Francisco Scaramanga cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. As with Blofeld, the name is believed to have come from a schoolmate of Fleming's, George Ambrosios (Ambrose) Scaramanga. In the film "The Man with the Golden Gun", Francisco is a high-priced assassin, supposedly the best in the world, charging one million dollars per kill. He is best known for being "The man with the golden gun", for using only bullets made of gold in a (fictional) 4.2 mm cartridge with a disassemblable golden handgun made of a gold cigarette case, gold cigarette lighter, gold fountain pen and gold cufflink as the gun's trigger. All
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