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) good contrast to Adams. Hamilton decided to put Marc Lawrence, whom he had worked with on "Diamonds Are Forever", to play a gangster shot dead by Scaramanga at the start of the film, because he found it an interesting idea to "put sort of a Chicago gangster in the middle of Thailand". Filming commenced on 6 November 1973 at the partly submerged wreck of the RMS "Queen Elizabeth", which acted as a top-secret MI6 base grounded in Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. The crew was small, and a stunt double was used for James Bond. Other Hong Kong locations included