Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 4010232005946
Format: PAL
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 156906
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1974
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The British superspy with a license 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 the most embarrassingly inept Bond girl in 007 history, 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 (she returns to the series as the title character in Octopussy). Clifton James, the redneck sheriff from Live and Let Die, makes an embarrassing and ill-advised appearance as a racist tourist who 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 midair corkscrew jump. Bond and company are let down by a lazy script, but Moore balances the overplayed humor with a steely performance and Lee's charm and enthusiasm makes Scaramanga a cool, deadly, and thoroughly enchanting adversary. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  - One of the true James Bond Classics. A Must have in your collection. 5 thumbs up!!!
The Scenes for Hai Fat's estate actually takes place in ASCAP Finalist Composer, C. KENNETH LEE's Great Grandfather, Lee Lu Cheung's Historical site and villa, DRAGON GARDEN, HONG KONG Check IMDB for proof.
Rating:  - When you want a Bond movie really bad ...
This is a weird film. A reviewer once said of TMWTGG it was as if it were made by someone who had never actually seen a Bond film but had had one described to him by a very excited person. This was the last one with Broccoli & Saltzman on the credits. (Their relationship had deteoriated to the point where they rotated principal producing responsibilities -- Saltzman primarily responsible for LIVE AND LET DIE, as well as the selection of Roger Moore to succeed Sean Connery and Broccoli on GOLDEN GUN. Sean Connery once described Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman as "Two guys seating across a desk from each other and each one thinking, 'That bugger's got half of what should all be mine.'") This film represents another attempt to put Moore in the Connery mold -- smacking Maude Adams and twisting her arm. Of course at a crucial moment in a boat chase through the klongs of Bangkok who should appear on vacation? But of course, Sheriff J.W. Pepper (New York actor Clifton James) from LIVE AND LET DIE. "I know you! You're that agent, that English secret agent from England!" They don't write dialog like that anymore. There's Herve ("the plane!") Villechese as Nick Nack, Britt Ecklund as the lovely but incompetent Mary Goodnight. On the positive front an extremely effective performance by Christopher Lee as Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga.
Rating: - A Good James Bond Movie
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN is a good James Bond movie. I like it because it is a lot of fun. In a world of so much stress it is good to sit down and relax and watch an uplifting movie like this. We all know who James Bond is or we just know what he's all about. This movie plays off the James Bond mystique and just has a good time with it. The result is very enjoyable.
Rating: - Man with the Golden Gun
The product cam quickly and as advertised. Thanks. Movie is great- we are completing our series in DVD.
Rating: - Moore and Lee Keep It Alive
Aside from the superb title song and the espresso maker gag (punchline delivered with exquisite understatement by Bernard Lee), Live and Let Die was largely a waste of celluloid. Man With the Golden Gun, on the other hand, gave me hope for the franchise. Christopher Lee as a Bond villain was an absolutely perfect casting choice, and it's rather a puzzle to me that it wasn't made much earlier in the series. And Roger Moore, for his part, was bringing the role of Bond into his comfort zone enough so that he could even pull off Bond's ruthless side - which, frankly, was seldom seen to such good effect during the rest of Moore's tenure. Herve Villechaize's Nick Nack struck me as an obvious inversion of Oddjob - but with the intriguing wrinkle of being as much of an adversary to his employer, Bond's nemesis Scaramanga, as to Bond himself, and was certainly unforgettable. These three, as actors and characters, seemed to have a rappore that was very natural and fluid, giving the film a level of easy energy that compensated for some fairly mediocre material.
Some things were cringe inducing, such as the return of the redneck sheriff from the previous film, the swallowing of the golden bullet that killed 002, and the sound effect during the signature car stunt. And there were disappointments such as the underwritten Lt. Hip, which made less than full use of Soon-Tek Oh, Maud Adam's inability to convey any of the depth of her character's motivating conflict, and Britt Ekland's airhead version ... Read More
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