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1974
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz
Produced by Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman
Production designer Peter Murton
Directors of photography Ted Moore BSC, Oswald Morris BSC
Editors John Shirley, Raymond Poulton GBFE
Special effects John Stears
Stunt co-ordinator W J Milligan Jr
Main title designed by Maurice Binder
James Bond Roger Moore; Scaramanga
Christopher Lee; Mary Goodnight Britt Ekland; Andrea Anders Maud
Adams; Nick Nack Herve Villechaize; Sheriff JW Pepper Clifton
James; Hai Fat Richard Loo; Lt Hip Soon-Taik Oh; Rodney
Marc Lawrence; M Bernard Lee; Miss Moneypenny Lois Maxwell;
Lazar Marne Maitland; Q Desmond Llewelyn.
I less than affectionately refer to this sad entry as the
"James Bond Movie of the Week". Everything about it is poor.The plot is weaker
than Live and Let Die, the stunts are marred, Bond comes off as a two bit thug, the
editing and cinematography are terrible. I'm sure REAL Bond fans at this point were hoping
the series ended with Connery. It looks and feels like a TV movie, rather than an entry in
the world's most successful film series.
I assume the producers wanted to rush this one out to affirm Moore
as Bond in the publics mind. It comes one year after Live and Let Die.
Trivia
Clifton James returns as JW Pepper, the Louisiana sheriff from Live and Let Die.
Bond encounters Pepper, who is on vacation with his wife. (You're that English secret
agent... from England!)
Marc Lawrence appears in the
pre-titles sequence as Rodney, an American gangster who has done a deal with Scaramanga.
Lawrence played a similar character in Diamonds Are Forever and it is possible that
they are the same character.
It is mentioned that 002, Bill
Fairbanks, was killed by Scaramanga in Beirut in 1969. This is the first occasion that a
Double 0 agent other than Bond is named.
Christopher Lee was a cousin of Ian Fleming and was
Fleming's choice to play Dr. No!
The End of The Man With The Golden
Gun
James Bond Will Return in
The
Spy Who Loved Me
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