"I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Question:" "Who was the first actor to appear as James Bond in the movies?" "If you said Sean Connery, you're wrong." "This is the first image movie audiences saw of James Bond." "And the man playing 007?" "Bob Simmons." "Before Bob introduced his own style, most of the stunt performers were really advanced extras." "Bob Simmons was an ex-serviceman." "He was in the army, in the physical training corps... just towards the end of the war." "Bob was a friend of Terence Young's, who was the original director of the Bond films." "He was part of the creation of James Bond." "He came into it because he looked so like Sean." "Bob had done wonderful work in the early James Bond movies." "Bob Simmons was one of the most innovative stunt arrangers in the industry." "His staged fights are noted for their creative use of props." "And he invented the two-man switch, where the stuntman disappears for a moment and the actor replaces him." "He had one famous pet manoeuvre." "It was called a "Japanese somersault"." "He always managed to introduce that somewhere." "Bob gave it glamour." "Very, very good..." "stunt director and fight arranger." "Well, he was an extrovert." "He was a..." "He enjoyed life." "He managed to inject great enthusiasm into everybody who worked with him." "He liked a drink-up and singsong." "He was a good stuntman, but he also brought good food." "Bob was so enthusiastic himself that it passed on to everybody who worked for him." "He said "I don't want to be a millionaire, I just want to live like one."" "I think he lived like a multimillionaire." "I'll never forget those words because he did live like one." "He lived life to the fullest." "It'd be the best champagne flown in..." "He had a hell of a life." "He spent his money as quickly as he could." "Bob was always one film behind paying off the last film's extravagances." "He was Bond, really." "He was one of the greatest stuntmen in England." "For the second Bond film, "From Russia With Love"," "Peter Perkins steps into the stunt arranger's spot." "He only took over when Bob was away." "He handed that one over to Peter Perkins because he was on another film." "Very good." "The stunt doubles were excellent in England." "We had some excellent people working with us." "They really were very good." "Simmons returns for "Goldfinger", a film loaded with eye-popping stunts." "The pre-credit sequence alone features two stunt performers doubling Sean Connery." "The bit where he comes up with the duck was Georgie Leech." "The next shot, where he jumps down from the wall and kicks the guy in the face, is myself doubling Sean." "Simmons also chooses Alf Joint to play a small role in the film." "They said "You're doing the fight." I said "What fight?"" "There was a very hard balsa-wood chair and he had a very, very thin shirt on." "And I had to whack him with this." "It went on about five or six takes." "I thought:" "I'm going to get this chair round my ear hole because he's not going to take too much of this." "But he stood it very well." "The hardest part was a number where" "I had to throw a punch, Sean ducks his head and I go flying over the top." "I did it about eight times." "By the end, I'd had enough." "I thought:" "That's it, fellas, I'll sit this one out for a bit." "I crashed the Aston Martin, doubling for Sean Connery." "Leech performs the stunt twice." "On this first attempt he drives through the fake wall, almost crashing the car for real." "The second take is perfect and appears in the film." "Leech also plays a part in Q's lab." "I'd never experienced anything like this." "It shocked me, the explosions on my chest." "The climactic raid on Fort Knox calls for airborne skills." "Bob Simmons did a very good fall where he falls into the lens." "Alf Joint did another fall from there and I did another one from a lower balcony." ""Thunderball" begins with a showcase fight, with Bob Simmons himself playing Colonel Jacques Boitier and arranging a fight in which every bit of furniture and pottery is destroyed." "And 20-year-old Bill Suitor portrays 007 for Bond's escape from Château d'Anet." "Saltzman and Broccoli decided that's what James Bond needs - a jetpack." ""Thunderball" was really the first big movie it ever appeared in." ""Thunderball" also requires a truly cutting-edge stunt." "I came to the studio, walked on the stage, and saw six sheets of glass standing near the set I was working on." "And I said "What are they for?"" "He said "Well, we're going to do six takes at least." "You know, get it right."" "I said "No, no, Bob." "You're getting one."" "On landing on the windowsill, I felt this pain in the left eye." "I thought:" "I've done some damage somewhere." "Luckily, a surgeon was standing by in a hospital." "When I came back, the chauffeur took me in the bar and Sean was sitting with a double brandy." "He was very considerate, very caring." "He cared about the stuntman." "Other stuntmen share Sawyer's admiration for Connery." "The ideal thing with him was that he looked manly and could throw a punch." "He looked as if he was going to knock you out." "One time, he picked up a chair to throw at me to knock me down the gangway, and it was a real, genuine iron chair." "So he had to pick up that and throw it in the right direction so that I didn't get hit by an edge or a corner." "So he had to be skilled and keep his calm in those situations." "The first major picture I worked on was "You Only Live Twice" in 1966." "I was doing explosions and sliding down ropes, all that sort of thing." "I still admire, when I see that film, the work that Bob Simmons did on that, rehearsing it and getting it going." "Leech himself becomes the stunt coordinator for the next Bond adventure." "George Leech is a very quiet person, very opposite to Bob." "I've worked with George many times over the years." "Excellent stunt performer and coordinator." "He's my father-in-law and coordinated "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"." "I've worked on a dozen Bond pictures all together." "He was a very good welterweight boxer." "Tremendous gymnast." "A great vision... in terms of what he was asking the guys to do." "And I always enjoyed working with him." "He comes over to see his grandchildren and gets on the trampoline." "And he's in his seventies now." "Vic Armstrong doubles the new 007, George Lazenby." "It was four months' work, doubling Lazenby, and good kudos for me as an up-and-coming stuntman." "Champion Olympic athlete Willy Bogner provides the skiing action." "Bogner invents his own camera system." "The trick was not to use any rigs because rigs make it less variable, you know?" "With holding it in your hands, you can pan and even shoot backwards." "You can shoot through your legs, you can ski backwards, and really pinpoint the camera." "He used to go backwards down this bob run." "God knows how he skied backwards." "Speed is always visible with things flying by." "So if you shoot a sequence in the trees, it looks much better." "Or in a bob run, you have the walls really close and you can actually feel the speed." "He would just go down there, slide backwards, and control the camera." "He was a miracle man." "When Connery returns for "Diamonds Are Forever"," "Bob Simmons also returns, coordinating the stunt work filmed at Pinewood." "Basically, there's nothing more boring than two blokes swinging at each other." "And I began to think about having a fight in this elevator." "I hadn't worked with Bob before, but we got on well." "But really," "Sean and me, we both worked the fight out ourselves." "Sean said "What will they do next?" "Have a fight in a telephone box?"" "Most stuntmen have a healthy respect for Sean." "And this is what makes Sean a wonderful Bond." "When he hits, he means it." "He goes in there - "I'm going to hit you..."" "I remember it well." "George Leech doubles Putter Smith for the blazing finale, with fire effects courtesy of special-effects man John Stears." "He used all the appropriate chemicals and fire-prevention gear." "And I went up into a great sheet of flame, staggered about, and jumped off the ship." "And I was OK." "Thank you, John Stears." "What the...?" "The next film, "Live And Let Die", finds a new Bond up to old tricks." "It's a tremendous job organising and shooting stunt sequences." "Especially when..." "All stunt sequences are dangerous." "Harry and Cubby got hold of a young man from the Southern states of America called Jerry Comeaux." "His function on the film is stunt driver, stunt coordinator, and also, my teacher." "They came up with some very creative ideas, I might say, about a boat-chase sequence." "And of course, let's say, artistic people have quite a large or wide span of imagination in what they would like to achieve." "It was my responsibility to curb that, to determine what we could physically do with the equipment that we had." "Jerry Chipwood did all the car stunts." "And the plane stunt where the wings come off." "They were a very good team." "Another team working on the film is the Hollywood Black Stuntmen's Association." "I'm Eddie Smith, the business manager for the Black Stuntmen's Association." "We couldn't get into the White Stuntmen's Association, so we organised ourselves." "When the unit returns to Pinewood, Vic Armstrong becomes James Bond, doubling Roger Moore in the climactic fight." "It was interesting working with Bob Simmons who coordinated it." "Moore's next Bond film tests his acting chops." "The martial-arts scenes require special instruction for the actors." "I was trained every day, at least an hour, if not two hours, for... towards the fight." "So..." "I kind of remember that... wardrobe lady designer... saying they had to alter all the wardrobes because I kept losing the weight." "One of the girls is a daughter of the head of a secret service." "Quite ordinary girls, except that they were very skilled in the martial arts." "The film also features another amazing car stunt, courtesy of Jay Milligan's driving team, with Lauren Willard at the wheel." " You're not thinking...?" " I sure am, boy." "There's seven or eight mathematical functions of geometry and physics that affect the roll velocity, the landing and the takeoff of the car." "The computer was able to program all of that to what we thought was a successful stunt." "You look back and you say" ""I've achieved world fame by working with Bond."" "Another mind-boggling stunt opens "The Spy Who Loved Me"." "When people find out that I've done the aerial stunts, especially the skydiving, one of the first things they ask is "Did you do the ski jump off the mountain?"" "I would love to say yes, but I can't take credit." "Sylvester did a tremendous job." "It's a very memorable jump." "At that time, that was incredible." "That was a phenomenal stunt." "That stunt is sort of a signature stunt for all the Bond films." "It's a tremendous effort." "It's been called the greatest stunt in the history of movies." "I'd agree, but I'd give the credit to nature because the setting is what made it for me." "The skiing leading up to the jump was filmed six months later in Switzerland by Willy Bogner." "You have to know what you're doing." "You're on dangerous terrain, there's weather problems." "But no