Roger Moore awards For his acting Moore's book about the filming of "Live and Let Die", based on his diaries, titled "Roger Moore as James Bond: Roger Moore's Own Account of Filming Live and Let Die", was published in London in 1973, by Pan Books. The book includes an acknowledgment to Sean Connery, with whom Moore was friends for many years: "I would also like to thank Sean Connery – "with" whom it would not have been possible." Moore's autobiography "My Word is My Bond" () was published by Collins in the US, in November 2008 and by Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) film itself: "What Sean Connery used to achieve with a touch of sardonic sadism, Roger Moore conveys with roguish schoolboy charm and the odd, dry quip." Thirkwell also said that Moore "manages to make even this reduced-voltage Bond a character with plenty of sparkle." Judith Crist of "New York Magazine" gave a positive review, saying "the scenery's grand, the lines nice and the gadgetry entertaining", also describing the production as a film that "capture[s] the free-wheeling, whooshing non-sense of early Fleming's fairy tale for grown-ups orientation". Jay Cocks, writing in "Time", focused on gadgets such as Scaramanga's flying car, as