The Man With The Golden Views
The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a heroin addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. It stars Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin. It was adapted for the screen by Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer and Ben Hecht (uncredited), and directed by Otto Preminger.[1]
The Man with the Golden Arm earned $41,000,000 in rentals at the North American box office and the critical reception was just as strong, with Variety magazine stating: Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm is a feature that focuses on addiction to narcotics. Clinical in its probing of the agonies, this is a gripping, fascinating film, expertly produced and directed and performed with marked conviction by Frank Sinatra as the drug slave. [6][7]
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. An adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel of same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator — a device which can harness the power of the sun. He teams up with agent Mary Goodnight against Francisco Scaramanga — the titular Man with the Golden Gun . The action culminates in a duel between them.
The Man with the Golden Gun was the fourth and final film in the series to be directed by Guy Hamilton. The script was written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. The film was set in the face of the 1973 energy crisis, a dominant theme in the script — Britain had still not yet fully overcome the crisis when the film was released in December 1974. The film also reflects the then popular Kung Fu film craze, with several kung-fu scenes and a predominantly Asian location.[1] Reviewers praised Christopher Lee's performance as Scaramanga, but criticized the comedic approach.