accidents, nothing." "So it worked out fine." ""The Spy Who Loved Me" allows Martin Grace to become James Bond." "My main piece was riding the ball at the top while all the action went on below." "Roger did a lot of stuff." "We had to be careful that he didn't do too much." "Otherwise we'd be out of a job if he had an injury." "I don't recall any actor in my career who could throw a punch as good as Roger." "He threw a great punch and could rough-and-tumble with anybody." "When asked if he did his own stunts, he'd say "Yes." "And I do all my own lying."" ""Moonraker", again, begins with a stunning aerial stunt." "I was a world champion and captain of the US team." "I was world champion a couple of times, national champion a couple of times." "My partner was a free-fall photographer." "The first feature we did was "Moonraker"." "His partner's girlfriend was the secretary for the US Parachute Association." "A phone call came, looking for a free-fall cinematographer and some skydivers." "The secretary said "Well, the president is out, but I know who you need."" "We jumped with hidden parachutes, which we'd had to develop." "It's psychologically tough because it feels like you don't have a parachute on." "But, in fact, we really do have one, so this is a fun part of doing aerial stunts." "People remember that today, and that was 1978." "If you mention "Moonraker" to a Bond fan, they'll know that sequence." "Another memorable sequence is done on location, with Martin Grace as Jaws and Dickie Graydon as Bond." "Richard Graydon is one of our stalwarts of the British stunt fraternity." "There was no one to touch him for hanging on things." "When closer shots are done at Pinewood, Paul Weston doubles Richard Kiel." "They brought the two cars back to Pinewood Studios, put 'em 25 feet up in the air, 16 feet apart." "Jaws is supposed to jump from one cable car to the other." "What I did was put a mini trampoline on top my cable car, and I stood on top of the cables - balanced on the top there." "I had to jump from the cable, down onto the mini trampoline, and 16 feet across the gap onto the other cable car." "So I jumped down, hid the mini trampoline, bounced across, and just got onto the other side." "But I stubbed my toe." "I can't tell you..." "You're travelling so fast for that distance." ""For Your Eyes Only" has aerial stunts, with Martin Grace doubling Roger Moore." "That was one of the highlights because it was incredible excitement." "Hold tight." "And below-the-waves action." "I was the subject being pulled off with Dorothy Ford, who was a lady stunt double." "We were pulled off the back." "That was a bit of an impact!" "There was a fight in a monastery." "A pike was supposedly thrown at the character of Bond, being played by Martin Grace." "It actually caught part of his hand." "And Roger, who was standing off camera, said "There for the God of Grace go I!"" "Willy Bogner returns for more ski action, creating scenes with vehicle stunts coordinator Rémy Julienne." "We had to construct a winch in the back of the bob that would pull me up to the bob, all the while we were racing down this course." "Now that was a little touchy because when the bob goes around turns, the distance changes." "That means, when you go into the turn, the wire you're hooked on gets looser." "But when it gets out of the..." "you get a real jolt." "And they're just a few feet behind you with their spikes." "Rémy Julienne is made up to impersonate Bond for the chase through the olive grove." "And Rick Sylvester gets a chance to become James Bond once again." "I'd climbed about 15 years, but I'd never had a fall over 25 feet - a record of conservatism which I was proud of cos I was a big chicken." "I'm not one of these macho stuntmen types." "I never think of myself as a stuntman." "I had a very short, dramatic career - two stunts that were both somewhat famous." ""Octopussy" has the 007 stuntmen training." "The thing on "Octopussy" was probably the most dangerous thing I've ever done, running along the top of the train." "At one point, there was a pipe which was about four feet above the train." "I'd lay down underneath it and get up and carry on running." "I said to the guys" ""If they see that on the rushes, they're gonna say could I jump over it."" "Sure enough, next day, I get a phone call:" ""Is it possible to jump over the pipe?"" "You can see the pipe going underneath me." "I hit and bounced, but I was lucky and just held on." "But that was a tricky number to do." "Weston also performs another train stunt." "I thought:" "This is a great idea - low angle, I'd slip and my toes'd hit the sleepers." "I can't tell you the pain." "All I had was ordinary shoes on." "To hit the sleepers with my toes was very painful." "But I'd set the shot up - I had to go through with it." "Dickie Graydon also doubles Roger Moore." "I was with another stuntman up there - Wayne Michaels." "We both had to jump together, and as he went first," "I had to wait for him until he jumped." "If he hadn't gone at the right second, the train would have passed the point at which I could leap off onto the bed." "He was very good." "He timed it perfectly." "Stunt coordinator Martin Grace also doubles Bond in the sequence, and nearly ends his career." "Unfortunately, on that sequence," "Martin Grace, who was doubling Roger Moore, was hanging outside the carriage as the train went along the rail." "There was one section of the railway that hadn't been cleared, or passed as safe, when Martin was hanging out." "The train went a little farther than it was supposed to." "Had I been able to look forward, I would have seen the obstacle and pulled in." "He hit an actual concrete post as the train was..." "He was hanging onto the train and hit the post and was badly injured." "I was still hanging there after the train had stopped." "Although my pelvis was broken." "But..." "I was lucky on that occasion." "Martin survived it, but he spent six months in hospital, going through a lot of therapy." "He was back again working on the next one." "I was doubling for Roger and I was swinging from the balloon basket that Q was in." "I had to get it dead right, to smash my body through the balsa wood." "Somebody said "We've made those shutters a bit stronger for you, Paul."" "He said "I bet you have, you rotters!"" "But we hadn't done a thing to them." "They'd all been chopped and cut." "But we joked with him about it." "They were all shuttered, so they were gonna use balsa wood as a shutter." "He came swinging in on the rope and... smashed it, and it didn't move at all." "Even to this day, he thinks we did something to it, but we didn't!" "In the climax, Jake Lombard plays Bond for a second time." "In "Octopussy", I got to lay on top of this airplane and do big old rolls... on the outside." "They'd dive at 160 knots and pull it up - just incredible!" ""A View To A Kill" takes James Bond to Paris's most famous landmark." "At one point she turns round and casts a line with a fishing rod." "She hooks it round Bond's legs and lifts him over the side." "I did that part." "Then she gets away up to the top and jumps off the top of the Eiffel Tower, which was done by BJ Worth." "Cubby asked me to fall for three seconds before I opened my parachute." "So that was rather difficult because a parachute takes 250 feet to open." "By falling for three seconds, I was down about 250 feet, which didn't give me a big margin of error." "When they said action, I yelled "This one's for Cubby!"" "I ran off the tower and it worked." "Then we had the car chase with Rémy Julienne's team." "There's always a team of assistants who will stop traffic." "The most vulnerable situation is traffic, and people wandering in who don't belong in the movie." "Providing you can control that, the rest is very controllable." "And then I take over and do the jump from the bridge onto the boat." "Well, actually, beside the boat." "The idea was to jump beside it." "So, filming it, you just saw the drop just to the roof, and then they cut away and go inside, in the studio, and we have a stunt person come through onto the wedding cake." "In San Francisco," "Grace choreographs a punch-up on top of the Golden Gate Bridge." "Often, people are arrested for trying to climb on the Golden Gate Bridge." "I had the luxury of being allowed to go up there and struggle with the other double." "They told us that we couldn't throw any punches." "So if you look at it, we were struggling more." "I might have raised my fist once or twice, but..." "That was one of the stipulations - we weren't supposed to fight seriously." "Who'd want to?" "Also returning for more ski action is Willy Bogner." "Having a big crew - like, 120 people - working around crevasses and still avoiding accidents is also a challenge by itself." "Paul Weston coordinates the amazing stuntwork of "The Living Daylights"." "When you're asked to do a Bond film, you are taking over from people like Bob Simmons, who was the master of the Bonds, who created the early action and some great fights, and it's a great responsibility." "Timothy was very good." "He used to say that he did the action and Paul and the stunt guys do the stunts." "I was very new to the business at that stage, so... to get a break doubling for James Bond was a high point." "I went to law school!" "The film's climax again calls upon the talents of BJ Worth and Jake Lombard." "This time, Worth gets to be James Bond." "It got the heart pumping a little bit for a while." "We built a ripcord system in the net." "You had to hang on with your feet and hands on both sides." "The guy in the plane pulls the ripcord and then you let go and open the net up." "There was no computerisation about that." "They were up there doing it." "So here you are..." "These bags are hitting you at 120 mph and you have to hang on." "We were slamming into each other and crashing around, flapping up close to the tail and back down." "Probably one of the best things that's been done on a Bond for physical danger." "BJ had to let go." "He let go a few times - by accident, or to save himself cos it was getting too weird." "Fortunately, I had the hidden parachute." "Anytime that you cover up the parachute equipment, the first problem is, it's on the inside of the wardrobe." "It was the first time we'd had to use one of the hidden parachutes." "The wardrobe has to be fitted to the parachute equipment so that you can expose the parachute when you need to and have it operate properly." "One thing BJ and I often comment on is the rides we've gotten from Bond movies." ""Licence To Kill" once again calls on the skills of Worth and Lombard, and the driving expertise of Rémy Julienne." "Simon Crane again doubles Timothy Dalton." "You've always gotta be pushing things to the limit, but with safety." "I've never injured myself in a Bond film." ""GoldenEye" opens with another high-flying 007 stunt, performed by Wayne Michaels." "He did that bungee leap, which I thought was very excellent." "It demanded great body control and it was flawless." "The pre-credits end with a stunt that combines the talents of Jacques "Zoo" Malnuit on the motorcycle and BJ Worth doing a truly high dive." "The plane had more mass than I did, so it would fall faster than I could." "I'd step out of the airplane and it would turn