The Man with the Golden Gun (film) The Man with the Golden Gun (film) The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 British spy film, the ninth in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. A loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel of the same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga, the "Man with the Golden Gun". The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) Ian Freer of "Empire" found the film "an entertaining 007 adventure, something that tonally, if not qualitatively, could happily sit within the Connery era." "IGN" chose "The Man with the Golden Gun" as the worst Bond film, claiming it "has a great concept ... but the execution is sloppy and silly", and "Entertainment Weekly" chose it as the fourth worst, saying that the "plot is almost as puny as the sidekick". On the other hand, Norman Wilner of MSN chose it as the tenth best, with much praise for Christopher Lee's performance. Some critics saw the film as uninspired, tired