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starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Hervé Villechaizedirected by: Guy Hamilton
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302510010
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, NTSC
ISBN: 6302510015
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 4386
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1974
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Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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