over, nose down." "I would get into a very fast head-down dive and all the kerosene's in my face for, like, 30 seconds." "It was very hard to go toward it." "One time, I got very near the tail and I actually slapped the tail and let the pilot know that I was there, for fun." "Simon Crane becomes stunt coordinator for "GoldenEye"." "You have to rehearse where everyone's gonna be." "You need to know where Special Effects expect the heat to be." "Often, the stuntmen will be wearing fire suits or fire gel as protection." "And so," "Special Effects wouldn't cue the explosion to go off unless they saw that the stuntmen were all at their given marks where it was safe." "And longtime 007 veteran Vic Armstrong directs the Second Unit action for "Tomorrow Never Dies"" "and "The World Is Not Enough"." "My wife's a stuntwoman." "She did Michelle Yeo on the motorbike." "No Bond film is complete without an aerial stunt." "In "Tomorrow Never Dies", we did what's known as a HALO jump:" "High-altitude low-opening." "I had a plan that we could use a telephoto lens from the helicopter." "What we ended up doing was, I stepped out of the helicopter at 2,000 feet." "I opened 1,000 feet above the water." "It made it look like I was less than 100 feet above the water." "When you think how many jumps he's done and what he's achieved on the films, it really is amazing." "Over nearly four decades of James Bond adventures, what all the stuntmen have achieved has been amazing." "From "Dr No" to "The World Is Not Enough", one thing remains constant:" "No one man can perform the feats of 007." "We all looked after Bond and tried to make him as best as we possibly could." "The one thing that keeps going on is 007." "He seems to be quite indestructible." "I went with that character and I wanted to be Bond." "For those few seconds, I was James Bond." "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "In 1965, a year after Ian Fleming's death, his heirs published his final James Bond novel, "The Man With The Golden Gun"." "Immediately, the book hits best seller lists worldwide." "Producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman consider the benefits of turning the latest 007 adventure into a film." "During the shooting of "You Only Live Twice" in 1966 the producers hint that their next film will be "The Man With The Golden Gun", to be shot in Cambodia, and they ask a familiar face to consider playing the role of James Bond." "There was one they were going to shoot in Cambodia." "Cambodia was considered, and we all know what happened there." "And so they had to change their plans, which was at the time I might have been able to do it." "And so then, I think, they went with George Lazenby." "My name's Bond." "James Bond." "In 1972 Roger Moore is finally signed as 007." "His first film, "Live And Let Die", establishes him in the role." "Worldwide, audiences and critics alike respond enthusiastically to the new Bond." "Anxious to capitalise on their success, the studio asks producers Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to immediately begin production of the next 007 epic, the long-delayed filming of "The Man with the Golden Gun"." "Fleming's original novel is set in Jamaica, which has been used as a location in the film "Live And Let Die"." "Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli begin looking for an alternate setting." "The way of making a Bond was to think of the most exotic places you could portray on the screen." "We... originally were thinking about shooting "The Man With The Golden Gun" in Iran." "We looked in Beirut, because the story was much more based in Beirut, and there was nothing, so Cubby said "OK, wrap it up." "Where now?"" "I'd always loved the Baie d'Halong, which is in Saigon, or now Vietnam." "I thought that really wasn't a very bright place to take James Bond." "I found, on a tour magazine or illustration, these fantastic-Iooking islands about ten miles from Phuket in Thailand, which seemed to stand on a little bit of rock and then grow from there." "Phuket, at the time "The Man With The Golden Gun" was made, was a pretty remote place." "We were really in the back of the beyond." "It was perfect." "It was in front of an island." "I could just alter the script to fit it all in." "It was perfect." "The location for the picture was to be Thailand and Hong Kong." "I started writing, and they sent for me to come over to Hong Kong." "Soon Mankiewicz finds himself in Thailand, where he meets up with coproducer Harry Saltzman." "We were up in Chiang Mai..." "And this was typical Harry." "And here are the elephants working the teak forests." "And it's a wonderful thing to see - elephants move logs." "Harry said "This'll be great for the elephant stampede."" "I said "There's no elephant in the movie."" "Apparently for elephant races they actually get shoes." "And Harry turned to Claude Hudson, who was the production manager, and said "We need 200 of those elephant shoes."" "On November 6, 1973, less than five months after the release of "Live And Let Die", director Guy Hamilton rolls cameras on "The Man With The Golden Gun", filming the Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbour with a skeleton crew." "Mike Lovitt doubles for Roger Moore, who isn't scheduled to start until April." "In the meantime, the film loses its writer, Tom Mankiewicz." "Toward the end of the first draft, I had written myself out a little bit." "I went to Cubby and I said "I just think I'm not giving you my best."" "I think it had an intriguing story, with the idea of the golden bullet, and the golden bullet being sent to Bond." "Producers turn to James Bond veteran Richard Maibaum for the next draft." "Maibaum turns to another source for technical help." "He could use some help in the scientific end, and I have a scientific background." "And the solar agitator was the sort of MacGuffin that we used." "I did some research on that for him." "With a script under way, producers set about casting." "Thankfully, they have their James Bond, but finding the villain proves challenging." "I wanted Jack Palance." "I thought he would be just the perfect Scaramanga." "Palance turns the role down." "But director Guy Hamilton has an inspired choice:" "Christopher Lee." "Chris Lee turned out to be wonderful as Scaramanga, because he was even taller than Roger and was very imposing." "I'd known Christopher from the time I came out of the army in 1948, when we shared a dressing room with 30 other hopeful actors at Denham Studios." "I was bored with him playing Dracula all day long, and so was he in a way, and so it was exciting for him to play something different." "We sat for lunch." "He had the script." "He said "We're making 'The Man With The Golden Gun'."" ""You'll find Scaramanga's a breeze." So I went home with the script and I read it." "I said to my wife "Bond, James Bond." "Lan, Cubby."" ""Sounds like a great idea." I rang my agent and said "I'll do it."" "Lee has previously worked with Broccoli, having appeared in the Warwick picture "Cockleshell Heroes"." "But he also has another connection to the world of 007." "His cousin was Ian Fleming." "Lan and I really, I suppose, knew each other best on the golf course." "We were both members of Royal St George's at Sandwich for many years." "The last time I played with him was not long before he died." "He used to stalk round the course with his cigarette holder." "Like his cousin, Lee was also involved in intelligence activities in World War II." "When people say to me "Did you work in this?" "Did you work in that?"" "I used to say "Can you keep a secret?"" "They would say "Yes." I would say "So can I."" "Lee is already very familiar with the film's source." "The Man with the Golden Gun, in the book, is just a thug." "They made it more interesting as a character in the story, cos they made him the dark side of Bond." "To us, Mr Bond." "We are the best." "The filmmakers hastily set about finding the two female leads." "I'd seen Ursula Andress come out of the sea with the bikini, and I just thought no one could ever look that fantastic." "After having seen that, I always wanted to be a Bond girl." "When I read that Cubby Broccoli was doing another Bond film," "I went to his office and I said "I want to play Mary Goodnight."" "And he said "But you don't understand."" ""The character in the book - we sometimes don't use the whole book."" ""We just sometimes use part of the plot and the names."" "With that, he just sent me back home." "Cubby Broccoli has already decided on an actress to play Scaramanga's doomed mistress." "I got a call from my agent to meet with the Broccolis in New York." "I was very excited about the prospect of being in a Bond movie." "I went to the States and did another movie, and read in the paper that the Swedish girl called Maud Adams was doing the new Bond film, and I was devastated." "Britt had assumed that I'd gotten the role that she wanted." "She said "I hated you in the beginning."" "As we know, she played the villain's girlfriend." "I came to London, Cubby called and said" ""Here you are." And he put the manuscript in my lap." "It was just..." "It was like a dream come true." "Couple of Swedes." "I was even able to talk to them sometimes in their own language." "He speaks those languages." "He has a photographic mind." "As casting proceeds and a start date nears," "Tom Mankiewicz returns to do more work on the script." "They came to me and said" ""Would you rewrite Dick Maibaum's rewrite of your rewrite?"" "The one-liners that you remember, or / remember, in Bond." "Tom came up with some really good ones." "I'm now aiming precisely at your groin." "So speak or for ever hold your peace." "The final script provides Bond with a new ally." "My agent asked me if I would like to be in a James Bond picture." "I was a bit audacious when I was younger." "So I said "I don't do laundrymen, gardener... or houseboy."" "And a popular character from "Live And Let Die" returns." "What are you?" "Some kind of doomsday machine, boy?" "The producer called me at home." "Sheriff Pepper." "A secret agent." ""I want you to go over to Macy's and buy a lot of coloured shirts and bring 'em with you."" "I went to Macy's and bought five or six shirts." "They were all made in Bangkok." "He was so funny." "He was so much larger than life." "One role still remains to be cast." "Bonjour, Monsieur Bond." "I am Nick Nack." "Nick Nack, in my script, was called Demi-tasse." "To play the henchman opposite six-foot-four Christopher Lee, producers choose a three-foot-nine French painter-turned-actor." "Hervé Villechaize." "I call him Hervé Vichysois." "He was the sweetest little guy." "Hervé Villechaize was a great character." "He was a great..." "I won't say womaniser, but he had a great deal of charm." "We had a lot of laughs." "We'd say things in French." "He used to do quite a lot of drawing when we were out on location." "He used to gift me with drawings." "He would leave a flower on my typewriter and type a little note, a little love letter." "He would slip them underneath my door into my hotel room in the mornings." "So I would type him a little love letter and put it somewhere where he would find it." "Everybody liked him enormously." "With the cast assembled, production gets under way in