The Man with the Golden Gun

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. An adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel of same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator – a device which can harness the power of the sun. He teams up with agent Mary Goodnight against Francisco Scaramanga – The Man with the Golden Gun. The action culminates in a duel between them.

The Man with the Golden Gun was the fourth and final film in the series to be directed by Guy Hamilton. 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 on December 14, 1974.

Reviewers praised Christopher Lee's performance as Scaramanga, but criticized the comedic approach.

Cast

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  Roger Moore as James Bond: An MI6 agent who receives a golden bullet supposedly from Scaramanga, indicating that he is a target of Scaramanga. Once relieved of his solar energy assignment he decides to track down Scaramanga before he is killed, which leads to Scaramanga's solar intentions.
  
• Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga: The titular villain and assassin who is identified by his use of a golden gun. He plans to misuse solar energy for destructive purposes. He respects Bond and has no intention of killing him until he interferes with his affairs.
  
• Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight: Bond's assistant in the Far East.
  
• Maud Adams as Andrea Anders: Scaramanga's mistress. Dissatisfied with him, she sends a bullet to Bond in the hope he will track down and kill Scaramanga.
  
• Hervé Villechaize as Nick Nack: Scaramanga's servant of
  
• Bernard Lee as M: The strict head of MI6.
  
• Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary
  
• Desmond Llewelyn as Q: Head of MI6 technical department
  
• Clifton James as Sheriff J.W. Pepper: The Louisiana sheriff from the previous movie who happens to be vacationing in Thailand.
  
• Richard Loo as Hai Fat: A Thai millionaire industrialist in league with Scaramanga.
  
• Soon-Tek Oh as Lieutenant Hip: Bond's local contact in Hong Kong and Bangkok.
  
• David Hedison as Felix Leiter: Bond's CIA friend who is also investigating Scaramanga

This is the first of three movies in which Maud Adams appears. In 1983, she plays a different character, Octopussy, in the film of the same name. She would later have a cameo in the Bond movie A View to a Kill. This is also the second movie with Clifton James playing the role of Sheriff J.W. Pepper, who returns coincidentally on vacation with his wife in Bangkok and in the car that Bond chases Scaramanga in. He first appeared in Live and Let Die.