Monday, October 6, 2025

James Bond Movie Review: ****The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

 This movie pits Bond against an assassin who is also developing a solar weapon.  Christopher Lee as Scaramanga makes a very good villain.  His side kick is Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize).  In this movie there are two women, Goodnight (Britt Eklund) who is another agent, and Andrea (Maud Evans) who is the lover of Scaramanga, but Bond uses her, and Scaramanga kills her.  Scaramanga has been practicing for some time of killing Bond.  And he arranges everything so that eventually he gets his one-on-one with Bond.  It does not go as he had planned.  Goodnight gets away, and disposes of her guard, but pushes him in a vat, which triggers a chain reaction and a big explosion.  Goodnight and Bond make their escape on a Chinese junk.

I think that having Nick Nack, a little man, as the side kick added to this Bond movie.  No one expects him to be the bad guy, but there he is.  Moneypenny, M and Q seem to have larger roles in this movie.  Clifton James comes back creating a cameo of his character from the previous Bond film.  However he is now on vacation.

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