Thailand in early April, 1974, less than a year after the release of "Live And Let Die"." "We flew from London to Bangkok, and spent the night in Bangkok." "The press was going to be there to interview us all." "I thought it would be a nice one-on-one situation." "I walked into this ballroom, with a horde of people and cameras." "That gave me the first indication of what I was in for." "The cast and crew soon leave Bangkok for a stunning but remote location," "Khow-Ping-Kan Island near Phuket." "Phuket, in those days, was a very small native village, with a very small landing strip." "Very small." "Cut out of the jungle." "We flew down there from Bangkok." "You think of all the five-star hotels we've stayed in, and the glamorous places..." "I thought "We're going to have fantastic hotels wherever we go."" "We stopped outside this place, and I thought "Oh, my God!"" "They put on a polished granite floor instead of a wooden one." "We refurnished it and repainted it." "Telephones..." "It was impossible to telephone from there." "If you sent a telex, it would take three days." "Guy Hamilton told me years and years and years later that, in fact, the building that we were in" " had been the local brothel." " I didn't wanna mention that." "We sent the ladies on holiday, left half the unit in Bangkok, and the workers came down." "I was shocked." "I said "How long am I gonna be here?"" "And we were there for ten days." "I can't tell you what it was like." "Everything left a certain amount to be desired." "And we stayed in the bordello, and went off to work every morning in a little boat." "It wasn't considered safe because there were real pirates there." "Not a place I've gone back to." "We had to travel an hour and a half by car and truck to a landing stage, and then from there take longboats." "And all of a sudden, a chopper came in." "I thought "This is nice." "We get a ride back."" "And into it got Guy Hamilton and Derek Cracknell and the cameraman." "They waved goodbye and I was left." "I wanted to kill him." "You forget about the tribulations and the trials of being somewhere that is a difficult place, because of what you get on the screen." "Phuket, which today is a huge tourist attraction, and largely thanks to Bond..." "I think we discovered what is now known as "the James Bond islands"." "There are tourist boats." "The whole tourist industry is built up all over the place." "The Miami Beach of Southeast Asia." "It's a huge resort." "Christopher Lee is amazed by the props." "I couldn't believe that when I was supposedly drinking the black velvet," "I couldn't believe that it would be Guinness and champagne, and there would be oysters and Tabasco, but there were." "I thought "They'll fake it." "They'll have to."" "No." "The oysters were fresh and very good." "Christopher Lee not only enjoys good food, but also good humour on the location." "We had to walk into this overhang." "Out came a thousand bats." "Christopher said "Not now, Stanislaus."" "We used to love to tease him." "We would bring up Dracula whenever we could..." "So he had to be exposed, without his shirt." " He had three nipples in the movie." " It's more common than people think." "His body was rather white, and so he had to be painted every day and have the nipple stuck on." "I asked my doctor." "I said "This is bizarre." He said "No, it's quite frequent."" "There was no running hot water, so poor Christopher, after a day's shooting, would be walking backwards and forwards across the road from our catering wagon with buckets of hot water so he could wash himself off." "It wasn't difficult to laugh in the Bond film, not with Roger around." "He used to call me Birt and he used to call Maud Mud." "Mud and Birt." "Those were our names." "One cast member particularly enjoys the splendours of Thailand." "He loved Thailand." "There he could be out all night having fun and partying." "Hervé had a voracious appetite for the ladies." "He really looked quite frightful for the first few hours and was asleep a good deal of the day," "I think as a result of his efforts the night before." "He used to focus his attention on me from time to time." "I would just give it back to him." "It was just a game we had going." "Back in Bangkok, producers face problems of an entirely different scale." "The Thai production manager comes in and says" ""We'll be going on our way at seven o'clock." "The car will pick you up at 6.30."" ""By the way, Mr Broccoli, your elephant shoes are ready."" "He said "What?" "My what?"" "Harry got a little carried away, without thinking through things or researching them." "And here came this box..." "Box?" ""Crates" of 200 elephant shoes." "He said "What the hell are these?" I said "From Harry, for the elephant stampede."" "Cubby said "There isn't an elephant in the movie!"" "I don't know if you've ever tried to unload 400 elephant shoes, but it's not easy." "At the end of April the crew moves to Hong Kong." "Each of our suites had its own private valet." "We were really treated royally." "You can't go too wrong with Hong Kong." "For all of the hard times we had in Pong Nau, they made it up in the other places where they could." "Filming continues at the luxurious Dragon Garden Estate, which becomes Hai Fat's home in the film." "Shooting in the study, Christopher Lee faces his nemesis, the golden gun." "Difficult to put this gun together." "The pen, I believe, came from Dunhill's, for the barrel." "The other parts came from a firm called Colibri:" "The cigarette case and the lighter." "And we had cufflinks, I believe, for the trigger." "The final gun was made by a silversmith in London, and gold-plated." "There was one that fired a cap, so you saw the flash, there was one that was completely solid, and the one I assembled, difficult enough even when I was looking at it." "We were talking and I was sitting at the desk, and I went like this and I'd got the gun assembled." "Without looking at it, it was even more difficult." "They said "How did you do that?" I said "I take it home in the evening and practise."" "Mid-May finds the crew in a typical Bond setting, a casino, but in an unusual location:" "Macao." "People came from all over the world to be part of the excitement in those casinos." "I've seen Cubby in those places where the crew are after a day's shooting." "They've gone in and they're losing, and Cubby would go round, handfuls of chips, and give them to everybody." "Apart from action on the gaming tables, producers also have physical action in store for Roger Moore." "Bangkok, Hong Kong, absolutely full of karate schools and tae kwon dos and every known form of martial arts." "Filming at the location has its difficulties." "Call sheets remind the crew to refrain from wandering around the grounds and gives them detailed instructions on what to do in case of snakebite." "At the end of May the crew films the boat chase through the canals or klongs at Bangkok's floating market." "Going round the corner was a bit hairy." "The propeller flew all over the place." "Hence the idea of Bond using it as a weapon." "Roger was out in the klong with that boat and doing a lot of the running around." "I don't think they undershot on those." "They were really moving." "For Clifton James, a New-York-trained actor, shooting on the exotic locations is like a holiday." "You pointy-heads has no more idea of traffic control than a gooney bird!" "But in working with the animals there are always surprises." "While they were filming, I said "Get away!"" "The elephant lowered his head and knocked me right in the klong." "Guy Hamilton was scared to death." "He thought I was killed." "I fell about 10 feet." "But the real dangers await Jay Milligan and his driving team, who set out on Saturday, June 1st to perform the film's signature stunt at Klong Ransit." "I was sitting in a hotel room in Pennsylvania with a competitor of mine who had also done stunt work for Bond." "I had a phone call, and this fella on the other end said "This is Cubby Broccoli in London."" ""Are you the chap who designed or did the car stunt in the Houston Astrodome?"" "We thought it was an interesting stunt." "We weren't sure how we could use it." "I had a competitor who had just done all the stunt work in a Bond movie, and he's telling me that he's preparing himself to go to Singapore to do "The Man With The Golden Gun"." "So I had to excuse him from our breakfast meeting and then get back to Cubby Broccoli." "It was done on a computer." "A computer was used by the National Highway Safety Bureau in the investigation and reconstruction of single-vehicle automobile accidents worldwide." "The firm that happened to do that was a company in Buffalo, a division of Cornell University." "An ingenious engineer there by the name of Raymond McHenry visualised that we could do a complete football-spiral type with a full-size automobile." "The exercise is quite complicated, because the car has to be perfectly balanced." "The steering wheel is in the middle." "The car would have been cut in half and widened about two inches." "Everything was then centralised and balanced." "We found a driver we knew through the business, named Lauren Willard." " "Bumps" Willard." " Bumps did the actual jump." "I sat with Cubby Broccoli for many hours and we talked about if the car failed, if the takeoff ramp broke, that we would have a driver in a seat belt and three-point restraining harness in the water." "There were ambulances." "We put a crane out of the camera's view." "You've never seen such a mass of lifting equipment, and very worried people too, I think." "30 seconds before the stunt was to come off, the divers were underwater with a cable and with a hook, cos we could've had the car and the driver out of the water quicker than just going in after the driver." "The driver was flat on his face in the front, with a dummy Bond and dummy sheriff on either side, and he was completely covered in black." "There was two tachometers aboard." "He controlled the accelerator and the brake with his feet behind him." "The speed is absolutely checked before it goes." "Then off you go." "And "Action!" And everybody's a bit white-knuckled." "I couldn't look." "I closed my eyes." "The rest is automatic." "You hang on, cross your fingers." "Roar of applause and cheers, naturally." "Relief, mostly, I would think." "And admiration." " One take and that was it." " It was done in one take." "Unbelievable." "I still have a great picture and vivid memory of Roger Moore coming up to the driver and to me, with tears in his eyes, saying" ""You fellas really made me look good."" "Guy Hamilton didn't like it, because it didn't look real." "It just went..." "It's so perfect." "It worked absolutely so perfectly." "Everybody said "What are you worried about?"" "I remember him saying "I wonder if we ought to do it again."" "I remember Cubby saying "It was too perfect."" "I also remember the answer he got from Mr Willard, who said "We are 'not' doing it again, not with me." "That's the first time I've done it."" "He had never done the stunt prior to that." "He could easily have been killed." "Easily." "That was the most remarkable thing in the film." "It came out to be one of the great stunts." "The next day, the filmmakers have more auto action in store for Milligan and his