History Trivia / TheManWithTheGoldenGun

** Hip's niece Yuen Qiu (also a Thai) was played by Hong Kong actress Yuen Qiu.

** The gangster who tries to assassinate Scaramanga at the beginning is played by Marc Lawrence, who was previously in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', playing one of the gangsters who confront Bond in his hotel room in Las Vegas and throw Plenty O'Toole through a window ("I didn't know there was a pool down there!"). It is unclear if they are the same character.

** Hong Kong policeman Lt. Hip was played by the Korean Soon-Tek Oh.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The RMS Queen Elizabeth (The tilted ship in the harbor ond [=MI5=]'s secret headquarters) changed hands and was renamed by 1972 when a fire (exact cause never determined) occurred and the water being pumped into her to put the fire out caused her to capsize in Hong Kong Harbor. Hence the existence of the ship in the movie being RealLife. It was scrapped from 1974-1975, so it's long gone from the site now.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The RMS Queen Elizabeth (The tilted ship in the harbor ond [=MI5-]'s secret headquarters) changed hands and was renamed by 1972 when a fire (exact cause never determined) occurred and the water being pumped into her to put the fire out caused her to capsize in Hong Kong Harbor. Hence the existence of the ship in the movie being RealLife. It was scrapped from 1974-1975, so it's long gone from the site now.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The RMS Queen Elizabeth (The tilted ship in the harbor ond MI5's secret headquarters) changed hands and was renamed by 1972 when a fire (exact cause never determined) occurred and the water being pumped into her to put the fire out caused her to capsize in Hong Kong Harbor. Hence the existence of the ship in the movie being RealLife. It was scrapped from 1974-1975, so it's long gone from the site now.

** One of the schoolgirl martial artists is played by [[Film/KungFuHustle Qiu Yuen]], who was born in 1948. She must have been around 24 at the time.

** This was the last Bond film Harry Saltzman was involved in before he dropped out of the series; Saltzman only oversaw two more films past ''Golden Gun'' before he died.

-->I thought the character in the novel was very unusual. But it was all lost. Lee wanted to play it like a spoiled Guard's Officer. In other words he was trying to outdo Bond and it couldn't be done.

* TouristBump: Scaramanga's island hideout has since become a tourist attraction. During filming, the island was deserted.

* TheRedStapler: Scaramanga's island hideout has since become a tourist attraction. During filming, the island was deserted.

* TroubledProduction: Initial plans to film in Iran were abandoned after the Yom Kippur war, and writer Tom Mankiewicz was forced to leave "feeling really tapped out on Bond", bringing back recurring screenwriter Richard Maibaum.

* FranchiseKiller: The movie almost managed to be that, with one of the weakest box office records in the franchise and bad reviews. Furthermore, it was the last film co-produced by Harry Saltzman, who left the franchise shortly afterwards due to financial problems. Fortunately, Creator/AlbertRBroccoli seems to have noticed the situation, and the next film, ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', would be one of the best and most successful in the franchise.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: The whole idea of MI:6 that Scaramanga was hideously wrong to upend the World's polluting fossil fuel economy by offering to sell clean, efficient solar power is viewed by many today as completely ridiculous and outdated. Solar power is now not only cheaper to produce and maintain than coal, oil, or natural gas, but is seen by a growing number of people as the future of human energy production. And that's before you get into the fact that Scaramanga's solar cell is effective to the level of science fiction; it wouldn't just outcompete fossil fuel, it has a pretty good shot of just ending energy as a concern altogether. Fossil fuels, meanwhile, are often considered dirty, dangerous, environmentally destructive, and outdated.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: The whole idea of MI:6 that Scaramanga was hideously wrong to upend the World's polluting fossil fuel economy by offering to [[PragmaticVillainy sell clean, efficient solar power]] is viewed by many today [[ValuesDissonance as completely ridiculous and outdated]]. [[TechnologyMarchesOn Solar power is now not only cheaper to produce and maintain than coal, oil, or natural gas]], but is seen by a growing number of people as the future of human energy production. And that's before you get into the fact that Scaramanga's solar cell is effective to the level of science fiction; it wouldn't just outcompete fossil fuel, it has a pretty good shot of just ending energy as a concern altogether. Fossil fuels, meanwhile, are often considered dirty, dangerous, environmentally destructive, and outdated.