Additional information for The Man With the Golden Gun, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 20, 1974. The film is being distributed by United Artists and has not yet been rated. The Man With the Golden Gun has a total running time of 125 minutes.
14A
Canada
PG
USA
L
Iceland
A
UK
15
South Korea
12
Brazil
M/12
Portugal
13
Argentina
PG
Australia
K-16
Finland
PG
Ireland
12
Netherlands
16
Norway
14
Peru
15
Sweden
16
West Germany
125min
Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun
UK
Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun
USA
L'homme au pistolet d'or
Canada
L'homme au pistolet d'or
France
007 - O Homem da Pistola Dourada
Portugal
007 Contra o Homem com a Pistola de Ouro
Brazil
007 ja kultainen ase
Finland
007: El hombre del revólver de oro
Mexico
007: The Man with the Golden Gun
Australia
Agente 007, l'uomo dalla pistola d'oro
Italy
Altin tabancali adam
Turkey
Az aranypisztolyos férfi
Hungary
Covek sa zlatnim pistoljem
Serbia
Czlowiek ze zlotym pistoletem
Poland
El hombre de la pistola de oro
Spain
El hombre del revólver de oro
Argentina
Ha-Ish Ba'al Ekdah Ha-Zahav
Israel
James Bond 007 - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt
West Germany
James Bond, praktor 007: O anthropos me to hryso pistoli
Greece
James Bond: O anthropos me to hryso pistoli
Greece
L'home de la pistola d'or
Spain
Manden med den gyldne pistol
Denmark
Mannen med den gyldne pistol
Norway
Mannen med den gyllene pistolen
Sweden
The Golden Gun
International
December 19, 1974
Denmark
December 19, 1974
Netherlands
December 19, 1974
UK
December 19, 1974
UK
December 19, 1974
USA
December 19, 1974
West Germany
December 20, 1974
Finland
December 20, 1974
France
December 20, 1974
Italy
December 20, 1974
Norway
December 20, 1974
USA
December 21, 1974
Japan
December 21, 1974
Sweden
December 23, 1974
Spain
December 26, 1974
Australia
December 26, 1974
Hong Kong
March 13, 1979
Philippines
November 24, 1981
Turkey
He never misses his target, and now his target is 007.
Roger Moore as James Bond 007
The man with the golden gun is ready to assassinate James Bond.
The world's greatest villains tried to kill James Bond. Now it's Scaramanga's turn to try
The pre-title sequence opens with an international assassin, Scaramanga, relaxing on a tropical beach with a woman, Andrea Anders, his lover. Scaramanga and Anders leave the beach, a short time later a gangster, Rodney, arrives and is met by Nick-Nack, a dwarf who works as a servant for Scaramanga. Rodney has been hired by Nick-Nack to kill Scaramanga, who has promised to leave everything he owns to his small servant. The gangster stalks Scaramanga through a funhouse-like wing of his home. Scaramanga has been caught without his gun and must find it first. He does so and is able to kill his would-be assassin first. Nick-Nack jovially tells Scaramanga he will find an adversary that will beat his master; the two seem to have an unspoken agreement that humors them both. Scaramanga picks up the gangster's gun and turns suddenly, shooting the fingers off a nearby wax dummy of James Bond.MI6's top agent, James Bond, has been called to the office of his boss, M. M asks what Bond knows about Scaramanga, to which Bond recites a laundry list of characteristics, the most important being that Scaramanga charges $1 million per assassination, uses gold bullets marked with then name of his target and is known as "The Man with the golden gun." M shows Bond a gold bullet, assumed to be one of Scaramanga's, marked with Bond's service number, "007". Bond is puzzled as to why anyone would want him killed and M orders him to travel to Beirut.In Beruit, Bond speaks with an exotic dancer who is the last person to see a fellow "00" agent alive who had allegedly been killed by Scaramanga. Bond finds that the woman has kept the gold bullet since her lover's death and uses it as a lucky charm which she holds in her navel. A small group of thugs break into her dressing room and Bond, in the middle of kissing the woman's abdomen, swallows the bullet. He takes it back to Q who, along with an metallurgist, is able to identify the manufacturer, a man named Lazar who lives in Macau. Bond is sent there to investigate and, while threatening Lazar, is shown an order for more golden bullets to be delivered shortly. Bond accompanies Lazar to the drop point, a local casino, where they are picked up by Andrea Anders.Bond trails Anders to Hong Kong but loses her at the hydrofoil port. He meets his assistant, Mary Goodnight. Bond finds out where Anders is staying and enters her hotel room and roughly interrogates her, citing the bullet sent to MI6 with his number on it. She admits she works for Scaramanga, both as a courier but also as his lover; Scaramanga, like a bullfighter, uses her for sex before he makes a kill. Bond also finds out that Scaramanga is due to be at the Bottoms Up exotic dancers club that night. While staking the club, Bond sees Nick-Nack nearby. As he watches, a man exits the club and is immediately shot by Scaramanga, who is hiding nearby. The man, Gibson, is a solar energy expert. Bond is arrested by Lieutenant Hip as a suspect in the murder. Hip takes Bond to the wreck of a ship in Hong Kong harbor which is actually MI6's base of operations; M is there. Bond is informed that Gibson's invention, the Solex Agitator, a small but powerful device used to convert solar energy into electricity, had been stolen from him immediately after the shooting. Scaramanga had been hired to kill Gibson by a Chinese gangster, Hai Fat. Because Fat had never met Scaramanga face-to-face, Bond is able to impersonate the killer; he even has Q supply him with a fake third nipple, one of Scaramanga's known physical characteristics.Bond travels to Bangkok and Fat's home. Fat invites Bond back to his house for dinner that evening, however, Bond