drivers." "The caretakers in the building knew there was a movie taking place in the morning, and they waxed the floors the night before." "Guy Hamilton is up on a building, hollering "Go, go, go, I said!"" "And my tyres are spinning." "Went out in the traffic and then other associate directors and producers are hollering at me on the radio "Catch the car!"" "So I went up on an island and I drove about a quarter of a mile, on an island, with two wheels on the road and two wheels up on the dirt island." "He had to swerve." "I can hear the producers and the directors screaming "Go!" "It's great!" "Keep going!"" "I don't remember anybody ever getting hurt." "I was all strapped in pretty good." "All that was done, of course, by me, with stunt men in cars surrounding me, so there was no danger of an unauthorised driver smashing into me, which could easily have happened in Bangkok." "We wrecked a lot of cars in Bangkok." "Cubby's worries of meeting the schedule are noted on the call sheet of June 7th, asking the unit to work on their upcoming day off." "Meanwhile, shooting commences at a kick-boxing stadium." "That was a normal boxing stadium, with the wire mesh and the betting and everything else which went on." "Whilst there was a real boxing match going on, we came in and we used the atmosphere." "And they all joined in wonderfully." "It was a huge production, with so many people in one set." "Everybody's yelling at the tops of their voices." "And everybody's betting, betting, betting." "It wasn't really difficult for me, since all I had to do was just be stone dead." "The production returns to England in late June and is immediately faced with a crisis." "Cameraman Ted Moore falls ill and is unable to continue." "Cubby must immediately find a replacement or risk blowing the already tight schedule." "He contacts noted cinematographer Oswald Morris." "He says "You can have anything you want." "Equipment, money or anything."" "But he has one stipulation." "You've got to promise him, if you would do it, you finish the film on August the something, because he's got mass-release dates in November." "Morris comes on board and shooting resumes, without a break in the schedule, on the interior sets of Scaramanga's island at Pinewood Studios." "As the schedule winds down, the unit moves to Bovingdon airfield to film scenes of Scaramanga's flying car." "That was based on a real car-plane." "There was a flying car and that's why it was scripted around a flying car." "Unfortunately the guy killed himself with that car before we started shooting." "They came to me to make another one, so I built a full-size version and several models which flew." "The original flying car, which was very well done, was done by Johnny Stears." "At the end of July, in Pinewood, the first unit works on one of the film's most imaginative sets:" "Scaramanga's fun house." "Guy was fascinated with what a killer would do to keep his edge up." "That was probably one of the most difficult sets to conceive." "It had no form." "It had no direction, purposely." "It was built out of mirrors, images, space, height, depth." "It can be a pain in the butt, shooting with those mirrors, but they were so well designed that you could virtually put the camera where you wanted." "Meanwhile, the second unit creates explosions on the solar-power complex." "We are all watching when she had to do this particular run and we knew that there were going to be explosions all the way along her path." "I was very scared, I have to admit." "Very, very scared." "She wasn't wearing very much at the time." "One of them went off and really..." "It didn't burn my bum, but..." "You're vulnerable when you're half-naked." " She did freeze." " I freaked out." "I said "I'm not doing this any more."" "He just grabbed me and said "We gotta go!"" "If the timing isn't there, the explosions go off and that's the end of me." "All these finale sets have to be big." "There's no point in being on a Bond film if you don't make one big finale set." "You can't really blow up a set that size." "It's too expensive to make everything as a breakaway." "It was even more fun to see it being blown up in miniature." "That's what we did." "We built quite a large miniature." ""The Man With The Golden Gun" stands as a Bond film with all the right ingredients:" "Exotic locations, beautiful women, amazing stunts, fantastic sets, even a score by famed Bond film composer John Barry." "The film also marks the end of an era." "Producer Harry Saltzman leaves his long partnership with Cubby Broccoli, who becomes the sole guiding force behind James Bond." "For Cubby Broccoli, the film is a launching point for the Bond adventures to follow." "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Nick Nack!" "Tabasco!" "Right away, Monsieur Scaramanga!" "Hey." "Half." "You get the rest later." "Wait for him in there." "Through that door." "He will join you in a minute." "Your steam bath is ready, Monsieur Scaramanga." "Oh, that would have been too easy." "It's locked." "You'll have to look elsewhere, monsieur." "Hey, Al." "Al, wherever you are, don't hold it against me." "I wonder where you can find your gun, Monsieur Scaramanga." "Your little golden gun." "Where can it be?" "There is something we haven't had before." "I wonder what it can be." "I fooled you!" "You're getting warmer." "Much warmer." "Now, how are you going to get down the stairs?" "So near and yet so far." "Bravo, Monsieur Scaramanga." "You've done it again." " This one was the best, "n'est-ce pas"?" " Not bad." "Not bad at all." "But you'll have to do better to come into my money." "I'll get you yet, and I'll enjoy every sou you leave me." "You'll be the death of me yet, Nick Nack." "# He has a powerful weapon" "# He charges a million a shot" "# An assassin that's second to none" "# Lurking in some darkened doorway" "# Or crouched on a rooftop somewhere" "# In the next room, or this very one" "# The Man with the Golden Gun" "# Love is required whenever he's hired" "# It comes just before the kill" "# No one can catch him" "# No hit man can match him" "# For his million-dollar skill" "# One golden shot # means another poor victim" "# Has come to a glittering end" "# For a price, he'll erase anyone" "# The Man with the Golden Gun" "# His eye may be on you or me" "# Who will he bang?" "# We shall see" "# Love is required whenever he's hired" "# It comes just before the kill" "# No one can catch him" "# No hit man can match him" "# For his million-dollar skill" "# One golden shot # means another poor victim" "# Has come to a glittering end" "# If you want to get rid of someone" "# The Man with the Golden Gun" "# Will get it done" "# He'll shoot anyone" "# With his golden gun" "Good morning, sir." "Colthorpe." "Chief of Staff." "What do you know about a man called Scaramanga, 007?" "Scaramanga?" "Oh, yes!" "The Man with the Golden Gun." "Born in a circus." "Father, the ringmaster." "Mother, English." "A snake charmer." "A spectacular trick-shot artist by the time he was ten and a local Rio gunman at 15." "The KGB trained him in Europe, where he became an overworked, underpaid assassin." "He went independent in the '50s." "Current price:" "One million dollars a hit." "No... er... photograph on file." "But he does have one distinguishing feature, however." "A superfluous papilla." " A what?" " A mammary gland." "A third nipple, sir." "He always uses a golden bullet, hence "Man with the Golden Gun"." "Present domicile unknown." "I think that's all." "Why, sir?" "Hm!" "Charming trinket." " Even has my number on it." " Precisely." "Obviously it's useless as a bullet." "Who would pay a million dollars to have me killed?" "Jealous husbands, outraged chefs, humiliated tailors." "The list is endless." "Moreover, this trinket, as you call it, was sent with a note requesting "special delivery" to you." " It's initialled with an S." " Scaramanga's fingerprints were on it." "They've been verified by the CIA." " Why would he alert me?" " Psychological." "He counts on his reputation to terrify his intended victim." "Thank you, gentlemen." "I'm relieving you of your present assignment, 007." " Er, sir?" " Yes?" "The energy crisis is still with us." "I submit that finding Gibson and his solar cell data is more important than ever." "It is indeed." "And I can't jeopardise it or any mission by having Scaramanga put a bullet in you." "I'll endorse your request to resign." "Or you can take a sabbatical and go to ground until this is settled." "Or until he kills me." "Nobody knows where he is or what he looks like." "So I think it's fair to assume that he has the edge on you." "Wouldn't you agree?" "That's all, 007." "If I found him first, sir, that might change the situation." "Dramatically, wouldn't you say?" "Good day, Bond." "Moneypenny, Fairbanks." " Alaska." " No." "Bill Fairbanks, 002." "Oh, poor Bill." " I miss him." " The Man with the Golden Gun didn't." "Officially that was never confirmed." "Where was 002 when it happened?" "Beirut, '69." "In a cabaret with a lady called Saida." "Beirut, hm?" "Moneypenny, you are better than a computer." "In all sorts of ways." "But you never take advantage of them." " Miss Moneypenny." " Yes, sir." "Oh, just one moment, darling." "Yes, James?" "Why wasn't Scaramanga confirmed as the killer?" "Because they couldn't find the bullet!" "Darling!" "Ahmed." "Ahmed!" "Entrez." "Good evening." "My name is Bond." "James Bond." "Your dancing is superb." " And so are you." " Merci." "And you are very handsome." "Well, I don't usually intrude like this, but I..." "I believe we had a mutual friend." " Bill Fairbanks." " Fairbanks?" "Yes." "I am told you were with him when he was rather, er..." "rudely interrupted." "Ah, "mais oui"" " Bill!" "What a terrible night." "I will never forget it." " Did you see who shot him?" " No, I was in his arms." " My eyes were closed." " At least he died happy." "The bullet went through him." " Through his back and ended up there?" " No, no, through his neck." "I take it out of the wall before the police arrive." "And now it is my lucky charm." "I never dance without it." "I'm sure Bill would have loved that." "But let us forget the past." "Mm!" "I was hoping you'd say that." "Are you staying long in Beirut?" "Oh, it depends." "Clumsy of me." "You really do have a magnificent abdomen." "Oh, my perfumes!" "No!" "I've lost my charm!" "Not from where "I'm" standing." "Taxi?" "Hotel, mister?" "No." "To the nearest pharmacy." "Dumdum bullets like this flatten on impact for maximum wounding effect." " Very nasty." " Yes, I'm sure it is." "But just tell me where it was made and by whom." "Well, fortunately it's all in one piece." "20.003 grams." "Which leads us to deduce it was fired from a 4.2 millimetre gun." "Colthorpe, there's no such thing as a 4.2 millimetre gun." "The fact that no recognised munitions manufacturer, military or civil, produces such a bullet doesn't mean it doesn't exist, 007." "Q Branch have been making irregular calibres for most unusual purposes." " And we don't put markings on them." " Making identification almost impossible." "You mean we can't trace it?" "You've no idea what it went through to get here." "I wouldn't go so far as to say that." "The workmanship is undemanding according to our standards." "Soft 23-carat gold