20 Things You Didn't Know About The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)

20. Fake Tan

When people talk about the use of make-up in films, they often think either about female performers or elaborate effects. However, in The Man with the Golden Gun, Christopher Lee’s Francisco Scaramanga required plenty of attention as well.

Fans will remember Scaramanga’s infamous third nipple (which Double-0 Seven cheekily replicates in the film), but that was not the full extent of Lee’s make-up.

In order to highlight the fact that the notorious hitman lives in the tropics, Lee received a full-body make-up treatment - particularly in the sequences in which he appears partially clothed - to simulate the killer’s tan!