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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) More at IMDbPro »

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It is said during the duel that the Golden Gun can fire only one bullet, yet at the beginning of the movie Scaramanga shoots the fingers off of the Bond dummy using multiple bullets. That's because he's using his dead opponent's gun.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Right before the man is hit with the chair in the belly dancer's dressing room, we can see the pad on his back to absorb the impact.
  
  
• Factual errors: Absolute zero cannot be "maintained" since it has never been "reached". Even if that was permissible in the movie, it wouldn't require a man's body temperature to raise it, as the temperature of the surrounding air would already have done the trick.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When we first meet the two karate schoolgirls in the back of the car, the audio track simply repeats three times the following two sentences in Thai (spoken presumably by the two girls): "How are you?" and "That's what I think".
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond arrives to Scaramanga's island in the Republic RC-3 Seabee amphibious airplane, the left wing float disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At several points, including the opening scene, silenced weapons are heard to fire like unsilenced weapons.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Hai Fat's home is supposedly in Bangkok, but it's located high on a lush hillside. There are no such hills in the vicinity of Bangkok.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bond gets ready for the jump over the water in the car, a light along with the light guy on a ladder is seen in the car window.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nick Nack is throwing wine bottles at Bond, they all appear empty, even the unopened ones.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A crew member is visible in the large mirror as Bond walks across the bathroom to hand Maud Adams her robe.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The liner Queen Elizabeth sank in the Hong Kong harbor on 9 January 1972, not in 1971.
  
  
• Continuity: The statue of Bond in Scaramanga's funhouse changes position of the left hand in various shots.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Scaramanga shoots the fingers off the statue/dummy of Bond, only three shots are heard, and Scaramanga can only be seen to fire three times, but all four fingers are shot off. In addition, only two fingers are seen shot off in the view from behind the statue/dummy before the angle changes, but a third finger is already missing after cutting to a close-up of the hand, before the fourth finger is then shot off.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The long boat motorboat is already broken before Bond ploughs through it in his short one.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is chasing Scaramanga through the streets of Bangkok, there is a scene in which they pass a cab driver in a 1955 Plymouth sedan. When the cab driver runs off the road and rolls his car over, it has changed to a 1955 Cheverolet Bel-Air.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the fight in Beirut a bumped mirror shows a camera man, someone standing over the camera, and studio lighting. (This is noted in the commentary on the re-release DVD. It could have been corrected when the film was remastered, but they decided to leave it in.)
  
  
• Errors in geography: The flying car is supposedly found "200 miles west of Bangkok", which would put it somewhere off the coast of Burma. Also, the island they are head for is said to be about eight hours' sail from Hong Kong, at least 1,000 miles from Bangkok in the other direction.
  
  
• Continuity: During the dinner with Goodnight in the Thai restaurant they are served Phuyuck wine. During the conversation the condensation on the glasses disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Bond is served a bottle of wine labeled "Phuyuck" and pronounces it "Foo-yuck". He should know that Thai words transliterated with "ph" are pronounced with an aspirated "p" sound: "p'oo-yuck" (making the names of the islands Phuket and Phi-Phi respectively less and more giggle-inducing).
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Just before Bond stuffs Nick Nack into the suitcase on the junk. You hear his muffled voice saying "Hey, what are you doing? Let me out" even though he isn't in the case yet and you can clearly see his mouth and he's not speaking.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond arrives on Scaramanga's island, Scaramanga shoots the cork off the bottle of champagne on a platter that Nick Nack is holding. Champagne shoots up out of the bottle neck, partially filling the adjacent glass and wetting Nick Nack's hair. After the next cut, the glass is empty and Nick Nack's hair is dry.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Goodnight accidentally backs into the Master Override switch, the label on the switch is misspelled as "Master Overide".
  
  
• Continuity: When J.W. Pepper falls into the river, the position and contents of the boats either side of him change.
  
