The Man With The Golden Gun

Cast overview, first billed only:
Roger Moore ............ James Bond Christopher Lee .... Francisco Scaramanga
Britt Ekland .......... Mary Goodnight Maud Adams ................. Andrea Anders
Hervé Villechaize ........ Nick Nack Clifton James ........... Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Richard Loo .................... Hai Fat Soon-Tek Oh .................. Lieutenant Hip
Marc Lawrence .............. Rodney Bernard Lee ...................................... M
Lois Maxwell .... Miss Moneypenny Marne Maitland ............................ Lazar
Desmond Llewelyn .................. Q James Cossins ........................ Colthorpe
Chan Yiu Lam .................... Chula ................................................................

Summary: Roger Moore's worst and flabbiest Bond film.
This is clearly the most languid Bond film ever made - seriously lacking in action and excitement. Most
people seem to dislike the addition of sheriff Pepper as a comic-relief character, but at least he
participates in the film's liveliest sequence (the car chase) and is broadly funny in a film that otherwise
sorely misses the humor and wit that are so evident in other Roger Moore entries ("Octopussy", "For
Your Eyes Only"). Moore is actually very good and believable in this film, but the other actors don't
match him: Christopher Lee isn't given anything interesting to do, and Britt Ekland is a slim but
colorless and (may I say) not terribly attractive Bond Girl (bring back Claudine Auger!!) (**)