History Film / TheManWithTheGoldenGun

* IllKillYou: Nick to Bond, during their fight at the end.

* HollywoodSilencer: Notably averted in the opening scene, where the ganger assassin's silenced weapon is still quite loud, although that might just be a foley goof.

* UselessProtagonist: Other than [[spoiler:killing Scaramanga]], Bond doesn't quite succeed at anything throughout the movie.

In this ninth ''Film/JamesBond'' film, [=MI6=] receives a gold bullet with "007" etched into its surface. M believes this to be a message from Francisco Scaramanga (ChristopherLee), a KGB-trained assassin (because we need to add the Commies into the mix somehow), announcing that Bond is the killer's next $1 million hit. Oh, there's also a missing solar power device needed prevent an impending energy crisis.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Besides its '70s fashion, the film dates itself with its extensive talk about the energy crisis, and [=MI6=]'s use of the wreck of the ''Queen Elizibeth'' as covert headquarters. [[hottip:*:Declared a shipping hazard and dismantled for scrap between 1974 and 1975, with the unsalvagable remains of the hull completely submereged on the seabed]]

** Were it not for the ripples of the water in the pool, [[OneSceneWonder Chu-Mi's one appearance]] would constitute full-frontal nudity.

This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Kremlin, where a Russian official told Cubby Broccoli that the KGB clearly didn't train Scaramanaga very well. Possibly because there is only one mention of them in the entire movie. (RedChina, on the other hand....) It's also the last film that Harry Saltzman worked on.

* FanService: The scene where Mary Goodnight's bikini-clad butt keeps knocking against the BigRedButton activating the killer laser. Sure, it's a Crowning Moment Of Stupid, but who's going to argue with a tight close-up of Britt Ekland's booty?

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Scaramanga's gun fires a 4.2mm bullet. A caliber that small has no stopping power to speak of unless you hit a point guaranteed to be an instant kill, which he ''always'' does.

* CompensatingForSomething: Scaramanga only makes love before he kills, and it's clear from one scene with Anders that the gun is a penis substitute (he's caressing Anders with it suggestively as they lie in bed).
** All together now: ''[[{{Zardoz}} "The gun is good...the PENIS is EVIL!"]]''
** UpToEleven in the novel, where an MI6 [[FreudWasRight psychiatric report goes on about]] how Scaramanga uses a HandCannon to compensate for his being AmbiguouslyGay. No wonder Bond just had a Beretta .25!

* GoingCommando: Bond encounters Chew Me, a beautiful Thai girl swimming in Hai Fats' pool, who invites him to join her.

-->'''Chew Me:''' Neither do I.

* OvertRendezvous: Bond is scheduled to meet with Andrea Anders at a boxing venue so she can give him the Solex Agitator. When he gets there he finds her dead - murdered by Scaramanga.

* BallisticDiscount: Bond questions a gunsmith about a custom bullet he made by, in part, threatening to shoot him with a rifle the man is making for a customer who has lost 2 fingers on his right hand and needs something custom balanced. Apparently, the rifle fires 2 inches below the target for people with 5 fingers. Bond proves this by shooting at, and missing, the gunsmith's wedding tackle.

->'''M:''' Jealous husbands, humiliated tailors, outraged chefs. The list is endless!

* HeyItsThatGuy: Sheriff J.W. Pepper, despite being a hick from the [[Film/LiveAndLetDie backwaters of Louisiana]], [[FanDisservice for some odd reason]] turns up on vacation in...of all places, Thailand! When he gets back to the States, apparently he takes over as sheriff in [[Film/SupermanII East Houston, Idaho.]]

The 9th ''Film/JamesBond'' film.

Francisco Scaramanga (played by ChristopherLee), the most dangerous assassin in the world (who's got a third nipple, of all things), has a contract out on Bond, who sets out to find him. Oh, there's also a missing solar power device to find. It's also the last film that Harry Saltzman worked on.

This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Kremlin (where a Russian official told Cubby Broccoli that the KGB clearly didn't train Scaramanaga very well. Possibly because there is only one mention of them in the entire movie. RedChina, on the other hand....).

* HeyItsThatGuy: Sheriff J.W. Pepper, despite being a hick from the [[LiveAndLetDie backwaters of Louisiana]], [[FanDisservice for some odd reason]] turns up on vacation in...of all places, Thailand! When he gets back to the States, apparently he takes over as sheriff in [[SupermanII East Houston, Idaho.]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Hong Kong police actually used left hand drive AMC Matadors when the film was made.

* AsianDrivers: For the most part averted, but one driver in the car chase through Hong Kong is so distracted cursing out Scaramanga that he drives his car onto a fruit cart and crashes into another car.

* AsianDrivers: For the most part averted, but one driver in the car chase through Hong Kong is so distracted cursing out Scaramanga that he drives his car onto a ramp-like structure and crashes into another car.

* BadassDriver: Bond, who performs a whole manner of (very real) stunts in the car chase.

* NobleBigotWithABadge: Sherrif J. W. Pepper, though he's on vacation and isn't as important to the plot as [[LiveAndLetDie the last movie]], with bigorrty that would make [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] proud.

* NobleBigotWithABadge: Sherrif J. W. Pepper, though he's on vacation and isn't as important to the plot as [[LiveAndLetDie the last movie]], he's still (arguably) more bigoted than [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]].

-->'''Bond''': [[AmericanAccents "Ah shore am, boy!"]]

This was the first Bond movie allowed to be screened in the Kremlin (where a Russian official told Cubby Broccoli that the KGB clearly didn't train Scaramanaga very well. Possibly because there is only one mention of them in the entire movie (RedChina, on the other hand....).

* DeadpanSnarker: G. W. Pepper, of all people, during the car chase.