  
• Continuity: During the bottle fight between Nick Nack and Bond, the first time Nick Nack picks two bottles at once, one has gold foil and one has red foil. He throws the red foil one first but if you watch in slow motion, Bond actually hits a bottle with gold foil.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nick Nack is at his console watching Scaramanga in his 'Funhouse' he has screens showing different sections of it. When we see the cameras they are all panning constantly from side to side. However, all the shots on Nick Nack's screens are static shots of one angle.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When James Bond finds Andrea Anders in the shower, she is wearing a white bikini top that can clearly be seen through the shower glass.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase between the red car (Bond's) and the bronze car (Scaramanga's), there is a view taken from a driver's perspective inside the car, and the rear view mirror is missing from its mounting point. Later in the chase both cars clearly have the rear view mirror in place.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the opening sequence where Scaramanga has just shot the henchman, if you speed up the frames you can clearly see that the James Bond "dummy" is actually Roger Moore himself as he is naturally shaking attempting to keep his balance. Also, the position of his hands and fingers change frame by frame: in the first shot his hand is low and fingers in a fist shape. Next (when Scaramanga shoots the fingers) they are open and his hand is higher.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene where Andrea Anders gets shot at the kick boxing match. Every so often the camera cuts to to fighters kick boxing. At the last time the camera cuts to the fighters at the end of the bout. Each fighter is wearing ties on their biceps, where they hadn't before during the bout.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Even though it is supposed to be a wax dummy, you can clearly see "Al Capone" blink his eyes when he fires the gun. Also, his movements are way too human-like to be a dummy.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond lands the car from his spiral jump, you can see the figure of JW Pepper in the passenger seat. It goes to the next scene and JW Pepper is now in the back seat of the car.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the scenes when Goodnight is hiding under the covers, hiding in the closet, and hiding in the trunk, there is obviously an alternate light source being used. The closet is especially obvious, as there is no light source inside the closet, and the doors are solid.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Bond passes a lawn ornament holding a pitch fork. Later on, it is revealed to be Nick Nack in disguise. Not only is it obvious that they switched the statue for the real actor in between camera angles, but the position in which Nick Nack is holding the pitch fork is much higher than the original statue.
  
  
• Continuity: During the opening carnival house duel, both arms fall off of the "Al Capone" wax dummy despite the fact that he only shot one bullet. As 'Al' was cradling a 1928 Thompson 'Tommy-gun', a tug from one arm and the weapon could have pulled the other arm off of the mannequin.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the first sword fight scene at the martial arts Dojo, there are a few mistakes. The fighter in yellow mounts the fighter in red. The fighter in red appears to slash him with his sword, and send him flying backwards. Both the fighter's yellow uniform and the sword appear to be covered in very dried blood, as if it had been there for hours. Also, the trajectory of the blade was horizontal, and there are no horizontal slashes in the fighter's uniform.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond enters hotel Room 602 the shot from the hallway shows the door less than a foot from the door for Room 600, but the shot from inside the room shows a large (roughly 8 foot wide) entryway with the door in the center.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Bond is attacked by two Sumo Wrestlers at Hai Fat's compound. Sumo wrestlers are found in Japan, not Thailand. (Also, Bond's method of defeating one - causing the thong to squeeze his testicles - would not work on a real Sumo wrestler, as they can pull their testicles into their bodies.)
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the ballistics expert examines the bullet, he declares the mass to be 20.53 grams (316 grains). Even though 23 carat gold is somewhat denser (1.67:1) than the lead alloy used in modern arms, this is still almost thirteen times as massive as the largest 17 caliber bullets manufactured (25 grains). It would look more like a thick needle than a bullet, being nearly two and three quarters inches in length and would be nearly impossible to stabilize.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the establishing shot of Hai Fat's hillside house, patches of light dart about on the ornate arch/frontage. This is from hand-held reflective panels, held by crew members out of sight (off the bottom corners of the image), who are trying to give the booklet guards some light/contrast on their faces.
  
  
• Errors in geography: On the map that is produced to show the location of Scaramanga's island, the islands in the archipelago are clearly marked out as 'Ko', meaning 'island' in Thai. This correlates with the real location of the island that was used in the film, but does not correlate with the film's pretense of the islands being near Hong Kong.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Scaramanga's gun is made up of a pen, cigarette case, lighter and a cuff link, yet when Scaramanga assembles his gun at the table, he doesn't produce the cuff link.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the flaps of the sunlight collector on the mushroom rock rotate into position, it's actually not the sun but a studio light that's been reflected.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Why does Agent Hip leave Bond at Hai Fat's compound? This plot hole is never explained.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bond adopts a third nipple "disguise" in order to appear as Scaramanga to Hai Fat, his extra nipple is in an anatomically impossible location. Extra nipples are always found in the "milk line," which runs vertically between the normal nipple and the groin crease. Bond places his extra nipple medial to his normal one - a dead giveaway that it's a fake.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the flying car is shown in the hanger. There is cloth hanging in front of the engine intake. The jet engine is clearly heard running, yet the cloth is not being sucked into the engine. Also as the flying car pulls out from behind the cloth, it just hangs straight back down. Clearly showing there's no exhaust coming from the engine.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene where Goodnight accidentally backs into the Master Override switch Bond asks her to look for a control to deactivate the device. She searches the panel but the description on the part of the panel she reads in no way matches what she says.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The Asian skinny-dipping girl Bond has a brief exchange of words with at Hai Fat's place is supposed to be naked, but is clearly wearing flesh-colored panties.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The tilted angle of the Queen Elizabeth as seen from the outside is different than from the inside. This isn't properly an error, as the fire that destroyed the ship could have caused support members to melt, creating different angles to assorted decks.
  
  

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