, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Elisabeth Moss, and Isiah Whitlock, Jr. joined the cast of the film. In April 2017, Keith Carradine was added as well. The film was shot on Super 16 mm film.
The Old Man &amp; the Gun | Production
Production wrapped in Pinewood in August 1974. One of the main stunts in the film consisted of stunt driver "Bumps" Willard (as James Bond) driving an AMC Hornet leaping a broken bridge and spinning around 360 degrees in mid-air about the longitudinal axis, doing an "aerial twist"; Willard successfully completed the jump on the first take. The stunt was shown in slow motion as the scene was too fast. Composer John Barry added a slide whistle sound effect over the stunt, which Broccoli kept in despite thinking that it "undercouped the stunt". Barry later regretted his decision, thinking the whistle "broke the golden rule" as the stunt was "for what it was all worth, a truly dangerous moment, ...
Filming of James Bond in the 1970s | "The Man with the Golden Gun"
Despite the meager pay offered, he finds five willing gunmen. They are the gunfighter Vin Tanner (Steve McQueen), who has gone broke after a round of gambling and resists local efforts to recruit him as a store clerk; Chris's friend Harry Luck (Brad Dexter), who assumes Chris is hiding a much bigger reward for the work; the Irish Mexican Bernardo O'Reilly (Charles Bronson), who has fallen on hard times; Britt (James Coburn), an expert in both knife and gun who joins purely for the challenge involved; and the dapper, on-the-run gunman Lee (Robert Vaughn), plagued by nightmares of fallen enemies and haunted that he has lost his nerve for battle.
The Magnificent Seven | Plot