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Released
1974 · FILM

The Man with the Golden Gun

When MI6 receives a mysterious golden bullet marked “007,” James Bond goes rogue across continents—from London's headquarters to the neon streets of Hong Kong—to track down the enigmatic assassin Scaramanga before his lethal golden gun claims another high‑profile target.

“The world's greatest villains tried to kill James Bond...now it's Scaramanga's turn to try!”

Directed by
Guy Hamilton
Written by
Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
125 min
ActionAdventureThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Government operative James Bond investigates a stolen invention capable of harnessing the power of the sun.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 38

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Raymond PoultonShot by Ted MooreScored by John BarryDesigned by Peter Murton

Box Office

1974 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 14× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$97.6M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$97.6M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Der Mann mit dem goldenen Coltde
  • James Bond - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Coltde
  • James Bond 007: Der Mann mit dem goldenen Coltde
  • Man With The Golden Gunen
  • L'Homme au pistolet d'orfr
  • Agente 007 - L'uomo dalla pistola d'oroit

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