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

13. “Real” Waxworks

The Man With The Golden Gun Ending
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Scaramanga’s nightmarish funhouse is designed to scare and unnerve those who enter it. It relies upon strange and often threatening exhibits designed to do this, including a gun-toting cowboy, and Al Capone and his gang lurking in a Chicago garage.

The mannequins' glazed-over expressions suggest that they are waxworks, but they are nothing of the sort. Although their acting was intended to be wooden, the gun-firing cowboy was portrayed by Roger Moore’s stunt double, Leslie Crawford, whilst Ray Marioni played Al Capone.

Moore stood in for his own mannequin before being replaced (after all, losing four fingers was not part of the deal).

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