The Man with the Golden Gun: Difference between revisions
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The Man with the Golden Gun: Difference between revisions
The cyborg "Chicago Gangsters" inside Scaramanga's assassination rooms have [[Thompson|Thompson M1928]] submachine guns. The one which the hitman refers to as "Al" ([[Ray Marioni]]) fires at him with it.
The cyborg "Chicago Gangsters" inside Scaramanga's assassination rooms have [[Thompson|Thompson M1928]] submachine guns. The dummy resembling Al Capone ([[Ray Marioni]]) fires at him with it.
[[Image:M1928.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1928 "Tommy Gun" .45 ACP with 50-round drum magazine.]]
[[Image:M1928.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1928 "Tommy Gun" .45 ACP with 50-round drum magazine.]]
[[Image:Mwtgg-tommy1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|"Al" fires his Thompson at the hitman.]]
[[Image:Mwtgg-tommy1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The Al Capone dummy fires his Thompson at the hitman.]]
[[Image:Mwtgg-tommy2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|"Al"'s arm drops to the ground, Thompson in hand.]]
[[Image:Mwtgg-tommy2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Al's arm drops to the ground, Thompson in hand.]]
== custom-built bolt-action rifle ==
== custom-built bolt-action rifle ==
Revision as of 07:17, 10 June 2010
The following weapons were used in the film The Man with the Golden Gun:
The Colibri Lighters Golden Gun is a special 4.2 mm gun that Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) uses to assassinate his marks. It uses special fragmenting bullets for maximum damage. Assembled from a pen, a cuff link, a lighter and cigarette case, it is very easy to conceal. This gun is Scaramanga's trademark. He kills the hitman with it in the opening sequence, and uses it throughout the movie.
In the opening sequence, a mob hitman (Marc Lawrence) trying to assassinate Scaramanga uses a suppressed Browning Hi-Power (although the sounds of the pistol firing are unsuppressed).
A Colt Detective Special is one of the many revolvers inside the locked cabinet that Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) reaches for during his gunfight with the mob hitman.
The cyborg "Chicago Gangsters" inside Scaramanga's assassination rooms have Thompson M1928 submachine guns. The dummy resembling Al Capone (Ray Marioni) fires at him with it.
The armorer Lazar (Marne Maitland) shows Bond a custom-built bolt-action rifle he built for a three-fingered hitman. Bond later turns his gun on Lazar to get information from him.
Andrea Anders (Maud Adams), when Bond encounters her in a shower, pulls a Beretta Jetfire on him, but is knocked out of her hand by Bond when he examines a box containing Scaramanga's gold bullets. It's a coincidence that Andrea Anders uses a Jetfire, because Maud Adams uses one when she plays Octopussy several years later.
The Walther PPK, 007's weapon of choice, is James Bond (Roger Moore)'s main gun throughout the movie. It's generally believed that this model is chambered in 9mm Kurz (.380 ACP) given Bond's comment "Six bullets to your one?"
Nick Nack (Herve Villechaize) holds a Derringer on Bond, causing Bond to quip about the originality of "a gun in a bag of peanuts". Note: In the novel version of the film, Scaramanga also uses a gold plated derringer as his back up gun during the climax, which also housed one bullet as with the film's custom golden gun.
As a tribute to the book, Scaramanga uses a gold-plated Single Action Army to shoot off a cork from the champagne that Nick Nack is delivering to 007 as he arrives at the Island. Scaramanga dismisses the revolver as a "harmless toy". It should be noted that in the novel the film is based upon, Scaramanga uses a gold-plated Single Action Army and not a custom gun.
A giant 'prop' gun, the Solex Laser Gun is a piece of Hollywood Fiction. It is seen obliterating 007's Republic RC-3 Seabee amphibious Seaplane and is purely custom prop work (with a healthy helping of Special effects). Originally, the script called for the laser beam to be a "golden beam of laser light". However, time and budget constraints prevented the effect from being fully developed, and the sequence was eventually shown with no beam at all, which lent some confusion to Scaramanga's line, "So you see, I now am truly... The Man with the Golden Gun." although this was more likely a reference to the guns power source, the sun.
