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

1. He Has A Powerful Weapon

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The golden gun is one of the most distinctive props to feature in a Bond film.

The film’s art and special effects departments collaborated with cigarette lighter company, Colibri to build a non-working prop, a pistol that fired a cap, and a version that could be assembled from its component parts. Art director, Peter Lamont showed Christopher Lee the complex process of piecing it together.

US Customs officials seized the gun whilst Lee was promoting the film and the actor had to demonstrate that it was a non-lethal prop before they would return it.

If only he had taken the disassembled gun, he would likely have got through unchallenged!

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