Francisco Scaramanga film weapons, which surveyed approximately two thousand film fans. In October 2008, the Golden Gun was stolen from the company Elstree Props which is based in Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire. At the time, the prop was estimated to be worth £80,000. Francisco Scaramanga is a playable character in the multiplayer portions of the 2003 game "" and the 2010 game "GoldenEye 007". In the original "GoldenEye" game, Scaramanga's weapon, the golden gun, was initially added to the "Egyptian" level and multiplayer portion of the game. It is said in the briefing for the "Egyptian" mission that the Golden Gun was
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) James". D.A.N. Jones, writing in "The New York Review of Books" thought "The Man with the Golden Gun" was "an innocuous run-of-the-mill adventure story of 1911 vintage", Anthony Lejeune, writing in the "National Review", thought that it "is undeniably slight, but, like everything Fleming wrote, intensely readable ... In a sense Fleming's job was finished. He had irrevocably transformed the genre in which he worked". Lejeune went on to say that "in highbrow novels sex and violence are treated gloomily: in Fleming's stories they are presented cheerfully with full enjoyment." "The Man with the Golden Gun" was published in serial