The Man with the Golden Gun - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Man with the Golden Gun or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Man with the Golden Gun

[bernard]

The energy crisis storyline was inspired by media stories of such current events of the time.

[terry]

John Barry regarded this as his weakest score.

[sophie]

This is the first Bond movie since You Only Live Twice (1967) in which James Bond is played by the same actor as in the previous movie.

[ivan]

Roger Moore (Bond) and Clifford James (J W) died one month apart.

[morris]

Sir Christopher Lee (Scaramanga) is the only actor to play a Bond villain who was actually related to Ian Fleming (they were cousins).

[wallace]

In the novel and this movie, Scaramanga (Sir Christopher Lee) has an additional nipple, which can be a real biological occurrence. It is known as a supernumerary nipple, but can also be called an accessory nipple, or third nipple. The medical name for such can be either polythelia or polymastia. In this movie though, it is referred to as a superfluous papilla. In Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Goldmember (Mike Myers) also had a third nipple.

[lena]

The corkscrew car jump was apparently conceived several years before this movie went into production. Researchers at Cornell University were studying rollover collisions for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and they did a computer simulation of the barrel roll stunt used in this movie. Race car driver W.J. Milligan, Jr., who was the promoter of the American Thrill Show during the 1960s and 1970s, with the sponsorship of the American Motors Corporation, performed the barrel roll stunt, known as the Astro Spiral Jump, and it debuted on January 12, 1972, at the Houston Astrodome, using an AMC Javelin. Milligan was contacted by producer Albert R. Broccoli during an American Thrill Show performance in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where he wanted the stunt performed in a James Bond movie. Producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli allegedly took out patents and copyrights on the stunt, as they did not wish it to appear in another movie before they had used it. The three hundred sixty-degree car-spiralling jump over a canal was performed in just one take by uncredited British stuntman "Bumps" Williard as eight cameras simultaneously captured the spectacle. So potentially hazardous was the nature of the stunt, divers, ambulances, and cranes were on standby alert, in case of any catastrophic consequences. The stunt was so rapid that the film is shown in slow motion. Williard was given a large bonus for completing the jump on the first take. Jay Milligan performed the driving stunts with the AMC Hornet used in this movie. AMC provided fifteen vehicles used in this movie (some of them where AMC Matador police cars). There were two AMC Hornets used for the spiral jump stunt, and one of them is owned by Jay Milligan, which is the back-up vehicle, while the other one is in a museum. The jump is also credited with being the first stunt ever to be calculated by computer modelling.

[ken]

Sir Christopher Lee named Francisco Scaramanga as one of his favorite roles.

[ray]

The "Bottoms Up" strip club kept the same interior used in this movie, until it closed in 2004.

[tom]

The novel was adapted as a comic strip, in the Daily Express newspaper in England, from January 10 to September 10, 1966. It was written by Jim Lawrence, and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak, and has been reprinted on more than one occasion.

[nicholas]

This is the James Bond movie on which the partnership between Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli is said to have deteriorated. Sir Roger Moore stated in his DVD audio commentary that this predominantly occurred behind closed doors.

[mathew]

The destruction of the facility was a combination of practical effects on the set and the destruction of a miniature. Derek Meddings based the island blowing up on footage of the Battle of Monte Cassino.

[frances]

After the novel was published, and this movie was made, two James Bond novels were written with similar title prefixes beginning "The Man..." . These are 1991's "The Man From Barbarossa" by John Gardner, and 2002's "The Man with the Red Tattoo" by Raymond Benson.

[sylvia]

Bond and Scaramanga's duel was inspired by Shane (1953).

[dustin]

Principal photography didn't begin until April 1974, but scenes involving the wreckage of the "Queen Elizabeth" were shot in Hong Kong Harbor on November 6, 1973.

[norma]

Speaking to Robert Osborne of The Hollywood Reporter (April 12, 1982), producer Albert R. Broccoli noted that "I can't say there is a single (Bond movie) I'd like to completely redo if I had the chance, although there are parts of The Man With the Golden Gun I'd change."

[kenneth]

The source of the name "Scaramanga" originates in the name of a man that Ian Fleming knew, called "Pandia Scaramanga". He had met him, and stayed at his house on the island of Hydra, in the Greek isles. Reportedly, Fleming sought permission from him to use his surname, indicating that he would be James Bond's adversary in "The Man With The Golden Gun". The real Scaramanga apparently responded: "I certainly do not mind you using my name, but please do not to kill me."

[norma]

This movie featured two Swedish actresses: Maud Adams (Scaramanga's mistress) and Britt Ekland (Mary Goodnight). Adams appeared in Octopussy (1983) (as the title character) with two other Swedish actresses (Kristina Wayborn and Mary Stavin), and in A View to a Kill (1985) as an extra. Stavin appeared in A View to a Kill (1985).

[oscar]

The island used as the filming location for the Scaramanga's beach house (Phang Nga Bay, Thailand) is known as "James Bond Island".