is unaware that Scaramanga himself is has already met with Fat in person. Fat arranges for Bond to be killed when he arrives. When Bond shows up at Fat's place, he is subdued and captured by Nick-Nack & two sumo wrestlers. Nick-Nack nearly stabs Bond but is stopped by Fat, who sends Bond to a nearby martial arts dojo. The class' best student engages Bond in combat but Bond defeats him and jumps through a window. Hip arrives with his nieces, who beat the students with their own skill at martial arts. When the jump in Hip's car, they take off without Bond, who must escape using a high-powered canal boat.Back at Hai Fat's house Scaramanga kills the gangster (the gun he uses is assembled from personal items such as a ball point pen and a cuff link) and takes control of his assets. Bond plans to spend a romantic evening with Goodnight at their hotel room but they are interrupted by Anders. Bond sleeps with her and she confesses she is afraid of Scaramanga. She asks Bond to kill him. Bond says he will do so but only in exchange for the Solex. Bond goes to a kickboxing match where Anders is waiting. She is dead, having been killed in public by Scaramanga, who had discovered her betrayal. Scaramanga introduces himself to Bond, while Nick-Nack covers him with a tiny pistol. Scaramanga tells of his circus up-bringing, and warns Bond not to follow him, while Bond locates the Solex on the floor among the spilled contents of Anders' purse, and covertly passes it to Hip, disguised as a peanut seller. Hip passes the Solex to Goodnight, waiting outside. Scaramanga and Nick-Nack leave the arena, but find Goodnight trying to plant a tracking device in Scaramanga's car and lock her in the trunk. Bond pursues in a stolen car. He chases Scaramanga along a canal and nearly loses him when Scaramanga mysteriously appears on the other side of the water. Not able to find a suitable bridge nearby, Bond drives his car across a wrecked bridge, executing a corkscrew jump and landing on the other bank. Meanwhile, Scaramanga reaches a barn where his car is converted into a plane and takes off, Goodnight still in the trunk.Goodnight's tracking unit informs MI6 and Bond that Scaramanga has returned to his private island off the coast of China. Bond flies there under radar and lands. He is met by Nick-Nack and Scaramanga and given a tour of the facility. Scaramanga shows how the Solex provides power for his compound. Though he doesn't understand the science involved, Scaramanga knows the applications can extend to weapons; he destroys Bond's sea plane with a blast from a laser weapon in his control room. Scaramanga plans to hand over the Solex technology to whomever pays him for it. He also reveals that he has long desired to duel with Bond to see whom is the better marksman. Bond agrees to the match.The two face off with Scaramanga stalking Bond through his compound and Nick-Nack keeping tabs on the match from a control console. After several minutes of both gunmen evading each other, Bond gains the advantage by taking the place of the wax dummy that resembles him; Scaramanga enters the room and is shot dead by Bond. In the meantime, Goodnight has subdued the bodyguard Scaramanga had posted in the electric generator room and the man falls into a vat of liquid nitrogen. The change in temperature upsets the balance needed to maintain production and the compound begins to self-destruct. Bond is able to regain the Solex and he and Goodnight escape the compound before its destruction.To reach civilization, Bond takes Scaramanga's personal junk and leaves the island with Goodnight. On the boat, finally able to enjoy some romantic time alone, they are attacked by Nick-Nack, who begins a surprisingly furious battle with Bond. Bond is able to trap the diminutive servant in a suitcase and takes him on deck. When he returns, Goodnight is horrified, thinking that Bond threw the midget overboard, however, Bond has locked him in a small cage. As they begin their romantic encounter again, Bond and Goodnight are once again interrupted by a call from M, which the two ignore.
Guy Hamilton
Director(s)
Richard Maibaum
Tom Mankiewicz
Ian Fleming
Writer(s)
Albert R. Broccoli
producer
Charles Orme
associate producer
Harry Saltzman
producer
Producer(s)
John Barry
Composer(s)
James Bond
Roger Moore
Francisco Scaramanga
Christopher Lee
Mary Goodnight
Britt Ekland
Andrea Anders
Maud Adams
Nick Nack (as Herve Villechaize)
Hervé Villechaize
Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Clifton James
Hai Fat
Richard Loo
Lieutenant Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)
Soon-Tek Oh
Rodney
Marc Lawrence
M
Bernard Lee
Miss Moneypenny
Lois Maxwell
Lazar
Marne Maitland
Q
Desmond Llewelyn
Colthorpe
James Cossins
Chula (as Chan Yiu Lam)
Yao Lin Chen
Saida (as Carmen Sautoy)
Carmen Du Sautoy
Frazier
Gerald James
Naval Lieutenant
Michael Osborne
Communications Officer
Michael Fleming
Kra (uncredited)
Sonny Caldinez
Cowboy in Fun House (uncredited)
Leslie Crawford
Gibson (uncredited)
Gordon Everett
Chief of Staff Bill Tanner (uncredited)
Michael Goodliffe
Al Capone (uncredited)
Ray Marioni
Beirut Thug (uncredited)
Terence Plummer
Fat Beirut Thug (uncredited)
George Silver
Beirut Thug (uncredited)
Rocky Taylor
Chew Mee (uncredited)
Francoise Therry
Martial Arts Student That Fights Hip's Nieces (uncredited)
Master Toddy
Various (voice) (uncredited)
Nikki Van der Zyl
Cha, Hip's Niece #2 (uncredited)
Joie Vejjajiva
Bottoms Up Waitress (uncredited)
Wei Wei Wong
Nara, Hip's Niece #1 (uncredited)
Qiu Yuen
Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin and must hunt him down to stop him.
Director(s)
Tom Mankiewicz
Ian Fleming
Writer(s)
producer
Charles Orme
associate producer
Harry Saltzman
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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