The Man with the Golden Gun

Skippable, and generally rated the weakest of the Moore films. The premise is the best in the run and the execution squanders it: an assassin who charges a million dollars a contract decides that killing Bond would be the professional challenge of his career, which sets up a duel between two men who do the same job for different employers.

Christopher Lee, who was Ian Fleming's step-cousin, plays Scaramanga with real menace and is given a funhouse to shoot people in and not much else. The film keeps leaving him to attend to a subplot about a solar energy device, which arrived because of the 1973 oil crisis and interests nobody.

The one extraordinary moment is a car jumping a broken bridge in a complete corkscrew roll, a stunt computed in advance and executed in a single take, which the film ruins by laying a slide whistle over it. Sheriff Pepper is back, on holiday in Thailand, for reasons nobody has defended.

Hervé Villechaize's Nick Nack is the most distinctive henchman of the decade. Britt Ekland's Goodnight is written as an incompetent who causes the third act by leaning on a control. Skip it.