The Man with the Golden Gun

Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Roger Moore	James Bond
Christopher Lee	Francisco Scaramanga
Britt Ekland	Mary Goodnight
Maud Adams	Andrea Anders
Hervé Villechaize	Nick Nack (as Herve Villechaize)
Clifton James	Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Richard Loo	Hai Fat
Soon-Tek Oh	Lieutenant Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)
Marc Lawrence	Rodney
Bernard Lee	M
Herve Villechaize	Nick Nack
Lois Maxwell	Miss Moneypenny
Marne Maitland	Lazar
Soon-Teck Oh	Hip

Director	Guy Hamilton
Producer	Harry Saltzman
Writer	Ian Fleming; Richard Maibaum

The British spy with a licence to kill takes on his dark underworld double, a classy assassin who kills with golden bullets at £1 million a hit. Roger Moore, in his second outing as James Bond, meets Christopher Lee's Scaramanga, one of the most magnetic villains in the entire series, in this entertaining but rather wan entry in the 007 sweepstakes. Bond's globetrotting search takes him to Hong Kong, Bangkok, and finally China, where Scaramanga turns his island retreat into a twisted theme park for a deadly game of wits between the gunmen, moderated by Scaramanga's diminutive man Friday Nick Nack (Fantasy Island's Hervé Villechaize). Britt Ekland does her best as an embarrassingly inept Bond girl, a clumsy, dim agent named Mary Goodnight who looks fetching in a bikini, while Maud Adams is Scaramanga's tough but haunted lover and assistant. Clifton James, the redneck sheriff from Live and Let Die, makes an ill-advised appearance as a racist tourist. He briefly teams up with 007 in what is otherwise the film's highlight, a high-energy chase through the crowded streets of Bangkok that climaxes with a breathtaking mid-air corkscrew jump. Bond and company are let down by a lazy script, but Moore balances the overplayed humour with a steely performance and Lee's charm and enthusiasm makes Scaramanga a cool, deadly, and thoroughly enchanting adversary. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com