The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) who managed the Tate & Lyle plantations in West Indies after the war and the book's main villain, Francisco Scaramanga, was named after George Scaramanga, an Etonian contemporary of Fleming's: the pair are said to have fought at school. The effects of the two Eon Productions Bond films released prior to the writing of the novel ("Dr. No" and "From Russia with Love") were reflected in the novel through the increased number of gadgets used. One of these was the poison gun used in the scene of the attempted assassination of M. The idea was taken from the story of
The Man with the Golden Arm (novel) he received, and the liberties taken by the filmmakers (which included an entirely different ending from the novel). When photographer and friend Art Shay asked Algren to pose below the film's marquee, he is reported to have said "What does that movie have to do with me?" Leonard Cohen used imagery from "The Man with the Golden Arm" in "The Stranger Song", from his first album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen" (1967): "O you've seen that man before / his golden arm dispatching cards / but now it's rusted from the elbows to the finger." "Frankie's Gun!" by The Felice Brothers