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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) More at IMDb Pro »

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It is said during the duel that the Golden Gun can fire only one bullet, yet at the beginning of the movie Scaramanga shoots the fingers off of the Bond dummy using multiple bullets. That's because he's using his dead opponent's gun.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the chaos of the fight scene in the belly-dancer's dressing room, the dressing table's mirror is knocked out of place - revealing excellent reflection shots of the crew, lighting apparatus, and mic.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Sheriff J.W.Pepper says he is a sheriff for the Louisiana State Police. In Lousiana, the Sheriff is over a Parish and not a part of the State Police.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Right before the man is hit with the chair in the belly dancer's dressing room, we can see the pad on his back to absorb the impact.
  
  
• Factual errors: Absolute zero cannot be "maintained" since it has never been "reached". Even if that was permissible in the movie, it wouldn't require a man's body temperature to raise it, as the temperature of the surrounding air would already have done the trick.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When we first meet the two karate schoolgirls in the back of the car, the audio track simply repeats three times the following two sentences in Thai (spoken presumably by the two girls): "How are you?" and "That's what I think".
  
  
• Continuity: When the sea plane is flying to the island it has a float on each wing, but when landing on the beach it has one missing.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond arrives to Scaramanga's island in the Republic RC-3 Seabee amphibious airplane, the left wing float disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the ballistics expert examines the bullet, he declares the mass to be 20.53 grams (316 grains). Even though 23 carat gold is somewhat denser (1.67:1) than the lead alloy used in modern arms, this is still almost thirteen times as massive as the largest 17 caliber bullets manufactured (25 grains). It would look more like a thick needle than a bullet, being nearly two and three quarters inches in length and would be nearly impossible to stabilize.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At several points, including the opening scene, silenced weapons are heard to fire like unsilenced weapons.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Hai Fat's home is supposedly in Bangkok, but it's located high on a lush hillside. There are no such hills in the vicinity of Bangkok.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bond gets ready for the jump over the water in the car, a light along with the light guy on a ladder is seen in the car window.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nick Nack is throwing wine bottles at Bond, they all appear empty, even the unopened ones.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A crew member is visible in the large mirror as Bond walks across the bathroom to hand Maud Adams her robe.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The liner Queen Elizabeth sank in the Hong Kong harbor in 1972, not 1971. This might be a common mistake for a tour guide to make as it happened early in 1972 (January 9th).
  
  
• Continuity: The statue of Bond in Scaramanga's funhouse changes position of the left hand in various shots.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Scaramanga shoots the fingers off the statue/dummy of Bond, only three shots are heard, and Scaramanga can only be seen to fire three times, but all four fingers are shot off. In addition, only two fingers are seen shot off in the view from behind the statue/dummy before the angle changes, but a third finger is already missing after cutting to a close-up of the hand, before the fourth finger is then shot off.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The long boat motorboat is already broken before Bond ploughs through it in his short one.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In the establishing shot of Hai Fat's hillside house, patches of light dart about on the ornate arch/frontage. This is from hand-held reflective panels, held by crew members out of sight (off the bottom corners of the image), who are trying to give the booklet guards some light/contrast on their faces.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is chasing Scaramanga through the streets of Bangkok, there is a scene in which they pass a cab driver in a 1955 Plymouth sedan. When the cab driver runs off the road and rolls his car over, it has changed to a 1955 Cheverolet Bel-Air.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the fight in Beruit a mirror shows a camera man and someone standing over the camera.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The flying car is supposedly found "200 miles west of Bangkok", which would put it somewhere off the coast of Burma. Also, the island they are head for is said to be about eight hours' sail from Hong Kong, at least 1,000 miles from Bangkok in the other direction.
  
  
• Continuity: During the dinner with Goodnight in the Thai restaurant they are served Phuyuck wine. During the conversation the condensation on the glasses disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The tilted angle of the Queen Elizabeth as seen from the outside is different than from the inside.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Bond is served a bottle of wine labeled "Phuyuck" and pronounces it "Foo-yuck". He should know that Thai words transliterated with "ph" are pronounced with an aspirated "p" sound: "p'oo-yuck" (making the names of the islands Phuket and Phi-Phi respectively less and more giggle-inducing).
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Just before Bond stuffs Knick Knack into the suitcase on the junk. You hear his muffled voice saying "Hey, what are you doing? Let me out" even though he isn't in the case yet and you can clearly see his mouth and he's not speaking.
  
  
• Factual errors: On the map that is produced to show the location of Scaramanga's island, the islands in the archipelago are clearly marked out as 'Ko', meaning 'island' in Thai. This correlates with the real location of the island that was used in the film, but does not correlate with the film's pretense of the islands being near Hong Kong.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond arrives on Scaramanga's island, Scaramanga shoots the cork off the bottle of champagne on a platter that Nic Nac is holding. Champagne shoots up out of the bottle neck, partially filling the adjacent glass and wetting Nic Nac's hair. After the next cut, the glass is empty and Nic Nac's hair is dry.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Goodnight accidentally backs into the Master Override switch, the label on the switch is misspelled as "Master Overide".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Scaramanga's gun is made up of a pen, cigarette case, lighter and a cuff link, yet when Scaramanga assembles his gun at the table, he doesn't produce the cuff link.
  
  
• Continuity: When J.W. Pepper falls into the river, the position and contents of the boats either side of him change.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the villain in the opening sequence shoots at what is supposed to be a figure of Al Capone, you can see the "figure" blink.
  
  
• Continuity: During the bottle fight between Nick Nack and Bond, the first time Nick Nack picks two bottles at once, one has gold foil and one has red foil. He throws the red foil one first but if you watch in slow motion, Bond actually hits a bottle with gold foil.
  
  

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