with traces of... nickel." "Hardly ever used in Europe." "Comes from India." "Far East?" " Why not India?" " Nickel content obviously too low, 007." " Lazar?" " Lazar!" "Hm." "Imaginative." "Highly specialised." "Yes, I concur." " Well, what the hell is Lazar?" " Not what." "Who." "Portuguese." " Lives in Macau." " Chap who made the bullet, 007." "I hate to interrupt your dinner, but does Senhor Lazar live here?" "Lazar." "I was given this address." "Does he..." "Senhor Lazar?" "My name's Bond." "James Bond." "An unexpected honour, Mr Bond." "Your reputation precedes you." "This way, please." "It would be my proudest moment if I could make something for you, Mr Bond." "A rifle, perhaps." "Now, here we have an interesting problem." "A custom-built model for a client who recently lost two fingers." "Please." " Also lost his trigger." " It is housed in the butt." "Squeeze it." "The sights are a bit off." "You have five fingers." "The butt is balanced for the pressure of three." "That is why you were one inch too low." "Here you will find only craftsmanship and quality." "Mass production, your Walther PPK, for instance, I leave to others." "What about ammunition?" "Designed to individual requirements, whatever they may be." "In gold... if I wanted?" " I have already done that for a client." " I know you have." "Francisco Scaramanga." "My relationship with a client, Mr Bond, is strictly confidential." "Like a doctor." "A priest with a penitent." "Oh, of course!" "Yet you make guns for fingerless hoodlums, bullets for assassins." "Mr Bond, bullets do not kill." "It is the finger that pulls the trigger." "Exactly!" "I'm now aiming precisely at your groin." "So speak or for ever hold your peace." "I have never seen him." "On a cost-per-bullet basis, he must be your best customer." "True, but unfortunately he only fires them occasionally." "When was the, er..." "last shipment?" "This is impossible." "I can't..." "You're quite right." "An inch too low." "I have just completed an order for immediate delivery." " Who collects them?" " I swear, I do not know." "My instructions are to go to the casino." "I am paid and they vanish." "In a few moments we will be in Hong Kong harbour, one of the busiest ports in the world." "May I remind you to have passports and landing cards ready, in order to avoid unnecessary delay." "On your left is the wreckage of the famous liner Queen Elizabeth, which sank here under mysterious circumstances in 1971." "Ahead, you can now see Kowloon, and on your right, Hong Kong Island." "Taxi!" "Follow that Rolls." "Madam, would you be good enough to move this inverted bedpan?" "Sorry I'm late, James, but your signal from Macau just reached the office." "You're a great help, Goodnight." "Now, get on to Licence Bureau and trace that car." "AU 603, a green Rolls." "A green Rolls?" "A green Rolls-Royce." "There can't be that many in Hong Kong." "Courtesy cars." "All green Rolls-Royces belong to the Peninsula Hotel." "You see what a two-year posting to Staff Intelligence does for a girl?" "James, it's wonderful to see you." " Where are you going?" " I need some information." "The subject under surveillance is in room 602." "I'll buy you dinner, but first I have official business to attend to." "Yes, I saw the "official business"." "Goodnight, would I do that to you after two years?" "Yes, you bloody well would!" " Please." " I can manage." "You could open a door for me, though." " I open champagne?" " No, it's a surprise." "Oh!" "A surprise!" "Good afternoon." " A water pistol?" " Pass me that robe." "Turn around." "Do you always take a shower with a pistol?" "Put your hands up and get out of here!" " Keep on walking." " But you haven't answered my question." "Reception." "Can I help you?" "This is Miss Anders." "Room 602." "Put those down!" "I see why these packets carry a government warning." "Give me that!" "They certainly can damage your health." " Ow!" "You're hurting my arm." " Then tell me where those bullets go." " No, I can't." " Try!" " He'll kill me!" " Who?" "I can't tell you!" "Scaramanga." "You see what you can do when you try?" "You work for him?" "I don't work for him." "He's, um..." "I'm his..." "Oh." "So he's a lover too." "Only before he kills." "Bullfighters do the same thing." "Claims it improves the eye." "His eye is on me." "Where can I find him?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "I said where?" "!" "I don't know!" "He doesn't tell me everything." "I know he has a date at the Bottoms Up Club tonight." "How will I recognise him?" " Tall, slim and dark." " So is my aunt." " Anything distinctive about him?" " Yes, but how can I..." "He is not like other people." "He has three..." "Oh." "Fascinating anatomical titbit, but the most useless piece of information I ever heard." "Unless the Bottoms Up is a strip club and Scaramanga is performing there." "You'll have to do better." "He usually wears a white linen suit, black tie, and jewellery, all gold." "You're improving." "I don't want you to twist my arm again." "I don't want to either." "So I'll tell you what you're going to do." "You're going to take the bullets to Mr Scaramanga, because, if he doesn't get them, he may not show up at the Bottoms Up." "And I want him there." " Why should you trust me?" " I don't." "But neither will Mr Scaramanga, if he hears about this interesting conversation." "Who knows?" "He may even use one of those little golden bullets on you." "And that would be a pity, because they're "very" expensive." "I'll take them to him." "Let's drink to that." "Bottoms up!" " Soda or ginger ale?" " Ginger ale, please." "Police!" "Drop it!" "Drop it!" "You're under arrest." "Move away from there!" "If you take the trouble to examine that gun, you'll notice it hasn't been fired." "Anything you have to say, you can say at the station." "I'm charging him under Section 473." " I didn't see your identity card." " You will." "Here." " I thought we were going to the station." " Kowloon side." "Kowloon's over there!" "We're going to the New Territories!" "Welcome aboard, Commander Bond." "This way, sir." "Down the hatchway, please." "Good evening, sir." "Would you follow me, please?" "It certainly gives you a new slant." "What with the Chinese on one side and the US fleet on the other, down here's the only place in Hong Kong you can't be bugged." "And with current real-estate prices in Hong Kong, quite practical." "Any luck?" "A Chinese fighter we salvaged." "Good evening, 007." "Glad to see you're still with us." "In future, Commander Bond, if you must tour the world of Suzie Wong by night," " inform our man here." "Lieutenant Hip." " Sorry, Commander." "I had to get you away from the police, but didn't know how much you knew." "Nothing." "But I should report, sir, that Scaramanga does not have a contract on me." "He couldn't have missed me tonight." "Instead he hit a chap at a club." " I got a shock when I saw who it was." " I should think you did." "Our missing solar-energy expert:" "Gibson." "Yes." "Gibson." "He was prepared to come back under certain conditions." "That's why I'm here with Professor Frazier." "Lieutenant Hip was making a preliminary contact." "I almost wish that Scaramanga had a contract on you." "Was Gibson cooperative?" "He wanted to bargain for immunity." "Suggested another meeting in Bangkok." " Why Bangkok?" " I think he worked there for Hai Fat." "That name's come up before." "A multimillionaire." "Head of Hai Fat Enterprises." "All legitimate, as far as we know." "What did Gibson propose bargaining with?" "A solex." "Claimed it was 95% efficient." "If he developed a solar cell that efficient, he solved the energy crisis." "So you've told me." "Coal and oil will soon be depleted." "Uranium's too dangerous." "Geothermal and tidal control too expensive." "I know all that." " Where's the solex now?" " Solex "agitator", sir." ""The" essential unit to convert radiation from the sun into electricity on an industrial basis." "It's only that size." "It won't take long to check out Gibson's efficiency claim." "This is exciting!" "May I see it, Lieutenant?" "He showed it to me at the bar and replaced it in his pocket." "And after he was shot, it wasn't there." "I looked." "Gentlemen, I congratulate you." "Instead of getting a perfected solex, we're left with a useless corpse and no leads." "One lead, sir." "Assuming Gibson was killed by Scaramanga, whoever hired him could afford a million dollars." " Are you suggesting Hai Fat?" " He could afford it." "Out of petty cash." "A thought has occurred to me." "If Hai Fat hired Scaramanga," " it's unlikely that he met him personally." " Why?" "If anything had gone wrong, there's nothing to connect the two." "That gives me an idea as to how to approach him." "Q, I'll... need this." " Really, 007!" " Oh, I admit it's a little kinky." "You'll take Miss Goodnight with you." " Goodnight, sir?" " After tonight's debacle, an efficient liaison officer wouldn't come amiss." "Thank you, sir." "You won't get near Hai Fat." "I have relatives in Bangkok." "I have often passed his place." "He lives in a house on a mountain surrounded by guards." "No way!" "The place is crawling with guards." "Have a look." "Hai Fat takes his privacy very seriously." "I'm sure he'll see me." "Good morning." "How's the water?" "Why don't you come in and find out?" " Sounds very tempting, Miss, er..." " Chew Mee." "Really?" "There's only one problem." "I have no swimming trunks." "Neither have I." "What are you doing here?" "Get out!" "Immediately." "I will have you..." "Please forgive me, Mr Scaramanga." "Excuse me, Chew Mee." "Bye-ee." "You understand my surprise." "I thought it was understood." "We were never to meet, Mr Scaramanga." "I always thought your abnormality was a myth." "Some cults consider it a sign of invulnerability and great sexual prowess." "I've learned to live with it." "Why are you here?" "Bond." "James Bond." " Do I know the gentleman?" " Well, he knows you." "Without being immodest, there are few people in this part of the world who don't." "And there are very few people who haven't heard of Bond." "British Secret Service, 007, licensed to kill." "He's good, even by my standards." " He was near the Bottoms Up Club." " A coincidence." "I don't believe in them." "The man's a menace." "He knows something." "Are you suggesting I invest another million to remove him?" "That's up to you." "I will give it some thought." "Since you have chosen to meet me, perhaps you will dine here tonight." " I'll be delighted." " Nine o'clock, then." "Ling Po, see this gentleman out." "Don't tell me you saw him?" "!" "He even invited me to dinner." "He must have found me quite titillating." "In due time, I shall be laid to rest here in my mausoleum after a useful, happy, long life." "And I do not intend to allow Mr Bond to shorten it." "I'll get the car." " You know I'd rather be dining with you." " I understand, James." "Please hurry back." "I'll ring as soon as I do." "A midnight snack might be just the thing." "I'll keep the wine properly chilled." "And everything else warm, I trust." "Bye-bye!" "And everything else warm?" "!" "I hope you don't mind giving my nieces a lift." "Good evening." "Hai Fat's is on the way." "I'll drop the girls, come back and wait." "Bye-bye." "Bye-bye." "The name's Scaramanga." "Mr Fat is expecting me." "Grislyland." "A pleasant evening." "Get him!" "Come on!" "Stop it!" "Not here." "This is my home." "Take Mr Bond to school." "Heaven." "Definitely heaven." "Tashman." "Chula." "Chula!" "Chula!" "Chula!" "Chula!" "Chula!" "Chula!" "Are you all right?" " How did you find me?" " Hai Fat owns this place." "Stand back, girls." "Forgot to tell you!" "Their father runs a karate school." "Hang on!" "What you might call a Mexican screw-up, gentlemen!" "Pretty lady, 100 bahts." " No, no." " 80 bahts." "50 bahts." "Pretty lady, real elephant. 