On the bright side, Christopher Lee. On the dark side, short sleeves, Sheriff Pepper, and one of the least competent MI6 agents on record as a Bond girl.
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Dave Hill’s ★★★ review of The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) on Letterboxd.com
Moore returns for his second Bond outing — a bit less athletic, a bit more suave, a bit more dark, and still smoking cigars. His opponent this time is the man with the improbable assembly-required pi…
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The low point of the series. I think that’s what made Saltzman sell his stake in the company, which was a mistake, as the next film was my favorite of the Moore films (largely because it reprises the highlights of the Connery films).
The biggest (unintended) laugh for me comes from the vats that “must be kept at absolute zero.” Riiiiiight.
Christopher Lee was the first celebrity I met. He gave a non-answer to my question, but was more forthcoming when I spoke to him as he gave me his autograph (now lost, sadly). He even shook my hand. (I was a punk teenager. I didn’t know from con etiquette.) And just think… he’s even more famous now that he’s Saruman and Count Dooku as well as Scaramanga and Dracula! 😀