The Man with the Golden Gun

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• According to the Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (2000) (V) documentary on the DVD version of this movie, during production on the fifth James Bond film You Only Live Twice, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman had originally intended for this film to be the sixth entry in the Bond series. It was to be shot in Cambodia and Roger Moore was considered to fill Sean Connery's shoes as the second James Bond. However, the Vietnam War caused the producers to change plans and pick On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the sixth Bond film instead.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): When Pepper is pushed into the canal, he falls in next to a sampan loaded with pineapples. When he stands up in the water, the pineapples have become bananas.
• Filming began on November 6, 1973 with a double filling in for Roger Moore who wasn't scheduled to begin shooting until April, 1974.
• Movie Goof (plot holes): James Bond's identity and status within the British Secret Service are known by too many non-privileged people in this movie. The gun-maker even says that "your reputation precedes you". In a realistic spy service, an agent who attracted this kind of specific attention would be considered to have "blown his cover." Surprisingly, all this fame somehow does not constitute a problem for Bond.