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

5. Needless Investigation

The Man With The Golden Gun Ending
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When MI6 receives a golden bullet with “007” engraved on it, it is considered a threat from an infamous assassin, Francisco Scaramanga.

James Bond travels to Beirut to recover a golden bullet from a belly dancer, Saida, who was with Bill Fairbanks, Double-0 Two when he was shot in 1969. Separating Saida from the bullet, Bond asks Q (Desmond Llewelyn) to analyse it, assisting him in tracking Scaramanga down.

Whilst Bond’s efforts in investigating Fairbanks’s murder are amusing and lead to some genuinely good scenes in the film, they are ultimately pointless, as Q could simply have analysed the original engraved bullet...

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