60 bahts." "Missy, yesa!" "Elephant." "Bargain, mister. 100 bahts." "Elephant!" "Real elephant." "50 bahts." "You are very handsome man. 40 bahts." "For you, mister, 20 bahts." "Sonny, I'll give you 20,000 bahts if you can make this heap go any faster." "20,000 bahts!" " I'm afraid I'll have to owe you." " Bloody tourist!" "20,000 bahts!" "Goddamn little brown water hog!" "Oh, what's the matter, JW, huh?" "You just try that in "my" bayou, boy!" "I'd haul your ass!" "Oh, look, JW." "I just gotta have me one of those cute little elephants." "Elephants!" "We're Democrats, Maybelle." "If you got your little pointy heads out of them pajamas, you wouldn't be late for work." "I knew it!" "You pointy-heads has no more idea of traffic control than a gooney bird!" "Get your cotton-picking schnoz out of my pants." "Hear now?" "Boy, you is ugly." "JW?" "Where are you?" "What do they teach in that school?" "Ballet dancing?" "I find nothing remotely amusing about Mr Bond's escape." "You underestimated him." "Even my influence doesn't extend into the British Secret Service." "I shall lie low too." "I won't jeopardise a project in which I've invested half my fortune, when it's ready to yield billions." " Where will you hide out?" " That does not concern you." "Take this." "Return it to the plant and don't leave there without my permission." "May I remind you that you work for me." "I took you on as a junior partner to be an occasional convenience." "Nothing more." "I did not hire you to interfere in my affairs." " Is that clearly understood?" " Oh, yes, very clearly." "I now regret having even considered employing your services, but that is beside the point." "Bond doesn't know you're in Bangkok." "He's never seen you, but he knows me." "That's the problem." "That's no problem." "What happened?" "Mr Fat has just resigned." "I'm the new chairman of the board." "He always did like that mausoleum." "Put him in it." "Sorry about that, darling." "It was Hip." "Still no sign of Hai Fat." "Every inquiry gets a polite Oriental brushoff." "With the compliments." ""Phuyuck"?" "'74, sir." " I approve." " You do?" "Oh, not the wine." "Your frock." "Tight in all the right places." "Not too many buttons." "Standard uniform for Southeast Asia." "The buttons are down the back." "Designed by Q, no doubt." "One of them's a suicide pill, I suppose." "No." "But the bottom one has a homer in it." "How original." "A toast." "Per ora e per il momento che verrá." ""To this moment, and the moment yet to come."" "In our profession, I'm afraid, you never can count on that moment to come." "Who knows where you and I will be this time next year?" "Opposite sides of the world, most likely." "That's too far apart." "Now, if Hip doesn't come up with a lead, there's really nothing very much for us to do tonight." "Or is there?" "Oh, darling, I'm tempted." "But killing a few hours as one of your passing fancies isn't quite my scene." "Phuyuck!" "Ah!" "Goodnight." "What a pleasant surprise." "My hard-to-get act didn't last very long, did it?" "I was trained to expect the unexpected, but... they never prepared me for anything like you in a nightie." "James, I thought this would never happen." " What made you change your mind?" " I'm weak." "Don't move!" "Miss Anders!" "I didn't recognise you with your clothes on." "I bribed a bellboy to let me in." "I've come to warn you, you're in great danger." "I usually am." "That's why I use the old three-pillow trick." "Please believe me." "I'm risking my life to come here." "Well, your concern for my wellbeing is touching, but puzzles me." " Scaramanga is in Bangkok." " He was in Hong Kong, but not after me." "We've been through that routine." "He's a monster." "I hate him." "Then leave him." "You don't walk out on Scaramanga." " There's no place he wouldn't find me." " You need a good lawyer." "I need 007." "Who do you think sent that bullet to London with your number on it?" "I did." "And it wasn't easy getting his fingerprint on the note." "Forgive me if I've been slow on the uptake." "Don't you see you're the only man in the world who can kill him?" "Now, what gives you that idea?" "The way Scaramanga speaks about you." " Even has a likeness of you." " I'm flattered." "I want him dead." "Name your price." "Anything, I'll pay it." "You can have me too, if you like." "I'm not unattractive." "At last you're starting to tell the truth." "I've dreamed about you setting me free." "I've been dreaming about a solex agitator." "Ever heard of one?" "Perhaps you can have that too." " No, my clothes are in there." " Get in." " I'll kill that woman." " Later!" "Charming." "It was an inspiration, sending that bullet." "You're late." "It was a double feature." "What are you doing?" "Putting my jewellery away." "You can come out now." " What time is it?" " Two-ish." "Two?" "You mean I've been in here for two hours?" "All in the line of duty." "Duty!" "I'm resigning in the morning!" "Goodnight, don't let us down." "The Service needs women like you." "Well, obviously you don't!" "Forgive me, darling." "Your turn will come, I promise." "As soon as she brings me that solex." " For killing Scaramanga?" " If she gets me the solex agitator first." "First?" "James, you must be good." "Oh." "We'll find out about that the next time I meet her." "She's making the arrangements." "Sorry I'm late." "Bangkok traffic's worse than Piccadilly." "He's made contact." " How's the charm boy doing?" " Need you ask?" "Meet you outside." "Did you bring it?" "Darling, I left it in your handbag." "It must be in here somewhere, dear." "I saw the man in the shop give it to you." "Without the ticket, we can't get a receipt." "You won't find it in there, Mr Bond." "I looked before you came." "I wouldn't do that either." "Look behind you." "Lower." "A gun in a bag of peanuts." "How original." "What will they think of next?" "My name is Scaramanga." "Francisco Scaramanga." "I feel I know you, although I never thought we should ever meet." "It's a very great pleasure for me, Mr Bond, thanks to Miss Anders." "You've a strange way of showing gratitude." "A mistress cannot serve two masters." "A difficult shot, but most gratifying." "Well, we, er... all get our jollies one way or another." "Mine have always been guns, Mr Bond." "When I was a boy I was brought up in a circus." "My only real friend was a magnificent African bull elephant." "One day his handler mistreated him and he went berserk." "Bleeding, dying, he came and found me." "Stood on one leg - his best trick - picked me up and put me on his back." "The man emptied the gun into his eye." " I emptied my stage pistol into his." " An eye for an eye." "Nut?" "You see, Mr Bond, I always thought I liked animals." "Then I discovered that I liked killing people even more." "Keep this." "Whatever you do, don't lose it." " I have to help James." " Something's wrong?" " There's a midget with a gun on him." " A midget?" "Same one I saw at the Bottoms Up." "The girl is dead." "Call the police!" "Forget the girl." "She's replaceable." "And I shall find what she stole from me." "Personally, I have nothing against you, so let's hope our paths never cross again." "Please don't try to follow me." "Your peanut-toting friend back there wouldn't like it." "No, he wouldn't." "You want to try one of mine?" " Where's the solex?" " With Goodnight." " Where's Goodnight?" " Outside." "She must be by the car." "Women!" "Walkie-talkie." " Goodnight, where are you?" " Somebody locked me in a boot." " In a what?" "!" " The midget's car." "I'm locked in." "It's a bronze car with a black roof." "Number 7543." " The keys!" " I haven't got them." "Oh, no." " Goodnight, where are the car keys?" " Oh, I've got the keys." "And I've got the solex too." "Taxi!" "Stay in there, Goodnight." "We've got you spotted." "Taxi!" "Taxi!" "Taxi!" " How 'bout a demonstration, boy?" " Certainly, sir." "What the hell is goin' on?" "!" "Now..." "I know you!" "Oh, no." "You're that secret agent." "That English secret agent from England." "You're chasin' somebody." "Who are you after this time, boy?" "Commies?" "Let's go get 'em!" "I'm with you all the way." "Uh-oh." "I think we've got trouble." "Pull your cars over, you little brown pointy-heads!" "I'm a peace officer!" "James?" "Are you still there?" "James!" "Can you hear me?" "James!" "All right, Goodnight." "Don't panic." " Who's that?" " It's, er..." " It's Headquarters." " Let me talk to 'em." "Hello." "This is Sheriff JW Pepper," "Louisiana State Police." "You call my wife at the Narai Hotel and tell her I'm on a mission." "I've been deputised." "Right?" "Right." "Which car are we all chasing', boy?" "Move it!" "Move it!" "Get that piece of junk off of the road." "They went left, boy." "Press that pedal, boy." "Where the hell have they got to?" "You goofed, boy." "Nearest bridge is two miles back." "Goddamn!" "What the..." "What's goin' on?" "What the hell are you doin' now, boy?" "The bridge is "that" way!" "You're not thinking of...?" "I sure am, boy!" "Ever heard of Evel Knievel?" "Wowee!" "I ain't never done that before!" "Neither have I, actually." "Let's go get 'em, boy!" "You stay put, boy." "This is "my" department." "Glad to see you boys on the ball!" "Sheriff JW Pepper, Louisiana State Police." "Here's my identification." "Law Enforcement Association, American Legion." "Me and my partner here, we're on a secret mission." "What the hell you doing?" "Give me my wallet back." "Doors." "You can't do this to me." "I want my wallet back." "Take these goddamn bracelets off!" "I'm gonna sue ya for false arrest!" "Police brutality." "I got connections." "I'm gonna get the FBI on your ass!" "The CIA!" "Goddamn it, I'm gonna get Henry Kissinger!" "Now look at me when I'm talkin' to ya, boy." "What's the matter?" "Ain't none of you seen a plane before?" "James?" "James, are you still there?" "Can you hear me?" "I think we've stopped." "That is really all there is to report, sir." "So, if I heard correctly, Scaramanga got away." "Yes, sir." " In a car that sprouted wings." " That's perfectly feasible, sir." " In fact, we're working on one now." " Oh, Q!" "Shut up." " Miss Goodnight was in the boot?" " Yes, sir." "We found the car-plane abandoned about 200 miles west of Bangkok." " And the solex?" " In Goodnight's handbag, sir." " Where's Goodnight now?" " We don't know, sir." "Communications aren't getting the signal from the homer she has supplied by Q." "Rubbish!" "They're simply not stepping up the reception to enable..." "Oh, shut up, Q!" "Of all the fouled-up, half-witted operations!" " What do you want?" " We've picked up Goodnight's signal, sir." " Well, that's something." " But there's something rather curious, sir." "Our sector's here, and we're receiving her signal from