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The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
· Movie
· 125 min
C
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3788
- IMDb #2860
- Rotten Tomatoes #3880
- Metacritic #4055
- Letterboxd #3609
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4310
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3687
- Metacritic Critics #4077
- Metacritic Audience #3824
- Douban #1965
- Kinopoisk #2801
- AlloCiné #2574
- Trakt #3211
Every rating
40–80
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 40, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 42, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A world-class assassin, Scaramanga, who uses a golden gun, has put a million-dollar contract on James Bond's head. Bond decides to turn the tables and hunt the hunter, traveling to Southeast Asia to find him. His mission leads him to a solar energy device that Scaramanga has stolen, which could be used as a powerful weapon.
Details
- Director
- Guy Hamilton
- Writers
- Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz
- Based on
- The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
- Studio
- EON Productions, United Artists
- Released
- 4 December 1974
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $7.0M
- Box office
- $97.6M
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