somewhere off this coastline here." "Now here it is on a much larger scale." "That's where she is." "In this group of small islands." "That's all we need!" "Red Chinese waters." "We could stray inadvertently into them, sir." " I could fly low under their radar screen." " Absolutely out of the question." "If the PM gets to hear of this, he'll hang me from the yardarm." "Officially you won't know a thing about it, sir." "There's a small seaplane approaching your island." "Do you want us to take action?" "No." "No, please don't do anything." "Yes, it's a... guest I'm expecting." "No, he won't be leaving." "Bonjour, Monsieur Bond." "I am Nick Nack." "Dom Pérignon soixante-quatre." "I prefer the '62 myself." "Still, beats a bag of peanuts." "Monsieur Scaramanga will welcome you personally." "Forgive me, Mr Bond." "A vulgar display, but I couldn't resist it because I am so delighted to see you again." "A harmless toy." "I am, as you can see now, completely unarmed." "Cigarette?" "We have so much in common and so much to discuss." "We will never have this chance again." "Ours is the loneliest profession, so let us spend a few pleasant hours together." "How can I refuse such a gracious invitation?" "Splendid." "Splendid!" "Nick Nack, I expect you to surpass yourself." "He's a cordon bleu, you know?" "By the way, where's Miss Goodnight?" "Oh, she's around here somewhere." "She can't leave, so she does as she pleases." "How do you like my island?" "A bit off the beaten track." "It's rent-free." "I do my landlords an occasional favour." "A cosy arrangement." " Servant problem, I suppose?" " Not at all." "Nick Nack does for me very nicely." "Usually there's just us two, but guests are no inconvenience." "We're entirely self-supporting." "We have every electrical device you can think of." "This is an airlock, as you are doubtless aware." "Automatic, of course." "Naturally, we have an ample supply of electricity here." "Let me show you." "This should run a few electric toothbrushes." "Up here." "A solar-energy station." "So this is what it's all about." "Ah!" "Thermoelectric generators to convert solar energy into electricity." "All built by Hai Fat's construction company, no doubt." "Somehow I seem to have inherited it from him." "It's all fully automated." "Kra looks after maintenance and security in here." "Nick Nack does everything else." "They tell me the electricity is stored in here... somewhere." "Science was never my strong point." "Superconductivity coils cooled by liquid helium." "If I were you, I wouldn't stick my finger - or anything else, for that matter - in there." "At 453% below zero, that liquid helium would break it off like an icicle." "You really know far more about it than I do." "I'm arranging for countries that can afford the price to send experts here to see this." "But no solex until the money is in the bank, right?" "Right." " I have run across similar situations." " Not what I've got here." "This way the highest bidder can build hundreds of stations and sell franchises for hundreds more." "He will literally have the sun in his pocket." "A monopoly on solar power." "The oil sheikhs will pay you just to keep solar energy "off" the market." "The thought had occurred to me." "This is the collection point." "Ah!" "So that's where it belongs." "Our famous solex in the still down there transmits heat to the thermal generators." "It's collected through this?" "But where is it collected from?" "You need the sun." "Watch that mushroom-shaped rock." "Ingenious, isn't it?" "The panels lock on to the sun, then track it automatically." "Something like that, yes." "Ah." "Reflected through this, those panels must produce a heat of at least 3,500%F." "If you say so, Mr Bond." "But I do know we can focus the power wherever we want." "Here, I'll show you." "This is a bonus." "Goes with the solex." "No extra charge." "This is the part I really like." "Now that's what I call solar power." "That's what I call trouble." "You must admit I am now undeniably the Man with the Golden Gun." "Lunch." "This way, Mr Bond." "Ah, Miss Goodnight!" " James!" " Aren't we a little overdressed?" "I like a girl in a bikini." "No concealed weapons." "Miss Goodnight, please." "Mr Bond." "Let's see what Nick Nack has for us." "Ah, mushrooms." "The fried mushroom looks terribly interesting." "Yes, I'd noticed that." "I'll get around to it later." " Having fun in the sun, Goodnight?" " Yes!" "I could stay here for ever." "Mm, excellent." " Slightly reminiscent of a '34 Mouton." " Then I must add it to my cellar." "You live well, Scaramanga." "At a million dollars a contract, I can afford to, Mr Bond." "You work for peanuts." "A "well done" from the Queen and a pittance of a pension." "Apart from that, we are the same." "To us, Mr Bond." "We are the best." "There's a useful four-letter word, and you're full of it." "When I kill it's under specific orders of my government." "And those I kill are themselves killers." "Come, come, Mr Bond." "You disappoint me." "You get as much fulfilment out of killing as I do." "Admit it." " I admit killing you would be a pleasure." " You should have done that before." "But then the English don't think it's sporting to kill in cold blood." "Don't count on that." "I could have shot you when you landed, but that would have been too easy." "You see, Mr Bond, like every great artist, I want to create an indisputable masterpiece once in my lifetime." "The death of 007, "mano a mano", face to face, will be mine." "You mean stuffed and displayed over your rocky mantelpiece." "That's an amusing idea, but I was thinking in terms of history." "A duel between titans." "My golden gun against your Walther PPK." "Each of us with a 50-50 chance." "Six bullets to your one?" "I only need one." "Sounds a bit old-fashioned, doesn't it?" "I mean, pistols at dawn, that sort of thing." "Indeed it is, Mr Bond." "But it still remains the only "true" test for gentlemen." "I doubt if you qualify on that score." "However, I accept." "As soon as I have finished this delicious lunch that Nick Nack has prepared for us." ""Messieurs", I will remind you, this is "un duel á la mort"." "Only one of you can leave the field of honour." "If a "coup de grâce" is necessary, as your referee, I will administer it myself." "I do not expect wounds, only a clean kill." "On my command each contestant will take 20 paces." "Are you ready, Monsieur Scaramanga?" " Ready." " Are you ready, Monsieur Bond?" " Ready." " I will now begin the count." "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty!" "If you kill him, all this be mine." "This way, Monsieur Bond." " Monsieur, good shooting." " I've never killed a midget before." "But there can always be a first time." "Oh, monsieur!" "You only have three bullets left." "I have fooled you." " Goodnight!" " James!" "Oh, James!" "Steady, Goodnight." "Where is he?" "Flat on his "coup de grâce"." "Come on, let's get out of this fun palace and find that solex." "Wait here." "I'll take care of the maintenance man." "I already did." "I laid him out cold." " You did?" " Yes." "There's more to you than meets the eye." "I hate to ask stupid questions, but where exactly did you knock him cold?" "He landed in that one." "Don't you believe in signs?" "We've got five minutes before his body temperature raises the helium above zero." "Then this whole damn place will go sky-high." "I'm sorry." "I didn't know." "Kill the beam!" " Hit the master override switch!" " The what?" " Goodnight?" " Yes, James?" "Now listen carefully." "There's a console up there." "Now, there must be a scanner interlock button on it." "Push it!" "Are you still there?" "It'll be on the auxiliary feedback circuit." ""Computer interlock..." Is that it?" "Just push every damn button, will you?" "Good girl, Goodnight." "You've done it." "Oh, I have." "Goodnight, get the hell out of there!" "I've done it." " I hope you can swim, Goodnight." " This way." "His junk is moored around the corner." " But, darling, who is at the wheel?" " George." "George?" "Automatic pilot." "We should make Hong Kong in about... eight hours." "Give or... take a little." "I always wanted to take a slow boat "from" China." "I'll kill you." "I'll kill you!" "Why, you...!" "Hey!" "Let me out!" "Hey, what are you doing?" "Ouch!" "No, no, no!" "I can't breathe!" "Ow!" "You'll be sorry." "I may be small, but I never forget." "I kill you if you don't let me out of here!" "Ow!" "Let me out, you big bully!" "Shut up." " What did you do with him?" " What do you think?" " Oh, James, you didn't!" " Yes, I damn well did." "Got all the glass out of the bed, I trust?" "We don't want anything else to disturb our peace, do we?" "Now, where were we?" "Oh, James!" "Mmm..." "What's the matter?" "Something came up." "Hello?" "Ah, there you are, Bond." "Well done." "Congratulations." "Thank you, sir." "Is Miss Goodnight with you?" "I'd like a word with her." "Hold on, sir." "Bond?" "Bond, are you there?" "Goodnight?" "She's just coming, sir." "Goodnight?" "Goodnight?" " Goodnight!" " Good night, sir." "# Good night, good night" "# Sleep well, my dear" "# No need to fear" "# James Bond is here" "# Oh, love is required # whenever he's hired" "# It comes just before the kill" "# No one can catch him" "# No hit man can match him" "# For his million-dollar skill" "# One golden shot # means another poor victim" "# Has come to a glittering end" "# If you want to get rid of someone" "# The Man with the Golden Gun" "# Will get it done" "# He'll shoot anyone" "# With his golden gun" "Visiontext Subtitles:" "Natasha Cohn" "on a collision course with the most dangerous man alive." "James Bond, on the job." "The girls are willing." "The pace is killing." "How 'bout a demonstration?" "He'll meet old friends." "And new enemies." "Monsieur Scaramanga will welcome you." "The action is spectacular." "Reaching a new high for 007." "Don't miss Roger Moore in:" "Forget the jewels." "Forget the trinkets." "Forget the baubles." "Cos..." "guess who's coming for Christmas!" "It's a surprise!" "It's the Man with the Golden Gun." "My name's Bond." "James Bond." "Your reputation precedes you." "Stay in there, Goodnight." " How 'bout a demonstration, boy?" " Certainly, sir." "Now I know how you do it, Scaramanga." "The secret of success, Mr Bond:" "Never take chances." "The Man with the Golden Gun." "He always uses a golden bullet." "This trinket was sent with a note requesting "special delivery" to you." "I have never seen Mr Scaramanga." "This is impossible." "I can't..." "I can't tell you." "He'll kill me!" " Who?" " Scaramanga." "Roger Moore, back in action in the exotic East, as James Bond 007, on a collision course with the most dangerous man alive." "The Man with the Golden Gun." "Hold on, sir." "James Bond, on the job." "The girls are willing." "I've dreamed about you setting me free." "The pace is killing." "Stay in there, Goodnight." " How 'bout a demonstration, boy?" " Certainly, sir." "He'll meet old friends and new enemies." "It's nonstop Bond." "The action is spectacular." " You're not..." " I sure am, boy!" "Reaching a new high for 007." "Bonjour, Monsieur Bond." "I am Nick Nack." "Monsieur Scaramanga will welcome you personally." "The target is the highest-priced killer in the world." "He plays a deadly game, and the stakes are sky-high."